| Like last year's champion | 29 |
| Started, as a lawn | 18 |
| Started the garden | 18 |
| Started a garden | 16 |
| Sign on a new lawn | 18 |
| Removed pits from | 17 |
| Rated, in tennis | 16 |
| Rated, at Flushing Meadows | 26 |
| Rated King, Austin et al. | 25 |
| Rated in tennis | 15 |
| Rated at Wimbledon | 18 |
| Ranked, in tournaments | 22 |
| Ranked, as for a tournament | 27 |
| Ranked in the tournament | 24 |
| Ranked in a tournament | 22 |
| Provided initial capital for | 28 |
| Positioned well | 15 |
| Positioned in a bracket, say | 28 |
| Like top tennis players | 23 |
| Like top players | 16 |
| Like some rye bread or tournament participants | 46 |
| Like rye bread, at times | 24 |
| Like most fruit | 15 |
| Like many lawns | 15 |
| Like a ranked tournament player | 31 |
| Like a new lawn | 15 |
| Having good placement | 21 |
| Filled out, as a lawn | 21 |
| Began, as a lawn | 16 |
| Watch kids at Christmas, say? | 29 |
| Sowing machine | 14 |
| Tiller follower | 15 |
| Implement for planting | 22 |
| Garden apparatus | 16 |
| Planter's device | 20 |
| Lawn-starting tool | 18 |
| Gardener's implement | 24 |
| Farm device | 11 |
| Sowing apparatus | 16 |
| Ranking member of a tournament committee | 40 |
| Planting implement | 18 |
| Piece of farm equipment | 23 |
| Homophone for cedar | 19 |
| Furrow filler | 13 |
| Farm gadget | 11 |
| Cloud converter | 15 |
| Furrow fillers | 14 |
| Sowing machines | 15 |
| Groundskeeping apparatuses | 26 |
| Farm apparatuses | 16 |
| Spring farm machinery | 21 |
| Planting devices | 16 |
| Tools for groundskeeping | 24 |
| Spring farm machines | 20 |
| Sowing implements | 17 |
| Sowing devices | 14 |
| Rustic sow-and-sows? | 20 |
| Rainmakers | 10 |
| Planting aids | 13 |
| Planters | 8 |
| Machines that may be in a rut | 29 |
| Devices for inducing rain | 25 |
| Broadcasting devices | 20 |
| Farmers outside Beirut? | 23 |
| Generative | 10 |
| More shabbily dressed | 21 |
| More down-at-heel | 17 |
| More down and out | 17 |
| Less upscale | 12 |
| Less prepossessing | 18 |
| Comparatively shabby | 20 |
| Most flea-bitten | 16 |
| Most rundown | 12 |
| Shabbiest | 9 |
| Most threadbare | 15 |
| Most disreputable | 17 |
| Maximally mangy | 15 |
| Best-planted garden? | 20 |
| With a run-down look | 20 |
| In an unkempt manner | 20 |
| In a squalid way | 16 |
| In a shabby way | 15 |
| In a disreputable way | 21 |
| Skid row look | 13 |
| Ranking contestants | 19 |
| Tournament director's task | 30 |
| Cotyledon | 9 |
| Like grapes that don't crunch | 33 |
| Like some watermelons | 21 |
| Like navel oranges | 18 |
| Like a child-friendly grape | 27 |
| Like sultanas | 13 |
| Like some rye | 13 |
| Like some melons | 16 |
| Like some grapes and oranges | 28 |
| Like most bananas | 17 |
| Like ferns | 10 |
| Incapable of issue | 18 |
| Sultanas, say | 13 |
| Tiny start | 10 |