| Phrase from a W.W. I song | 25 |
| Where some handbags go | 22 |
| Wildly exaggerated, as a performance | 36 |
| Take things way too far | 23 |
| More than outrageous | 20 |
| Like a kid with spin control? | 29 |
| Excessive, as a performance | 27 |
| Beyond the quota | 16 |
| No longer enamored by a guy working at home? | 44 |
| Anagrammy-winning song about where the Skid Row Hotel was built? | 64 |
| Past an ailment's peak, e.g. | 32 |
| Untrustworthy, to 60's-70's collegians | 46 |
| Ousted, as a dictator | 21 |
| Make a baseball boo-boo | 23 |
| Exposed negatives too much | 26 |
| They're tied | 16 |
| Exciting hockey finishes | 24 |
| Crushing defeat | 15 |
| Sports tiebreaker | 17 |
| N.F.L. workaholics' delights? | 33 |
| Chart showing amounts spent working extra hours? | 48 |
| Tie-breaking periods | 20 |
| Makes a photographer's error | 32 |
| Football field drama | 20 |
| Give 110%, say | 14 |
| Throw money around, in a way | 28 |
| Opposite of stiff | 17 |
| Leave 50%, maybe | 16 |
| Leave 25%, perhaps | 18 |
| Give too much gratuity to | 25 |
| Act the big shot in a way | 25 |
| Act the big shot | 16 |
| Wear out to exhaustion | 22 |
| More than bushed | 16 |
| Publicly | 8 |
| How bruschetta is served | 24 |
| Tennessee county named for a jurist who co-founded Memphis | 58 |
| Look down on or surpass | 23 |
| Content of Cliven Bundy's last widely televised screed | 58 |
| Prepares physically to a fault | 30 |
| Does too many push-ups, etc. | 28 |
| Bonanzas for dummies and partners | 33 |
| Puccini prelude | 15 |
| Orchestral intro | 16 |
| Operatic opening | 16 |
| Musical introduction | 20 |
| Medley that starts a musical | 28 |
| Medley of show tunes, often | 27 |
| Introductory offer | 18 |
| First track on many a Broadway album | 36 |
| Feature of "William Tell" | 35 |
| Famous part of Rossini's "William Tell" | 53 |
| "Egmont" is one | 25 |
| Musical introductions | 21 |
| William Tell and others | 23 |
| Negotiation preceders | 21 |
| Musical intros | 14 |
| Introductory offers | 19 |
| Initiatives | 11 |
| First efforts at compromise | 27 |
| Emulate Rossini et al? | 23 |
| Upset the boat | 14 |
| Upends | 6 |
| Press excessively | 17 |
| Worn out, as phrases | 20 |
| Depleting, perhaps | 18 |
| Afflicted with root rot, perhaps | 32 |
| Oppresses | 9 |
| Like paper or light, reading down | 33 |
| More than satisfactorily | 24 |
| With too much on one's plate | 32 |
| Review of dazzling new string quartets? | 39 |
| Act that may wreck a watch | 26 |
| Due a refund, in a way | 22 |
| Use to excess | 13 |
| Slave-drives | 12 |
| Plies compulsively | 18 |
| Cover, as text | 14 |
| Cover up, as text | 17 |
| Replaced, on a hard drive | 25 |
| Got too wordy in one's blog, perhaps | 40 |
| Attachment to disc or rec | 25 |
| 2012 Miranda Lambert hit about loss | 35 |
| "I'm Getting Sentimental ___" | 43 |
| Mrs. Hobby | 10 |
| ___ Culp Hobby | 14 |
| Mrs. Culp Hobby | 15 |
| She had a Hobby | 15 |
| Name for a Hobby | 16 |
| Given name of the first H.E.W. Secretary | 40 |
| First secretary of H.E.W., 1953, ___ Culp Hobby | 47 |
| First H.E.W. Secretary ___ Culp Hobby | 37 |
| ___ Culp Hobby, first secretary of the Department of Health | 59 |
| ___ Culp Hobby, first Secretary of H.E.W. | 41 |
| ___ Culp Hobby, ex-H.E.W. Sec. | 30 |
| ___ Culp Hobby, D.D.E.'s H.E.W. Sec. | 40 |
| ___ Culp Hobby of H.E.W.: 1953-55 | 33 |
| 1980 running medalist Steve | 27 |
| Sebastian Coe rival | 19 |
| British miler Steve | 19 |