| Jacket wearer | 13 |
| Book with a stiff cover | 23 |
| Library copy of a book, commonly | 32 |
| Ruthless tactics | 16 |
| What the golfer plays | 21 |
| Use of any means to attain an objective | 39 |
| Recalcitrant Lucille? | 21 |
| Chris Matthews' show | 24 |
| "___ with Chris Matthews" | 35 |
| Deal with rigorous terms | 24 |
| Back pain sufferer's choice | 31 |
| Prepare eggs for salads | 23 |
| Tough as they come | 18 |
| Like many James Cagney characters | 33 |
| A1: "Right. They're a couple of ___ types." | 57 |
| Food for a tough detectives' meeting? | 41 |
| "... but it's a good read for anyone who enjoys ___" | 66 |
| With "The," backing band beloved by daredevil surfers? | 64 |
| Not the best things to bite into | 32 |
| Sourballs, e.g. | 15 |
| Lollipops and peppermints and such | 34 |
| N.F.L. salary limit | 19 |
| Challenging delinquent | 22 |
| Tough people | 12 |
| Overaggressive salesman's residence | 39 |
| Feature of "Christmas" or "chimera" | 55 |
| Juice with punch | 16 |
| Potent potable made from apples | 31 |
| Autumnal drink | 14 |
| Printout, e.g. | 14 |
| Printed version | 15 |
| Unyielding nucleus of a group | 29 |
| Unswervingly committed | 22 |
| Minor Threat's genre | 24 |
| Penetrating film genre | 22 |
| Run-D.M.C.'s field | 22 |
| Describing a paperback's dearer relative | 44 |
| First edition, usually | 22 |
| Stretch in the salt mines | 25 |
| Beatles hit song (with "A") | 37 |
| Tough campus boss? | 18 |
| Puck production push | 20 |
| Like a laborer's money | 26 |
| Like a style of painting with sharply delineated forms | 54 |
| Wilber who opened his first restaurant in 1960 | 46 |
| He launched his business just a few years after Kroc | 52 |
| Fast-food chain that peddles a 1,010-calorie Six Dollar Super Bacon Cheese Thickburger | 86 |
| Made unfeeling, as a heart | 26 |
| Got set | 7 |
| Made callous | 12 |
| Like some criminals | 19 |
| Got tough | 9 |
| Jimmy Cliff "The ___, the harder they'll fall" | 60 |
| Most difficult | 14 |
| Most demanding | 14 |
| Like Saturday puzzles | 21 |
| Adjective for diamonds | 22 |
| The most difficult | 18 |
| Rating a 10 on the Mohs scale | 29 |
| Most unyielding | 15 |
| Most effortful | 14 |
| Most adamant | 12 |
| Mohs scale meaning of 10 | 24 |
| Least malleable | 15 |
| At the top of the Mohs scale | 28 |
| Adjective for diamond | 21 |
| Food for deer | 13 |
| Smooth plaster coating | 22 |
| Well contested | 14 |
| Gogol has two | 13 |
| 1990s children's show about how machines work | 49 |
| Headgear for steeplejacks | 25 |
| Funny construction guys? | 24 |
| Construction protections | 24 |
| Construction men | 16 |
| Blue collar caps | 16 |
| Mule | 4 |
| Presley song in "King Creole": 1958 | 45 |
| Unfeeling vamp | 14 |
| "___ Savannah" | 24 |
| Lacking sympathy | 16 |
| Blood of the gods with that extra kick? | 39 |
| Tougher | 7 |
| More stalwart | 13 |
| Made of sterner stuff. | 22 |
| Not easy | 8 |
| Somewhat difficult | 18 |
| Somewhat challenging | 20 |
| Not very cushiony | 17 |
| Sentence for some | 17 |
| Addition to some prison sentences | 33 |
| Prisoner's work at times | 29 |
| Rigid contact | 13 |
| Enthusiastic cone eater? | 24 |
| What a serf led | 15 |
| '84 Queen hit "It's a ___" | 44 |
| Unyielding position | 19 |
| Unyielding in one's political position | 42 |
| Uncompromising stance | 21 |
| Certain foreign policy | 22 |