| Hurry up, as one decorating Christmas gifts? | 44 |
| Catherine's demand of Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights"? | 70 |
| Order to a grounded teenager | 28 |
| Call for a timeout | 18 |
| The cake-loving dog __ | 22 |
| A for a sorority sister; F for a wrestler | 41 |
| Paid attention to a lecturer, for example | 41 |
| Toronto area rail transit | 25 |
| Finished dressing | 17 |
| Stopped playing games | 21 |
| Stopped fooling around | 22 |
| Lost the frivolity | 18 |
| Eradicated | 10 |
| Yielded to peer pressure, maybe | 31 |
| Readied oneself | 15 |
| Prepared to go | 14 |
| Braced (for) | 12 |
| Started to melt | 15 |
| MINISKIRTS... | 13 |
| The boys in the interrogation room ___ | 38 |
| Goliath ___ | 11 |
| Couldn't proceed | 20 |
| Deity, in Düsseldorf | 23 |
| Dusseldorf deity | 16 |
| Deity: Ger. | 11 |
| "Ein feste Burg ist unser ___" | 40 |
| "Pokemon" theme | 25 |
| "I'll say it again — I'm outta here"? | 59 |
| "No time to talk now" | 31 |
| Prof's admission that someone's helping him temporarily? | 64 |
| Ill-___ gains | 13 |
| Ill-___ (acquired improperly) | 29 |
| Ill- -- gains | 13 |
| Received a pastoral poem | 24 |
| Been chosen, as for office | 26 |
| Done what everyone else did | 27 |
| Excuse, part 2 | 14 |
| Work by Wagner | 14 |
| Wagnerian opera, with "Die" | 37 |
| Wagner's "twilight of the gods" | 45 |
| Operatic offering by Wagner | 27 |
| 1876 opera that typically lasts five hours or longer | 52 |
| "Ring" work | 21 |
| Mathematician Leibniz | 21 |
| Was victim to some rightsizing | 30 |
| Was canned | 10 |
| Became competent (with "of") | 38 |
| Didn't get straight info | 28 |
| I (1946) | 8 |
| Seized momentum | 15 |
| Seized control | 14 |
| German automobile pioneer (1804-1906) | 37 |
| 1971 Michael Jackson hit | 24 |
| Words from Berlin | 17 |
| "We're boarding the elevator now, chaps!" | 55 |
| "Laters" | 18 |
| Hoover who? | 11 |
| Library's attempt at copying milk ads? | 42 |
| Brought the hammer down | 23 |
| U.S. pianist of 1800's | 26 |
| Became excited | 14 |
| Turned unpleasant | 17 |
| Barely beat the clock | 21 |
| Couldn't keep cool | 22 |
| Woke up and smelled the coffee | 30 |
| Finally learned | 15 |
| Was hip | 7 |
| Made an error with | 18 |
| Words said with a protruding thumb | 34 |
| German composer: 1840–76 | 31 |
| Lost at laser tag, maybe | 24 |
| Watercolor technique | 20 |
| Watercolor cousin | 17 |
| Painting with opaque water colors | 33 |
| Opaque watercolor technique | 27 |
| Opaque painting style | 21 |
| Opaque watercolors | 18 |
| Certain pigments or paintings | 29 |
| Dutch cheese that blows up in your mouth? | 41 |
| Flesh-revealing photo | 21 |
| Semisoft cheeses | 16 |
| Mild Dutch cheeses | 18 |
| Dairy products, originally from Holland | 39 |
| 2005 Canadian Idol runner-up | 28 |
| Extortionist | 12 |
| Blackmailer | 11 |
| Loan shark's activity | 25 |
| Overcharging | 12 |
| Advance prints of Elliott's scenes | 38 |
| Start a secret assignment | 25 |
| Disappear intentionally | 23 |
| Have surgery | 12 |
| Be operated on | 14 |
| Composer of Hitchcock's theme | 33 |
| Not be spoken aloud | 19 |
| "Friend, ___": Luke 14:10 | 35 |
| Come to ruin | 12 |
| Fail, as a plan | 15 |
| 'Kissing' aquarium fish | 31 |
| Haitian monetary unit | 21 |