| Spoke at great length | 21 |
| Gave a barker's talk | 24 |
| Did a pitchman's routine | 28 |
| Extravagant pitcher | 19 |
| Sales pitch deliverer | 21 |
| Pitching ace? | 13 |
| Pitch maker | 11 |
| One going over telemarketing lines | 34 |
| Deliverers of product lines? | 28 |
| Circus employees | 16 |
| Carnival men | 12 |
| Vocal endorsement? | 18 |
| Barkers' pitches | 20 |
| Glib pitches | 12 |
| What barkers bark | 17 |
| Tout's tactics | 18 |
| They're prepared to sell snake oil | 38 |
| They may be rehearsed by salesmen | 33 |
| Sideshow come-ons | 17 |
| Sellers' sermons | 20 |
| Pitchman's pitches | 22 |
| Pitches for products | 20 |
| Midway come-ons | 15 |
| Hucksters' pitches | 22 |
| Hucksters' deliveries | 25 |
| Hawkers' specialties | 24 |
| Carnival barkers' pitches | 29 |
| Bloc leader's oratory = Gilles ___ | 38 |
| Barkers' harangues | 22 |
| Barkers' deliveries | 23 |
| Barkers' come-ons | 21 |
| Mata Hari, e.g. | 15 |
| Mary Anne in "The Baby-Sitters Club" | 46 |
| Secretive watcher | 17 |
| Screen in a manor house | 23 |
| Screen in a British manor house | 31 |
| Person with binoculars, maybe | 29 |
| One who snoops | 14 |
| One watching stealthily | 23 |
| One in disguise, using his eyes | 31 |
| Agent, at times | 15 |
| Clandestine watchers | 20 |
| They gather intelligence | 24 |
| Secret observers | 16 |
| Fleming characters | 18 |
| Those seeking intelligence? | 27 |
| People who aren't what they seem | 36 |
| Northern ___ (apples) | 21 |
| Le Carre characters | 19 |
| Intelligence operatives | 23 |
| Hale and Hari | 13 |
| Triple agents | 13 |
| Surreptitious types | 19 |
| Some enemies of the state | 25 |
| Some are moles | 14 |
| Smart and Bond, for instance | 28 |
| Secretly watches | 16 |
| People of intelligence | 22 |
| Cloak-and-dagger types | 22 |
| Certain moles | 13 |
| Works in intelligence | 21 |
| Valerie Plame et al., supposedly | 32 |
| Uses binoculars | 15 |
| Uses a tap, perhaps | 19 |
| Uses a keyhole, perhaps | 23 |
| Unfriendly observers | 20 |
| Undercover men | 14 |
| Undercover agents | 17 |
| Those seeking intelligence | 26 |
| This puzzle's theme involves fictional ones | 47 |
| They know things you don't think they know | 46 |
| Sometimes they get the hang of it | 33 |
| Some spooks | 11 |
| Some moles | 10 |
| Some K.G.B. men | 15 |
| Some Ian Fleming characters | 27 |
| Some "Bourne" film characters | 39 |
| Snoopers | 8 |
| Sneaks peeks | 12 |
| Smiley's people | 19 |
| Smiley, et al. | 14 |
| Seekers of intelligence? | 24 |
| Secret seekers | 14 |
| Secret passers | 14 |
| Perpetrators of black-bag jobs | 30 |
| People of intelligence? | 23 |
| Parts of some rings | 19 |
| Ones seeking intelligence | 25 |
| Nathan Hale and others | 22 |
| Most "Get Smart" characters | 37 |
| Moles, maybe | 12 |
| Moles, for example | 18 |
| Mata Hari, etc. | 15 |
| Mata Hari, et al. | 17 |
| Mata Hari et al. | 16 |
| M's subordinates | 20 |
| High-risk workers | 17 |
| Hari and Hale | 13 |
| Fears of some paranoiacs | 24 |
| Cover group? | 12 |