| Peters or Flack | 15 |
| Kern lady | 9 |
| Diva Peters | 11 |
| 1935 musical with Astaire and Rogers | 36 |
| 1933 Kern-Harbach musical | 25 |
| 1933 Jerome Kern musical | 24 |
| "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" musical | 43 |
| Only solo artist to win back-to-back Record of the Year Grammys | 63 |
| Killing Me Softly songstress | 31 |
| He played George playing | 24 |
| Alan's father | 17 |
| Do a boxing 'dance,' formally? | 38 |
| Items for madam's hair? | 27 |
| Peters and Flack | 16 |
| "From Bed to Worse" writer | 36 |
| Michael Gubitosi | 16 |
| English admiral or U.S. actor | 29 |
| Controversial Reagan Supreme Court nominee | 42 |
| Spenser's creator | 21 |
| "Porphyria's Lover" poet with a pan of ground beef on the stove? | 78 |
| Great poetic couple | 19 |
| Edward II dreaded this Scot | 27 |
| Senator for 47 straight years, a Senate record | 46 |
| "Little Fockers" co-star | 34 |
| Oscar winner: 1980 | 18 |
| Actor who always looks pissed off | 33 |
| West Point salutatorian, 1829 | 29 |
| He was allowed to keep his sword | 32 |
| Chicken general? | 16 |
| His U.S. citizenship was posthumously restored in 1975 | 54 |
| C.S.A. name | 11 |
| Arlington House is his memorial | 31 |
| General/Oscar winner (1975) | 27 |
| Nixon's first Secretary of HEW | 34 |
| Best U.S. chess player at 15 | 28 |
| Steamboat inventor (more or less) | 33 |
| Play at a formal Halloween party? | 33 |
| Participate in a formal Halloween party activity? | 49 |
| Halloween party game activity? | 30 |
| Poetic nip | 10 |
| Tufts of ice for a poet? | 24 |
| Hudson River name | 17 |
| Only Secretary of Defense to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected President | 86 |
| ... "Pet Sematary"? | 29 |
| Portrayer of the butler on "Soap" | 43 |
| "Airplane!" and "Airplane II" actor | 55 |
| "LOVE" pop artist | 27 |
| Famous New England poet | 23 |
| Kennedy/Johnson cabinet member | 30 |
| "The Night of the Hunter" star--his middle names are Charles Durman! | 78 |
| From a star in "A Guide for the Married Man" to a telegrapher's language? | 87 |
| U.S. novelist-poet | 18 |
| Michigan actor? | 15 |
| Admiral who went to an extreme? | 31 |
| Victorian era prime minister | 28 |
| British leader from whom the "bobbies" got their name | 63 |
| First U.S. poet laureate | 24 |
| Hair clasp? | 11 |
| Led Zeppelin star | 17 |
| Led Zeppelin singer | 19 |
| Lead singer of Led Zeppelin | 27 |
| Lewis of radio's "The Little Show" | 48 |
| Ecology-minded actor | 20 |
| Box-office giant | 16 |
| He played Mike Brady | 20 |
| Clinton cabinet member whose nest eggs are blue? | 48 |
| He killed Anne Francis in "Bad Day at Black Rock" | 59 |
| Actor meets actor | 17 |
| ...the head of customer relations... | 36 |
| Atlanta's conductor | 23 |
| Actor whose character is stung in "The Sting" | 55 |
| "Idiot's Delight" author | 38 |
| Olympics vehicle, formally? | 27 |
| Olympic event guy? | 18 |
| Winter-sports items | 19 |
| Garb of young Sinatra's fans | 32 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer Oscar | 30 |
| Oscar of basketball fame | 24 |
| Noted televangelist | 19 |
| Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar | 30 |
| British poet laureate: 1813–43 | 37 |
| Parliamentary procedure guide, familiarly | 41 |
| LOUIS | 5 |
| Radio-TV newsman | 16 |
| Radio newscaster | 16 |
| Golf immortal Jones | 19 |
| Common quail? | 13 |
| Underwater-torpedo inventor | 27 |
| Dr. Marcus Welby | 16 |
| MARCus Welby portrayer | 22 |
| "Father Knows Best" star | 34 |
| Bob Dylan, né ___ | 20 |
| Dylan once | 11 |
| Bob Dylan, né ___, 5/24/41 | 29 |
| U.S. singer-actor | 17 |
| Singer/actor who wrote "Here I Stand," 1958 | 53 |
| Singer-athlete-actor: 1898–1976 | 38 |
| Noted actor-singer | 18 |
| His version of "Othello" holds the record for longest-running Shakespeare production on Broadway | 106 |
| He once played Othello | 22 |