| At one's best | 17 |
| Managing perfectly | 18 |
| " . . . they shall beat their swords ___" | 51 |
| One way to be whipped | 21 |
| How some things are smashed | 27 |
| Madonna song | 12 |
| John Hersey title from Psalms | 29 |
| Like some bad golf shots? | 25 |
| Broadway musical about a duffer and his new driver? | 51 |
| One way to vanish | 17 |
| 1997 best-seller with the subtitle "A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster" | 93 |
| Communicating regularly | 23 |
| Connected with someone | 22 |
| Communicating | 13 |
| Put under the table | 19 |
| Fill with elation | 17 |
| Anagram of EXCITATION | 21 |
| 2003 hip-hop hit by Fabolous | 28 |
| 2003 Fabolous hit | 17 |
| GET IT --- | 10 |
| Old musical prelude | 19 |
| Like some stock market highs and lows | 37 |
| Unpleasant place to be tied up | 30 |
| Unlike conference games | 23 |
| Like certain college games | 26 |
| Fashionable conveyance? | 23 |
| Occurring within Ohio's borders e.g. | 41 |
| Like some injections? | 21 |
| Places to find work | 19 |
| They receive assignments | 24 |
| Very brave | 10 |
| Winner of America's Cup: 1967, 1970 | 39 |
| Resolutely fearless | 19 |
| Courageous and daring | 21 |
| By yacht | 8 |
| Apollo 12's "fearless" lunar module | 49 |
| America's Cup challenger | 28 |
| "A Man Called ___" | 28 |
| With derring-do | 15 |
| Fearless group of traveling sheep? [Dodge] | 42 |
| Tom Brady, in the 2002 Super Bowl? | 34 |
| Female spy | 10 |
| Cloak-and-dagger doings | 23 |
| Whodunit theme | 14 |
| Mystery writer's forte | 26 |
| Underhanded activities | 22 |
| Hugger-muggering | 16 |
| Eager to learn more | 19 |
| Eager to know more | 18 |
| They plot | 9 |
| Beguiling | 9 |
| Arousing curiosity | 18 |
| Emulate an emcee | 16 |
| Brought forward | 15 |
| Hostly duty | 11 |
| Song at the start of a church service | 37 |
| First part of a mass | 20 |
| Church anthem | 13 |
| Some sung psalms | 16 |
| Mass sections | 13 |
| Subliminally adopt another's characteristics | 48 |
| Examines oneself | 16 |
| Up a creek | 10 |
| Featured on a wanted poster, say | 32 |
| Typical Woody Allen role | 24 |
| Butted into | 11 |
| Target of a guard dog's growls | 34 |
| One who shouldn't be here | 29 |
| Faulkner's "___ in the Dust" | 42 |
| Evil Otto, in the video game Berzerk | 36 |
| Alarm triggerer | 15 |
| "___ in the Dust" (William Faulkner novel) | 52 |
| They're not on the guest list | 33 |
| Gate-crashers | 13 |
| Crashers, e.g. | 14 |
| Buttinskis | 10 |
| Crashes the party | 17 |
| Barges in | 9 |
| Buttinski's specialty | 25 |
| As a matter of fact | 19 |
| "I won't lie to you ..." | 38 |
| ... the beginning of college costs? | 35 |
| Clairvoyants' charges? | 26 |
| A&R guys have them, perhaps | 31 |
| Like women, traditionally | 25 |
| Transcendentalist wellspring of insight | 39 |
| Caught up by agitation | 22 |
| Through regular order of succession | 35 |
| Successively: hit the hay | 25 |
| How pinball players play | 24 |
| How board game players play | 27 |
| How batters must bat | 20 |
| Following the proper order | 26 |
| By order of succession | 22 |
| By agreed order | 15 |
| How game play often proceeds | 28 |
| End of patient's complaint | 30 |
| Like some biblical boarders | 27 |
| How the animals entered Noah's ark | 38 |
| How animals boarded the ark | 27 |