| Breaks at the ranch | 19 |
| Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle | 74 |
| Becomes docile | 14 |
| Controls a prison guard like a pop singer? | 42 |
| Property of housepets? | 22 |
| Least feral | 11 |
| Most docile | 11 |
| Most subdued | 12 |
| Least likely to bite | 20 |
| Most gentle | 11 |
| Most domesticated | 17 |
| Least thrilling | 15 |
| Most domestic | 13 |
| Least offensive | 15 |
| Easiest to train | 16 |
| Most uninspired | 15 |
| Most likely to eat out of one's hand, say | 45 |
| Most like Babar | 15 |
| Like the kiddie rides at a park, relatively speaking | 52 |
| Least racy | 10 |
| Least obstreperous | 18 |
| Least menacing | 14 |
| Least likely to snap? | 21 |
| Least likely to attack | 22 |
| Novelist Hoag | 13 |
| Author Hoag | 11 |
| "Ashes to Ashes" author Hoag | 38 |
| Suspense novelist Hoag | 22 |
| Suspense novelist ___ Hoag | 26 |
| "Prior Bad Acts" author Hoag | 38 |
| Whitlinger of tennis | 20 |
| Romance/thriller novelist Hoag | 30 |
| Bestselling author Hoag | 23 |
| "The 9th Girl" author Hoag | 36 |
| ''Ashes to Ashes'' author Hoag | 46 |
| ___ Trail (Everglades highway) | 30 |
| Southern tourist trail | 22 |
| Southern Florida "trail" that's a portmanteau of the two cities it connects | 89 |
| Florida's ___ Trail (road through the Everglades) | 53 |
| Florida's ___ Trail | 23 |
| Dixie trail | 11 |
| U.S. 41 in part | 16 |
| TV evangelist being treated for the grippe? | 43 |
| "A Girl Named _____" (1962 film) | 42 |
| Sri Lankan language | 19 |
| Language of Sri Lanka | 21 |
| A language of Sri Lanka | 23 |
| Language spoken in Sri Lanka | 28 |
| Dravidian | 9 |
| Certain Sri Lankan | 18 |
| An official language of Sri Lanka | 33 |
| Language related to Malayalam | 29 |
| Dravidian tongue | 16 |
| Certain native of southern India | 32 |
| An official language of Singapore | 33 |
| Tongue of many millions in India | 32 |
| Sri Lankan tongue | 17 |
| Sri Lankan native | 17 |
| Sri Lanka native | 16 |
| Sri Lanka language | 18 |
| South Dravidian | 15 |
| Source of the words "mulligatawny" and "catamaran" | 70 |
| Second-largest Sri Lankan ethnicity | 35 |
| Native of Sri Lanka | 19 |
| Many a Sri Lankan | 17 |
| Language that gave us "catamaran" | 43 |
| Language spoken by M.I.A. | 25 |
| Language of millions in India | 29 |
| Language of many millions in India | 34 |
| Language of Ceylon | 18 |
| Language of 20,000,000 in India | 31 |
| Language from which "mongoose" and "patchouli" come | 71 |
| Language from which "curry" comes | 43 |
| Dravidian speaker | 17 |
| Ceylonese native | 16 |
| Ceylonese language | 18 |
| Ceylon native | 13 |
| Certain South Asian | 19 |
| An Indian language | 18 |
| __ Tigers: Sri Lankan separatists | 33 |
| Sri Lanka group | 15 |
| Many Sri Lankans | 16 |
| Ethnic group of southern India | 30 |
| Dravidian people | 16 |
| Longtime separatist Sri Lankan group | 36 |
| Petruchio's activity | 24 |
| Job for Petruchio | 17 |
| Katharina's metamophosis | 28 |
| Domestication | 13 |
| Breaking, as a horse | 20 |
| Action by Petruchio | 19 |
| "The --- of the Shrew" | 32 |
| 'The -- of the Shrew' | 29 |
| Tenor in "The Magic Flute" | 36 |
| "The Magic Flute" protagonist | 39 |
| Cloth strainer | 14 |
| Strainer made of woolen cloth | 29 |
| Worsted-cloth strainer | 22 |
| Sieve made of cloth | 19 |
| Cloth sieve | 11 |