| "A Fish Called Wanda," e.g. | 37 |
| Not-so-great thought | 20 |
| Twist-off top | 13 |
| Twist-off bottle top | 20 |
| Top on pop | 10 |
| Sign of a cheap wine | 20 |
| Pepsi bottle topper | 19 |
| It tops Coke | 12 |
| Feature of many wine bottles | 28 |
| Cork alternative | 16 |
| Like some pop bottles | 21 |
| Tool belt item | 14 |
| Handy Andy's cocktail? | 26 |
| Vodka + orange juice cocktail | 29 |
| Tool belt tool | 14 |
| Tool belt fixture | 17 |
| The handyman ordered a __ | 25 |
| Drink or tool | 13 |
| Carpenter's libation? | 25 |
| Lazy place to store your tools in the kitchen? | 46 |
| Out of luck | 11 |
| Used a device for fastening | 27 |
| T-Pain "Chopped and ___" | 34 |
| In trouble, in slang | 20 |
| Fastened with threads? | 22 |
| Exploited, slangily | 19 |
| Like most light bulbs | 21 |
| Twisted, as a bulb | 18 |
| Drove a Phillips-head into a bowl of borscht? | 45 |
| Fastener with a loop | 20 |
| More outlandish | 15 |
| Having fewer marbles? | 21 |
| Twist to tighten | 16 |
| Goofing, with "up" | 28 |
| Fouling (up) | 12 |
| "Ugh, who cares?!" | 28 |
| "Forget that!" | 24 |
| Secure by twisting | 18 |
| Paddle wheels' superseders | 30 |
| Threaded fasteners | 18 |
| Pressure, metaphorically | 24 |
| Hardware store boxful | 21 |
| Twisty items | 12 |
| Hardware store binful | 21 |
| Guards in a slammer | 19 |
| "Some assembly required" extras | 41 |
| Twists to tighten | 17 |
| Threaded nails | 14 |
| Things driven on construction sites | 35 |
| They're turned and tightened | 32 |
| They have threads and heads | 27 |
| Propellers on ships | 19 |
| Physical coercion | 17 |
| Messes (up) | 11 |
| Hardware buys | 13 |
| Beds, less politely | 19 |
| Assembly needs, frequently | 26 |
| Attaches in a way | 18 |
| Bollixes | 8 |
| Title C.S. Lewis demon | 22 |
| It's removed counterclockwise | 33 |
| Common soft drink feature | 25 |
| Cheat a sot? | 12 |
| Some jars and bottles | 21 |
| Cork alternatives | 17 |
| Really make a mess of | 21 |
| Produce a boner | 15 |
| Homer Simpson type | 18 |
| Absurdly impractical | 20 |
| Cuckoo in the head | 18 |
| Behaving bizarrely | 18 |
| Chauffeur who's off his rocker? | 35 |
| What studying philosophy will do, according to Steve Martin | 59 |
| Prometheus composer | 22 |
| Composer Alexsandr | 18 |
| Write carelessly | 16 |
| Scrawl | 6 |
| Illegible jotting | 17 |
| Earn an F in penmanship | 23 |
| Writer of a sort | 16 |
| Doodle doer | 11 |
| Note pad for Princess Anne | 26 |
| Torah copyist | 13 |
| Manuscript copyist | 18 |
| Copier of a manuscript | 22 |
| Writing job | 11 |
| Writer of the Middle Ages | 25 |
| Writer of old | 13 |
| Writer for hire | 15 |
| Worker who sets things down | 27 |
| Skilled penman | 14 |
| Public writer | 13 |
| Public secretary of old | 23 |
| Public clerk | 12 |
| Professional writer | 19 |
| Palette user of old | 19 |
| One with a pen | 14 |
| One who gets it in writing | 26 |
| Old manuscript copier | 21 |
| Occupation made obsolete by print | 33 |