| Sea air? | 8 |
| Sea air | 7 |
| Monks' monotones | 20 |
| Monotonous songs | 16 |
| Intones | 7 |
| Strains at the Olympics? | 24 |
| Parts of some religious observances | 35 |
| Intonations | 11 |
| Gregorian recitations | 21 |
| Spectators' shouts | 22 |
| Some psalms | 11 |
| Repetitive cries | 16 |
| Protesters' shouts | 22 |
| Protesters' cries, often | 28 |
| Protesters' cries | 21 |
| Monk-y business? | 16 |
| Monastery music | 15 |
| Gregorian songs | 15 |
| Emulates a muezzin | 18 |
| Demonstration noise | 19 |
| Crowd shouts | 12 |
| "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" and others | 44 |
| Former Labor Secretary Elaine | 29 |
| Bush's Secretary of Labor | 29 |
| Bush Secretary of Labor Elaine | 30 |
| Secretary of labor under G.W. Bush | 34 |
| Secretary of Labor under Bush | 29 |
| Secretary of Labor Elaine | 25 |
| Rosalind of "Star Trek" spin-offs | 43 |
| Labor Secretary Elaine | 22 |
| French musician Manu | 20 |
| First Asian-American Cabinet member | 35 |
| Elaine ___, George W. Bush's only labor secretary | 53 |
| Elaine ___, first female Asian-American cabinet member | 54 |
| Bush's secretary of labor Elaine | 36 |
| Bush's labor secretary | 26 |
| Bush Labor Secretary Elaine | 27 |
| ___ Phraya, Thai river | 22 |
| ___ Phraya (Asian river) | 24 |
| Jumble | 6 |
| Utter confusion | 15 |
| Utter disorder | 14 |
| Total disorder | 14 |
| Total confusion | 15 |
| Complete confusion | 18 |
| Zoo feature? | 12 |
| Mass disorder | 13 |
| First created being, in myth | 28 |
| Entropy | 7 |
| Agglomeration | 13 |
| What entropy leads to | 21 |
| Vast disarray | 13 |
| Utter pandemonium | 17 |
| Utter breakdown | 15 |
| Total insanity | 14 |
| The universe on day one | 23 |
| The original void | 17 |
| Stress-inducing mess | 20 |
| Source of Erebus and Gaia, in Greek myth | 40 |
| Preschool state of affairs, often | 33 |
| Original state of the universe, in myth | 39 |
| Organization's opposite | 27 |
| Order's opposite | 20 |
| Opposite of order | 17 |
| Natural unpredictability | 24 |
| Most ancient of Greek gods | 26 |
| Kindergarten condition, often | 29 |
| It has fractal underpinnings | 28 |
| It ensues when cooler heads don't prevail | 45 |
| Free-for-all feature | 20 |
| Dark abyss of Greek myth | 24 |
| Cosmos counterpart | 18 |
| Complete mayhem | 15 |
| Complete lack of order | 22 |
| Anarchist's goal | 20 |
| Absolute bedlam | 15 |
| 1987 James Gleick book subtitled "Making a New Science" | 65 |
| "Art is the triumph over ___": John Cheever | 53 |
| ___ theory | 10 |
| In disarray | 11 |
| Disordered | 10 |
| Disorganized | 12 |
| Jumbled | 7 |
| Utterly confused | 16 |
| In a jumble | 11 |
| Hardly orderly | 14 |
| Very disorderly | 15 |
| Totally disorderly | 18 |
| Pandemoniac | 11 |
| In pandemonium | 14 |
| Highly disorganized | 19 |
| Fissure | 7 |
| Get cracked | 11 |
| Crack, in a way | 15 |
| Brighton bloke | 14 |
| "Old" British buddy | 29 |
| English bloke | 13 |
| London fellow | 13 |
| Get rough | 9 |
| Redden and crack | 16 |