| Winner of a state contract, perhaps | 35 |
| Contract winner, often | 22 |
| Contract winner | 15 |
| Auction loser | 13 |
| Unsportsmanlike action | 22 |
| Underhanded attack | 18 |
| Uncalled-for insult, say | 24 |
| Unfair attacks | 14 |
| From humble beginnings | 22 |
| Quaint dressing tables | 22 |
| Healthy heart rate, on a doctor's chart | 43 |
| Opposite of "noble" | 29 |
| Unintellectual | 14 |
| Unpretentious one | 17 |
| Hardly museumgoers | 18 |
| Indie studio's offering, maybe | 34 |
| Dieter's sandwich? | 22 |
| Like many diets | 15 |
| Short on bread, maybe? | 22 |
| Like the Atkins diet | 20 |
| Take-off-the-bun meal | 21 |
| It's made by taking off the bun | 35 |
| Rare winner | 11 |
| Deuce or trey, for example | 26 |
| Adjective for an untouchable | 28 |
| Hardly blue-blooded | 19 |
| Benny Hill's area | 21 |
| Like generics, generally | 24 |
| Options for reduced fare | 24 |
| Yugos, e.g. | 11 |
| Benelux, another way | 20 |
| Coastal plains, e.g. | 20 |
| Plunging / Play hooky / Vulgar | 30 |
| 62% on a test, say | 18 |
| Beginner's pool feat | 24 |
| Nonfatal amount of radiation, say | 33 |
| Facts, with "the" | 27 |
| Inside items of information | 27 |
| Depressing level | 16 |
| At a ___: way down | 18 |
| At a ___ (in decline) | 21 |
| Actor Rob's punches? | 24 |
| Actor Rob + actor Richard = something to put a truck in? | 56 |
| "Stieglitz: A Memoir-Biography" | 41 |
| Thomases | 8 |
| Depressed jazz notable in Massachusetts? | 40 |
| Prominent Massachusetts family | 30 |
| Boston literary family | 22 |
| One broadcaster, or two poets | 29 |
| Downscale | 9 |
| Subwoofer's zone | 20 |
| Relatively cheap | 16 |
| Far from chic | 13 |
| Cheapest in a line | 18 |
| It's designed to be seen just above the beltline | 52 |
| Mexicali, Ensenada, La Paz and more | 35 |
| Baja peninsula | 14 |
| Quebec's location | 21 |
| Art form in Quebec? | 19 |
| like all the letters in this clue | 33 |
| Printer's setting | 21 |
| Like the "a" in NaOH | 30 |
| Like most of these letters | 26 |
| Like a | 6 |
| Like ''g'' | 26 |
| Describing characters like b, q and r | 37 |
| It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it | 75 |
| Where appealing people come from? | 33 |
| Jurisdiction whose decisions may be appealed | 44 |
| Where Paul stays when performing in New York? | 45 |
| Mulberry and Henry Sts., etc., N.Y.C. | 37 |
| Moved down | 10 |
| What Clancy did with the boom | 29 |
| Revised downward | 16 |
| Prepared to use, as a boom mic | 30 |
| Like sale prices | 16 |
| Punished severely, with "on" | 38 |
| Punished decisively | 19 |
| Handed down punishment | 22 |
| Sat down? | 9 |
| Roughly 96% of the U.S.A., in a way | 35 |
| It'll help you slow down | 28 |
| Tip O'Neill's milieu | 28 |
| Legislative branch | 18 |
| Dimming | 7 |
| Dark and threatening | 20 |
| Taking decisive punitive action | 31 |
| Handing down punishment | 23 |
| Disciplining firmly | 19 |
| Bottom of a parking garage | 26 |
| It's out for a pout | 23 |
| New Amsterdam, today | 20 |
| Bottommost spar on a schooner | 29 |
| At the very bottom | 18 |
| Select a smaller goal | 21 |
| Curtail one's ambition | 26 |
| Energy-saving mode? | 19 |
| Bass, compared to tenor | 23 |
| Isn't fully alert | 21 |
| Becomes less leery | 18 |