| Success-vs.-failure phrase | 26 |
| Success-vs.-failure choice | 26 |
| Places to put home plates? | 26 |
| Goes down like the Titanic | 26 |
| Johnny Horton tune of 1960 | 26 |
| Like the first stonecaster | 26 |
| ___-Japanese War (1894-95) | 26 |
| Of the Chinese: Comb. form | 26 |
| Levies on smokes and booze | 26 |
| Levies on non-necessities | 26 |
| Allergies may congest them | 26 |
| Irish-born actress McKenna | 26 |
| 1862 conflict in Minnesota | 26 |
| Drink from a snifter, e.g. | 26 |
| Suckers in the auto world? | 26 |
| Wine-tasters' routines | 26 |
| Drinks bourbon neat, maybe | 26 |
| "My dear fellow" | 26 |
| Walter Raleigh's title | 26 |
| Title that's conferred | 26 |
| Title for one to be dubbed | 26 |
| Drill sergeant's title | 26 |
| Word accompanying a salute | 26 |
| Title for one being dubbed | 26 |
| Title for Laurence Olivier | 26 |
| Little ___ Echo of songdom | 26 |
| Kingly honoree's title | 26 |
| Business letter recipient? | 26 |
| "Dear" addressee | 26 |
| Bold Ruler, to Secretariat | 26 |
| Part of an equine pedigree | 26 |
| English lord's address | 26 |
| Ending with "no" | 26 |
| "Irresistibelle" | 26 |
| "Debutantalizer" | 26 |
| Woman with a killer voice? | 26 |
| Brings forth, as offspring | 26 |
| Many retired thoroughbreds | 26 |
| Rival of Gottfried Leibniz | 26 |
| Night's brightest star | 26 |
| Bright spot in Canis Major | 26 |
| Hot wind from North Africa | 26 |
| "Yes ____, Bob!" | 26 |
| Jagger and McCartney, e.g. | 26 |
| Caine and Connery, for two | 26 |
| Knights of the Round Table | 26 |
| Some "Dear" ones | 26 |
| Obsolescent letter opener? | 26 |
| Frowned-upon letter opener | 26 |
| Elton John and Mick Jagger | 26 |
| Little girl's nickname | 26 |
| Nickname within the family | 26 |
| "__ for Silence" | 26 |
| Wendy, to John and Michael | 26 |
| Certain sibling, for short | 26 |
| Ashlee, to Jessica Simpson | 26 |
| Plant fiber used for twine | 26 |
| South American fiber plant | 26 |
| "Absolutamente!" | 26 |
| Emphatic Spanish agreement | 26 |
| Valenzuela's agreement | 26 |
| Señor's affirmative | 26 |
| Niño's emphatic yes | 26 |
| Juan's emphatic assent | 26 |
| Emphatic assent, in Madrid | 26 |
| Emphatic Andalusian assent | 26 |
| Affable answer in Acapulco | 26 |
| "Agreed, amigo!" | 26 |
| "Agreed, amiga!" | 26 |
| 'Yes, yes, Pedro!' | 26 |
| Onetime colleague of Ebert | 26 |
| Ebert's former partner | 26 |
| Sibilant sound of derision | 26 |
| Spacek of 'Carrie' | 26 |
| Dreiser's Carrie, e.g. | 26 |
| Women with similar habits? | 26 |
| 1946 Rosalind Russell role | 26 |
| Sixtus IV's ___ Chapel | 26 |
| ___ Chapel, in the Vatican | 26 |
| Look after the little ones | 26 |
| Mind for money, informally | 26 |
| Take the stand, ironically | 26 |
| Skip, with "out" | 26 |
| Mind for money informally | 26 |
| Command before a reprimand | 26 |
| Activate a whoopee cushion | 26 |
| Book by Kate Millett: 1977 | 26 |
| It's plucked in Punjab | 26 |
| Hindu stringed instruments | 26 |
| Double-bridged instruments | 26 |
| Occupy as a wedding table | 26 |
| Wait by the phone, perhaps | 26 |
| Advice to the accomplisher | 26 |
| TV show with a laugh track | 26 |
| A URL will take you to one | 26 |
| Web page visitor's aid | 26 |
| Googlers' destinations | 26 |
| Browsers' destinations | 26 |
| Audit, with "on" | 26 |
| Greensboro protest of 1960 | 26 |