| "Deal's off" | 26 |
| Predilection for detection | 26 |
| Find, with "out" | 26 |
| Difference in a close race | 26 |
| Cyrano's large feature | 26 |
| Close Derby victory margin | 26 |
| "Long time ___!" | 26 |
| "Long time, ___" | 26 |
| Margins of victory or loss | 26 |
| Hyphens, in some emoticons | 26 |
| Direct, as a confrontation | 26 |
| Date breaker at an airport | 26 |
| Guest who forgot to cancel | 26 |
| More likely to poke around | 26 |
| Subordinate's response | 26 |
| Terrible restaurant review | 26 |
| Cosa ___ (crime syndicate) | 26 |
| Up in others' business | 26 |
| Showing unwelcome interest | 26 |
| In everyone's business | 26 |
| Part of a famous soliloquy | 26 |
| End of Ripley's slogan | 26 |
| Word in eight commandments | 26 |
| What "un-" means | 26 |
| "___ interested" | 26 |
| Word with so or interested | 26 |
| Word in a famous soliloquy | 26 |
| Wayne Campbell's shout | 26 |
| Frequently contracted word | 26 |
| "Like it or ___" | 26 |
| "Knot" homophone | 26 |
| "Judge ___, ..." | 26 |
| "Do ___ disturb" | 26 |
| "___ too shabby" | 26 |
| "___ this time!" | 26 |
| "__ too shabby!" | 26 |
| ___ a little (quite a bit) | 26 |
| "This is __ toy" | 26 |
| Marked with spots or lines | 26 |
| What some corporations pay | 26 |
| "Do ___ alarmed" | 26 |
| Lumberjack's first cut | 26 |
| One with a staff position? | 26 |
| Small fraction of a number | 26 |
| It may be passed in school | 26 |
| Filed for future reference | 26 |
| In walking distance, maybe | 26 |
| "Wasn't me!" | 26 |
| It's served, sometimes | 26 |
| Surly server's penalty | 26 |
| Angry diner's decision | 26 |
| Policy at some restaurants | 26 |
| Hide-and-seek proclamation | 26 |
| Kid's phrase of denial | 26 |
| Hardly front-page material | 26 |
| "___ your life!" | 26 |
| Off the broadcast schedule | 26 |
| "--- your life!" | 26 |
| Our counterpart in France? | 26 |
| Where Napoleon was crowned | 26 |
| Game declaration by Ivana? | 26 |
| Bridge bidder's phrase | 26 |
| Have-___ (down-and-outers) | 26 |
| 'That's false' | 26 |
| "Let's wait" | 26 |
| Procrastinator's words | 26 |
| Part of a Milky Way makeup | 26 |
| Nutty or fruity confection | 26 |
| It's not always proper | 26 |
| What an adjective modifies | 26 |
| Term in a grammar textbook | 26 |
| It may be a proper subject | 26 |
| It can be proper or common | 26 |
| Common thing in a sentence | 26 |
| Verb's object, usually | 26 |
| It may be common or proper | 26 |
| Collective or common thing | 26 |
| These are proper or common | 26 |
| Persons, places and things | 26 |
| Iraqi leader ___ al-Maliki | 26 |
| Offer water and light, say | 26 |
| Entre ___ (confidentially) | 26 |
| Last mo. with just 30 days | 26 |
| Popular PBS science series | 26 |
| Award-winning science show | 26 |
| A loser to Joe Louis: 1941 | 26 |
| "A Star Is Born" | 26 |
| Milky Way phenomena (Var.) | 26 |
| Exceptionally bright stars | 26 |
| Kim of "Vertigo" | 26 |
| Star in "Picnic" | 26 |
| Political columnist Robert | 26 |
| Like new and unusual music | 26 |
| Many a self-published book | 26 |
| Catholic prayer recitation | 26 |
| Opposite of old, in Oporto | 26 |
| "___ hear this!" | 26 |
| The time for all good men? | 26 |
| When brats want something? | 26 |
| The time for action, often | 26 |