| "Catch-22" author Joseph | 34 |
| 'Catch-22' writer | 25 |
| ''Catch-22'' author Joseph | 42 |
| Rambunctious children | 21 |
| Where Leander floundered | 24 |
| Legendary crossing | 18 |
| Leander's milieu and high priest | 36 |
| Doubly-demonic rapper/actor? | 28 |
| Unpleasant spot | 15 |
| Squalid site | 12 |
| Mythical watchdog | 17 |
| "Love . . . builds a ___ Heaven's despite": Blake | 63 |
| Rowdy one | 9 |
| Unruly brat | 11 |
| Someone else's kid | 22 |
| One up to deviltry | 18 |
| Tartarean | 9 |
| Like some horror film settings | 30 |
| Like Gehenna | 12 |
| Political quip, part 3 | 22 |
| The underworld chase for author Deighton? | 41 |
| Writer Lillian | 14 |
| She wrote "Pentimento" | 32 |
| "Watch on the Rhine" playwright | 41 |
| ''The Little Foxes'' playwright | 47 |
| "__, we won't go!": '60s antiwar chant | 56 |
| "Not a goddamn chance" | 32 |
| Second greeting | 15 |
| "Oh, you're back" | 31 |
| Greeting from Michael Caine? | 28 |
| Classic bit of inane rock star stage banter #3 | 46 |
| Barbra Streisand belter about "The Persistence of Memory"? | 68 |
| Artist's favorite Broadway musical? | 39 |
| 1969 Streisand flick? | 21 |
| . . . "AVE, SALVADOR" by M. Stewart & J. Herman? | 62 |
| Pickup artist's line? | 25 |
| Bade welcome to | 15 |
| Snafu situation | 15 |
| Beatles hit that supplies this puzzle's three opposites | 59 |
| 1967 Beatles chart-topper | 25 |
| Greeting from Captain Cook? | 27 |
| Enthusiastic welcome | 20 |
| "Is this mic on?" | 27 |
| Mic check #4 | 12 |
| "Can you hear me now?" | 32 |
| Opening line from a TV show that debuted on 1/5/61 | 50 |
| Todd Rundgren hit | 17 |
| Therapist's greeting in ''The King and I''? | 63 |
| Mouthless Japanese creation | 27 |
| Japanese character with six whiskers | 36 |
| Friend of the penguin Badtz-Maru | 32 |
| Fictional Japanese character who wears a bow | 44 |
| Cartoon character with a red bow and whiskers | 45 |
| Broadway flop about an introduction to actor Bridges? | 53 |
| "Greetings, Ms. Retton!" | 34 |
| Place of turmoil ... or the theme to this puzzle | 48 |
| Catchphrase of '90s TV | 26 |
| "Seinfeld" greeting | 29 |
| Old vaudevillian catcall | 24 |
| 1968 #1 hit by The Doors | 24 |
| Not a Broadway title song? | 26 |
| His greeting at the Vatican | 27 |
| Dire alternatives | 17 |
| The worst that may come | 23 |
| Difficulties of whatever magnitude | 34 |
| Come-what-may choices | 21 |
| Any foreseeable difficulty | 26 |
| Dire circumstance, idiomatically? | 33 |
| Words of greeting | 17 |
| Greeting words | 14 |
| Welcoming words | 15 |
| They're spoken when answering the phone | 43 |
| They're exchanged at meetings | 33 |
| They may accompany handshakes | 29 |
| Standard greetings | 18 |
| Ring responses? | 15 |
| Ring responses | 14 |
| Introduction followers | 22 |
| Hugs and kisses, at times | 25 |
| Common greetings | 16 |
| Warm welcome for an old friend | 30 |
| Comment upon bumping into an old friend, #1 | 43 |
| Romantic greeting | 17 |
| A romantic beginning | 20 |
| Item in Satan's grooming kit? | 33 |
| "__ Kitchen": Gordon Ramsay show | 42 |
| ___ Canyon (Idaho-Oregon gorge) | 31 |
| Word with bells or Kitchen | 26 |
| Tophet and Gehenna | 18 |
| Oregon and Idaho's ___ Canyon | 33 |
| "Kitchen" of Manhattan | 32 |
| "___ bells!" | 22 |
| ____ Angels | 11 |
| ___ Kitchen, in Manhattan | 25 |
| ___ Canyon, on Idaho's border | 33 |
| ___ Canyon (Northwest attraction) | 33 |
| ___ Angels | 10 |
| Member of a notorious biker gang | 32 |
| Well-known motorcycle group | 27 |
| Group that shares its name with a 1930 Howard Hughes film | 57 |