| Designer Coco, while "hanging ten"? | 45 |
| Designer Christian doing a pirouette? | 37 |
| Designer born in Guangzhou, China | 33 |
| Designed with standard-sized units | 34 |
| Designed with lots of glass and metal, for short | 48 |
| Designed to teach a hard lesson, maybe | 38 |
| Designed to reduce wind resistance | 34 |
| Designed to prevent intrusion, in a way | 39 |
| Designed to minimize wind resistance | 36 |
| Designed to defeat a Panzer, say | 32 |
| Designed to conform with existing modes | 39 |
| Designed for, with "towards" | 38 |
| Designed for shooting gross globs? | 34 |
| Designations for secret papers of 1790's | 44 |
| Designation on a U.S. savings bond | 34 |
| Designation on a driver's license, perhaps | 46 |
| Designation of some meat markets | 32 |
| Designation of Sen. Angus King of Maine | 39 |
| Designation for some transgendered people | 41 |
| Designation for some batteries and minor-leaguers | 49 |
| Designation for private global grps. since 1945 | 47 |
| Designation for driver's licenses | 37 |
| Designation for a sequel to a sequel | 36 |
| Designation ditched after smoking bans | 38 |
| Designation at an Arabic meat market | 36 |
| Designating the style of an earlier time | 40 |
| Designating private or secret sessions | 38 |
| Designating a fine, white marble | 32 |
| Designated driver's drink, perhaps | 38 |
| Designated area for Southern dialogue? | 38 |
| Designate, as if by divine intervention | 39 |
| Design style popular in the '20s and '30s | 49 |
| Design pattern on some Irish crosses | 36 |
| Design on Charlie Brown's shirt | 35 |
| Design for a mountain cabin, often | 34 |
| Design feature of many a viaduct | 32 |
| Design division of the New School | 33 |
| Desi Arnaz's better half, at one time | 41 |
| Deserving of a lower insurance premium | 38 |
| Deserving a lower insurance premium | 35 |
| Deserved the Hall of Fame ceremony | 34 |
| Desertlike region of the Arabian Peninsula | 42 |
| Deserted spot, especially for one who is lost | 45 |
| Desert ___ (1991 military operation) | 36 |
| Desert whose name means "semidesert" | 46 |
| Desert when another is in trouble | 33 |
| Desert that's second to the Sahara in size | 46 |
| Desert that's a significant part of Mongolia | 48 |
| Desert that occasionally gets snow | 34 |
| Desert that covers most of North Africa | 39 |
| Desert that borders the Altai Mountains | 39 |
| Desert south of the Atlas Mountains | 35 |
| Desert region in the south of Israel | 36 |
| Desert plants with white flowers | 32 |
| Desert plants with sword-shaped leaves | 38 |
| Desert plant named for a Biblical spy | 37 |
| Desert plant for which a U2 album is named | 42 |
| Desert bounded by the Altai Mountains | 37 |
| Desert bordering the Sinai Peninsula | 36 |
| Desert beast with three lids on each eye | 40 |
| Desert along the Sinai Peninsula | 32 |
| Desert ''monster'' | 34 |
| Desdemona's husband and murderer | 36 |
| Desdemona's handkerchief, e.g. | 34 |
| Desdemona's faithful servant | 32 |
| Descriptor of Scarlett O'Hara | 33 |
| Descriptor of a sea snake's tail | 36 |
| Descriptor for this puzzle's theme | 38 |
| Descriptor for many hip-hop musicians | 37 |
| Descriptor for many a supermodel | 32 |
| Descriptor for a domineering person | 35 |
| Descriptive words for Ben Jonson | 32 |
| Descriptive of Yo-Yo Ma's music? | 36 |
| Descriptive of this puzzle's grid | 37 |
| Descriptive of how some greet others? | 37 |
| Descriptive of DeMille's work | 33 |
| Descriptive of an intimate dinner | 33 |
| Descriptive of a lemony dessert? | 32 |
| Descriptive of 10 answers in this puzzle | 40 |
| Descriptions on a commercial box | 32 |
| Description that's bee-fitting? | 35 |
| Description on many eBay listings | 33 |
| Description of the stock market (Part 1) | 40 |
| Description of the office of the President | 42 |
| Description of something that's very funny | 46 |
| Description of items in a supermarket mailer? | 45 |
| Description of extremely dry champagne | 38 |
| Description of an oyster shell's shape | 42 |
| Description of an 18th-century writing desk? | 44 |
| Description of a sunset, perhaps | 32 |
| Description of a great fighter, perhaps | 39 |
| Description of a good novel or script | 37 |
| Description of a certain citrus fruit | 37 |
| Describing winds from the Orient | 32 |
| Describing the world's numbers | 34 |
| Describing the right side of the map | 36 |
| Describing the quarters of some caretakers | 42 |
| Describing the proverbial two peas | 34 |
| Describing the least subtle actors | 34 |
| Describing the anatomy of a stove? | 34 |