| Dickens's Madame ___ | 24 |
| What some games are won by | 26 |
| A fate worse than debt | 22 |
| Like a retired seismologist? | 28 |
| Military alert quantifier | 25 |
| Alert system in action movies | 29 |
| Pessimistic resignation | 23 |
| One resigned to reverses | 24 |
| One seeking political asylum | 28 |
| Political asylum seekers | 24 |
| Goes to the other side | 22 |
| Committed slander, perhaps | 26 |
| British soccer team concern | 27 |
| One who provides protection | 27 |
| Accused person's lawyer | 27 |
| Henry VIII and Victoria | 23 |
| Word in Nova Scotia motto | 25 |
| Tried to stop from scoring | 26 |
| Like some football teams | 24 |
| So as to avoid criticism | 24 |
| Income to be received later | 27 |
| Procrastinator, essentially | 27 |
| Let have the final word | 23 |
| Acknowledge the seniority of | 28 |
| More than uncooperative | 23 |
| Unwilling to stay in line | 25 |
| Shield against frontal fire | 27 |
| Tarnish, as a reputation | 24 |
| Sully, as a reputation | 22 |
| Adulterate some film scenes? | 28 |
| Anathema to an ecologist | 24 |
| Ones who sully reputations | 26 |
| Give the meaning of fitness? | 28 |
| Dictionary writer, e.g. | 23 |
| Sentence element, often | 23 |
| '94 landmark Oasis debut | 28 |
| Undecided's oxymoron | 24 |
| Ecclesiastical official | 23 |
| Reason for some hisses | 22 |
| Stop Spot's scratching | 26 |
| Make a boxer feel better? | 25 |
| Does some spin doctoring | 24 |
| Windshield-clearing aid | 23 |
| Clears the windshield, say | 26 |
| Chemical sprayed on plants | 26 |
| Costar of William and Leonard | 29 |
| Gets bent out of shape | 22 |
| Gets all bent out of shape? | 27 |
| Kicked out of the priesthood | 28 |
| Do freezer maintenance | 22 |
| Does freezer maintenance | 24 |
| Does a refrigerator job | 23 |
| Does a freezer-related chore | 28 |
| Having the best of hands | 24 |
| Best with one's hands | 25 |
| Do a minesweeper's job | 26 |
| Takes the tension out of | 24 |
| Postwar Italian leader | 22 |
| Paris airport, familiarly | 25 |
| Clear of recorded info | 22 |
| Neutralizes a magnetic field | 28 |
| Reduced from AAA to AA+ | 23 |
| Brought into disrepute | 22 |
| Heavily criticized educator? | 28 |
| Put down formal education? | 26 |
| Malign a good education? | 24 |
| Temperature gauge of a sort | 27 |
| College student's filing | 28 |
| Gloria on the Walk of Fame | 26 |
| Burst open, as a seedpod | 24 |
| Bursts, as a plant pod | 22 |
| Make safer, on the ranch | 24 |
| Make safer, as livestock | 24 |
| Take away the defenses of | 25 |
| Makes a bull less dangerous | 27 |
| Renders harmless, in a way | 26 |
| Prunes a fruit tree severely | 28 |
| Makes safer, as a herd | 22 |
| Does a cattleman's chore | 28 |
| Divest of individuality | 23 |
| Cleared a frosty windshield | 27 |
| Ready for a cold takeoff | 24 |
| Took off a winter coat? | 23 |
| Prepared for takeoff, maybe | 27 |
| Winter windshield clearer | 25 |
| Wintertime airport supply | 25 |
| Winter aid for windshields | 26 |
| Windshield scraper, e.g. | 24 |
| What salt may be used as | 24 |
| Ethylene glycol product | 23 |
| Windshield heater's job | 27 |
| Cold weather wing maintenance | 29 |
| Currency on a moon of Mars? | 27 |
| One adept at table talk | 23 |
| Mythical maiden of Eire | 23 |
| Heroine of Irish legend | 23 |
| Like Illuminati members | 23 |
| Relatives of double takes | 25 |
| Prefix meaning '10' | 27 |
| Numerical prefix: Var. | 22 |