| Go from first to second | 23 |
| Clutch performance? | 19 |
| Change positions | 16 |
| Bob Marley "Night ___" | 32 |
| Backfield maneuver | 18 |
| Restyle a bit of a D.C. hockey player's hair? | 49 |
| Went from first to second, say | 30 |
| Changed suddenly | 16 |
| Changed gears | 13 |
| Went into reverse | 17 |
| Went into first, maybe | 22 |
| Utilized a clutch | 17 |
| Geared up, perhaps | 18 |
| Geared down, perhaps | 20 |
| Changed auto gears | 18 |
| Reversed gears? | 15 |
| Changed one's strategy | 26 |
| Lever on a steering apparatus | 29 |
| Four-on-the-floor item | 22 |
| Change the condition of a fish part? (and three words that can follow BLUE and RED, but not WHITE) | 98 |
| Go into a new mode | 18 |
| Change suddenly, e.g. | 21 |
| Rotating parts of the Enigma machine? | 37 |
| Make an abrupt change ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 63 |
| Go into reverse, e.g. | 21 |
| ERSAG | 5 |
| Begin intense activity | 22 |
| It helps create a capital | 25 |
| Something that's pressed, which helps explain this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| Capital asset? | 14 |
| #>!$!%(@^%# cause, perhaps | 29 |
| Upper-case facilitators | 23 |
| Go from A minor to A major? | 27 |
| Unambitious to the max | 22 |
| Like Modigliani's "Reclining Nude"? | 49 |
| Lazy to the max | 15 |
| ... like a factory worker? | 26 |
| Without ambition | 16 |
| "I'm cold," Lady Godiva said ___ | 46 |
| IT MADE IT EASIER TO TYPE THIS | 30 |
| Nurses and police officers, e.g. | 32 |
| Puts it in first | 16 |
| Changes gears | 13 |
| Work schedules | 14 |
| Chemises | 8 |
| Swing and lobster | 17 |
| Schedule segments | 17 |
| Prepares to capitalize | 22 |
| No-waist dresses | 16 |
| Keys that flank a keyboard | 26 |
| Keys on the side of a keyboard | 30 |
| Graveyard and others | 20 |
| Goes from first to second, say | 30 |
| Capital requirements? | 21 |
| Capital makers? | 15 |
| 9 to 5, 7 to 3, etc. | 20 |
| Reverses in a way | 17 |
| Does things a new way | 21 |
| Plant boss | 10 |
| Four-to-midnight production overseer, say | 41 |
| Find a scapegoat | 16 |
| Marked by deceit | 16 |
| Tough to trust | 14 |
| Like one hard to trust | 22 |
| With a look not to be trusted | 29 |
| ___ Tzu (toy dog) | 17 |
| __ Tzu | 6 |
| -- Tzu | 6 |
| ___ Tzu (dog) | 13 |
| ___ Tzu (dog breed) | 19 |
| __ Tzu: Tibetan dog | 19 |
| "___ Ching" (classic book of Chinese poetry) | 54 |
| -- Tzu (dog) | 12 |
| ___ Tzu (small dog) | 19 |
| ___ Tzu (short-legged dog) | 26 |
| __ Tzu: small dog | 17 |
| __ Tzu (dog breed) | 18 |
| Tibetan or Chinese "lion dog" | 39 |
| Silly toy from China? | 21 |
| Literally, "lion dog" | 31 |
| Fluffy toy | 10 |
| Noble pets of imperial China | 28 |
| Tibetan show dogs | 17 |
| It's prevalent in Azerbaijan | 32 |
| Miso soup mushroom | 18 |
| Large, meaty mushroom | 21 |
| Certain Muslim | 14 |
| Islamic sectarian | 17 |
| Many an Iranian | 15 |
| Islamic worshiper | 17 |
| Sunni counterpart | 17 |
| One of an Iraqi religious majority | 34 |
| Moslem fundamentalist | 21 |
| Member of Islam's second-largest branch | 43 |
| Many an Iraqi insurgent | 23 |
| Majority Muslim in Iran | 23 |
| Like Iran's Ahmadinejad | 27 |
| Islamic member | 14 |
| Iranian Moslem | 14 |
| Hajj participant, maybe | 23 |