| ___ the plate (no run) | 22 |
| Bested in a pie contest | 23 |
| Beat in a hot dog competition | 29 |
| Surpassed at the buffet | 23 |
| Defeated, as Kobayashi | 22 |
| Bested, as Takeru Kobayashi | 27 |
| Boaters' conference? | 24 |
| "Poker Flat" group | 28 |
| Blow away in competition | 24 |
| Be the better man or woman | 26 |
| Surpassed in performance | 24 |
| Beat, performance-wise | 22 |
| Surpass in performance | 22 |
| Achieve a personal best | 23 |
| Surpass any expectations | 24 |
| Be more successful than | 23 |
| The Great ___ 1988 Candy flic | 29 |
| Sold more tickets than | 22 |
| Had better attendance than | 26 |
| Surpass at the dinner table | 27 |
| Best at putting things away | 27 |
| Beat in a hot dog contest | 25 |
| Win a contest for trenchermen | 29 |
| Defeat in a pie contest | 23 |
| Best in the dining room | 23 |
| Best in a hot dog contest | 25 |
| Beat at a hot dog contest | 25 |
| Tops at the dinner table? | 25 |
| Takes more second helpings | 26 |
| Bests at the dinner table | 25 |
| Revealed, in modern lingo | 25 |
| Removed from the closet? | 24 |
| Revealed someone's secret | 29 |
| Pulled from the closet (5) | 26 |
| No longer in the closet, say | 28 |
| Exposed, in modern slang | 24 |
| Blabbed about, in a way | 23 |
| "The ___ Limits" | 26 |
| Word with ear or space | 22 |
| Like some limits or garments | 28 |
| Word with limits or space | 25 |
| Word with space or planet | 25 |
| Word with space or circle | 25 |
| Word with limits or ear | 23 |
| Word with banks or space | 24 |
| Word before limits or space | 27 |
| North Carolina's __ Banks | 29 |
| Ear or space descriptor | 23 |
| "The --- Limits" | 26 |
| USS Enterprise milieu | 27 |
| Income's antithesis | 23 |
| Payment to the I.R.S., e.g. | 27 |
| Bookkeeper's deduction | 26 |
| Lost interest in, in a way | 26 |
| Overpower by force of arms | 26 |
| Have superior firepower over | 28 |
| Have more firepower than | 24 |
| Win the Home Run Derby, e.g. | 28 |
| Do better at the plate | 22 |
| Bat for a higher average than | 29 |
| Unlikely lint-gatherer | 22 |
| Unusual belly protrusion | 24 |
| Protruding bellybutton | 22 |
| Certain navel, slangily | 23 |
| ___ the cold (stranded) | 23 |
| Show more staying power than | 28 |
| Person on a wanted poster | 25 |
| Figure on an Old West poster | 28 |
| Face on an old wanted poster | 28 |
| Billy the Kid or Jesse James | 28 |
| Bad boy rocker, perhaps | 23 |
| Where Billy the Kid studied? | 28 |
| Bested in the long jump | 23 |
| Bested in pole vaulting | 23 |
| Store unloading surplus | 23 |
| Popular shopping venue | 22 |
| Market for a commodity | 22 |
| Diamond call + court call | 25 |
| Bargain-hunter's locale | 27 |
| Bargain hunter's haunt | 26 |
| Prospect of the future | 22 |
| Words before sight and mind | 27 |
| Words before bounds or breath | 29 |
| Words with sight and mind | 25 |
| Words with order of sorts | 25 |
| R.E.M. "___ Time" | 27 |
| Dinesen's ____ Africa | 28 |
| "___ Africa" | 22 |
| ___ order (not functioning) | 27 |
| 1985 Robert Redford film | 24 |
| Disappointed salesman? | 22 |
| Broke, like a salesman? | 23 |
| Having no chance to win | 23 |
| Like a bagpiper in briefs? | 26 |
| Too good to compete with | 24 |
| More than three miles away? | 27 |
| In strange surroundings | 23 |
| Sign on a vending machine | 25 |
| Not operating properly | 22 |
| Having no commandment? | 22 |