| Spring flood causes | 19 |
| Tie-breaking contests | 21 |
| Resolvers of ties | 17 |
| Postelection elections | 22 |
| Mountain flows | 14 |
| Elections following elections | 29 |
| Elections after elections | 25 |
| Second ballot, often | 20 |
| Streak in Vegas | 15 |
| Supersized marathon? | 20 |
| Really big marathon? | 20 |
| Mega-marathon? | 14 |
| Push ahead, despite exhaustion | 30 |
| "Recess is over" | 26 |
| "Enter quickly!" | 26 |
| ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ | 23 |
| They're likely to be edited | 31 |
| Long sentences | 14 |
| Flawed sentences | 16 |
| Copy blocks set without a break | 31 |
| This is a grammar slip don't use it | 39 |
| Lifer's beef? | 17 |
| Legal punishment for bad writing? | 33 |
| "I like this book, it's great!," etc. | 51 |
| Cease to be able to sell | 24 |
| Can't sell anymore, by necessity | 36 |
| Lose after going all-in | 23 |
| Use up all the alibis | 21 |
| Use up all alibis | 17 |
| Must finally come clean | 23 |
| Sputter to a stop, in a way | 27 |
| Expirations | 11 |
| Typeset matter that exceeds the allotted space | 46 |
| Not stay within the allotted time | 33 |
| Make roadkill of | 16 |
| Go longer than planned | 22 |
| Exceed a limit | 14 |
| Review a busted budget? | 23 |
| Excess amounts of type | 22 |
| Never touch, mathematically | 27 |
| Tell in order to get an opinion | 31 |
| Made to resist unraveling | 25 |
| Like stockings and eyeliner | 27 |
| Win with ease | 13 |
| Surpass easily | 14 |
| Grow abundantly | 15 |
| Jo Jo Gunne's only hit | 26 |
| ____ risk | 9 |
| What this entry does in the grid | 32 |
| Finds by chance | 15 |
| Attempts to catch | 17 |
| Does the scale | 14 |
| Last of drug injected into bare elbow (5) | 41 |
| Goes every which way | 20 |
| Socializes (with) | 17 |
| Uses credit | 11 |
| Drinks now, pays later | 22 |
| Drinks now and pays later | 25 |
| Doesn't pay immediately | 27 |
| Uses discretion instead of valor, maybe | 39 |
| Returns a punt | 14 |
| Retreat in fear | 15 |
| Finally dies, as a battery | 26 |
| Becomes nonproductive | 21 |
| Loses all its water | 19 |
| Seeks, as office | 16 |
| Seeks the office of | 19 |
| White House softball team stat? | 31 |
| ___ of (collides with) | 22 |
| Is not restrained | 17 |
| Goes all out, on the track | 26 |
| Smuggles heroin? | 16 |
| Suffer depletion | 16 |
| Not have enough | 15 |
| Become insufficient | 19 |
| Operate stealthily, as a sub | 28 |
| Takes to the station house | 26 |
| Takes to jail | 13 |
| Is a family trait | 17 |
| Passes from generation to generation | 36 |
| Is inherited | 12 |
| Is inheritable | 14 |
| Gets passed down, perhaps | 25 |
| Arrests an entire crime syndicate? | 34 |
| Meets by chance | 15 |
| Meets up with | 13 |
| ___ the ground (overdoes) | 25 |
| Goes around in circles | 22 |
| Is in tip-top shape | 19 |
| Lose time, as a watch | 21 |
| Heads for in a hurry | 20 |
| Won't stop gabbing | 22 |
| Talks too long | 14 |
| Keeps going longer than is technically really necessary and then begins to start to become awkward, as a sentence | 113 |
| Keeps moving, but just barely | 29 |
| Glances at briefly | 18 |
| Dries up | 8 |
| Is exhausted | 12 |
| Loses power | 11 |
| Gets tired | 10 |