| What to use in an emergency | 27 |
| President or prime minister | 27 |
| Momentum component, perhaps | 27 |
| One way to tackle a problem | 27 |
| Call before a football game | 27 |
| What a slow runner may need | 27 |
| What a slow person may need | 27 |
| Recover, medically speaking | 27 |
| Toasters may drink to yours | 27 |
| One thing on top of another | 27 |
| Car that's gone too far | 27 |
| Unattended inbox work, e.g. | 27 |
| Perform a judicial function | 27 |
| Learn through the grapevine | 27 |
| . . . be seen and not ____! | 27 |
| Some inadmissible testimony | 27 |
| Grapevine info, for example | 27 |
| Procession leader, at times | 27 |
| California's ___ Castle | 27 |
| One's significant other | 27 |
| Rock group around the fire? | 27 |
| What you feel in the summer | 27 |
| What a thermometer measures | 27 |
| Preliminary round of a race | 27 |
| Fastball, in baseball lingo | 27 |
| Ledger who played the Joker | 27 |
| "Macbeth" setting | 27 |
| Bar drunk's comeuppance | 27 |
| Setting of the Pearly Gates | 27 |
| Goddess of youth and spring | 27 |
| Greek goddess of witchcraft | 27 |
| Anne of "Volcano" | 27 |
| Torment a stand-up comedian | 27 |
| Troy's greatest fighter | 27 |
| Counterbalance, financially | 27 |
| Property divider, sometimes | 27 |
| Privacy provider, of a sort | 27 |
| ''___ Haw'' | 27 |
| Shriek from Michael Jackson | 27 |
| Old Nashville-based TV show | 27 |
| Gordie Tapp Television show | 27 |
| Spike on a woman's shoe | 27 |
| Part of a loaf, or a loafer | 27 |
| It may be stacked or spiked | 27 |
| Followed closely, dog-style | 27 |
| Ward --- (political worker) | 27 |
| Emulates a well-trained dog | 27 |
| Uncomfortable premiere wear | 27 |
| They're tough to run in | 27 |
| Dickens's hateful clerk | 27 |
| Playboy founder, familiarly | 27 |
| Publishing icon, familiarly | 27 |
| Publisher often seen in PJs | 27 |
| Bunny's boss, for short | 27 |
| "Playboy" playboy | 27 |
| Determine weight by lifting | 27 |
| Philosopher of the Absolute | 27 |
| "How's that?" | 27 |
| Girl who preempted the Jets | 27 |
| "27 Dresses" star | 27 |
| Pittsburgh-based food giant | 27 |
| One who's got it coming | 27 |
| Sometimes he's apparent | 27 |
| Surviving spouse, generally | 27 |
| One who's gonna get it? | 27 |
| One at the end of the line? | 27 |
| His eye's on the throne | 27 |
| Apparent or presumptive one | 27 |
| Fortune hunter's catch? | 27 |
| Valued inherited possession | 27 |
| Handed-down family treasure | 27 |
| Skating gold medalist Carol | 27 |
| Gumshoe's case, perhaps | 27 |
| "The Town" climax | 27 |
| Sister of Castor and Pollux | 27 |
| Oscar winner Mirren or Hunt | 27 |
| Mirren of Prime Suspect | 27 |
| Capital in the Western U.S. | 27 |
| Capital along Interstate 15 | 27 |
| "Twister" actress | 27 |
| Frequent Andrew Wyeth model | 27 |
| Scandinavian wife of comics | 27 |
| Hagar's wife, in comics | 27 |
| "Port" attachment | 27 |
| Chopper's landing place | 27 |
| Place to see a pilot light? | 27 |
| Something to catch or raise | 27 |
| WWII aircraft carrier plane | 27 |
| Response to getting a ring? | 27 |
| Printing on many a name tag | 27 |
| Phone answerer's opener | 27 |
| Common conversation starter | 27 |
| Taxing preinitiation period | 27 |
| Footballer's protection | 27 |
| Infantryman's head wear | 27 |
| He takes a course on a ship | 27 |
| Big name in household hints | 27 |
| Serf, originally a Laconian | 27 |
| Man around the house, maybe | 27 |
| Distressed damsel's cry | 27 |