| Absolute, as legal rights | 25 |
| #1 on a motivational speaker's reminder list? | 49 |
| Has a great effect on | 21 |
| Dental mold | 11 |
| Rich Little forte | 17 |
| Impact made by Rich Little? | 27 |
| Ape suit wearer? | 16 |
| The first ones last | 19 |
| Like Eddie Van Halen | 20 |
| Fossil indentation | 18 |
| Evidence in a rug | 17 |
| Like many a cover title | 23 |
| Fixed in the mind | 17 |
| Fixing indelibly, as on the memory | 34 |
| Publisher's product lines | 29 |
| Incarceration | 13 |
| Puts in a jug | 13 |
| Doesn't let go? | 19 |
| Claps in jail | 13 |
| Tall, as tales | 14 |
| Not likely to be true | 21 |
| Errant husband's forte | 26 |
| Like a jam | 10 |
| Unsuitably | 10 |
| Like the answers to the 10 asterisked clues, more often than any other English words, according to a 1999 study | 111 |
| Can be made better | 18 |
| Go from worse to bad? | 21 |
| New partner | 11 |
| Enhanced in value | 17 |
| End of the arithmetic advice | 28 |
| Beta 2 compared to beta 1 | 25 |
| With "show," get better | 33 |
| Two home fronts | 15 |
| Have cosmetic surgery, for example | 34 |
| Employ gene therapy, say | 24 |
| Becomes better | 14 |
| Uses the pencil sharpener? | 26 |
| Not follow the book | 19 |
| Goes outside the lines? | 23 |
| Ad-libs | 7 |
| The Upright Citizens Brigade, e.g. | 34 |
| Reckless behavior | 17 |
| Lack of discretion | 18 |
| Not wise | 8 |
| Deserving of a time-out | 23 |
| Throw mud at, figuratively | 26 |
| Challenge as false | 18 |
| Cast doubt upon | 15 |
| Make insinuations against | 25 |
| Cast doubt on | 13 |
| Attack as false | 15 |
| Assail, as a reputation | 23 |
| Assail with words | 17 |
| Attacked verbally | 17 |
| Assaulted verbally | 18 |
| Attacks with arguments | 22 |
| Attacks as questionable | 23 |
| Pop at the supermarket | 22 |
| Spur-of-the-moment purchases | 28 |
| "Can't wait!" | 27 |
| In a flawed way | 15 |
| More contaminated | 17 |
| Foreign matter | 14 |
| Attributively | 13 |
| Pinned on | 9 |
| Ascribes | 8 |
| Ascribes to | 11 |
| Ex-N. Y. mayor, for short | 25 |
| 2001 hit on the "J.Lo" CD | 35 |
| 2001 hit for Jennifer Lopez | 27 |
| 2001 #1 hit for Jennifer Lopez | 30 |
| #1 hit from the album "J.Lo" | 38 |
| Namesakes of Hungarian hero Nagy | 32 |
| Hungary's Nagy et al. | 25 |
| Son of Bani, in the Bible | 25 |
| Sarcastic remark when your friend pays you back that quarter he borrowed | 72 |
| Las Vegas cry | 13 |
| "Triple sevens! Triple sevens!" | 41 |
| Moper's musing | 18 |
| Meaning of:-( | 13 |
| Blue statement | 14 |
| "When ___, you're a clown" (from "I Got You Babe") | 74 |
| "When __ she comes to me with a thousand smiles": "Little Wing" lyric | 89 |
| "Say I'm weary, say ___": Leigh Hunt | 50 |
| "Really __ ...": "Tears of a Clown" lyric | 61 |
| "[sigh]" | 18 |
| Chicken call? | 13 |
| "___," said Tom patiently | 35 |
| "Go away!": British slang | 35 |
| Words of emergency from one on the front lines | 46 |
| "Call the medic!" | 27 |
| Gene Kelly's "in-the-rain" announcement | 53 |
| Title for Mona Lisa's memoirs? | 34 |
| Pointer Sisters hit | 19 |
| Hit for the Pointer Sisters | 27 |
| Response to great news | 22 |
| Words said when one has the munchies | 36 |
| "You've convinced me" | 35 |
| "You've enraged me!" | 34 |
| Outburst from one who's been seething | 41 |