| Experienced office holder | 25 |
| Smoke-filled room habitue | 25 |
| Running expert, for short | 25 |
| Party planner, for short? | 25 |
| Party person, informally? | 25 |
| Office seeker, informally | 25 |
| Noble lie teller, briefly | 25 |
| Chretien or Manning, e.g. | 25 |
| ___ Pot, Cambodian leader | 25 |
| Birthplace of Marie Curie | 25 |
| 1983 Michener best seller | 25 |
| As dissimilar as possible | 25 |
| Word before bear or shift | 25 |
| Like the end of the world | 25 |
| Like Kringle's milieu | 25 |
| Gondolier's propeller | 25 |
| Need for an Olympic vault | 25 |
| Certain dancer's prop | 25 |
| Did a gondolier's job | 25 |
| They're a world apart | 25 |
| Part of the Little Dipper | 25 |
| Goings-on at the precinct | 25 |
| What Dr. Salk helped cure | 25 |
| Like kielbasa and pierogi | 25 |
| D'Amato or La Guardia | 25 |
| Delicate first-date topic | 25 |
| "Young Hickory" | 25 |
| "Arroz" partner | 25 |
| Mexican restaurant entree | 25 |
| Results of public opinion | 25 |
| Risk the wrath of the EPA | 25 |
| What boomboxes do w/noise | 25 |
| Stereotypical parrot name | 25 |
| Prince Charles's game | 25 |
| Sport played on horseback | 25 |
| Prince Charles' sport | 25 |
| Sport played with mallets | 25 |
| Sport for mallet-swingers | 25 |
| Marco, the world traveler | 25 |
| Game originated in Persia | 25 |
| Charles' former sport | 25 |
| Some short-sleeved shirts | 25 |
| Golfer's sport shirts | 25 |
| Office seekers, for short | 25 |
| Compound used in plastics | 25 |
| Synthetic rubber, for one | 25 |
| Complex chemical compound | 25 |
| Benchley sex-life subject | 25 |
| Spitz-type dog, for short | 25 |
| Little lap dog, for short | 25 |
| Fluffy lap dog, for short | 25 |
| Fluffy ball, when doubled | 25 |
| European toy dog, briefly | 25 |
| James Dean hairstyle need | 25 |
| Fruit of the apple family | 25 |
| College town east of L.A. | 25 |
| It goes with circumstance | 25 |
| Circumstance's leader | 25 |
| "Chicago piano" | 25 |
| Standing Bear's tribe | 25 |
| "On Golden ___" | 25 |
| Limnologist's studies | 25 |
| Unilever skin cream brand | 25 |
| Unilever cold cream brand | 25 |
| Crossed on worldwide tour | 25 |
| Player who cuts the cards | 25 |
| Video game craze launcher | 25 |
| Simple game with a paddle | 25 |
| Florence's __ Vecchio | 25 |
| Firenze's ___ Vecchio | 25 |
| Yankee Doodle's mount | 25 |
| Word with tail or express | 25 |
| Type of cut, dog or skirt | 25 |
| Magician's expression | 25 |
| Hundred Acre Wood denizen | 25 |
| Circus trainer's prop | 25 |
| Lord High Everything Else | 25 |
| Motel's swimming spot | 25 |
| Hotel's swimming spot | 25 |
| To use it, just add water | 25 |
| Willie Mosconi's game | 25 |
| Where many learn to crawl | 25 |
| People pick pockets in it | 25 |
| Minnesota Fats's game | 25 |
| Minnesota Fats' forte | 25 |
| Eightball is a form of it | 25 |
| Minnesota Fats's need | 25 |
| Pulitzer novelist of 1918 | 25 |
| English Channel port town | 25 |
| They often have deep ends | 25 |
| Places that require suits | 25 |
| Word with mouth or excuse | 25 |
| Robin's beneficiaries | 25 |
| Like Butterfly or Richard | 25 |
| Far from rolling in dough | 25 |
| Palindromic musical genre | 25 |
| Sound made by the weasel? | 25 |
| David HockneyÂ’s genre | 25 |
| Calixtus III, for example | 25 |
| Historic resignee of 2013 | 25 |