| Beethoven's is in A major | 29 |
| Golf score range, with "the" | 38 |
| Disco era | 9 |
| Walt Whitman's "Queries to My --- Year" | 53 |
| 53 minutes past the hour | 24 |
| Kind of big truck | 17 |
| Fairly unlikely | 15 |
| Pope Paul II's successor? | 29 |
| Rather fast on the road | 23 |
| LXX | 3 |
| Common speeding speed | 21 |
| Ytterbium's atomic number | 29 |
| The last elections | 18 |
| Pretty fast, on the highway | 27 |
| Pretty fast, on the freeway | 27 |
| Morman missionary elder | 23 |
| Limit on some Interstates | 25 |
| Interstate speed limit, often | 29 |
| Highway speed limit, perhaps | 28 |
| Highway limit, perhaps | 22 |
| High highway speed | 18 |
| Common highway speed limit | 26 |
| _____ Mile House, British Columbia | 34 |
| LXXIX | 5 |
| Elvis's and Mariah's record number of weeks at Billboard's #1 | 73 |
| Fourscore minus nine | 20 |
| First year that 18-year-olds voted | 34 |
| Prophecy in Daniel | 18 |
| Trombone number | 15 |
| Wilson's trombones | 22 |
| Trombone tally | 14 |
| Number of Willson's trombones | 33 |
| A certain spirit | 16 |
| Feature of this grid | 20 |
| Timely number | 13 |
| Components of this puzzle | 25 |
| If I have ___ | 13 |
| No-caffeine drink | 17 |
| Citrusy pop choice | 18 |
| Card game also called high-low-jack | 35 |
| 2001 Janet Evanovich book | 25 |
| Faith, hope, charity et al. | 27 |
| Pyramids of Egypt, Colossus at Rhodes... | 40 |
| Colossus of Rhodes, Pyramids of Egypt, etc. | 43 |
| Extremely short one-act? | 24 |
| "The ___ Itch," Axelrod play | 38 |
| Lengthy military sign-up? | 25 |
| Marriage in 2004, divorce in 2011? | 34 |
| It prompts spouses to cheat | 27 |
| 1952 George Axelrod Broadway farce, with "The" | 56 |
| Temptations for spouses | 23 |
| Endless spiel? | 14 |
| Mirror-breaker's unlucky period | 35 |
| Long-term sewing project? | 25 |
| Periodic Halloween sight? | 25 |
| Dissolve, as ties | 17 |
| Discontinue, as relations | 25 |
| Cut, as ties | 12 |
| Break off, as relations | 23 |
| Cut apart | 9 |
| Break off completely | 20 |
| End ties | 8 |
| Abscind | 7 |
| One way to provide a break | 26 |
| End for good | 12 |
| Dissociate | 10 |
| Discontinue as relations | 25 |
| Break for good | 14 |
| A number of | 11 |
| Vague number | 12 |
| Two or more | 11 |
| Existing apart | 14 |
| A number | 8 |
| A fistful | 9 |
| End of a daffy definition | 25 |
| Pay after a layoff | 18 |
| Clean break | 11 |
| Money on the way out | 20 |
| How do surgeons acquire wealth? | 31 |
| What laid-off workers need to remember? | 39 |
| Improve as a butcher? | 21 |
| Like some thunderstorms | 23 |
| Hard to endure | 14 |
| Like many reprimands | 20 |
| Weatherperson's adjective | 29 |
| Unnecessarily extreme | 21 |
| Like some reprimands | 20 |
| Harshly extreme | 15 |
| Weather person's adjective | 30 |
| Torrential | 10 |
| Taken to extremes | 17 |
| Rigidly exact | 13 |
| Punishing | 9 |
| Overly demanding | 16 |
| Like winter in Buffalo | 22 |
| Like very bad weather | 21 |
| Like some reprimands or thunderstorms | 37 |
| Like an intense storm | 21 |
| Censorious | 10 |
| Bad, weatherwise | 16 |