| Nest egg for the golden yrs. | 28 |
| Musical George's brother | 28 |
| Money for old age, for short | 28 |
| Money for an A.A.R.P. member | 28 |
| Irish nationalists' org. | 28 |
| Investment option for short, | 28 |
| Fund for the future, briefly | 28 |
| Actor Aldridge of 1800's | 28 |
| A C.P.A. might recommend one | 28 |
| "Cybill" character | 28 |
| ''Dies ___'' | 28 |
| Dies ___ (Requiem Mass part) | 28 |
| "Wrath," in a hymn | 28 |
| Declaration at a poker table | 28 |
| Aggressive poker declaration | 28 |
| Land on the Strait of Hormuz | 28 |
| Modern home of ancient Media | 28 |
| Nation with a Supreme Leader | 28 |
| Home to the Zagros Mountains | 28 |
| Where Teheran is the capital | 28 |
| Where Baha'i was founded | 28 |
| Site of the Elburz Mountains | 28 |
| Qajar dynasty country, today | 28 |
| Modern home of ancient Medes | 28 |
| It's west of Afghanistan | 28 |
| Host of the 1974 Asian Games | 28 |
| Home of the Zagros Mountains | 28 |
| Hassan Rouhani's country | 28 |
| First landfall north of Oman | 28 |
| Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray | 28 |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for one | 28 |
| Member of a modern theocracy | 28 |
| Where Tigris meets Euphrates | 28 |
| It doesn't bare its arms | 28 |
| Operation ___ Freedom (2003) | 28 |
| Modern dweller in ancient Ur | 28 |
| One of Cleopatra's maids | 28 |
| Some tax shelters, for short | 28 |
| Some savings plans, in brief | 28 |
| Portfolio options, for short | 28 |
| Nest eggs for seniors: Abbr. | 28 |
| Income sources for some srs. | 28 |
| Certain nest eggs, for short | 28 |
| About to go through the roof | 28 |
| Leprechaun's land: Abbr. | 28 |
| Hothead's feeling, often | 28 |
| Frustration, carried further | 28 |
| "Yer prolly right" | 28 |
| "Cat People" woman | 28 |
| "Fame" singer Cara | 28 |
| Vernon's dancing partner | 28 |
| The personification of peace | 28 |
| 2000 title role for Renée | 28 |
| Woman who outwitted Sherlock | 28 |
| Three-time Tony winner Worth | 28 |
| Singer Cara or Actress Dunne | 28 |
| Peaceful personality of myth | 28 |
| Dunne of The Awful Truth | 28 |
| Broadway revival hit in 1973 | 28 |
| "Good Night" lady? | 28 |
| Tony winner Worth and others | 28 |
| "Once again . . ." | 28 |
| Declaration of independence? | 28 |
| Tennessee's state flower | 28 |
| You can see right through it | 28 |
| Pupillary sphincter location | 28 |
| Photographer's diaphragm | 28 |
| Georgia O'Keeffe subject | 28 |
| It allows light into the eye | 28 |
| It's surrounded by white | 28 |
| Flower on some coats of arms | 28 |
| Blackberry lily's family | 28 |
| Showy, often bearded flowers | 28 |
| Official blooms of Tennessee | 28 |
| "My Wild ___ Rose" | 28 |
| Notre Dame squad, familiarly | 28 |
| Notre Dame's Fighting __ | 28 |
| Like whiskey, but not whisky | 28 |
| It surrounds the Isle of Man | 28 |
| Isle of Man's waterfront | 28 |
| Body of water east of Dublin | 28 |
| Expanding-circle film effect | 28 |
| Hogwarts librarian ___ Pince | 28 |
| Token in an old Monopoly set | 28 |
| Much of the earth's core | 28 |
| Attend to a pressing detail? | 28 |
| Waffle maker's appliance | 28 |
| Remove wrinkles from clothes | 28 |
| Period of metalwork advances | 28 |
| First industrial revolution? | 28 |
| C. 1000 B.C.–A.D. 100 | 28 |
| Like an inflexible agreement | 28 |
| Difficult to change or break | 28 |
| Tuesday worker, in a refrain | 28 |
| He tends to pressing matters | 28 |
| Self-contradictory, in a way | 28 |
| Like some unexpected endings | 28 |
| Like a fire at the firehouse | 28 |
| Outcomes other than expected | 28 |
| Features of O. Henry stories | 28 |