| Site of playground action | 25 |
| Alex Raymond comic strip | 24 |
| Attic accumulation, perhaps | 27 |
| High-yield investments | 22 |
| They're rated BB or lower | 29 |
| High-interest investments | 25 |
| Odds-and-ends storage areas | 27 |
| Trip with a per diem, perhaps | 29 |
| Unwanted office transmission | 28 |
| Spam on an office machine | 25 |
| Arrival that may annoy | 22 |
| Worthy of being tossed | 22 |
| Hera's Roman counterpart | 28 |
| Film written by Diablo Cody | 27 |
| Canadian popular music award | 28 |
| 2007 Ellen Page title role | 26 |
| Woman in O'Casey title | 26 |
| Queen of heaven, to Caesar | 26 |
| Hera's counterpart | 22 |
| Fourth-largest asteroid | 23 |
| Coup d'état group | 24 |
| Post-coup ruling group | 22 |
| Undemocratic government | 23 |
| Provisional government | 22 |
| Ruling group after a coup | 25 |
| Rulers after an overthrow | 25 |
| Rulers after a revolution | 25 |
| Post-revolution ruling group | 28 |
| Post-revolt ruling group | 24 |
| Post-coup d'état group | 29 |
| Law school professor, usually | 29 |
| Certain decision-maker | 22 |
| Peer review participant? | 24 |
| One who weighs evidence | 23 |
| One who comes out of the pool | 29 |
| One pondering a sentence | 24 |
| One of a courtroom dozen | 24 |
| Foreman in court, e.g. | 22 |
| Courtroom decision maker | 24 |
| "12 Angry Men" role | 29 |
| Makeshift, as a naval rig | 25 |
| Group of twelve, often | 22 |
| Competition prize determiners | 29 |
| Place for decision-makers | 25 |
| Au ___ (roast beef order) | 25 |
| Au ___ (sandwich style) | 23 |
| Gravy, on a French menu | 23 |
| Beef moistener, on menus | 24 |
| Au -- (in its own gravy) | 24 |
| Word with kidding or married | 28 |
| "--- kidding!" | 24 |
| "Not too much!" | 25 |
| Words on a birth announcement | 29 |
| Shout to a ringing phone | 24 |
| "Hold on now!" | 24 |
| They're coming to you | 25 |
| If it should be needed | 22 |
| ___, Insurance Salesman | 23 |
| Quip with a jingle (Part 2) | 27 |
| ''Perfect!'' | 28 |
| Precisely what's needed | 27 |
| "I dare you" | 22 |
| Project, with "out" | 29 |
| Rope fiber or ancient German | 28 |
| Sticks out or protrudes | 23 |
| Minor traffic violation | 23 |
| Letter out for a stroll? | 24 |
| Old mentor in an 1893 story | 27 |
| "Shish" dish | 22 |
| Skewered barbecue dish | 22 |
| Meat on a stick (Var.) | 22 |
| Food on a stick (Var.) | 22 |
| Stick on the barbecue? | 22 |
| One stuck in the kitchen | 24 |
| Meal on a skewer (var.) | 23 |
| Griller's preparation | 25 |
| Entrée cooked on a skewer | 28 |
| Cube of meat on a skewer | 24 |
| "Shish" dish (var.) | 29 |
| Elaborate Japanese drama | 24 |
| Tokyo theater performance | 25 |
| Stylized Japanese drama | 23 |
| Afghanistan's capital | 25 |
| Capital of Afghanistan | 22 |
| Mile-high Asian capital | 23 |
| Capital in the news in 2002 | 27 |
| Mile-high world capital | 23 |
| It commands Khyber Pass | 23 |
| Capital WNW of Islamabad | 24 |
| Capital by the Hindu Kush | 25 |
| Pauline ___, movie critic | 25 |
| Critic who influenced Ebert | 27 |
| Name in 1990s court news | 24 |
| Kato of Simpson trial fame | 26 |
| "Amerika" author | 26 |
| "The Trial" author | 28 |
| Gregor Samsa's creator | 26 |
| "Amerika" novelist | 28 |
| Subject of a Prague museum | 26 |
| Dark, surreal author Franz | 26 |