| Take orders early | 17 |
| Market in advance | 17 |
| Market before officially launching | 34 |
| Market before building | 22 |
| Takes advance orders for | 24 |
| Just being there | 16 |
| Stately bearing | 15 |
| Poise and confidence | 20 |
| Performer's asset | 21 |
| Imposing appearance | 19 |
| Immediate vicinity | 18 |
| Actor's poise | 17 |
| The current times | 17 |
| What blood donors do? | 21 |
| Military position of salutation that uses a rifle | 49 |
| Drill command to rifle carriers | 31 |
| Where gifts are sold? | 21 |
| Christmas? | 10 |
| Recipient at a fete | 19 |
| Oscar winner, e.g. | 18 |
| Dais personage | 14 |
| V.I.P. at an AMPAS event | 24 |
| Award show V.I.P. | 17 |
| Certain Apocalypse believers | 28 |
| What you'd like a golden opportunity to do | 46 |
| Word that can mean "now" or "later" | 55 |
| "Here," said Tom ___ | 30 |
| Now, with "the" | 25 |
| Puzzles as gifts? | 17 |
| Gifts you only think about giving? | 34 |
| Seasonal accomplishment #3 | 26 |
| Now, in English class | 21 |
| English class designation | 25 |
| Current events, in English class | 32 |
| Grammarians' concerns | 25 |
| Birthday camping gear? | 22 |
| Kept from decay | 15 |
| Thing on a big boat (with "life") | 43 |
| Canners | 7 |
| Keeps alive, e.g. | 17 |
| Places for wildlife | 19 |
| Grandma's canning pride | 27 |
| Certain forest areas | 20 |
| Canned fruit | 12 |
| Put some bags in a can? | 23 |
| Keeping safe | 12 |
| Before starting a tennis game? | 30 |
| The incumbent | 13 |
| Oh-so-cute, in slang | 20 |
| Like, so cute | 13 |
| Bay of Pigs invasion, to JFK? | 29 |
| Sanforized | 10 |
| Wielded the gavel | 17 |
| Wielded a gavel | 15 |
| Was chairman | 12 |
| Ran a meeting | 13 |
| Acted as chairman | 17 |
| Official White House sculptor? | 30 |
| No electee | 10 |
| Spanish handshaking official | 28 |
| Title in the Twentieth Amendment | 32 |
| Man whose 1930 salary was $75,000 | 33 |
| Run for the White House | 23 |
| Washington advisers | 19 |
| Executive's golf score? | 27 |
| Man with a doctrine | 19 |
| Oath of office taker on 1/20/09 | 31 |
| Saddam Hussein's title | 26 |
| Title for Mary McAleese | 23 |
| Temporary prexy | 15 |
| Majority leader, at times | 25 |
| Leader who's for the birds? | 31 |
| He signed the Dr. King Day legislation in '83 | 49 |
| Washington V.I.P.'s | 23 |
| Washington and Jefferson Coll. | 30 |
| Medal of Freedom awarders | 25 |
| Faces on bills | 14 |
| Common images on stamps | 23 |
| Adams and Adams | 15 |
| "All the ___ Men" | 27 |
| Place for Bush's bushes? | 28 |
| Theater VIP section, as suggested by the answers on this puzzle's edges | 75 |
| February observance | 19 |
| Three of these could complete the missing clues above | 53 |
| "He kept us out of war" campaigner | 44 |
| Treaty of Versailles signer | 27 |
| 1913-21 White House occupant | 28 |
| Chairperson | 11 |
| Chairman, at a board meeting | 28 |
| chairman | 8 |
| Soviet committees | 17 |
| Having a garrison | 17 |
| Before houses were weatherproofed? | 34 |
| 1988 Connery film (with "The") | 40 |
| Spanish fortress | 16 |
| San Francisco garrison | 22 |
| San Francisco area | 18 |
| Town on the Rio Grande | 22 |
| Spanish fort | 12 |
| Park near the Golden Gate | 25 |