| Like a catch-22 situation | 25 |
| Misplace comic Costello's privies? | 38 |
| What most Vegas visitors do | 27 |
| What most gamblers do | 21 |
| Take a bath, perhaps | 20 |
| Take immediate steps | 20 |
| Be efficient | 12 |
| Act immediately | 15 |
| Have a high-wire disaster | 25 |
| Become unsteady | 15 |
| Tip over, say | 13 |
| Have a bad day at the bank? | 27 |
| Fall off a beam, e.g. | 21 |
| Become incompetent | 18 |
| Fall in love with | 17 |
| Become smitten with | 19 |
| Go mad | 6 |
| Spill a Cuban drink? | 20 |
| Be a poor gambler? | 18 |
| Go bald? | 8 |
| Fall in with the wrong crowd, say | 33 |
| Really become annoyed | 21 |
| Be fed up to here (with) | 24 |
| What a bad doctor will do? | 26 |
| Get nothing from the machine? | 29 |
| Famous main street | 18 |
| Ongoing NYC tribute project where musicians cover the works of other musicians | 78 |
| Be a ___ (finish second) | 24 |
| ___ bet (wagers badly) | 22 |
| Crosses the international date line from east to west | 53 |
| Continues on a bad streak | 25 |
| Fails in | 8 |
| Has to wait for the next round, perhaps | 39 |
| Gets trounced | 13 |
| Takes a real beating | 20 |
| Suffers embarrassment | 21 |
| Is embarrassed, in a way | 24 |
| Falls behind in a footrace | 26 |
| Becomes discouraged | 19 |
| Spends too much time in a time suck, say | 40 |
| Candidate Gingerbread Man... | 28 |
| Misplace single fruit? | 22 |
| Fails to make money with, as an investment | 42 |
| Ditches a jamboree guest? | 25 |
| Gets very hot | 13 |
| Gets the short end of the stick | 31 |
| Picks the short straw | 21 |
| Is overcome | 11 |
| Starts seeing things out of balance | 35 |
| Frets (over) | 12 |
| Run out of energy | 17 |
| Runs too slowly, as a watch | 27 |
| Does not keep informed (of) | 27 |
| End disastrously | 16 |
| Blow it in the ninth | 20 |
| End of the eulogy | 17 |
| Experience a delay | 18 |
| Fall behind in a race | 21 |
| Director of "The Servant": 1963 | 41 |
| Go broke in Vegas | 17 |
| Town near San Jose | 18 |
| City near Silicon Valley | 24 |
| Elk hide | 8 |
| At the back of the pack | 23 |
| Type of proposition | 19 |
| Trailing in the polls | 21 |
| Behind in the score | 19 |
| Good news for a dieter, bad news for a London gambler | 53 |
| Underdog's diet? | 20 |
| Occupying the cellar | 20 |
| Becoming discouraged | 20 |
| On the verge of a meltdown | 26 |
| Blowing one's cool | 22 |
| Falling fast | 12 |
| Benefit of taking aspirin? | 26 |
| Sign of a failed practice? | 26 |
| Money a gambler says goodbye to | 31 |
| Dyeing gray spots? | 18 |
| Beset by delays | 15 |
| Like a slow watch | 17 |
| They're pinned | 18 |
| "La Bamba" performers | 31 |
| "La Bamba" band | 25 |
| "La Bamba" band covering "More Than a Feeling" with "Funky Cold Medina" rapper? | 109 |
| Larry McMurtry novel made into an Emmy-winning TV series | 56 |
| San Luis Obispo suburb | 22 |
| "Look! Ghosts!"? | 26 |
| Fail to keep tabs on | 20 |
| Ecuadorean province | 19 |
| Sign that your duck is getting older? | 37 |
| Dentist's dearth? | 21 |
| Garden of Eden occurrence | 25 |
| Consequence of war | 18 |
| "THANKS FOR THE" | 26 |
| Compression type | 16 |
| Had to wear the winning team's jersey, say | 46 |
| Dixon Ticonderoga Pencil stock ___ | 34 |
| ___ found | 9 |
| Spot for misplaced stuff | 24 |
| Home of the misplaced | 21 |