| Sportlike: Abbr. | 16 |
| Sporting figure: Abbr. | 22 |
| Some history memorization | 25 |
| Small player? | 13 |
| Part of NCAA or AAU: Abbr. | 26 |
| Olympics participant: Abbr. | 27 |
| Olympic entrant: Abbr. | 22 |
| Olympic abbr. | 13 |
| Olympian: Abbr. | 15 |
| Olympian, e.g.: Abbr. | 21 |
| Of sports: Abbr. | 16 |
| N.F.L.'er or N.B.A.'er | 30 |
| N.C.A.A. participant: Abbr. | 27 |
| Muscular; agile: Abbr. | 22 |
| Like some college depts. | 24 |
| Letter-getter, for short | 24 |
| Letter wearer: Abbr. | 20 |
| Letter getter: Abbr. | 20 |
| High-school dept. | 17 |
| Greek capital, to airlines | 26 |
| Greek capital to TWA | 21 |
| Greek airport, on itineraries | 29 |
| Greece's capital, in its airport code | 41 |
| Greece airport code | 19 |
| Decathlon participant: Abbr. | 28 |
| Clty SW of Brussels | 19 |
| B-ball player, e.g. | 19 |
| Any N.F.L. player | 17 |
| Close | 5 |
| Present | 7 |
| Available | 9 |
| Imminent | 8 |
| Within reach | 12 |
| Ready for use | 13 |
| Within easy reach | 17 |
| Convenient | 10 |
| Readily available | 17 |
| Here | 4 |
| Reachable | 9 |
| Ready to use | 12 |
| With you | 8 |
| Right there in the drawer, perhaps | 34 |
| Deep down | 9 |
| Really | 6 |
| Essentially | 11 |
| Where some are young | 20 |
| Inside | 6 |
| Down deep | 9 |
| Deep down inside | 16 |
| When you get right down to it | 29 |
| In the most basic way | 21 |
| Good way to be young? | 21 |
| Close behind | 12 |
| Following closely behind | 24 |
| Following obediently | 20 |
| Following closely | 17 |
| Down ___ (shabby) | 17 |
| Trailing closely | 16 |
| Down --- (shabby) | 17 |
| Close behind, as a dog | 22 |
| Madalyn Murray O'Hair, famously | 35 |
| Nonbeliever | 11 |
| Evangelist's target | 23 |
| Unbeliever | 10 |
| Disbeliever | 11 |
| Bertrand Russell, for one | 25 |
| Believer's antithesis | 25 |
| What Socrates was purported to be | 33 |
| Unfaithful one? | 15 |
| One you won't find in a foxhole? | 36 |
| One who doesn't believe he's being watched? | 51 |
| One beyond belief? | 18 |
| One "with no invisible means of support": Sheen | 57 |
| O'Hair, famously | 20 |
| Not the prayerful sort | 22 |
| Non-believer | 12 |
| Madalyn O'Hair, e.g. | 24 |
| Isaac Asimov, notably | 21 |
| He's beyond belief | 22 |
| He eschews pews | 15 |
| Godless one | 11 |
| Deity discreditor | 17 |
| Church eschewer | 15 |
| Believer in a certain doctrine | 30 |
| Goddess of wisdom | 17 |
| Greek goddess of wisdom | 23 |
| Wise goddess | 12 |
| Parthenon goddess | 17 |
| She sprang from Zeus's head | 31 |
| Greek Minerva | 13 |
| Favorite child of Zeus | 22 |
| Parthenon figure | 16 |
| Pallas ___ | 10 |
| Goddess of wisdom and war | 25 |
| Acropolis figure | 16 |
| Zeus' favorite child | 24 |
| Zeus' daughter | 18 |
| Wisdom goddess | 14 |
| Phidias subject | 15 |
| Parthenon honoree | 17 |