| Not striped, as a billiard ball | 31 |
| Not shaky | 9 |
| Not liquid or gaseous | 21 |
| Not liquid or gas | 17 |
| Not liquid | 10 |
| Not iffy | 8 |
| Not a liquid or a gas | 21 |
| Neither liquid nor gaseous | 26 |
| Like some gold | 14 |
| Like Gibraltar | 14 |
| It's not liquid | 19 |
| Hamlet's "too too ___ flesh" | 42 |
| Free from cavities | 18 |
| Firm Dandy Warhols song? | 24 |
| Financially sound | 17 |
| Favor, slangily | 15 |
| Excellent, to a jazzman | 23 |
| Ellipsoid, for example | 22 |
| Densely built | 13 |
| Cubic | 5 |
| Cube or orb | 11 |
| Completely reliable | 19 |
| Companion of liquid and gas | 27 |
| Chock-a-block | 13 |
| Based on good judgment | 22 |
| Based on good judgement | 23 |
| Ashford & Simpson lyric "___ as a rock" | 53 |
| A state of matter | 17 |
| A snowflake is one | 18 |
| 1980s music show ___ Gold | 25 |
| "Do me a ___" | 23 |
| '80s music show ___ Gold | 28 |
| --- as a rock | 13 |
| ____ as a rock! | 15 |
| Part one of a Labour anthem | 27 |
| Start of a Union anthem | 23 |
| Like Gibraltar? | 15 |
| Gibraltar-ish? | 14 |
| Extremely reliable | 18 |
| Bangle, often? | 14 |
| Not plaid or striped | 20 |
| Characteristic of a 4 or 5 ball, in billiards | 45 |
| Firm: Fr. | 9 |
| Considerable advantage | 22 |
| More financially sound | 22 |
| Less likely to break | 20 |
| Not so tenuous | 14 |
| More sturdy picnic pests? | 25 |
| Theme of this puzzle, so to speak | 33 |
| Formula replacer, eventually | 28 |
| Chewables | 9 |
| Base to build on | 16 |
| What every belle had in the Gay Nineties | 40 |
| Good thing to build on | 22 |
| Good grounding | 14 |
| Excellent thing to build on | 27 |
| TV show hosted by Arsenio Hall in 1988 | 38 |
| Loyal little pet? | 17 |
| Josephine Hull's Cadillac | 29 |
| Featured player in a 1980s music show | 37 |
| Performer on a 1980s TV music show | 34 |
| Where to stand firm? | 20 |
| Old Roman gold coins | 20 |
| Result of a deep freeze | 23 |
| Without breaks | 14 |
| With no reservations | 20 |
| In a sturdy way | 15 |
| As an undiversified whole | 25 |
| Reliability | 11 |
| Consistent court arbiter? | 25 |
| It may be gold to a tabloid | 27 |
| Pyramids, e.g. | 14 |
| Three-dimensional figures | 25 |
| Pool side | 9 |
| Infant's new menu | 21 |
| 3-D figures | 11 |
| They're not liquid or gaseous | 33 |
| They go well with plaids | 24 |
| Some billiard balls | 19 |
| Pyramids and cubes | 18 |
| Cubes, spheres and the like | 27 |
| Cone and cube | 13 |
| Three-dimensional objects | 25 |
| They need to be chewed | 22 |
| Substantial food | 16 |
| Substances sans liquid or gas | 29 |
| Spheres and pyramids | 20 |
| Sphere and cube | 15 |
| Some foods for growing babies | 29 |
| Side in eightball | 17 |
| Recovering patients consume them | 32 |
| Pyramids and prisms | 19 |
| Pyramid and cube | 16 |
| Pool choice | 11 |
| Platonic interests? | 19 |
| One side in eightball | 21 |
| Infants don't eat them | 26 |
| Dietary group | 13 |
| Cubes, e.g. | 11 |
| Cubes and pyramids | 18 |