| University of Montana site | 26 |
| Montana town where "A River Runs Through It" was set | 62 |
| People who must be shown | 24 |
| Adage fostering pity parties, in Jefferson City? | 48 |
| Omaha is on it | 14 |
| Bismarck and Pierre are on it, to a double-crosser | 50 |
| Lose an opportunity | 19 |
| Blow an opportunity | 19 |
| Pass up an opportunity | 22 |
| Lose the opportunity | 20 |
| Crap-game loss | 14 |
| Utter a spoonerism or malapropism | 33 |
| Goes astray, in a way | 21 |
| Like hors d'ouevres | 23 |
| Pusilanimous Pharoah | 20 |
| Writes poorly? | 14 |
| Like some youths | 16 |
| Squandered early years | 22 |
| Rued years | 10 |
| Said the wrong thing | 20 |
| Not well-articulated | 20 |
| Vicksburg lithographs? | 22 |
| Pageant winner who also won at the "USA" and "Universe" levels in 2012 | 90 |
| Barrett autobiography | 21 |
| Start of the accusation | 23 |
| Cohort of Professor Plum | 24 |
| "Clue" suspect | 24 |
| Get off on the wrong foot | 25 |
| Distort a report | 16 |
| Say it wrong | 12 |
| Say wrongly | 11 |
| Speak in error | 14 |
| Say incorrectly | 15 |
| Quote falsely | 13 |
| Err in a report | 15 |
| Requiring a retraction | 22 |
| Gave a false account of | 23 |
| Twists the facts | 16 |
| Gives false accounts | 20 |
| Emma 's friend and mentor | 31 |
| Pageant for under-20s | 21 |
| Give poor advice | 16 |
| Kindhearted schoolteacher created by Charlotte Brontë | 56 |
| Contest winner from the South | 29 |
| Causes of some falls | 20 |
| One of fifty-one in a pageant | 29 |
| Focus of an annual Fort Worth event | 35 |
| Farrah Fawcett played her in "The Great American Beauty Contest" | 74 |
| ___ boat | 8 |
| Come too late for the dance | 27 |
| What well-pitched baseballs do? | 31 |
| What many pitched baseballs do? | 31 |
| Long for one's lost Louisville Slugger? | 43 |
| Long for a snake? | 17 |
| Be too late | 11 |
| Lose out | 8 |
| Fall short, so to speak | 23 |
| Not make it | 11 |
| Fail to qualify, as for a team | 30 |
| Don't make it to a retrospective of Franz's German Expressionist works? | 79 |
| Arrive at a store after it has closed? | 38 |
| Be nostalgic for old Nordic currency? | 37 |
| Lose on "Concentration"? | 34 |
| African beauty | 14 |
| Taken the wrong way in a heated argument? | 41 |
| Recipient of a 1300-gem crown | 29 |
| International contest with a cosmic name | 40 |
| Big annual beauty contest | 25 |
| Wife, informally | 16 |
| Word for a wife | 15 |
| Hubby's partner (with "the") | 42 |
| Mister's mate | 17 |
| Lady of the house, familiarly | 29 |
| Title first awarded in 1952 | 27 |
| Pageant title since 1952 | 24 |
| Annual pageant winner | 21 |
| Wearer of a crown since 1952 | 28 |
| Title awarded annually since 1952 | 33 |
| Pageant owned by Donald Trump | 29 |
| Halle Berry was once runner-up for this | 39 |
| Contest once hosted by Bob Barker and Dick Clark | 48 |
| Beauty pageant since 1952 | 25 |
| American with a crown | 21 |
| Sharlene Wells's title before winning in Atlantic City in 1984 | 66 |
| Call in sick, e.g. | 18 |
| Calvin's teacher, in "Calvin and Hobbes" | 54 |
| Mysterious lady | 15 |
| Stones disco hit | 16 |
| Postcard sentiment | 18 |
| Love letter sentiment | 21 |
| Love letter line | 16 |
| 2003 Aaliyah hit | 16 |
| 1978 Rolling Stones chart-topper | 32 |
| Mariah Carey Christmas song | 27 |
| F.D.R.'s secretary et al. | 29 |
| Term of address, in urban slang | 31 |
| Man in the 'hood | 20 |
| Insalata ___ (salad) | 20 |
| Former X-Ecutioners DJ ___ Sinista | 34 |
| Capable of getting all wrong | 28 |