| The ____: Brit's welfare | 28 |
| The "Hello!" woman | 28 |
| Title for Pierre Pérignon | 28 |
| Title on a Portuguese letter | 28 |
| Traffic planner's array? | 28 |
| They come before net and org | 28 |
| They don't want to fight | 28 |
| This backwards bard is dull? | 28 |
| They'll darken your door | 28 |
| They may make you lose sleep | 28 |
| Trouble on the road, briefly | 28 |
| They're put up in fights | 28 |
| The Righteous Brothers, e.g. | 28 |
| The White Stripes or OutKast | 28 |
| Teams on police shows, often | 28 |
| Traffic violation, for short | 28 |
| Turn black and blue, perhaps | 28 |
| They can get rid of the gray | 28 |
| Tarsus : foot :: incus : ___ | 28 |
| Tiger Woods' late father | 28 |
| Tag for a particular purpose | 28 |
| They were big on Clark Gable | 28 |
| They perform a balancing act | 28 |
| They make a point on Vulcans | 28 |
| They make a point on hobbits | 28 |
| Target in alien-attack films | 28 |
| Taking no skin off your back | 28 |
| Thing you hate to do and run | 28 |
| The water you drink in Paris | 28 |
| Thumbs up/thumbs down critic | 28 |
| Torpedo craft, British style | 28 |
| They're read on a Kindle | 28 |
| Two-person trick-taking game | 28 |
| They repeat whatever you say | 28 |
| Terrorist or sphere preceder | 28 |
| The Fed's concern: Abbr. | 28 |
| Techies' gossiping site? | 28 |
| Two Icelandic literary works | 28 |
| Tree of Knowledge's spot | 28 |
| Trimmed along the walk, e.g. | 28 |
| Tool put away for the winter | 28 |
| The "Ed" of Con Ed | 28 |
| They're experts in cases | 28 |
| Tokyo's name before 1868 | 28 |
| Trixie's husband, et al. | 28 |
| They're slippery and wet | 28 |
| They're hard to pin down | 28 |
| They're spotted in ponds | 28 |
| Thomas Hardy's ___ Heath | 28 |
| They're whipped by cooks | 28 |
| They might be made over hard | 28 |
| They're big in Hollywood | 28 |
| They sometimes need stroking | 28 |
| They get bigger when stroked | 28 |
| They can be big in Hollywood | 28 |
| They may clash in Tinseltown | 28 |
| They may cause band friction | 28 |
| Their priority is number one | 28 |
| Theme scheme for this puzzle | 28 |
| The old "ould sod" | 28 |
| This or that, it matters not | 28 |
| Third-largest Italian island | 28 |
| Tribal council makeup, often | 28 |
| Through twelfth grade: Abbr. | 28 |
| Textbook publishing category | 28 |
| The youngest Manning brother | 28 |
| Teammate of Tiki and Plaxico | 28 |
| The elder architect Saarinen | 28 |
| Their mascot is Handsome Dan | 28 |
| Team once led by Albie Booth | 28 |
| Tool for some group mailings | 28 |
| Those living high on the hog | 28 |
| They have a benevolent order | 28 |
| Tree with tough, useful wood | 28 |
| Tree popular in street names | 28 |
| Tree in an O'Neill title | 28 |
| The United States, to Mexico | 28 |
| Title heroine of a 1955 book | 28 |
| Texas city on the Rio Grande | 28 |
| Threatener's final word? | 28 |
| Tarzan player Ron and others | 28 |
| They're no longer active | 28 |
| The Dismemberment Plan genre | 28 |
| The Eagles of college sports | 28 |
| There are two in mathematics | 28 |
| Triplet in "mommy" | 28 |
| They're big in Australia | 28 |
| The final word in storybooks | 28 |
| Tabitha's TV grandmother | 28 |
| They might be split or loose | 28 |
| They line up next to tackles | 28 |
| The "E" in E = mc2 | 28 |
| Take a recruiter's offer | 28 |
| They're seen around noon | 28 |
| There are three in an inning | 28 |
| Talking tree of Middle-earth | 28 |
| Tolkien's tree creatures | 28 |
| Tolkien's tree shepherds | 28 |
| Tolkien's Fangorn et al. | 28 |
| Tolkien's ___ of Fangorn | 28 |