| Last word in a chess match | 26 |
| King's downfall, maybe | 26 |
| Checked for the last time? | 26 |
| Unable to escape, in a way | 26 |
| Unable to avoid the check? | 26 |
| Beaten, a la Bobby Fischer | 26 |
| San ___ (Highway 101 city) | 26 |
| San ___ (Californian city) | 26 |
| Stabat ____: Latin hymn | 26 |
| When many deliveries occur | 26 |
| Moves by Spassky or Karpov | 26 |
| "Ahoy" recipient | 26 |
| Companionable, in Cheshire | 26 |
| One problem after another? | 26 |
| Topologist's specialty | 26 |
| Part of Jr.'s homework | 26 |
| It can be as easy as 1-2-3 | 26 |
| Course with many functions | 26 |
| Giant of French modern art | 26 |
| Multiplication table, e.g. | 26 |
| Ladies'-room attendant | 26 |
| A Mother's Day honoree | 26 |
| Protective floor coverings | 26 |
| "Welcome" sights | 26 |
| Lauer of "Today" | 26 |
| Shot for a movie cameraman | 26 |
| Thickly entangled, as hair | 26 |
| In a thick tangle, as hair | 26 |
| Company that makes Othello | 26 |
| Cartoonist Groening et al. | 26 |
| Actor once called The Hunk | 26 |
| "Harold and ___" | 26 |
| Bea Arthur's TV series | 26 |
| Wailuku is its county seat | 26 |
| Torn to bits, as by a lion | 26 |
| River through Toledo, Ohio | 26 |
| ___ Loa (Hawaiian volcano) | 26 |
| Site of many observatories | 26 |
| Charles Joseph's Mrs. | 26 |
| Art Spiegelman best seller | 26 |
| Dallas hoopster, for short | 26 |
| Symbol of voracious hunger | 26 |
| Peak, with "out" | 26 |
| -- out (used to the limit) | 26 |
| __ out: uses up, as credit | 26 |
| Large, in commercial lingo | 26 |
| Fashionable 60's dress | 26 |
| Mandible's counterpart | 26 |
| Popular men's magazine | 26 |
| Kentucky Derby's month | 26 |
| Chichén Itzá builder | 26 |
| Pre-Columbian civilization | 26 |
| Name in Oprah's circle | 26 |
| Equivocator's response | 26 |
| Commitmentphobe's word | 26 |
| "Get back to me" | 26 |
| "For all I know" | 26 |
| Sailor's call for help | 26 |
| 'How -- help you?' | 26 |
| Is forbidden to, old-style | 26 |
| Sandwich spread, for short | 26 |
| Spread out in the kitchen? | 26 |
| It may be held at the deli | 26 |
| Jerry Springer title, once | 26 |
| Baseball's Say Hey Kid | 26 |
| Gold Glove winner, 1957-68 | 26 |
| Baseball All-Star, 1954-73 | 26 |
| Puzzle of perplexing paths | 26 |
| Puzzle with dead-end paths | 26 |
| Puzzle often aimed at kids | 26 |
| It might be made of hedges | 26 |
| Hedge arrangement, perhaps | 26 |
| Feature on some place mats | 26 |
| Exec's degree, perhaps | 26 |
| Wall St. exec's degree | 26 |
| Mitt Romney has one: Abbr. | 26 |
| McKinsey employee, perhaps | 26 |
| C.F.O.'s deg., perhaps | 26 |
| Degrees sought on Wall St. | 26 |
| Degrees for execs, perhaps | 26 |
| Degs. earned by many execs | 26 |
| C.E.O.'s may have them | 26 |
| Club card carriers (Abbr.) | 26 |
| Rapper mourned May 4, 2012 | 26 |
| Gladys Knight record label | 26 |
| Adam Yauch, professionally | 26 |
| __ Nashville: record label | 26 |
| Campaign '08 candidate | 26 |
| Enterprise medical officer | 26 |
| Crewmate of Kirk and Spock | 26 |
| Tennis star-turned-analyst | 26 |
| Old radio's Fibber ___ | 26 |
| Blues singer Bobby of song | 26 |
| Ernest Borgnine title role | 26 |
| 1960s Borgnine sitcom role | 26 |
| Long distance co. in 1101? | 26 |
| Unrewarding work, in slang | 26 |
| Position with no prospects | 26 |
| Low-pay position, in slang | 26 |
| It often pays minimum wage | 26 |