| Like the best towels | 20 |
| Toilet tissue superlative | 25 |
| Tissue claim | 12 |
| Offering least resistance | 25 |
| Most compassionate | 18 |
| What Barbra Streisand uses to have herself shot | 47 |
| Stuff on a kitten's underbelly (because awwwww....) | 55 |
| Tip of Gibraltar? | 17 |
| Sound heard twice in "George" | 39 |
| Geneva has one | 14 |
| What "gel" starts with | 32 |
| What ''gel'' starts with | 40 |
| The first or fifth letter of George | 35 |
| The fifth letter of "garage," but not the first | 57 |
| Start to gel? | 13 |
| Start of either syllable in "ginger" | 46 |
| Start for Germany, but not Greece | 33 |
| Sound starting "Germany" | 34 |
| Sound starting ''Germany'' | 42 |
| Sound in German? | 16 |
| Sound heard twice in Georgia? | 29 |
| Sound from giraffes | 19 |
| Sound at the start of 'gym' | 35 |
| Sound at the beginning of 'gem' | 39 |
| One of two in Georgia? | 22 |
| Introduction to geometry? | 25 |
| Giraffe's feature? | 22 |
| Giant start? | 12 |
| Giant head? | 11 |
| German leader? | 14 |
| Georgia opening? | 16 |
| Gentle opening? | 15 |
| Gentle beginning? | 17 |
| Feature of "giant" | 28 |
| Damaging sound? | 15 |
| "Google" doesn't have one | 39 |
| Simpleminded or lamebrained | 27 |
| Sentimental one | 15 |
| Sentimental sort | 16 |
| Tenderhearted one | 17 |
| One with a big heart | 20 |
| One who's good at caving? | 29 |
| One easily moved | 16 |
| Lenient type | 12 |
| Lenient sort | 12 |
| Sentimentalists | 15 |
| Excessively sentimental ones | 28 |
| Easygoing sorts | 15 |
| Easy group | 10 |
| Easily swayed types | 19 |
| Damage to a paperback edition? | 30 |
| Pilot's goal on approach | 28 |
| Piano, to a musician | 20 |
| p, to Puccini | 13 |
| One way to speak | 16 |
| "Speak ___ and . . . " | 32 |
| Words from a 17th cent. carol | 29 |
| Subject of some campaign finance reform | 39 |
| Magazine left in the rain? | 26 |
| Romantic notes | 14 |
| Silken quality | 14 |
| Quality of eiderdown | 20 |
| Pillow's quality | 20 |
| Effeminacy | 10 |
| Characteristic of down | 22 |
| Like a dumdum bullet | 20 |
| Not strict about, as crime | 26 |
| Not punishing sufficiently | 26 |
| Not badgering, say | 18 |
| Liking romantically | 19 |
| Rear of the roof of the mouth | 29 |
| Selection of muted colors? | 26 |
| Tone down, as a statement | 25 |
| Play down, as an issue | 22 |
| Downplay | 8 |
| Downplayed | 10 |
| Plays down | 10 |
| Plays down, as an issue | 23 |
| Dominance achieved through culture (rock, metal) | 48 |
| Street vendor's salty hot snack | 35 |
| Salty stadium snack | 19 |
| Philly's twisted tradition | 30 |
| Salty snacks with twists | 24 |
| Sentimental fools | 17 |
| Low-pressure pitch | 18 |
| Easygoing marketing technique | 29 |
| Subtle pitch | 12 |
| Subtly persuasive technique | 27 |
| Subtly persuasive marketing technique | 37 |
| Subtle marketing technique | 26 |
| Subtle inducement to buy | 24 |
| Nonaggressive marketing technique | 33 |
| Merchant's non-aggressive ploy | 34 |
| Marketing technique | 19 |
| Low-pressure sales pitch | 24 |
| Low-pressure marketing technique | 32 |
| ''No pressure'' tactic | 38 |
| Machine-dispensed ice cream | 27 |
| Sort of a crab | 14 |
| Crab variety | 12 |