| Novelty carpet | 14 |
| Mop of hair | 11 |
| Matted hair | 11 |
| Long-napped rug | 15 |
| Long-napped cloth | 17 |
| Layered style | 13 |
| Layered hairstyle | 17 |
| Layered hair style | 18 |
| Layered hair | 12 |
| Layered cut | 11 |
| Layered 'do | 15 |
| Hop-filled dance | 16 |
| Hairstyle popularized by Farrah Fawcett | 39 |
| Hairdo or rug type | 18 |
| Hair or carpet style | 20 |
| Go after, in the outfield | 25 |
| Fuzzy carpet | 12 |
| Fuck birds | 10 |
| Farrah Fawcett's signature do | 33 |
| Fad dance of the 1930s | 22 |
| Do or dance | 11 |
| Dance step of the 30's | 26 |
| Dance step in the 30's | 26 |
| Dance popularized in the 1930's | 35 |
| Dance of the 1930's | 23 |
| Cut with more than one layer | 28 |
| Cormorant | 9 |
| Collegiate or Carolina | 22 |
| Coarse nap | 10 |
| Chase, as a fly | 15 |
| Chase in the outfield | 21 |
| Chase in the field | 18 |
| Chase fungoes | 13 |
| Chase down, as fly balls | 24 |
| Chase down, as a fly ball | 25 |
| Chase balls down | 16 |
| Certain carpet or hairdo | 24 |
| Catch high fungoes | 18 |
| Catch flies? | 12 |
| Catch and throw back, as fly balls | 34 |
| Casual hairdo | 13 |
| Carpeting choice | 16 |
| Bushy rug | 9 |
| Bouncy dance | 12 |
| Bone, to a Brit | 15 |
| Bed, across the pond | 20 |
| A cormorant | 11 |
| 1970's hairdo | 17 |
| '40s dance or '70s do | 29 |
| ___ carpet | 10 |
| Tall, erect sylvan beauty | 25 |
| Plush floor covering | 20 |
| They're piled on the floor? | 31 |
| You can sink your feet into them | 32 |
| They're piled on the floor | 30 |
| Lush, plush furnishings | 23 |
| Word in an Austin Powers film title | 35 |
| Practiced catching, as flies | 28 |
| More like far-fetched dog stories? | 34 |
| Most in need of a haircut | 25 |
| Chasing down flies | 18 |
| Chasing flies | 13 |
| Boxer catching flies? | 21 |
| Like some sheepdogs | 19 |
| Like sheepdogs | 14 |
| ''Scooby-Doo'' character | 40 |
| Scooby's pal | 16 |
| Scooby's buddy | 18 |
| Rough-napped | 12 |
| Like yaks | 9 |
| Like some dogsÂ’ coats | 25 |
| Like some dog stories | 21 |
| Like a yak's coat | 21 |
| Like a Disney dog | 17 |
| Like a certain Disney dog | 25 |
| Disney's "The ___ Dog" | 36 |
| Animal in a 2006 movie remake | 29 |
| Story with an absurd punch line | 31 |
| Rambling, as a story | 20 |
| Kind of joke (exemplified by the theme of this puzzle) | 54 |
| Anticlimactic anecdote | 22 |
| Biography of Odin, e.g.? | 24 |
| Rawhides | 8 |
| What a Persian outfielder can do | 32 |
| Hard-to-clean floor covers | 26 |
| Deep-pile floor covers | 22 |
| Deep-pile coverings | 19 |
| Thick carpets | 13 |
| Some carpets | 12 |
| Chases flies | 12 |
| Catches flies | 13 |
| Goes after flies | 16 |
| Chases baseballs | 16 |
| Thick rugs | 10 |
| Layered cuts | 12 |
| Layered coifs | 13 |
| Goes after, as flies | 20 |
| Chases, as flies | 16 |
| Woolen fabrics | 14 |
| Some rugs | 9 |