| Word with ''a crowd'' | 37 |
| What tennis balls are packaged in | 33 |
| What good things come in? | 25 |
| What death or good luck comes in, it's said | 47 |
| Trios | 5 |
| Triads | 6 |
| Like Joplin, Hendrix, and Morrison's deaths? | 48 |
| John Ritter sitcom title starter | 32 |
| Hoop scores from far out | 24 |
| Graces and Fates e.g. | 22 |
| Good scores on par-fours | 24 |
| Game played with five dice, curiously | 37 |
| Fourths of twelves | 18 |
| Fates and Bears | 15 |
| DEF's on some phones | 24 |
| Crowds, proverbially | 20 |
| Crowds, it is said | 18 |
| Common news groups, supposedly | 30 |
| Basketball long shots | 21 |
| "Bad things come in ___" | 34 |
| "--- a crowd" | 23 |
| "___ Company" (Ritter sitcom) | 39 |
| "___ Company" | 23 |
| "___ Company," TV hit | 31 |
| "___ a crowd" | 23 |
| "__ Company": old sitcom | 34 |
| . . . ____ a crowd | 18 |
| "___ crowd" | 21 |
| Company follower? | 17 |
| "A Majority of One" | 29 |
| TV sitcom from '77 to '84 | 33 |
| Suzanne Somers sitcom | 21 |
| Sitcom that debuted in 1977 | 27 |
| John Ritter TV hit | 18 |
| John Ritter sitcom | 18 |
| '70s-'80s sitcom featuring Don | 38 |
| Four times what's left? | 27 |
| Quip that may grow on you (Part 1) | 34 |
| Olga, Masha and Irina | 21 |
| Novel that should have been written by T.S. Eliot? | 50 |
| Chekhov work, with "The" | 34 |
| Complete revolution | 19 |
| Director Koster film: 1936 | 26 |
| Fates or Graces | 15 |
| Arrangement in "Shame" | 32 |
| Like some old bikes | 19 |
| Familiarly, nutritious trio found twice in this puzzle—one trio is hidden in certain corners | 96 |
| Like a lieutenant general | 25 |
| Average, on some ratings | 24 |
| Pitcher's single-inning feat | 32 |
| Good news for a pitcher, bad news for labor management | 54 |
| Cause of an out | 15 |
| #1 hit in the summer of 1978 | 28 |
| Pretty good poker hand | 22 |
| Boxcars + blind mice2 ÷ Rome's hills × Arabian nights = | 66 |
| Like Ali as heavyweight champion | 32 |
| Type of recidivist | 18 |
| How often to yell "Rah!" | 34 |
| How often Peter denied Jesus | 28 |
| 1978 hit for the Commodores | 27 |
| Song that bumped the Stones' "Miss You" out of the #1 slot | 72 |
| First #1 hit for the Commodores | 31 |
| A 1984 Commodores hit | 21 |
| 1978 #1 hit for the Commodores (and this puzzle's title) | 60 |
| 1978 #1 hit for the Commodores | 30 |
| Nine, or long cheer | 19 |
| 2:57 | 4 |
| Like some sloths | 16 |
| Like the ai | 11 |
| Ais | 3 |
| Last call before going | 22 |
| " . . . ___ and four . . . " | 38 |
| Like some adult hippos | 22 |
| Person who puts one and two together? | 37 |
| Countdown finale and this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| Third digit of current year | 27 |
| French Stewart's response when asked to "write a number" in an SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skit | 117 |
| French Stewart's response to the category "Write a Number" in an SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skit | 119 |
| Trilateral | 10 |
| This can lighten things up? | 27 |
| Bangkok native into orgies? | 27 |
| Twenty-one days | 15 |
| How long the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament lasts | 49 |
| Elinor Glyn novel | 17 |
| Description of a tricycle? | 26 |
| Tyke's transport | 20 |
| Trikes, e.g. | 12 |
| Genie's offering | 20 |
| Legendary reward | 16 |
| Like typical law school programs | 32 |
| Like some sports contracts | 26 |
| Typical trike riders | 20 |
| WHO? | 4 |
| Usual law school stint | 22 |
| Start of a quip by hockey commentator Don Cherry about his autobiography | 72 |
| Ones with a wolf at the door | 28 |
| Lyrical laments | 15 |
| Krzysztof Penderecki's "___ to the Victims of Hiroshima" | 70 |
| Separate the wheat from the chaff | 33 |
| Separate wheat from chaff | 25 |