| Missile that could destroy a destroyer: Abbr. | 45 |
| Protection for a boat's hull | 32 |
| It's measured in foot-pounds | 32 |
| Inquisitor whose name now means persecutor | 42 |
| Increase the setting of in slang, | 33 |
| "The Yankee Years" co-author | 38 |
| "The Yankee Years" author | 35 |
| 1998 World-Series-winning manager | 33 |
| Yankee Stadium bigwig for more than a decade | 44 |
| Third-winningest active baseball manager | 40 |
| Joe who was twice A.L. Manager of the Year | 42 |
| Girardi's predecessor as Yankee manager | 43 |
| Four-time World Series-winning manager | 38 |
| Ex-Yankee (and current Dodger) manager Joe | 42 |
| Dodgers manager before Mattingly | 32 |
| 2014 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee | 35 |
| 1998 World Series winning manager | 33 |
| 1998 American League Manager of the Year | 40 |
| "The Yankee Years" co-writer | 38 |
| "The Yankee Years" autobiographer | 43 |
| U.S. poet-playwright: 1875–1950 | 38 |
| Only US swimmer to compete in five Olympics | 43 |
| Liz of "Gilmore Girls" | 32 |
| Hector or Rusty of 70's baseball | 36 |
| Gina of TV's "Firefly" | 36 |
| Early 20th-century presidential portraitist | 43 |
| Passion for Ferris wheels and funnel cakes? | 43 |
| You'll find some six-packs here | 35 |
| Trunk with limbs attached, perhaps | 34 |
| The Belvedere ___ (Vatican sculpture) | 37 |
| Second miss in a hangman game, often | 36 |
| Remains of an ancient statue, maybe | 35 |
| Part of the body above the waist | 32 |
| Michelangelo's "Slave," e.g. | 42 |
| An Olympic swimmer may have a long one | 38 |
| Dress designer's measurement | 32 |
| Wrong that's adjudicated in court | 37 |
| Something said while holding a bag | 34 |
| Cake often made with ground nuts | 32 |
| Literally "little cakes" | 34 |
| ''Little fritters'' | 35 |
| Cakes often made with ground nuts | 33 |
| Steinbeck's "___ Flat" | 36 |
| Spanish for "little cake" | 35 |
| Man who owns a Mexican restaurant? | 34 |
| 1942 Spencer Tracy/Hedy Lamarr film | 35 |
| Love handles produced from a Mexican snack? | 43 |
| Fabled come-from-behind race-winner | 35 |
| They bite but don't have teeth | 34 |
| Materials from hawksbill turtles | 32 |
| Hybrid sheepdog that moves ver-r-ry slowly? | 43 |
| Largest of the British Virgin Islands | 37 |
| Largest of British Virgin Islands | 33 |
| Dessert at an Italian restaurant | 32 |
| Dessert topped with crumbled macaroons | 38 |
| Dessert often served in a paper cup | 35 |
| Dessert garnished with crumbled macaroons | 41 |
| Stuff of which some suits are made | 34 |
| "Love is reciprocal ___": Marcel Proust | 49 |
| Stretched much too far, as language | 35 |
| Springsteen's "Born ___" | 38 |
| Bruce Springsteen "Born ___" | 38 |
| Springsteen's birth purpose? | 32 |
| "Tramps like us, baby we were born ___" | 49 |
| "Born ___" (Springsteen hit) | 38 |
| Star of "Fringe," Anna ___ | 36 |
| Conservative in the House of Lords | 34 |
| British Conservative's ancestor | 35 |
| Thatcher or Churchill, politically | 34 |
| Revolutionary British sympathizer | 33 |
| Conservative party member, abroad | 33 |
| Colonist with loyalty to royalty | 32 |
| British conservative party member | 33 |
| British conservative's doctrine | 35 |
| British Conservative Party member's doctrine | 48 |
| How heavy a British Conservative is? | 36 |
| Stand-___ (preparations for military actions) | 45 |
| Point guard's bungles, on the scoresheet | 44 |
| How-___ (handyman's library) | 32 |
| "And we conquer but ___": Campbell | 44 |
| "What more is there ___?": Yeats | 42 |
| "That is ___ ..." (in other words) | 44 |
| "It's safe ___ ..." | 33 |
| "I Just Called __ I Love You" | 39 |
| 'That's easy for you --!' | 37 |
| "That's putting it mildly!" | 41 |
| "Vissi d'arte" singer | 35 |
| "Vissi d'arte" opera | 34 |
| Teatro Costanzi premiere of 1900 | 32 |
| Puccini's ''___'' | 37 |
| Puccini title role for a soprano | 32 |
| Titular opera character who is a singer | 39 |
| Title heroine of a Puccini opera | 32 |
| Teatro Constanzi premiere of 1900 | 33 |
| Scarpia's killer, in a Puccini opera | 40 |
| Role first sung by Hariclea Darclée | 38 |
| Puccini tragedy based on play by Sardou | 39 |
| Opera with the aria "Vissi d'arte" | 48 |
| Opera with the aria "Recondita armonia" | 49 |
| Opera that climaxes with a firing squad | 39 |