| Bad guesses | 11 |
| Name incorrectly | 16 |
| Umpire's flub | 17 |
| Bidder's error | 18 |
| Given an incorrect name | 23 |
| Names incorrectly | 17 |
| Ms. Brougham | 12 |
| Go awry, as a plan | 18 |
| Puts in an unsuitable role | 26 |
| Puts in the wrong part | 22 |
| Picks the wrong actors | 22 |
| Makes a director's error | 28 |
| Junk drawer's contents | 26 |
| Violinist Elman | 15 |
| Barton of "The O.C." | 30 |
| Actress Barton | 14 |
| Actor Auer | 10 |
| Ms. Luck | 8 |
| Unfortunate events | 18 |
| Nearsighted Russian cab driver? (M) | 35 |
| What imps get into | 18 |
| What Bart's up to | 21 |
| Ms. Boss | 8 |
| Precinct high jinks? | 20 |
| Mint improperly | 15 |
| Impart erroneously | 18 |
| Teller's goof | 17 |
| Reckon wrong | 12 |
| Ballot-box bungle | 17 |
| Depraved, devilish dastards | 27 |
| Slip in a pool parlor | 21 |
| Pool-table gaffe | 16 |
| Embarrassment for Mosconi | 25 |
| Billiards blunder | 17 |
| Makes a billiard fluff | 22 |
| Certain billiard strokes | 24 |
| Bugled strokes | 14 |
| Go outside the dotted line, as with scissors | 44 |
| Make an error on, as a check | 28 |
| Write the wrong year on, as a check | 35 |
| Show the wrong time of month | 28 |
| Screw up, as a check written in January | 39 |
| Err as to the origin of | 23 |
| Assign a wrong year to | 22 |
| Used the wrong year, perhaps | 28 |
| Classified wrongly by archaeologists | 36 |
| Suffers calendar mixups | 23 |
| Passed out in a bad way | 23 |
| Gave 12 to North and 14 to West | 31 |
| Created a canasta disaster | 26 |
| Wrongful act | 12 |
| Malfeasance, e.g. | 17 |
| Judges incorrectly | 18 |
| Behave badly, in early days | 27 |
| Ms. Behavior | 12 |
| "No-spitting" violations, e.g. | 40 |
| Taken the wrong way | 19 |
| Place a call incorrectly | 24 |
| Get the wrong number | 20 |
| Reaches the wrong party | 23 |
| Calls incorrectly | 17 |
| Erred on | 8 |
| Performed wrongly | 17 |
| Handled badly | 13 |
| Send the wrong way | 18 |
| Point wrong | 11 |
| Performs incorrectly | 20 |
| Performs improperly | 19 |
| Performed badly | 15 |
| Accomplished poorly | 19 |
| Distrusted | 10 |
| Bollix a copy job | 17 |
| Artistic suggestion of endessly shrinking mirror images | 55 |
| Actor's surroundings | 24 |
| Causing unhappiness | 19 |
| Poverty, in Paris | 17 |
| Wretchedness, in Tours | 22 |
| Anguish: Fr. | 12 |
| The 51st Psalm | 14 |
| Psalm 51, or any of its many musical settings | 45 |
| 51st Psalm | 10 |
| Sufferings | 10 |
| Scheherazade's string of tales? | 35 |
| Where Scrooge might be a 10? | 28 |
| Tightfistedness scale? | 22 |
| Cartoon tightwad? | 17 |
| Measure of national economic health | 35 |
| Some legal writs | 16 |
| Placed paper in incorrectly, as a printer | 41 |
| Printer jam causes | 18 |
| Inserts wrong, as fax paper | 27 |
| Rifle problems | 14 |
| Put out of order | 16 |
| Put in the wrong place | 22 |
| Put in the wrong folder | 23 |
| Lose in one's drawers | 25 |
| "Lose" at the office | 30 |
| Puts in the wrong folder | 24 |
| Loses data, in a way | 20 |
| Didn't ignite properly | 26 |