| Steinbeck classic, with "The" | 39 |
| Morsels from Steinbeck? | 23 |
| Mexican version of a Fonda film, with "The" | 53 |
| "Battle Hymn . . . " phrase | 37 |
| Low-cal version of a hi-cal French dessert? | 43 |
| Cereal that's shockingly good? | 34 |
| Purple outfit? | 14 |
| Fruity fruit? | 13 |
| Rumor vehicles | 14 |
| Rumor mills | 11 |
| Plotted on a curve | 18 |
| Minimal unit of a writing system | 32 |
| Writing-system units | 20 |
| Payoffs to chart makers? | 24 |
| Not hiding much | 15 |
| Montague _____ | 14 |
| Computer-game enthusiastÂ’s need | 35 |
| Calligraphy, for instance | 25 |
| Skill that produces images | 26 |
| Commercial design | 17 |
| One with an artistic career | 27 |
| Rag that reveals all? | 21 |
| Explicit tabloid? | 17 |
| Video game department | 21 |
| Draftsman's skill | 21 |
| Architect's art | 19 |
| Golf club shaft material | 24 |
| Black lead | 10 |
| Writing: Prefix | 15 |
| Suffix in many class names | 26 |
| Italian brandies | 16 |
| Wrestle (with) | 14 |
| What wrestlers do | 17 |
| Try to deal (with) | 18 |
| Struggle (with) | 15 |
| Seizing device | 14 |
| Compete hand-to-hand | 20 |
| Ape wrestlers | 13 |
| Tried to cope (with) | 20 |
| One who wrestles | 16 |
| Accosting a physicist with oneÂ’s hands? | 43 |
| Port authority's pejorative | 31 |
| Inferior, as some wines | 23 |
| Lake District village where Wordsworth lived | 44 |
| Struggle to hold | 16 |
| ___ straws | 10 |
| Try to capture the Waltz King? | 30 |
| Make a desperate attempt | 24 |
| Try in desperation | 18 |
| Old fashioned leggings are in -- try for the impossible!? | 57 |
| Guess randomly | 14 |
| Came to understand | 18 |
| Failed to understand | 20 |
| Acted desperately | 17 |
| Those who comprehend | 20 |
| Comprehending | 13 |
| To ace Agricultural Science, avoid __ | 37 |
| Wimbledon venue | 15 |
| Wimbledon feature | 17 |
| Racketeer's rye rectangle | 29 |
| Lawn mower | 10 |
| French perfume center | 21 |
| Resort in Provence | 18 |
| French perfume town | 19 |
| Sodded over | 11 |
| Darnels | 7 |
| Fescue and zoysia | 17 |
| Timothy and rye | 15 |
| Seeds lawns | 11 |
| Fescue and rye | 14 |
| Crab and blue, e.g. | 19 |
| Cereal family | 13 |
| Bermuda and bamboo, for two | 27 |
| Pasture-raised | 14 |
| They play an important role in the regeneration of savannahs | 60 |
| Semiterrestrial hopper | 22 |
| Oxygen emanating from a lawn? | 29 |
| Landscape foreground | 20 |
| Truman Capote novel with The | 32 |
| Hyde Park locusts? | 18 |
| Carnivorous North American rodent | 33 |
| Fabled fritterers | 17 |
| More verdant | 12 |
| More verdant, perhaps | 21 |
| More lush | 9 |
| More lawnlike | 13 |
| Never watering the lawn, e.g.? | 30 |
| Diagnosis for a stoned viper? | 29 |
| Savanna or prairie | 18 |
| Velds | 5 |
| The Steppes, e.g. | 17 |
| Karen of "Little House on the Prairie" | 48 |
| "Little House on the Prairie" co-star Karen | 53 |
| Iowa's senior Senator | 25 |
| Former Connecticut governor Ella | 32 |
| One-time Connecticut governor | 29 |
| V.I.P. at Hartford | 18 |
| Richard ___, former chief of the N.Y.S.E. | 41 |
| Memorable governor of Conn. | 27 |
| Late governor of Conn. | 22 |