| Wild banana | 11 |
| Tropical melon tree (Var.) | 26 |
| Tree with oblong leaves and fruit | 33 |
| Tree with oblong leaves | 23 |
| Tree with large, oblong leaves | 30 |
| Tree related to the ylang-ylang | 31 |
| Tree of the southeast | 21 |
| Tree of the custard-apple family | 32 |
| Tree also called a custard apple | 32 |
| Sweetsop's cousin | 21 |
| Small, fleshy fruit | 19 |
| Relative of the custard apple | 29 |
| Purple-flowering tree | 21 |
| Purple-flowered tree | 20 |
| Oblong yellowish fruit | 22 |
| Oblong yellow fruit | 19 |
| Oblong fruit | 12 |
| N. A. fruit tree | 16 |
| Melonlike fruit apt for this theme | 34 |
| Large oval fruit | 16 |
| Green-skinned melonlike fruit | 29 |
| Fruit tree with purplish flowers (var.) | 39 |
| Fruit also known as a prairie banana | 36 |
| Elongated fruit from a tree | 27 |
| Elongated fruit (Var.) | 22 |
| Eastern U.S. fruit tree | 23 |
| Custard apple kin | 17 |
| Custard apple cousin | 20 |
| "Poor man's banana" | 33 |
| Painted bunting | 15 |
| Pitcher who struck out the final batter of the 2007 World Series | 64 |
| Von ____ | 8 |
| Franz von ___, German spy in 1915 | 33 |
| Franz von ___ | 13 |
| Maternity ward pacer? | 21 |
| Inexpensive missile | 19 |
| Publisher's rerun | 21 |
| Summer vacation requirement, for some | 37 |
| Like dime novels | 16 |
| Bookstore offerings | 19 |
| Activist grocery clerk? | 23 |
| Halloween decoration cutouts, in Minnesota? | 43 |
| News deliverer | 14 |
| Fledgling entrepreneur | 22 |
| News casters? | 13 |
| News casters | 12 |
| Deliverers on bikes | 19 |
| Egg container | 13 |
| Effort toward a law degree | 26 |
| Would-be lawyer's effort | 28 |
| Houseman TV series, with "The" | 40 |
| Hare and hounds | 15 |
| First trail | 11 |
| After "The," 1970 John Jay Osborn Jr. novel or the movie or TV series adapted from it | 95 |
| 1973 movie set at Harvard, with 'The' | 45 |
| Office fasteners | 16 |
| Rag cheats readership? | 22 |
| Office owie | 11 |
| Steno's work hazard | 23 |
| Painful injury | 14 |
| Minor office injuries | 21 |
| Sheet-slicing office gizmo | 26 |
| Office vessel | 13 |
| Clothing with tabs | 18 |
| Little girl's cutouts | 25 |
| Foolscap figure? | 16 |
| Hanger of a sort | 16 |
| Wall decorator | 14 |
| One working on walls | 20 |
| Wall painters' associates | 29 |
| Certain wall decorators | 23 |
| Origami? | 8 |
| B's for theses? | 19 |
| Purveyor of phony money | 23 |
| Interior decorator's hiree | 30 |
| New Year's Eve wear | 23 |
| Small favors that go to your head | 33 |
| Toy house door support? | 23 |
| Band with the 1974 #1 hit "The Night Chicago Died" | 60 |
| Potentially hackable polling system voted "Worst of Technology" by "Fortune" | 96 |
| George Plimpton book | 20 |
| 1966 George Plimpton book | 25 |
| Unrealized hit taken on an investment | 37 |
| Publisher's supply source | 29 |
| Tatum O'Neal's Oscar film | 33 |
| Tatum O'Neal's first movie | 34 |
| Tatum O'Neal's 1973 Oscar film | 38 |
| Stage prop | 10 |
| Oscar-winning film for Tatum O'Neal | 39 |
| O'Neal-O'Neal film: 1973 | 32 |
| Illumination in a song | 22 |
| 1973 Ryan O'Neal movie | 26 |
| 1973 Peter Bogdanovich comedy | 29 |
| Halloween cutout smacked? | 25 |
| Asian shade trees | 17 |
| Question in the grocery check-out line | 38 |
| Query for a supermarket customer | 32 |
| Modern choice #4 | 16 |
| Concern of Dad the cashier? | 27 |
| Choice at the grocer's, perhaps | 35 |