| Openings for some companions | 28 |
| Sch. whistle blower | 19 |
| One going through the exercises? | 32 |
| Exercise leader | 15 |
| Director of exercises, in brief | 31 |
| H.S. gym instructors | 20 |
| Brothers on a classic Nick show | 31 |
| Ringo Starr predecessor | 23 |
| The Beatles' original drummer | 33 |
| Ringo Starr's predecessor | 29 |
| Drummer who left a famous band too soon | 39 |
| Brian Epstein fired him | 23 |
| Beatles drummer before Ringo | 28 |
| Noted Dixieland clarinetist | 27 |
| Noted clarinetist | 17 |
| Dixieland star | 14 |
| Dixieland clarinetist | 21 |
| Clarinetist of note | 19 |
| Colorful Peggy Lee film | 23 |
| Yeggs | 5 |
| Sts. ___ Paul: June 29 | 22 |
| The Fondas | 10 |
| Nero and Hopper | 15 |
| British pop duo of the 60's | 31 |
| Classic Prokofiev piece, to a dog? | 34 |
| Longtime New Yorker cartoonist | 30 |
| The New Yorker contributor until 1968 | 37 |
| "The Deep" novelist | 29 |
| Lunch specialty of an Emmy-winning actor? | 41 |
| "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" guitarist | 83 |
| "Jaws" author | 23 |
| Sir James Biggers character | 27 |
| "More Dogs Than Bones" actor | 38 |
| Ran (out) | 9 |
| Fizzled, with "out" | 29 |
| Fizzled (out) | 13 |
| Faded slowly, with "out" | 34 |
| Faded (out) | 11 |
| Diminished, with "out" | 32 |
| Became less, with "out" | 33 |
| Became exhausted, with "out" | 38 |
| ___ out (failed) | 16 |
| ___ out (diminished gradually) | 30 |
| Stage and film actor | 20 |
| Actor in "The Cheap Detective" | 40 |
| “Actor Graves is head of household,” in Latin? | 54 |
| BRIDGET'S | 13 |
| BRIDGET | 7 |
| ''Easy Rider'' actor | 36 |
| Billy Shears in a Beatles movie | 31 |
| He released the album "So" | 36 |
| Former flautist for Genesis | 27 |
| "Sledgehammer" singer [0.0000001 joules] | 50 |
| Britten's fisherman | 23 |
| TV detective show with theme music by Henry Mancini | 51 |
| Seaport in NE Scotland | 22 |
| 18th-century Russian emperor | 28 |
| Yugoslav king: 1934–45 | 29 |
| Russian ruler before Anna | 25 |
| Deposed king of Yugoslavia | 26 |
| Czar who succeeded Catherine I | 30 |
| Czar of 1727-30 | 15 |
| Catherine I's successor | 27 |
| 18th-century teenage Russian emperor | 36 |
| Director (2003), actor (1962) | 29 |
| One of the former Big Three in news | 35 |
| NBC football analyst/reporter and longtime writer | 49 |
| Mood rock star of the 70's | 30 |
| Name for an 1819 massacre in Manchester, Eng. | 45 |
| UGARTE | 6 |
| Raskolnikov portrayer in 1935's "Crime and Punishment" | 68 |
| Popular impressionist subject | 29 |
| Nero's portrayer in "The Story of Mankind" | 56 |
| "The Mask of Dimitrios" star, 1944 | 44 |
| Elaine Benes's boss on "Seinfeld" | 47 |
| Angler | 6 |
| Artist on the cover of a 1969 Life magazine | 43 |
| "Cosmic" artist of '60s and '70s psychedelia | 62 |
| Safecrackers, slangily | 22 |
| Pianist from N.Y.C. | 19 |
| Pop pianist | 11 |
| Pianist leader of the Philly Pops | 33 |
| Philly Pops conductor | 21 |
| 1961 Best New Artist Grammy winner | 34 |
| "Theme From 'Summer of '42'" pianist | 58 |
| "New Piano in Town" musician | 38 |
| Minuit, Seton, nobleman, Foster | 31 |
| Head Hermit of the '60s | 27 |
| ___ Amiens (First Crusade preacher) | 35 |
| Hitter's soup container? | 28 |
| Former baseball manager comes to a President's mother | 57 |
| Ballplayer meets doyenne | 24 |
| Ballplayer closely followed by a U.S. President's mother | 60 |
| Ballplayer and famous mother | 28 |
| Athlete-matriarch | 17 |
| Ballplayer-entertainer match | 28 |
| Become exhausted | 16 |
| Dwindle to nothing | 18 |
| Fade gradually | 14 |
| Pro football V.I.P. | 19 |