| Theorized result of comet bombardment | 37 |
| What eaves experience? | 22 |
| ___ death | 9 |
| 1993 reworking of a 1944 Hitchcock film | 39 |
| On-deck circle? | 15 |
| Decision to turn over a new leaf? | 33 |
| Long-term prisoners | 19 |
| Career soldiers | 15 |
| Three-time losers | 17 |
| Those with no chance for parole | 31 |
| Their sentences are long | 24 |
| Some residents of Leavenworth | 29 |
| Some prisoners | 14 |
| Ones who can't get out | 26 |
| Longtime convicts | 17 |
| Long-termers | 12 |
| "___ pleasant institution . . . " | 43 |
| Small Chinese alternative to Noah's Ark? | 44 |
| Torus-shaped candy | 18 |
| Swimming guard | 14 |
| Rescue ring | 11 |
| Holey confection | 16 |
| Doughnut-shaped treat | 21 |
| Candy with a hole in the middle | 31 |
| Candy item that comes in five basic flavors | 43 |
| Joie de vivre? | 14 |
| Botany, e.g. | 12 |
| Zoology, etc. | 13 |
| Optimist's worldview | 24 |
| Realistic, in a way | 19 |
| Not enlarged or shrunken | 24 |
| At actual scale | 15 |
| Cradle-to-grave stretches | 25 |
| 900+, for Adam and Noah | 23 |
| 'Threescore and ten' durations | 38 |
| First comes love, then these three | 34 |
| Modus vivendi | 13 |
| Cable network exec's job? | 29 |
| Enrollment at a TV station? | 27 |
| Existences | 10 |
| Perpetual pampering? | 20 |
| They never need to be renewed | 29 |
| Safety item on a plane | 22 |
| Safety item for boaters | 23 |
| Rafter's protection | 23 |
| Kayaker's safety gear | 25 |
| Emergency need at sea | 21 |
| 1935 memoir by Clarence Day | 27 |
| 1993 movie about a talent agent | 31 |
| Techie's lament, Part I | 27 |
| Dublin's river | 18 |
| About a month, for a fruit fly | 30 |
| Not ___ finger (do nothing) | 27 |
| Make the slightest effort | 25 |
| Do something small to help | 26 |
| Pocket a pinky? | 15 |
| Make a slight effort | 20 |
| Help somewhat | 13 |
| Help minimally | 14 |
| Do anything to help | 19 |
| Assist, illegally? | 18 |
| Display anger, perhaps | 22 |
| Wing-designing calculation | 26 |
| Took some small action | 22 |
| Barely helped? | 14 |
| Bench pressed on the witness stand? | 35 |
| Opposite of let down | 20 |
| Repeatedly raised the bar? | 26 |
| Users of barbells, e.g. | 23 |
| Some gym rats | 13 |
| Elevating people or things | 26 |
| Possible backache cause | 23 |
| "Your love keeps ___ me higher" | 41 |
| Revealing, as a top secret | 26 |
| Elevator operator, to a Brit | 28 |
| Countdown followup | 18 |
| NASA? | 5 |
| NASA specialties | 16 |
| NASA successes | 14 |
| What a pep talk is meant to do | 30 |
| Elate without exercise? | 23 |
| Cheer up at the bar? | 20 |
| PLASTIC SURGEON | 15 |
| Musclemen that go up and down in London? | 40 |
| Barely helps | 12 |
| Elevates vehicles, as in a garage | 33 |
| Make a disclosure | 17 |
| Power-operated dollies | 22 |
| Belt out a song | 15 |
| Make off with some gym equipment? | 33 |
| Bone connector | 14 |
| Connecting tissue | 17 |
| Bone nexus | 10 |
| Bonding molecule | 16 |
| Molecules that bind to receptors | 32 |
| Surgically bind | 15 |
| Bind surgically | 15 |
| Tie, as in surgery | 18 |
| Tie surgically | 14 |
| Surgically tie | 14 |