| Square base of a pedestal | 25 |
| Block serving as a base | 23 |
| Friend of Trajan and Tacitus | 28 |
| The Elder or the Younger | 24 |
| Roman writer-statesman | 22 |
| Roman natural historian | 23 |
| Elder of ancient history | 24 |
| Chronicler of ancient history | 29 |
| Puckered fabric finish | 22 |
| Puckered textile finish | 23 |
| Fabric with a crinkled finish | 29 |
| Party to a 1993 peace accord | 28 |
| Arafat's gp., once | 22 |
| Gp. once headed by Arafat | 25 |
| Mahmoud Abbas's grp. | 24 |
| Mahmoud Abbas's org. | 24 |
| Mahmoud Abbas's gp. | 23 |
| Arafat's org. until 2004 | 28 |
| Oslo Accords signer: Abbr. | 26 |
| Org. for Mahmoud Abbas | 22 |
| Middle East gp. since 1964 | 26 |
| Hamas rival, for short | 22 |
| Arafat's org. once | 22 |
| Arafat's gp. until 2004 | 27 |
| Yasir Arafat's grp. | 23 |
| Yasir Arafat's gp. | 22 |
| U.N. observer since '74 | 27 |
| Ramallah gp. founded in 1964 | 28 |
| Pro-Arab assn. since 1964 | 25 |
| Oslo Accords signatory | 22 |
| Negotiating partner of Isr. | 27 |
| Mideastern political gp. | 24 |
| Mideastern gp. since 1964 | 25 |
| Mideast political org. | 22 |
| Mideast political initials | 26 |
| Mideast org. since 1964 | 23 |
| Mideast org. founded in 1964 | 28 |
| Mideast initials, once | 22 |
| Mideast gp. since 1964 | 22 |
| Mahmoud Abbas' gp. | 22 |
| Longtime opponent of Isr. | 25 |
| It recognized Isr. in 1993 | 26 |
| Hamas competitor, for short | 27 |
| Grp. once led by Arafat | 23 |
| Grp. once headed by Arafat | 26 |
| Grp. founded in Jerusalem | 25 |
| Gp. led by Mahmoud Abbas | 24 |
| Former West Bank confed. | 24 |
| Big name in men's clothes | 29 |
| Arafat's org., once | 23 |
| Arafat's group: Abbr. | 25 |
| Arab League mem. since 1976 | 27 |
| 1964 Cairo Summit creation | 26 |
| Don't tread lightly | 23 |
| Proceed slowly but surely | 25 |
| Move like Gray's plowman | 28 |
| Go slowly but steadily | 22 |
| Slow-but-steady students | 24 |
| Slow but steady students | 24 |
| Wends one's weary way | 25 |
| Walks like a workhorse | 22 |
| Labors along, as a workhorse | 28 |
| Goes at a snail's pace | 26 |
| Dropping-into-water sound | 25 |
| Pitter-patter's kin | 23 |
| Fall heavily into a chair | 25 |
| Coin-in-a-fountain sound | 24 |
| Alka-Seltzer-into-water sound | 29 |
| Alka-Seltzer-in-water sound | 27 |
| Alka-Seltzer jingle starter | 27 |
| Word in an Alka-Seltzer ad | 26 |
| Stone-in-the-water sound | 24 |
| Sound of an inelegant fall | 26 |
| Sound associated with ripples | 29 |
| Onomatopoetic water sound | 25 |
| Fall into a beanbag chair | 25 |
| Dull, faintly explosive sound | 29 |
| ... a person sitting down | 25 |
| Sounds made by big, fat drops | 29 |
| Lands in a puddle, maybe | 24 |
| Falls, as into a chair | 22 |
| Falls into a chair heavily | 26 |
| "The ___ thickens" | 28 |
| Novelist's concern | 22 |
| Conspirator's creation | 26 |
| Schemer's creation | 22 |
| Whodunit's essence | 22 |
| Schemer's conception | 24 |
| Movie's story line | 22 |
| It thickens after a while | 25 |
| A good one will thicken | 23 |
| Villain's creation | 22 |
| This thickens, on Broadway | 26 |
| Screenwriter's concern | 26 |
| Schemer's hatching | 22 |
| Scheme to get into show | 23 |
| Ringleader's forte | 22 |
| One often thickens on stage | 27 |
| Nove1ist's concern | 22 |
| Mastermind's scheme | 23 |