| Florence Nightingale, e.g. | 26 |
| Florence Nightingale e.g. | 26 |
| Convalescent home employee | 26 |
| Clinton's mother was one | 28 |
| Character who counsels Juliet | 29 |
| Certain hospital employee | 25 |
| Bedside companion, sometimes | 28 |
| An operator may call on one | 27 |
| "Scrubs" extra | 24 |
| Renée Zellweger title role | 29 |
| 2000 Zellweger/Freeman flick | 28 |
| Consumed slowly, as a drink | 27 |
| Hotbed for baby bloomers | 24 |
| Horticulturist's hangout | 28 |
| Place for plants or babies | 26 |
| Where crib sheets are used | 26 |
| The Hyades, to Dionysus | 23 |
| The "N" in CFNU | 25 |
| Sips slowly, as a drink | 23 |
| Nightingales's followers | 28 |
| Hospital professionals | 22 |
| Health-care professionals | 25 |
| Emergency room workers | 22 |
| Adm. Condor's group | 23 |
| Shallow-water predator | 22 |
| Warm water bottom-dweller | 25 |
| Slow swimmer of the Atlantic | 28 |
| Profession of Nightingale | 25 |
| Nightingale's line | 22 |
| Harboring, as a grudge | 22 |
| Residence for the elderly | 25 |
| Encourage the development of | 28 |
| Some fraternity letters | 23 |
| School sweater letters | 22 |
| Neutrinos, symbolically | 23 |
| Letters before xi's | 23 |
| Greek letters after mus | 23 |
| College sweater letters | 23 |
| Cheap hardware store purchase | 29 |
| Total expenses, informally | 26 |
| More than an aficionado | 23 |
| Cost of business, informally | 28 |
| Word with hickory or health | 27 |
| It may be tough to crack | 24 |
| It gets cracked on purpose | 26 |
| Word with hazel or butter | 25 |
| Venture-launching cost | 22 |
| It's tough to crack | 23 |
| Hatch or cracker preceder | 25 |
| Egyptian goddess of the sky | 27 |
| Almond, pecan or cashew | 23 |
| Aficionado, informally | 22 |
| Crunchy vegetarian entree | 25 |
| Christmas cookie ingredient | 27 |
| Spice in Christmas cookies | 26 |
| Pumpkin pie ingredient | 22 |
| Flavoring in a Tom and Jerry | 28 |
| Connecticut's spice | 23 |
| Connecticut, the -- State | 25 |
| Connecticut the ____ State | 27 |
| Applesauce topper, perhaps | 26 |
| Commercial lead-in to Sweet | 27 |
| ___Sweet: sugar substitute | 26 |
| Fur from South America | 22 |
| Threpsologist's field | 25 |
| They're squirreled away | 27 |
| Sundae topping, perhaps | 23 |
| Cocktail party munchies | 23 |
| Brownie pieces, sometimes | 25 |
| Soup's counterpart | 22 |
| Slangy word of disappointment | 29 |
| More than just touched | 22 |
| McAuliffe's reply in 1944 | 29 |
| McAuliffe's famous reply | 28 |
| Items in a Planters can | 23 |
| Hexagonal metal blocks | 22 |
| Gen. McAuliffe's retort | 27 |
| Crunchy candy components | 24 |
| Brownie topping, sometimes | 26 |
| Bolts' counterparts | 23 |
| Almonds and acorns, e.g. | 24 |
| 1987 Barbra Streisand film | 26 |
| One who gathers pecans | 22 |
| -- Butter (Nabisco cookie) | 26 |
| ___ Butter (Nabisco cookie) | 27 |
| "The ___ Professor" | 29 |
| Like some chocolate bars | 24 |
| "The __ Professor" | 28 |
| Town north of New York City | 27 |
| Town on the Tappan Zee | 22 |
| Old town on the Hudson River | 28 |
| New York City on the Hudson | 27 |
| N.Y. destination in a song | 26 |
| Helen Hayes's home | 22 |
| Former name of Lake Malawi | 26 |
| Lake Malawi's old name | 26 |
| Third-largest E African lake | 28 |
| Lake Malawi previously | 23 |
| The Big Apple, initially | 24 |
| The Big Apple, briefly | 22 |