| It's typically off base | 27 |
| ___ aves | 8 |
| _____ aves (nonpareils) | 23 |
| ____ aves: scarce birds | 23 |
| ___ aves (unique individuals) | 29 |
| ___ aves (standouts) | 20 |
| ___ aves (oners) | 16 |
| ___ aves (nonpareils) | 21 |
| __ aves (uncommon ones) | 23 |
| ___ avis / Two- or four-seater, maybe | 37 |
| Quite an oddity | 15 |
| Duffer's accomplishment? | 28 |
| Welsh rabbits | 13 |
| Servings on toast | 17 |
| Cheesy dishes | 13 |
| Buffet dishes | 13 |
| Valuable volume | 15 |
| Novel that's hard to grasp? | 31 |
| Bibliophile's pursuit | 25 |
| Uncommon instance | 17 |
| Little-seen examples | 20 |
| Fisherman's feat that's out of character? | 49 |
| Indian Head pennies, etc. | 25 |
| 1943 copper pennies, e.g. | 25 |
| Showed eagerness, old-style | 27 |
| Rose up, in dialect | 19 |
| Was eager: Colloq. | 18 |
| Stood up, in dialect | 20 |
| Stood on hind legs, with "up" | 39 |
| Rose on the hind legs, with "up" | 42 |
| Rose (up), oater-style | 22 |
| Rose (up), in westerns | 22 |
| Rose (up) on hind legs, colloquially | 36 |
| Yttrium and lutetium, e.g | 25 |
| Erbium, terbium and the like | 28 |
| Cerium and erbium, e.g. | 23 |
| Street shows | 12 |
| Peep shows | 10 |
| Pavement productions | 20 |
| Street performance | 18 |
| Exhibition viewed in a box | 26 |
| Cheap spectacles | 16 |
| Extremely high or elevated, as air | 34 |
| Abstruse or very high | 21 |
| Makes less dense | 16 |
| Distills | 8 |
| Exceptional discovery | 21 |
| Make prohibitions more refined? | 31 |
| Xenon or krypton | 16 |
| Relatively piquant | 18 |
| One highly unlikely to react | 28 |
| Erstwhile name for a "noble" element | 46 |
| Element on the far-right side of the periodic table | 51 |
| Krypton, xenon, etc. | 20 |
| Contents of the rightmost column of a table | 43 |
| Blue garnets and red diamonds | 29 |
| Items of almost unmatched excellence | 36 |
| Start of an ironic quote from a certain Yale graduate | 53 |
| Like steak orders at bad steakhouses? | 37 |
| Palladium and osmium, for two | 29 |
| Infrequency | 11 |
| Some peaches | 12 |
| The Vancouver Island marmot, for one | 36 |
| Seller of an Inverted Jenny, perhaps | 36 |
| Lifts one's front legs, horse-style | 39 |
| Very special goody | 18 |
| Vintage bottle's contents | 29 |
| Eager (to go) | 13 |
| Ready and eager | 15 |
| Impatient (to go) | 17 |
| __ to go: psyched | 17 |
| Like Spectacular Bid at the gate | 32 |
| Something not often seen in France | 34 |
| Uncommon: Sp. | 13 |
| Uncommon, to de Falla | 21 |
| Scarce in Saltillo | 19 |
| Tabulae -- (blank slates) | 25 |
| Tabulae ____: clean slates | 26 |
| Tabulae ___ | 11 |
| Star in Ophiuchus | 17 |
| Hindu dances | 12 |
| Hindu dance dramas | 18 |
| Knavish conduct | 15 |
| Meanly tricky | 13 |
| Mean; base | 10 |
| Ex-Yankee hurler | 16 |
| He brings the house down in Britain | 35 |
| Demolition man | 14 |
| British bulldozer | 17 |
| London wrecking crew | 20 |
| Guitarists' arpeggios | 25 |
| Tear: Sp. | 9 |
| Phylicia of "The Cosby Show" | 38 |
| Sportscaster and former NFL player Ahmad | 40 |
| Cosby's TV wife | 19 |
| "Cosby" co-star | 25 |
| Sudanese town | 13 |
| Sportscaster Ahmad | 18 |
| Receiver-turned-sportscaster | 28 |
| Mrs. Huxtable's portrayer | 29 |