| Hockey Hall of Famer Gordie | 27 |
| Gordie who played 26 seasons | 28 |
| Washington's pursuer | 24 |
| Suffragist Julia Ward --- | 25 |
| Six-time N.H.L. M.V.P. | 22 |
| Sewing-machine inventor Elias | 29 |
| Sewing machine patentee | 23 |
| Sewing machine innovator | 24 |
| Red Wings great Gordie | 22 |
| Photographer James Wong ___ | 27 |
| Mr. Hockey's surname | 24 |
| Joe Palooka's Anne | 22 |
| First six-decade hockey pro | 27 |
| Cinema's James Wong | 23 |
| 26-season N.H.L. player | 23 |
| "Mr. Hockey" | 22 |
| "Battle Hymn" poet | 28 |
| Julia, Gordie and Elias | 23 |
| Inventor Elias and others | 25 |
| Game show emcee Mandel | 22 |
| Football Hall-of-Famer Long | 27 |
| Football commentator ___ Long | 29 |
| Fist-bumping emcee Mandel | 25 |
| Piece of field artillery | 24 |
| React to something hilarious | 28 |
| Sound of a strong wind | 22 |
| React to a kneeslapper | 22 |
| Night sound on the range | 24 |
| Night sound on the moor | 23 |
| Blow, like a strong wind | 24 |
| Allen Ginsberg beat poem | 24 |
| 1956 Allen Ginsberg poem | 24 |
| Legendary blues singer | 22 |
| Rin Tin Tin's wail? | 23 |
| Werewolf movie sound effects | 28 |
| Responds well to a joke | 23 |
| Is helpless with laughter | 25 |
| Doesn't just snicker | 24 |
| Elocutionist's phrase | 25 |
| Classic elocution exercise | 26 |
| "___ the weather?" | 28 |
| "--- tricks?" | 23 |
| "___ tricks?" | 23 |
| "___ that again?" | 27 |
| "___ it going?" | 25 |
| "__ it going?" | 24 |
| "--- it going?" | 25 |
| "___ about it!" | 25 |
| '-- the weather?' | 25 |
| 'What a pity!' | 22 |
| Question from the curious | 25 |
| "Explain . . ." | 25 |
| "Can you explain?" | 28 |
| "By what method?" | 27 |
| ''Why?'' | 24 |
| "Come again?" | 23 |
| "What did you say?" | 29 |
| Request for clarification | 25 |
| Do-it-yourselfer's genre | 28 |
| Self-help title starter | 23 |
| Purchase by Mr. Fix-It | 22 |
| Practical-book category | 23 |
| Instructive kind of book | 24 |
| Instruction book genre | 22 |
| Manual for talk show guests? | 28 |
| Guide for sore losers? | 22 |
| Vade mecum for neologists? | 26 |
| Handbook of euphemisms? | 23 |
| Reading for home mechanics | 26 |
| Reference work for modelists? | 29 |
| Popular New York City daily | 27 |
| One of the Orkney Islands | 25 |
| Daily Spanish newspaper | 23 |
| Boxing's Oscar de la ___ | 28 |
| Big East player from D.C. | 25 |
| Patrick Ewing, in college | 25 |
| Husky rival in the Big East | 27 |
| Georgetown U. adherent | 22 |
| Georgetown basketball team | 26 |
| Girly girls' opposites | 26 |
| Card game authority Edmond | 26 |
| Card-game authority Edmond | 26 |
| Whist expert: 1672-1769 | 23 |
| Settler of many an argument | 27 |
| Game rules expert Edmond | 24 |
| Game rules authority Edmond | 27 |
| Card game rules expert Edmond | 29 |
| Card game rules expert | 22 |
| Card game expert Edmond | 23 |
| Authority in card games | 23 |
| According to ___ (correctly) | 28 |
| "According to ___" | 28 |
| Axton of "Gremlins" | 29 |
| Singer/songwriter Axton | 23 |
| Singer-guitarist Axton | 22 |
| Country musician Axetone | 24 |
| Yankee great Waite ___ | 22 |
| Wilhelm of Cooperstown | 22 |
| Knuckleballer ___ Wilhelm | 25 |
| Knuckle ball legend Wilhelm | 27 |