| Kind of smile | 13 |
| Ironically amusing | 18 |
| Ironic, as humor | 16 |
| Humorously mocking | 18 |
| Grimly humorous | 15 |
| Funny, and a bit twisted | 24 |
| Distorted, as a grin | 20 |
| Crooked or ironic | 17 |
| Bitterly amusing | 16 |
| Bent funny | 10 |
| Amusingly ironic, as humor | 26 |
| A type of grin | 14 |
| What the satirist brought to the potluck dinner? | 48 |
| Cynic's favorite food? | 26 |
| Rose raised by a sardonic gardener? | 35 |
| More ironically humorous | 24 |
| Drier | 5 |
| Comparatively contrary | 22 |
| Most sardonic | 13 |
| Most full of ironic humor | 25 |
| Most darkly droll | 17 |
| Most bitterly amusing | 21 |
| Disdainful, pouting grimace | 27 |
| With dry humor | 14 |
| With a touch of irony, often | 28 |
| With a touch of irony | 21 |
| Perversely | 10 |
| Ironically, no really | 21 |
| In a tongue-in-cheek way | 24 |
| In a distorted way | 18 |
| In a contrary way | 17 |
| How some cracks are made | 24 |
| How ironic humor is expressed | 29 |
| Seinfeldesque quality | 21 |
| Quality of irony | 16 |
| Lopsided perissodactyl? | 23 |
| Ironic couple? | 14 |
| Noted missile range site | 24 |
| Inst. at Ogden, Utah | 20 |
| F.D.R.'s U.K. ally | 22 |
| Iowa town where John Wayne was born | 35 |
| Savoyard monogram | 17 |
| Librettist who rhymed "a lot o' news" with "hypotenuse" | 79 |
| "The Mikado" lyricist | 31 |
| Capital residents | 17 |
| Let me make one thing perfectly clear," e.g. | 49 |
| NYT alternative | 15 |
| Paper with NYSE news | 20 |
| Paper that reports on the DJIA | 30 |
| Paper with "Marketplace" and "Money & Investing" sects. | 79 |
| Newspaper whose puzzle is edited by Mike Shenk | 46 |
| News Corp. publication | 22 |
| News Corp. paper | 16 |
| N.Y.C. financial daily | 22 |
| N.Y. financial paper | 20 |
| Mkt. coverer | 12 |
| Mike Shenk is its puzzle editor | 31 |
| Financial Times rival, briefly | 30 |
| Financial paper: Abbr. | 22 |
| Financial daily, initially | 26 |
| Financial daily, in brief | 25 |
| Financial daily, briefly | 24 |
| Financial daily paper, for short | 32 |
| Financial daily briefly, | 24 |
| Dow Jones paper, for short | 26 |
| Dow Jones & Co. publication | 31 |
| Dow Jones & Co. paper | 25 |
| Daily reading for many CEOs | 27 |
| Business daily, initially | 25 |
| Business daily, for short | 25 |
| Ben Zimmer's newspaper, briefly | 35 |
| 2007 Rupert Murdoch acquisition, for short | 42 |
| Monogram of "Cakes and Ale" author | 44 |
| Observation after a Bush walk? | 30 |
| O. Henry's monogram | 23 |
| Goof off under deadline | 23 |
| Sch. with a Spokane campus | 26 |
| Sch. of the Northwest | 21 |
| Sch. with a Vancouver campus | 28 |
| Pac Ten sch. | 12 |
| Northwestern sch. where Cougar Gold cheese is made | 50 |
| Evergreen State sch. | 20 |
| Regina-to-Moose Jaw dir. | 24 |
| Reverse of ENE | 14 |
| 247.5 degrees | 13 |
| U-turn from ENE | 15 |
| Savannah-to-Baton Rouge dir. | 28 |
| Saskatoon-to-Calgary dir. | 25 |
| Opposite of ENE | 15 |
| Opposite ENE | 12 |
| Nashville-to-Memphis dir. | 25 |
| Columbus-to-Dayton dir. | 23 |
| Baltimore-D.C. direction | 24 |
| Away from ENE | 13 |
| St. Louis-to-Springfield dir. | 29 |
| Santa Fe-to-Scottsdale dir. | 27 |
| Rochester-to-Buffalo dir. | 25 |
| Modesto-to-San Jose dir. | 24 |
| Milan-Turin direction | 21 |
| Indianapolis-to-St. Louis dir. | 30 |