| Confident reply to a request, with "It's" | 55 |
| All you need to brew a lot of coffee? | 37 |
| Northpaw? | 9 |
| Southpaw's opposite | 23 |
| Swiss mountain near Lake of Lucerne | 35 |
| Mountain near Lake of Lucerne | 29 |
| Shak. play about a king who needs to loosen up once in a while? | 63 |
| Physical property of inflexibility | 34 |
| Targets of criminal probes | 26 |
| Complex procedure | 17 |
| Tediously detailed process | 26 |
| Elaborate procedure | 19 |
| Complicated baloney | 19 |
| Confused talks | 14 |
| Truck drivers? | 14 |
| Line, in Italy | 14 |
| I moisten: Lat. | 15 |
| Verdi opera characters | 22 |
| Put on a whiplash collar? | 25 |
| What solidifies things in the end? | 34 |
| Inexorable | 10 |
| Harsh or severe | 15 |
| Severely strict | 15 |
| Severity, in Soho | 17 |
| Provide with equipment | 22 |
| Feels right | 11 |
| "Umbrella" singer | 27 |
| Singer of the 2010 #1 hit "Rude Boy" | 46 |
| Pop singer born in Barbados | 27 |
| One-named Grammy winner of 2007 | 31 |
| One-named Barbadian singer | 26 |
| Noted Barbadian pop star | 24 |
| Grammy-winning singer from Barbados | 35 |
| Award-winning "Umbrella" singer | 41 |
| "Take a Bow" R&B singer | 37 |
| "Rude Boy" R&B singer | 35 |
| 'Take a Bow' singer | 27 |
| Venetian canals | 15 |
| Venezia's canals | 20 |
| Canals of Venice | 16 |
| Venice canals | 13 |
| The canals of Venezia | 21 |
| Canals of Venezia | 17 |
| Rembrandt van ___ | 17 |
| Rembrandt van __ | 16 |
| Artist Rembrandt van ___ | 24 |
| The Rhine, to the Dutch | 23 |
| 1990 World Series MVP Jose | 26 |
| 1990 World Series M.V.P. Jose | 29 |
| Smits of the NBA | 16 |
| Smits of the N.B.A. | 19 |
| N.B.A.'er Smits, a k a the Dunkin' Dutchman | 51 |
| N.B.A. star Smits | 17 |
| Late British comic Mayall | 25 |
| English comedian Mayall | 23 |
| 7'4" former N.B.A. star Smits | 38 |
| '90s Pacers center Smits | 28 |
| Starship Enterprise commander William | 37 |
| Picard's second-in-command | 30 |
| Picard's Number One | 23 |
| Picard's first officer | 26 |
| Picard's #1 | 15 |
| Eponym of a New York island | 27 |
| Captain Picard's first officer | 34 |
| Island in East River | 20 |
| ___ Island (site of New York City's largest jail facility) | 62 |
| ___ Island (site of a New York prison) | 38 |
| ___ Island (prison site) | 24 |
| New York's "pen" station | 38 |
| Egyptian tambourine | 19 |
| "___-Tikki-Tavi" | 26 |
| Who Steely Dan gave a "Number" to? | 44 |
| Start of Kipling's mongoose | 31 |
| Start of a noted mongoose | 25 |
| Kipling's "__-Tikki-Tavi" | 39 |
| "___ tikki-tavi" | 26 |
| __-Tikki-Tavi: Kipling mongoose | 31 |
| ___-tikki-tavi | 14 |
| Classic rock song characters | 28 |
| ___ tavi | 8 |
| ___ Dagh, Bulgarian range | 25 |
| Angry Julia? | 12 |
| Cheese off | 10 |
| Cause anger in | 14 |
| Poet James Whitcomb and singer Jeannie, for two | 47 |
| Vintage British cars | 20 |
| 'Welcome to the (2010 film) --' | 39 |
| 'One Life to Live" clan | 32 |
| Making steam | 12 |
| Bench jockey's activity | 27 |
| Ran in a small stream | 21 |
| Flowed like a brook | 19 |
| Lunar valleys | 13 |
| Small valleys of the moon | 25 |
| Small creeks | 12 |
| Brooks of little consequence | 28 |
| Indie rock band ___ Kiley | 25 |
| Anatomical fissures | 19 |
| Pertaining to fissures | 22 |
| Spanish rhymes | 14 |