| Neither Dems. nor Reps. | 23 |
| Unaffiliated voters (abbr.) | 27 |
| Polit. wild cards | 17 |
| Unaffiliated voters: Abbr. | 26 |
| They're unaffiliated: Abbr. | 31 |
| They're often responsible for upsets: Abbr. | 47 |
| Some candidates: Abbr. | 22 |
| Some candidates (abbr.) | 23 |
| Pol. middle-of-the-roaders | 26 |
| Not Dems. or Reps. | 18 |
| Middle-of-the-roaders: Abbr. | 28 |
| Hill minority: Abbr. | 20 |
| Motivator | 9 |
| Persuasive one | 14 |
| Draft __ motor: gas furnace component | 37 |
| Ones that persuade | 18 |
| Ads, in a way | 13 |
| Send into the hall? | 19 |
| Prepare for service | 19 |
| Make a member, as of the Hall of Fame | 37 |
| Enroll a draftee | 16 |
| Admit as a member | 17 |
| Add to the service | 18 |
| Enrolled a draftee | 18 |
| Circuit device | 14 |
| Inaugural figure | 16 |
| Circuitry coil | 14 |
| Circuit coil | 12 |
| Lived high | 10 |
| Act of humoring | 15 |
| Forbearing | 10 |
| Five-time Tour de France winner Miguel | 38 |
| 1991-95 Tour de France champ | 28 |
| Places for big plants | 21 |
| Some moneylenders | 17 |
| Subjects of many a Forbes article | 33 |
| High-finance football team | 26 |
| Factory owner | 13 |
| Setting up production factories, e.g. | 37 |
| Warehouse district | 18 |
| Heavy-duty windbreaker? | 23 |
| Business campuses | 17 |
| PARKLIKE SETTING! | 17 |
| Pollution problem | 17 |
| Hardworking | 11 |
| The Ruhr in Germany's steel district, say? | 46 |
| Exists as an activating force | 29 |
| Speedway racer | 14 |
| STP logo sporter, perhaps | 25 |
| Race-sanctioning body | 21 |
| Race-sanctioning biggie | 23 |
| It usually begins with the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | 61 |
| Big series name in auto racing | 30 |
| 2005 17-race series | 19 |
| "500" race-sanctioning group | 38 |
| __ Series: auto races | 21 |
| Winston alternative? | 20 |
| Place to put the pedal to the metal | 35 |
| "That rots itself ___ . . . ": Shak. | 46 |
| " . . . weed/That rots itself ___ on Lethe wharf": Shak. | 66 |
| He's three sheets in the wind | 33 |
| Confuse, mentally or emotionally | 32 |
| Candidate for A.A. | 18 |
| Experiencing nirvana | 20 |
| Blissed out | 11 |
| Unpublished works | 17 |
| Unpublished literature | 22 |
| Unpublished literary works | 26 |
| Unpublished | 11 |
| Relative of curare | 18 |
| Urare's kin | 15 |
| Poison sometimes blown from guns | 32 |
| Curare's kin | 16 |
| Curare's cousin | 19 |
| Curare, e.g. | 12 |
| Curare relative | 15 |
| Curare cousin | 13 |
| Curare | 6 |
| An arrow poison | 15 |
| Words before ''vacation'' or ''drink'' | 70 |
| "___ vacation!" | 25 |
| '-- drink!' (tense person's cry) | 44 |
| Spelling statement? | 19 |
| "Some help would be nice, folks!" | 43 |
| Words best not said to a bear | 29 |
| Yawner's self-diagnosis | 27 |
| New parent's complaint | 26 |
| Insomniac's declaration | 27 |
| Comment from the beat | 21 |
| Statement resulting in hand-raising | 35 |
| "You, in the front row!" | 34 |
| Realization of an artistic driver on E? | 39 |
| "Just When ___ You Most" | 34 |
| 'Thanks!' | 17 |
| Rationale for stealing artwork (Part 1) | 39 |
| Declaration upon checking oneself into rehab | 44 |
| Breakup line from an astronaut? | 31 |
| Comment to a consultant | 23 |
| Column opening | 14 |
| "Can we talk?" | 24 |