| Apt rhyme for casino | 20 |
| Apt rhyme for confuse | 21 |
| Apt rhyme for court | 19 |
| Apt rhyme for defeat | 20 |
| Apt rhyme for flick | 19 |
| Apt rhyme for gain | 18 |
| Apt rhyme for lumberjacks | 25 |
| Apt rhyme for miss | 18 |
| Apt rhyme for sà | 19 |
| Apt rhyme for sheer | 19 |
| Apt rhyme for stash | 19 |
| Apt rhyme for tads | 18 |
| Apt rhyme for Tara | 18 |
| Apt rhyme for wooed | 19 |
| Apt rhyme of "aah" | 28 |
| Apt rhyme of "aahs" | 29 |
| Apt rhyme of "crude" | 30 |
| Apt sandwich for Superman | 25 |
| Apt sandwich for Superman? | 26 |
| Apt setting for this puzzle's theme | 39 |
| Apt shortening for a city currently mired in bankruptcy | 55 |
| Apt song word for this puzzle | 29 |
| Apt starter for the first word of the longest answers | 53 |
| Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| Apt subtitle of a post-Depression celebratory song | 50 |
| Apt suffix for visual | 21 |
| Apt ticker symbol for Genentech | 31 |
| Apt title for this puzzle | 25 |
| Apt title for this puzzle? | 26 |
| Apt to artifice | 15 |
| Apt to be burned at the stake | 29 |
| Apt to be fond of rebel leader? | 31 |
| Apt to be recalled | 18 |
| Apt to be viewed with a finger on the ESC key, say | 50 |
| Apt to break | 12 |
| Apt to break down | 17 |
| Apt to catch many Z's | 25 |
| Apt to cause a spill | 20 |
| Apt to cause the willies | 24 |
| Apt to celebrate March 17? | 26 |
| Apt to change | 13 |
| Apt to chew the scenery | 23 |
| Apt to deceive | 14 |
| Apt to develop high blood pressure, say | 39 |
| Apt to do nothing | 17 |
| Apt to doodle, perhaps | 22 |
| Apt to elicit an "Aww!" | 33 |
| Apt to fall apart | 17 |
| Apt to fall over | 16 |
| Apt to finish last | 18 |
| Apt to flatter | 14 |
| Apt to fluctuate | 16 |
| Apt to frighten | 15 |
| Apt to gab | 10 |
| Apt to get an R | 15 |
| Apt to happen | 13 |
| Apt to incense | 14 |
| Apt to induce goose bumps | 25 |
| Apt to leak | 11 |
| Apt to listen through the wall | 30 |
| Apt to mope | 11 |
| Apt to mutter about kids today | 30 |
| Apt to opine | 12 |
| Apt to pout | 11 |
| Apt to pry | 10 |
| Apt to push others around | 25 |
| Apt to run on | 13 |
| Apt to say "So?" | 26 |
| Apt to say nay | 14 |
| Apt to shy, as a horse | 22 |
| Apt to snap | 11 |
| Apt to snap back? | 17 |
| Apt to snoop | 12 |
| Apt to start | 12 |
| Apt to stay put | 15 |
| Apt to stop at the grocery store? | 33 |
| Apt to strike out | 17 |
| Apt to sulk | 11 |
| Apt to sweat the small stuff | 28 |
| Apt to talk back | 16 |
| Apt to trick | 12 |
| Apt to trip | 11 |
| Apt to turn heads | 17 |
| Apt to turn out badly | 21 |
| Apt to vote aye | 15 |
| Apt to, um ... sorry, what was I saying? | 40 |
| Apt twist of fate, in literature | 32 |
| Apt username for Catherine, the handywoman? | 43 |
| Apt username for Dorothy, the Oktoberfest accordionist? | 55 |
| Apt username for John, the labor organizer? | 43 |
| Apt username for Margaret, the geometry teacher? | 48 |
| Apt username for William, the rural worker? | 43 |
| Apt vehicle in a presidential motorcade? | 40 |
| Apt video series, circa 1990 | 28 |
| Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them | 112 |
| Apt. ad abbr. | 13 |
| Apt. ad count | 13 |
| Apt. ad datum | 13 |
| Apt. ad info | 12 |
| Apt. ad spec | 12 |