| Measure that may be tried to end a drought | 42 |
| Hopi ceremony | 13 |
| Hoped-for drought ender | 23 |
| Hope for the drought-stricken | 29 |
| Desperate attempt to end a drought | 34 |
| Braves' ritual during a drought | 35 |
| Dry measures? | 13 |
| Drought rituals, perhaps | 24 |
| Certain American Indian rites | 29 |
| Ballets on the reservation | 26 |
| Bad-weather contingency plan | 28 |
| Bad-weather contingency | 23 |
| Schedule contingency | 20 |
| Plan B time | 11 |
| Outdoor event provision | 23 |
| Event planner's contingency | 31 |
| Bad weather contingency | 23 |
| Missed Connection: You gallantly lent me your umbrella during a downpour, then disappeared - my ___! | 100 |
| Inning interruptions | 20 |
| God of storms? | 14 |
| A 1970 hit — as sung by a famous swinger? | 48 |
| Maida of Our Lady Peace | 23 |
| Creator of Tugboat Annie | 24 |
| Bret Michaels song about his daughter | 37 |
| Bret Michaels single about his daughter | 39 |
| ___ and dogs (teemed) | 21 |
| Fell in torrents | 16 |
| Housebound by the weather | 25 |
| Canceled, in a way | 18 |
| Postponed, perhaps | 18 |
| Postponed, in a way | 19 |
| 1936 and 1937 Best Actress Luise | 32 |
| Two-time Oscar winner Luise | 27 |
| Poet ___ Maria Rilke | 20 |
| Oscar-winning actress: 1936 | 27 |
| Oscar winner Luise | 18 |
| Luise of filmdom | 16 |
| Luise from Vienna | 17 |
| First winner of consecutive Oscars | 34 |
| Best Actress winner for "The Great Ziegfeld," 1936 | 60 |
| Best Actress of 1936 and 1937 | 29 |
| Actress Luise | 13 |
| A star of "The Good Earth" | 36 |
| Speaker in F.D.R.'s day | 27 |
| Old blues singer Ma ___ | 23 |
| Ma of blues | 11 |
| Garner's successor as Speaker | 33 |
| Early blues singer Ma -- | 24 |
| Blues singer Ma | 15 |
| 19th-century African-American congressman Joseph | 48 |
| "Ma ___'s Black Bottom" (August Wilson play) | 58 |
| Pennies from heaven? | 20 |
| Concerns for ecologists | 23 |
| Weather station instrument | 26 |
| Stuff worn in a storm | 21 |
| Slicker, e.g. | 13 |
| Certain hats and shoes | 22 |
| Child's fair-weather wish | 29 |
| Tlaloc, to the Aztecs | 21 |
| The Aztec's Tlaloc, for one | 31 |
| Shower head? | 12 |
| Parjanya, in Hindu myth | 23 |
| One prayed to during a dry spell | 32 |
| One invoked during a drought | 28 |
| Chaac, to Mayans | 16 |
| April weather wear | 18 |
| Monacan ruler | 13 |
| "The ___ Spain . . . " | 32 |
| Precipitating, in a way | 23 |
| Not fair, in a way | 18 |
| Weather information | 19 |
| Really coming down | 18 |
| "It's ___ violets" | 32 |
| Aftermath of a sausage explosion? | 33 |
| Coming down hard | 16 |
| Kings who dropped from the heavens? | 35 |
| Lerner-Loewe subject | 20 |
| It falls mainly on the plain | 28 |
| Ally of Sitting Bull | 20 |
| Business-generating attorney | 28 |
| One seeding clouds | 18 |
| Law-firm hotshot | 16 |
| Law firm hotshot | 16 |
| Indian tribe V.I.P. | 19 |
| Drought V.I.P. | 14 |
| B. Lancaster film, with "The": 1956 | 45 |
| Pros at increasing profits | 26 |
| 28th president in a Dustin Hoffman role? | 40 |
| Ones working to end a drought | 29 |
| Wilson of "The Office" | 32 |
| Actor Wilson of "The Office" | 38 |
| Jig performed by Wilson of "The Office"? | 50 |
| 'The Office' actor | 26 |
| Dwight Schrute portrayer on "The Office" | 50 |
| Powerful downpour? | 18 |
| Ashanti single off "Chapter II" | 41 |
| Demeter's weather command? | 30 |
| Forecast: flood watch | 21 |
| "Come ___ come shine" | 31 |
| All-weather garment | 19 |