| Certain S&P global index | 28 |
| C, to Cato | 10 |
| ___ to 1 (long shot) | 20 |
| Mother Goose character | 22 |
| Initials on old meeting halls | 29 |
| Benevolent fraternal soc. since 1819 | 36 |
| B.P.O.E. cousin | 15 |
| MI | 2 |
| "___ Arabian Nights" | 30 |
| Scheherazade's story-telling nights | 39 |
| Scheherazade's number | 25 |
| Number of nights | 16 |
| Arabian nights total | 20 |
| Arabian Nights count | 20 |
| "Arabian Nights" number | 33 |
| ''___ Arabian Nights'' | 38 |
| Classic bedtime reading | 23 |
| Times for tales | 15 |
| 9T? | 3 |
| Best batting average possible | 29 |
| Twice 500 | 9 |
| To Cato, this is M | 18 |
| Perfect batting average | 23 |
| Perfect at-bat record | 21 |
| M, in Caesar's math class | 29 |
| Livy's M | 12 |
| Grand number | 12 |
| Grand figure | 12 |
| Cube of 10 | 10 |
| 10 C's or 1 G | 17 |
| New York station? | 17 |
| These bear portraits of Cleveland | 33 |
| Large timepiece? | 16 |
| Ten millenniums plus a bit | 26 |
| St. Lawrence River feature | 26 |
| St. Lawrence area | 17 |
| Resort area on the U.S./Canada border | 37 |
| Millipede | 9 |
| Myriad, numerically | 19 |
| Half a Jules Verne number | 25 |
| Minnesota plate phrase | 22 |
| Nashville landmark? | 19 |
| Wacky "In My Tribe" band? | 35 |
| Natalie Merchant's old group | 32 |
| French plutocrats | 17 |
| Number of dollars 1850 sale netted Texas | 40 |
| Ten million squared | 19 |
| Prohibitive odds | 16 |
| Relative of a jingo | 19 |
| Jingo | 5 |
| C-notes | 7 |
| Perfect test scores | 19 |
| French/English conflict that started in 1337 | 44 |
| Personal revelation? | 20 |
| Ladyfish | 8 |
| Garth of the Blue Jays | 22 |
| Dane of the Cardinals | 21 |
| Magnetic disruption in space | 28 |
| Neil Simon play, to a Greek? | 28 |
| Jimmy the Greek was feeling blue because, he said, "___" | 66 |
| Excessive use of letter "I" | 37 |
| Octopus arm | 11 |
| Puzzler's puzzling I-words | 30 |
| Last of the Bill of Rights | 26 |
| Site of a musical slaughter | 27 |
| Nickname for a fierce moon of Jupiter? | 38 |
| ___-1 (long-shot odds) | 22 |
| ___ 1 (long odds) | 17 |
| 2008 documentary about the national debt | 40 |
| 2008 documentary about American debt | 36 |
| "Wordplay" director Patrick Creadon's documentary about debt | 74 |
| Pattern of indebtedness? | 24 |
| Late one's excuse | 21 |
| More explicitly: Abbr. | 22 |
| Commercials for a Des Moines driving org.? | 42 |
| Where in the world is Waterloo? | 31 |
| Where is Waterloo? | 18 |
| What the Indian said after taking out a car loan? | 49 |
| Battle amidst cornfields | 24 |
| It's west of Davenport | 26 |
| Home of the Big Ten's Hawkeyes | 34 |
| County seat near Cedar Rapids | 29 |
| Actor stating his name? | 23 |
| The Cyclones of the Big 12 | 26 |
| Big 12 wrestling powerhouse | 27 |
| Transportation in and around Des Moines? | 40 |
| Midwest campus, for short | 25 |
| State in a "State Fair" song title | 44 |
| Rodgers & Hammerstein's "All I Owe ___" | 57 |
| Admission of debt to a grange man | 33 |
| Grateful reply | 14 |
| Formal acknowledgment of debt? | 30 |
| Words after "Thanks for bailing me out" | 49 |
| Grateful person's reply | 27 |
| "Thanks man, getcha next time" | 40 |
| "Thanks, pal" | 23 |
| "My treat next time!" | 31 |
| Shinedown "Show me flesh and bone, 'cause now ___ you" | 68 |
| Bread "Everything ___" | 32 |
| "Enjoys the beach" means ... | 38 |