| Proposal before the states | 26 |
| Pitching statistics: Abbr. | 26 |
| Pedro Martinez's pride | 26 |
| Notable period of the past | 26 |
| No. important to a pitcher | 26 |
| Low fig. for Randy Johnson | 26 |
| Common, Roman or Christian | 26 |
| Coldwell Banker competitor | 26 |
| A balk might make it go up | 26 |
| Periods of historical note | 26 |
| Important times in history | 26 |
| Horse-and-buggy and others | 26 |
| Historic stretches of time | 26 |
| Topics for history courses | 26 |
| Times that are distinctive | 26 |
| President's term, e.g. | 26 |
| Noteworthy periods of time | 26 |
| Macedonian and Mayan, e.g. | 26 |
| History book sections, say | 26 |
| Emperor's reigns, e.g. | 26 |
| Depression and Prohibition | 26 |
| Deadball and steroid, e.g. | 26 |
| Chapters in social studies | 26 |
| Chapters in a history book | 26 |
| Alexandrian and Napoleonic | 26 |
| Alexandrian and Babylonian | 26 |
| Subject to being wiped out | 26 |
| Shake, as an Etch A Sketch | 26 |
| Remove from the blackboard | 26 |
| Prepare for reuse, perhaps | 26 |
| Wipe off a chalkboard, say | 26 |
| Start to correct, in a way | 26 |
| Clean off, as a blackboard | 26 |
| Helped with the blackboard | 26 |
| Most golf pencils lack one | 26 |
| They help get the lead out | 26 |
| What a smudge may indicate | 26 |
| Puzzle solver's smudge | 26 |
| Between quod and faciendum | 26 |
| Calliope's sister muse | 26 |
| Sister goddess of Calliope | 26 |
| Greek Muse of lyric poetry | 26 |
| Wagner's Earth goddess | 26 |
| "Rheingold" role | 26 |
| Solid ground, in Stuttgart | 26 |
| Two-way poetic preposition | 26 |
| Before, in an old syllable | 26 |
| "___ I saw Elba" | 26 |
| You may see it before long | 26 |
| Lyrical "before" | 26 |
| Vague time frame indicator | 26 |
| Poet's palindrome word | 26 |
| Byronic "before" | 26 |
| "Before" of yore | 26 |
| Palindrome in a palindrome | 26 |
| Double-bladed ___ II razor | 26 |
| "Heir" homophone | 26 |
| "--- I saw Elba" | 26 |
| Demonstrating good posture | 26 |
| On twos, rather than fours | 26 |
| Ready for action, in a way | 26 |
| Construct, as a skyscraper | 26 |
| Constructor's activity | 26 |
| Budding engineer's toy | 26 |
| Kid's construction kit | 26 |
| Future architect's toy | 26 |
| Part of a noted palindrome | 26 |
| Prior to today, bard-style | 26 |
| ''___ Tu'' | 26 |
| "Tu ___ mi amor" | 26 |
| Romantic '70s hit song | 26 |
| "Cogito ___ sum" | 26 |
| Consequently, to Descartes | 26 |
| Word before sum, sometimes | 26 |
| Word after a minor premise | 26 |
| Logician's conjunction | 26 |
| "Cogito --- sum" | 26 |
| Problem for a grain farmer | 26 |
| This causes rye to go awry | 26 |
| Physicists' work units | 26 |
| Physicist's work units | 26 |
| Renato's aria ___ Tu | 26 |
| "___ tu" (Verdi) | 26 |
| "___ Tu?" (aria) | 26 |
| "South Park" kid | 26 |
| "South Park" boy | 26 |
| Former Flyers star Lindros | 26 |
| Szmanda of "CSI" | 26 |
| Bana of "Munich" | 26 |
| Stoltz of "Mask" | 26 |
| "Hulk" star Bana | 26 |
| Name of 14 kings of Sweden | 26 |
| Legendary newsman Sevareid | 26 |
| Julia Roberts' brother | 26 |
| Holder of a high position? | 26 |
| Explorer Leif's father | 26 |
| Susan's Emmy soap role | 26 |
| Susan Lucci character Kane | 26 |
| Von Stroheim of the movies | 26 |
| Monty Python troupe member | 26 |