| Old Japanese mercenary | 22 |
| Warrior à la Sho Kosugi | 26 |
| Tenchu video game series hero | 29 |
| Teenage turtle of comics | 24 |
| Teenage Mutant --- Turtles | 26 |
| Teenage Mutant ___ Turtles | 26 |
| Stealthy Japanese agent | 23 |
| Popular Halloween costume | 25 |
| Masked Japanese fighter | 23 |
| Martial-arts mercenary | 22 |
| Martial arts movie figure | 25 |
| Expert in martial arts | 22 |
| Early Eastern mercenary | 23 |
| Covert agent dressed in black | 29 |
| Common video game fighter | 25 |
| Black-garbed mercenary | 22 |
| Black Halloween costume | 23 |
| Fictional teenage turtles | 25 |
| Sneakers from long ago? | 23 |
| Black-clad mercenaries | 22 |
| El ___ (warm ocean current) | 27 |
| El ___ (weather phenomenon) | 27 |
| Madre's little boy | 22 |
| El ___ (weather factor) | 23 |
| El ___ (Pacific phenomenon) | 27 |
| El ___ (weather problem) | 24 |
| With El, Pacific current | 24 |
| Justice Scalia nickname | 23 |
| El ___, weather phenomenon | 26 |
| El ___ (Pacific current) | 24 |
| Pacific phenomenon, El ___ | 26 |
| Justice Scalia, to friends | 26 |
| Italian boxer Benvenuti | 23 |
| His presents come on Jan. 6 | 27 |
| Fashion designer Cerruti | 24 |
| El --- (weather problem) | 24 |
| El --- (weather phenomenon) | 27 |
| El __: climate pattern | 22 |
| El ____: Pacific current | 24 |
| El _____ (weather phenomenon) | 29 |
| El _____ (ocean current) | 24 |
| El ____ weather phenomenon | 27 |
| El __ (weather phenomenon) | 26 |
| Composer Rota: 1911-79 | 22 |
| Carlos, when he was a boy | 25 |
| Baby boy, in Barcelona | 22 |
| ___ Martini, former singer | 26 |
| Beethoven's last symphony | 29 |
| Final Beethoven symphony | 24 |
| Climactic inning, often | 23 |
| Two innings after the stretch | 29 |
| Relief ace's inning | 23 |
| Two innings past the stretch | 28 |
| Slightly more than 11 percent | 29 |
| Next to the last inning | 23 |
| Ludwig's last symphony | 26 |
| Last inning, typically | 22 |
| Last baseball inning, usually | 29 |
| Dvorak's last symphony | 26 |
| Closing time at the park? | 25 |
| Bruckner's last symphony | 28 |
| Often-critical innings | 22 |
| Often critical innings | 22 |
| There are three in a third | 26 |
| Last innings, typically | 23 |
| Large pianistic spreads | 23 |
| Intervals larger than octaves | 29 |
| Mournful mother of myth | 23 |
| Zeus turned her to stone | 24 |
| Tantalus's daughter | 23 |
| Zeus turned her into stone | 26 |
| Weeping statue of myth | 22 |
| Weeper turned to stone | 22 |
| Mythical queen of Thebes | 24 |
| Zeus changed her into stone | 27 |
| Weeping mother of myth | 22 |
| Weeping daughter of Tantalus | 28 |
| Weeper of Greek mythology | 25 |
| Tragic figure in Greek myth | 27 |
| Tearful wife of Amphion | 23 |
| Tearful Queen of Thebes | 23 |
| Tantalus' daughter | 22 |
| Queen changed into stone | 24 |
| Petrified weeper of myth | 24 |
| Mythical woman of tears | 23 |
| Mourning mother of myth | 23 |
| Legendary Greek mother | 22 |
| Grief-stricken mother of myth | 29 |
| Obedience school no-no | 22 |
| Jack Frost's touch | 22 |
| It's in the winter air | 26 |
| It may be in the winter air | 27 |
| Briskness (in the air) | 22 |
| Bite from a chihuahua, maybe | 28 |
| A small drink of liquor | 23 |
| Tuck's predecessor | 22 |
| Tippler's temptation | 24 |
| Splash of brandy, e.g. | 22 |
| Small shot of strong stuff | 26 |
| Small amount of spirit? | 23 |