| Adamant view | 12 |
| Hawk, so to speak | 17 |
| Firm negotiating stances: 2 wds. | 32 |
| Potent stuff | 12 |
| Careful consideration | 21 |
| Unfortunate one's run | 25 |
| Jeremiads | 9 |
| When Captain Corcoran got seasick | 33 |
| Like a pillow that's not at all comfortable? | 48 |
| Use a bulletin board only once in a great while? | 48 |
| Mae West reputedly said this "is good to find" | 56 |
| Uncompromising person | 21 |
| Tough, unsentimental type | 25 |
| Uncompromising folks | 20 |
| Tough person, to a Brit | 23 |
| Puzzling problem, to a duck? | 28 |
| _____ hearing | 13 |
| Saying 'huh?,' maybe | 28 |
| Yens, slangily | 14 |
| Subsoil layer | 13 |
| Bedrock | 7 |
| Drainage impairer | 17 |
| Compact soil layer | 18 |
| Alternative to a rock | 21 |
| Strict Jesuit? | 14 |
| Warren E. Burger, at times | 26 |
| Where the Rolling Stones landed? | 32 |
| Kind of miner | 13 |
| Def Leppard, for one | 20 |
| Heavy metal mimic? | 18 |
| Crusty bakery buys | 18 |
| Puck material | 13 |
| Hockey puck makeup | 18 |
| Tough customers | 15 |
| Like turtles | 12 |
| Brazier's alloy | 19 |
| Crunchy Mexican munchies | 24 |
| Two fives in Vegas | 18 |
| Pair of fives, in Vegas | 23 |
| It's done in the slammer | 28 |
| Stint in the pen | 16 |
| Period in the pen, to a con | 27 |
| Felon's sentence, maybe | 27 |
| "Don't give me a ___" | 35 |
| Period of adversity | 19 |
| Terkel best-seller | 18 |
| Dickens's shortest novel | 28 |
| Dickens novel: 1854 | 19 |
| Depressions, e.g. | 17 |
| Dickens tale of math woes? | 26 |
| Not easily topped | 17 |
| Really puzzling | 15 |
| One way some singles play | 25 |
| How some singles play | 21 |
| How flirts may play | 19 |
| Some Corvettes had detachable ones | 34 |
| Alternatives to convertibles | 28 |
| What a captain may command | 26 |
| Concerned command from the bridge | 33 |
| Tall | 4 |
| Not easily accepted | 19 |
| Like some bad news | 18 |
| Strapped for cash | 17 |
| Terribly in need | 16 |
| Strapped (for cash) | 19 |
| In great need | 13 |
| Cause of sink stains | 20 |
| Where to buy armor? | 19 |
| Technology magazine that's difficult to follow? | 51 |
| Apple drink of the 21st century? | 32 |
| Achieved after much effort | 26 |
| Like a game ending in double overtime, say | 42 |
| Dense dumpling? | 15 |
| Oak or beech | 12 |
| Beech or oak | 12 |
| Like many an office aide | 24 |
| Achieved through great effort | 29 |
| Teen sibs of whodunit fame | 26 |
| Kid-lit detectives | 18 |
| Robust religious observance? | 28 |
| Slapstick survivor? | 19 |
| Weather-resistant botanical buy | 31 |
| Seedling for Thomas? | 20 |
| Invitation into a writer's home? | 36 |
| Wood hyacinth | 13 |
| Slender, delicate perennial | 27 |
| Delicate blue perennial | 23 |
| Blue-flowered perennial | 23 |
| Blue-flowered herb | 18 |
| Blue perennials | 15 |
| Bugs' groomer? | 18 |
| Lagomorph's grooming tool? | 30 |
| Dust-up between bunnies? | 24 |
| Bugs's groomer? | 19 |
| Went swiftly | 12 |
| Ran swiftly | 11 |
| Took off like a rabbit | 22 |
| Sped off, to a Brit | 19 |
| Ran fast, to Brits | 18 |
| Ran fast, in England | 20 |