| Efficiency improvers | 20 |
| Mischievous moppet? | 19 |
| What "end" begins with | 32 |
| Letter in red and violet | 24 |
| Kept the change? | 16 |
| Didn't give enough to | 25 |
| Cheated out of, in a way | 24 |
| Blew out a fuse | 15 |
| Reduce in length | 16 |
| Convert to a mini | 17 |
| Worst of a bargain | 18 |
| Cake or stop? | 13 |
| ___ of the stick | 16 |
| Cut down to size? | 17 |
| Added lard | 10 |
| ST | 2 |
| Hem fixers, at times | 20 |
| Abbreviates | 11 |
| Turns a maxi into a midi | 24 |
| Takes it from the top? | 22 |
| Raises the hem | 14 |
| "___," said Tom fittingly | 35 |
| More succinct | 13 |
| More pithy | 10 |
| U.S. marathon runner | 20 |
| Sax great Wayne | 15 |
| Marathoner Frank | 16 |
| Marathon winner: 1972 Olympics | 30 |
| Marathon gold medalist: 1972 | 28 |
| Jazz saxophonist Wayne | 22 |
| Comparatively low on cash | 25 |
| Marathoner Frank with candy? | 28 |
| Winter feature with a hint to today's puzzle theme | 54 |
| Seniors often have trouble with it | 34 |
| It recalls recent things | 24 |
| Least likely to make the NBA | 28 |
| Most brief | 10 |
| Losing straw in drawing straws | 30 |
| Like the losing straw | 21 |
| Like the best route from A to B | 31 |
| Least extensive | 15 |
| Dec. 21-22 | 10 |
| Mini-test | 9 |
| Deficiency (and an alternate title for this puzzle) | 51 |
| Pete vis-Ã -vis Peter | 23 |
| An abbreviation of | 18 |
| An abbreviated form of | 22 |
| A contraction of | 16 |
| Quick temper | 12 |
| Mark of a hothead | 17 |
| Hot-temper symbol | 17 |
| Anger management no-no | 22 |
| Unhippielike characteristic | 27 |
| Result of a buzz cut | 20 |
| Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say | 44 |
| British _______ | 15 |
| Secretarial skill | 17 |
| Writing system | 14 |
| Stenographer's skill | 24 |
| Steno's need, sometimes | 27 |
| Pitman's gift to stenos | 27 |
| Gregg's invention | 21 |
| Gregg or Pitman hieroglyphics | 29 |
| Without enough staff | 20 |
| Without adequate help | 21 |
| Needing more help | 17 |
| In need of stenographers | 24 |
| Quick trips | 11 |
| What a pin has that a pine doesn't? | 39 |
| Igloo feature? | 14 |
| "It" starts with it | 29 |
| Tim has one | 11 |
| Tilde feature? | 14 |
| Sound from pigs? | 16 |
| Second of six? | 14 |
| One of two letters in "timid" | 39 |
| One of an "inquisitive" foursome? | 43 |
| Hip sound? | 10 |
| First sound of impact? | 22 |
| Feature of "hit" or "miss" | 46 |
| Clinton and Nixon both have one | 31 |
| "Hit" or "miss" sound | 41 |
| Revealing nightgown | 19 |
| Revealing garments | 18 |
| Rather compendious | 18 |
| Rather brief | 12 |
| Comment about comic actor Martin when standing next to a peewee? | 64 |
| Ravel masterpiece | 17 |
| Summer garb? | 12 |
| Curt corsair? | 13 |
| Pleasant sight at a supermarket checkout | 40 |
| Place for a select group | 24 |
| Rosters for finalists | 21 |
| Cheat Franz out of his change? | 30 |
| Of limited existence | 20 |
| Underpay a comic actor? | 23 |
| Symptom of old age, sometimes | 29 |
| Brief work of fiction | 21 |
| What John has and Joan does not | 31 |
| What Jon has that Joe lacks | 27 |