| Singer/guitarist John | 21 |
| Singer John with the 1988 title track "Slow Turning" | 62 |
| Go-to blues writer/singer John | 30 |
| "Have a Little Faith in Me" John | 42 |
| 'Slow Turning' singer John | 34 |
| Breaks | 6 |
| Star of a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem | 41 |
| Native American chieftain | 25 |
| Son of the West Wind | 20 |
| Ojibwa in a Longfellow poem | 27 |
| Noted Ojibwa of fiction | 23 |
| Minnehaha's man | 19 |
| Longfellow's Indian hero | 28 |
| Longfellow chief | 16 |
| Legendary Onondaga chief | 24 |
| Iroquois Confederacy cofounder | 30 |
| Hero "By the shores of Gitche Gumee" | 46 |
| Irish: Abbr. | 12 |
| Minn. site of large open-pit iron mine | 38 |
| Estival's opposite | 22 |
| One way to spend the winter | 27 |
| Have a long sleep | 17 |
| Emulate a bear | 14 |
| Serious winter sleep | 20 |
| Emerald Isle, in verse | 22 |
| Poet's name for Ireland | 27 |
| Latin name for a British isle | 29 |
| Ireland, to Livy | 16 |
| Ireland, in poems | 17 |
| 1979 Newfoundland oil discovery | 31 |
| Son of the old sod | 18 |
| ___-English | 11 |
| Breathes spasmodically (Var.) | 29 |
| Minor setback | 13 |
| Minor interruption | 18 |
| Spasm sound | 11 |
| Singultus | 9 |
| Diaphragm spasm that may be cured by holding one's breath | 61 |
| Breathe spasmodically | 21 |
| Involuntary contractions | 24 |
| Slight irregularities | 21 |
| Minor inconveniences | 20 |
| Latin form of this | 18 |
| Here and now, in Latin | 22 |
| Kiss mark | 9 |
| Movie in Dogpatch? | 18 |
| Deadwood, South Dakota? | 23 |
| Cookout flavoring | 17 |
| Smoking wood | 12 |
| Pecan cousin | 12 |
| Like some hams | 14 |
| Backwoods types | 15 |
| Sophisticates they're not | 29 |
| Folks from the boonies | 22 |
| Some country folk | 17 |
| Backwoods types, pejoratively | 29 |
| 2006 American Idol | 18 |
| "23. I think Bill ___ was an inspired comic." | 55 |
| City NW of Waco | 15 |
| Friendly folks' environs? | 29 |
| Gridder's on-air greeting, maybe | 36 |
| Cádiz noblewoman | 19 |
| The Father of Mexican Independence | 34 |
| 2004 Viggo Mortensen film | 25 |
| State bordering Veracruz | 24 |
| State north of Mexico City | 26 |
| Spanish noble | 13 |
| Lesser nobleman, in Spain | 25 |
| Horse film of 2004 | 18 |
| Lesser Spanish noblemen | 23 |
| Protected from prying eyes | 26 |
| What crossdressers have done? | 29 |
| Rarely successful diamond play | 30 |
| Diamond gambit, or a hint to a different concealed word found in each answer to a starred clue | 94 |
| Diamond deception found in this grid nine times: eight in square four-letter clusters, the ninth formed by the clusters' outline | 132 |
| Diamond deception | 17 |
| This completed puzzle has 10 of them, each three letters long, reading diagonally | 81 |
| Consumer's annoyance | 24 |
| Invoice surprises | 17 |
| Mexico's tourist expense | 28 |
| Feature of six other long answers in this puzzle | 48 |
| Bill surprise | 13 |
| What the long Across answers with circles have | 46 |
| Unseen indicator | 16 |
| Double-entendre component | 25 |
| Mansion feature, perhaps | 24 |
| It may be behind a bookcase | 27 |
| Extra after a movie's credits, perhaps | 42 |
| Terrible secret, perhaps | 24 |
| Concealed fasteners? | 20 |
| Great thing for one to discover | 31 |
| Buried loot | 11 |
| Pirate's cache | 18 |
| It's often buried | 21 |
| Big name in ranch dressing | 26 |
| ___ bed (sleep sofa) | 20 |
| Studio space-saver | 18 |
| Space-saver in a studio | 23 |
| It's usually out for the night | 34 |
| Children's Halloween game? | 30 |