| Words with instant and hour | 27 |
| Put-appearance linkage | 22 |
| "Love ___ Elevator" | 29 |
| "Back ___ hour" | 25 |
| "Back __ hour" | 24 |
| "___ emergency ..." | 29 |
| --- instant (suddenly) | 22 |
| ___ uproar (tumultuous) | 23 |
| ___ instant (promptly) | 22 |
| Devoid of intelligence | 22 |
| Not worth a second thought | 26 |
| The void of infinite space | 26 |
| Like most postgame comments | 27 |
| Hardly well-thought-out | 23 |
| Not to be taken seriously | 25 |
| More than just a little silly | 29 |
| Like spitting into the wind | 27 |
| Like an ament's comments | 28 |
| Like a Three Stooges routine | 28 |
| Hardly highbrow, maybe | 22 |
| Comparatively cockamamie | 24 |
| Between Scylla and Charybdis | 28 |
| With nothing out of place | 25 |
| Wrong for the situation | 23 |
| Poorly chosen, as a phrase | 26 |
| Not at all appropriate | 22 |
| Very hot under the collar | 25 |
| Measured two-dimensionally | 26 |
| Words denoting square feet | 26 |
| With regard to surface space | 28 |
| On the surface, measurably | 26 |
| How California ranks #3 | 23 |
| As regards square footage | 25 |
| Stuck and not going anywhere | 28 |
| Spinning one's wheels | 25 |
| Doing the same old thing | 24 |
| Where the bored may be stuck | 28 |
| Unhappy with the daily grind | 28 |
| Showing no imagination | 22 |
| Plodding the treadmill | 22 |
| Not showing much creativity | 27 |
| Like many nine-to-fivers | 24 |
| Going nowhere, jobwise | 22 |
| Doing the same thing daily | 26 |
| Doing the same old, same old | 28 |
| Doing the same old same old | 27 |
| Actresses Claire and Balin | 26 |
| Miss Claire and others | 22 |
| Actresses Balin and Claire | 26 |
| "Much" preceder | 25 |
| Suffixes with czar and signor | 29 |
| Poet Coolbrith and others | 25 |
| Much may come after it | 22 |
| Bring ___ a third party | 23 |
| Actress Claire et al. | 22 |
| Actress Balin and namesakes | 27 |
| "Log ___ Guest" | 25 |
| ___ few words as possible | 25 |
| "Be right with you" | 29 |
| "Be right there" | 26 |
| Shortly, conversationally | 25 |
| Soon, conversationally | 22 |
| Momentarily, informally | 23 |
| "Almost ready!" | 25 |
| "Just hold on" | 24 |
| "Coming right up" | 27 |
| "Almost ready" | 24 |
| "... who lived ___" | 29 |
| How the Old Woman lived | 23 |
| "... lived ___" | 25 |
| Needing bailing out, maybe | 26 |
| Faced with a predicament | 24 |
| Experiencing difficulty | 23 |
| Flustered, and then some | 24 |
| ___ of confusion (upset) | 24 |
| Apt title for this puzzle | 25 |
| "Tune ___ 11" | 23 |
| Take __ the waist: alter | 24 |
| Take --- the waist (alter) | 26 |
| Take ___ the waist (alter) | 26 |
| "Tune ___ eleven" | 27 |
| How many soccer matches end | 27 |
| How some soccer games end | 25 |
| How baseball games rarely end | 29 |
| How a soccer game might end | 27 |
| Headed for sudden death, say | 28 |
| Going to extra innings, say | 27 |
| Dazed, as through hypnosis | 26 |
| Caught with the cheese | 22 |
| "Three men ___" | 25 |
| Where to find three men | 23 |
| Where to find three men? | 24 |
| Place for three men of verse | 28 |
| Nursery rhyme trio setting | 26 |
| Enjoying a bubble bath, say | 27 |
| Quadrennial White House party | 29 |
| Slack-jawed and amazed | 22 |
| Rendered speechless, perhaps | 28 |
| Having one's jaw dropped | 28 |
| Experiencing reverence | 22 |