| Prepares for later use, as a meal | 33 |
| Gets ready beforehand, in a way | 31 |
| Refrigerates before shipment | 28 |
| Prepares fruit for shipment | 27 |
| John the Baptist, to Jesus | 26 |
| Before the computer age? | 24 |
| Jigsaws at the factory, maybe | 29 |
| Subj. partner | 13 |
| Subj. follower | 14 |
| Sentence segment: Abbr. | 23 |
| Sentence pt. | 12 |
| Time before nightfall | 21 |
| Antecedent to | 13 |
| Rapacity | 8 |
| Pilotless weapon | 16 |
| Unmanned craft that makes targeted attacks | 42 |
| Like bad lending | 16 |
| Preying upon other organisms | 28 |
| Time for some raids | 19 |
| Early time of day | 17 |
| Before the crowing starts | 25 |
| Before daybreak | 15 |
| Like Oedipus' marriage | 26 |
| Go before? | 10 |
| One there before | 16 |
| Decided in advance | 18 |
| Landed slaves: Var. | 19 |
| Part of the Stepquote | 21 |
| Tough thing to get out of | 25 |
| Fine how-do-you-do | 18 |
| Subject's follower | 22 |
| Imply or connote | 16 |
| Unlike the distant future | 25 |
| Cassandra's direful words | 29 |
| Word that could mean “before Samuel Johnson’s 1755 book” or “related to fortunetelling” | 107 |
| Start of a Niels Bohr quote | 27 |
| Like signs | 10 |
| Tells a fortune | 15 |
| Interprets tea leaves | 21 |
| Declares in advance | 19 |
| Deals in futures? | 17 |
| Acts the seer | 13 |
| Works as a "merchandising futurist"? | 46 |
| Render susceptible | 18 |
| Condemned ab ovo | 16 |
| Chemically colored in advance | 29 |
| Do preliminary work on mss. | 27 |
| Opt in advance | 14 |
| Install before November, say | 28 |
| Early arrival | 13 |
| Early arrival in the delivery room | 34 |
| One with a reduced term? | 24 |
| Early-born baby | 15 |
| Early delivery? | 15 |
| Early delivery in the delivery room | 35 |
| Early arriver? | 14 |
| Certain infant: Colloq. | 23 |
| Arrival who's ahead of schedule | 35 |
| Replaces in the TV lineup | 25 |
| Makes a shutout bid | 19 |
| Denies air to? | 14 |
| Bumps, on the air | 17 |
| One who primps | 14 |
| Mirror hog | 10 |
| Fussy dresser | 13 |
| For whom appearance is important | 32 |
| Feather-fixing bird | 19 |
| Cat or pigeon, often | 20 |
| Bird, often | 11 |
| Self-satisfied souls | 20 |
| Getting ready for the prom, perhaps | 35 |
| Primping | 8 |
| Getting dolled up | 17 |
| Activity of a belle or bird | 27 |
| Sign up early | 13 |
| Expecting, in England | 21 |
| Go over beforehand | 18 |
| Check out ahead of time | 23 |
| Come beforehand | 15 |
| Lived before | 12 |
| Condition ahead of time, as film | 32 |
| Bk. intro | 9 |
| Paper or plastic, e.g. (Abbr.) | 30 |
| Choice (Abbr.) | 14 |
| Aisle or window, e.g.: Abbr. | 28 |
| Some stock: abbr. | 17 |
| Smoking or non, e.g.: Abbr. | 27 |
| Paper or plastic, e.g.: Abbr. | 29 |
| Non- or un-: Abbr. | 18 |
| Choice, for short | 17 |
| Where some thank-yous are written | 33 |
| Some books have one | 19 |
| Section in the front of some books | 34 |
| Prolegomenon | 12 |
| Literary foreword | 17 |
| Its pages are often numbered i, ii, iii, etc. | 45 |
| Introductory part | 17 |
| Book's section | 18 |
| Appendix counterpart | 20 |
| Wrote an introduction | 21 |