| What you feel in the summer | 27 |
| What a thermometer measures | 27 |
| Preliminary round of a race | 27 |
| Pitcher's fastball | 22 |
| Miami's NBA franchise | 25 |
| Miami's N.B.A. team | 23 |
| Gas or electric output | 22 |
| Fastball, in sports slang | 25 |
| Fastball, in baseball lingo | 27 |
| 2011 NBA finals runner-up | 25 |
| 2010-11 NBA non-champions | 25 |
| 1995 Pacino-DeNiro film | 23 |
| 1995 De Niro/Pacino movie | 25 |
| "The ___ is on!" | 26 |
| "___ and serve" | 25 |
| Thermal energy converter | 24 |
| Gang word for a pistol | 22 |
| Fastball, in dugout slang | 25 |
| Some dashboard buttons | 22 |
| Tract of level wasteland | 24 |
| Ledger who played the Joker | 27 |
| British political figure | 24 |
| Blueberry's family | 22 |
| "Pony Boy" composer | 29 |
| "Macbeth" setting | 27 |
| '70s British leader | 23 |
| ___ bar (Hershey product) | 25 |
| Subtly mottled, as fabric | 25 |
| Evergreens on the moor | 22 |
| British P.M. and family | 23 |
| Humidity factors into it | 24 |
| Consequence of overbaking? | 26 |
| Certain worshiper's risk | 28 |
| Increases molecular motion | 26 |
| Track and field events | 22 |
| Puts on the back burner? | 24 |
| Some elimination rounds | 23 |
| Qualifying track events | 23 |
| Preliminaries at a track meet | 29 |
| Microwaves, as leftovers | 24 |
| Events in battle of bands | 25 |
| Battle of bands events | 22 |
| Use the microwave, perhaps | 26 |
| Summer weather phenomenon | 25 |
| Sweltering weather spell | 24 |
| Stretch in the 90s, e.g. | 24 |
| Stretch in the 90's, say | 28 |
| Long high-temp stretch | 22 |
| Throw with great effort | 23 |
| Rise and fall, as a ship | 24 |
| Give the ___-ho (oust) | 22 |
| Start of a nautical order | 25 |
| Put some effort into lifting | 28 |
| Hoist with great effort | 23 |
| Express, as a deep sigh | 23 |
| Cry made with great effort | 26 |
| "Ho" preceder | 23 |
| It comes with a pink slip | 25 |
| Bar drunk's comeuppance | 27 |
| Setting of the Pearly Gates | 27 |
| Working-girl's protector | 28 |
| Part five of our message | 24 |
| Devil's one-time home | 25 |
| Angels' playing field | 25 |
| St. Peter's penny? | 22 |
| Angelic argument cause? | 23 |
| It's over your head | 23 |
| Less likely to float away | 25 |
| Harder to lift, perhaps | 23 |
| Requiring extra postage, say | 28 |
| Emotionally tough to take | 25 |
| Difficult to carry, in a way | 28 |
| Serious social engagement | 25 |
| Black Sabbath's genre | 25 |
| Ozzy Osbourne's music | 25 |
| Megadeth's music genre | 26 |
| Headbangers' genre | 22 |
| Guns N' Roses music | 23 |
| New Testament book: Abbr. | 25 |
| Book after Philemon: Abbr. | 26 |
| N.T. book before James | 22 |
| It's heard in Isr. | 22 |
| Book before James: Abbr. | 24 |
| Greek goddess of youth | 22 |
| Daughter of Hera and Zeus | 25 |
| Nectar-pouring goddess | 22 |
| Goddess of youth and spring | 27 |
| Ganymede's predecessor | 26 |
| Cupbearer of Greek myth | 23 |
| Cupbearer before Ganymede | 25 |
| "Pinafore" lass | 25 |
| Biblical tongue: Abbr. | 22 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls language | 25 |
| Like the letters on a dreidel | 29 |
| Language studied at a yeshiva | 29 |
| Language of the Old Testament | 29 |
| Language of Lamentations | 24 |
| Chosen people's language | 28 |
| Oscar Mayer alternative | 23 |
| Lawman Ramsey of '70s TV | 28 |