| Goofed on the diamond | 21 |
| Overrate | 8 |
| Typographical error | 19 |
| Big numismatic news | 19 |
| Like some highly collectible paper money | 40 |
| Phone company buried in errors? | 31 |
| New Yrok and New Jresey, e.g. | 29 |
| Get the words wrong | 19 |
| Interviewer's inaccuracy | 28 |
| Interviewee's worry | 23 |
| Evaluate erroneously | 20 |
| Doesn't get the memo, maybe | 31 |
| Doesn't correctly interpret | 31 |
| Present wrongly, as facts | 25 |
| Be a poor commentator | 21 |
| Gets the news wrong | 19 |
| Belying | 7 |
| Govern badly | 12 |
| Reason for a coup d'état | 31 |
| Govern errantly | 15 |
| Err judicially | 15 |
| Governs badly | 13 |
| Abuses the throne | 17 |
| Incomplete metal casting | 24 |
| Incomplete metal castings | 25 |
| Flawed metal castings | 21 |
| Stumble momentarily | 19 |
| Make a musical goof | 19 |
| Hesitate momentarily | 20 |
| Hardly a must-see | 17 |
| Forget to go on stage, e.g. | 27 |
| One way to make the umpire yell "Strike!"? | 52 |
| Prayer books | 12 |
| Some in prayer look at them | 27 |
| Liturgical books | 16 |
| Books of devotions | 18 |
| Las Vegas winner | 16 |
| Competition originating in Atlantic City in 1921 | 48 |
| A pageant winner's title | 28 |
| A pageant winner | 16 |
| "My Fair Lady" | 24 |
| March in Atlantic City? | 23 |
| Be way off | 10 |
| Not come anywhere near the target | 33 |
| Fail to come close | 18 |
| Be way off the target | 21 |
| Havana beauty, maybe | 20 |
| Felt nostalgic about one's former patrol? | 45 |
| What the shortsighted sailor did | 32 |
| Failed to qualify for Saturday at a golf tournament | 51 |
| Longed for fog to roll in? | 26 |
| The pool-playing actor __ | 25 |
| Had lapses onstage | 18 |
| Jock's woman | 16 |
| P.O. notation | 13 |
| Loaded onto the wrong truck, say | 32 |
| Like many a dead letter | 23 |
| The pool-player-turned-actor often ___ | 38 |
| Singles to female singles? | 26 |
| America and Liberty 0 | 21 |
| Fails to seize the day | 22 |
| Theme-day parade queen | 22 |
| Holly Hunter's glorious Fourth | 34 |
| Lillian's seafood platter | 29 |
| Concerns for Darwin | 19 |
| International pageant competitor | 32 |
| Malformed | 9 |
| Alop | 4 |
| Deform a black gem? | 19 |
| Deforms | 7 |
| Tiara winner in 1991 and 2000 | 29 |
| It may be guided | 16 |
| Silo item | 9 |
| Warship weapon | 14 |
| This may be guided | 18 |
| The Titan, for one | 18 |
| Sam is one | 10 |
| Projectile | 10 |
| Item discussed in SALT talks | 28 |
| ICBM or SAM | 11 |
| Airborne weapon | 15 |
| ___ Command ('80s arcade game) | 34 |
| Category the Pentagon uses instead of "other"? | 56 |
| Perceived Cold War weapons disparity | 36 |
| Trident and Titan | 17 |
| Thor and Atlas | 14 |
| Subject of SALT talks | 21 |
| Rocks and rockets | 17 |
| Hornets and Wasps, e.g. | 23 |
| Heat seekers | 12 |
| Falcons and Patriots, e.g. | 26 |
| Exocet, etc. | 12 |
| Darts and arrows | 16 |
| Arrows, darts, etc. | 19 |
| 1962 crisis items | 17 |
| Farm's first line of defense? | 33 |
| Part of an Xmas rocket, perhaps | 31 |
| All the rockets in existence? | 29 |
| A weaponry science | 18 |
| Movie about a young diva? | 25 |