| Financial page benchmark | 24 |
| Sad place for monks to live? | 28 |
| On the pathway of futility | 26 |
| Holiday advice, part 4 | 22 |
| Words before out or dirty | 25 |
| In desperate need of help | 25 |
| Having seen better times | 24 |
| In very poor condition | 22 |
| Take away: swallow pins? | 25 |
| ___ the heels (shabby) | 22 |
| Conductor's cue, maybe | 26 |
| Certain strokes by Mehta | 24 |
| In one's heart of hearts | 28 |
| Opposite of a gleeful shout? | 28 |
| Rockport-based magazine | 23 |
| The still-hungry sailor ___ | 27 |
| Depressing state of affairs | 27 |
| Depressing circumstance | 23 |
| Depressing experiences | 22 |
| Modern Holmes portrayer | 23 |
| 'Iron Man' star | 23 |
| Quilt filler, to Dracula? | 25 |
| Stretched out on the mat | 24 |
| Pugilistic loss position | 24 |
| Knocked out, in the ring | 24 |
| Repeated cry in a 1973 fight | 28 |
| Some winter Olympic athletes | 28 |
| Unpretentious, in the South | 27 |
| Quaint and unpretentious | 24 |
| "___ the Valley" | 26 |
| Prime Minister's street | 27 |
| Scuba-diver's milieu | 24 |
| 2005 Edward Norton film | 23 |
| Secrecy, with "the" | 29 |
| On the -- (discreetly) | 22 |
| Fine feather repairer? | 22 |
| On the outs with a relative? | 28 |
| Feeling less resolute lately? | 29 |
| Mastered to perfection | 22 |
| Best way to get things | 22 |
| Up-front money, as for a car | 28 |
| Installment forerunner | 22 |
| Softpedaled; de-emphasized | 26 |
| Diminishes in importance | 24 |
| Makes seem less important | 25 |
| Comfy handmade comforter | 24 |
| Sudden descent of water | 23 |
| Worked a manual transmission | 28 |
| Activity of duvet makers? | 25 |
| Where some Yankees winter | 25 |
| Closer to the audience | 22 |
| Toward the southern border | 26 |
| Southern New York, e.g. | 23 |
| Like New York City, to Albany | 29 |
| Like New York City, e.g. | 24 |
| Eat all one's leftovers? | 28 |
| For a worthless purpose | 23 |
| School-traffic violation | 24 |
| Where to drop, during a fire | 28 |
| Where some major arteries go | 28 |
| Oppressed by people in power | 28 |
| Words from an old song | 22 |
| Song hit by J. Flynn: 1889 | 26 |
| Anti-Establishment words | 24 |
| Popular fabric softener | 23 |
| Wagonfuls of feathers? | 22 |
| Demand for fabric softener? | 27 |
| Have less success (than) | 24 |
| Emulates a rhabdomantist | 24 |
| Part of an Eastern hymn | 23 |
| Ending for hetero or ortho | 26 |
| Song by The Move, then ELO | 26 |
| '78 Rod Stewart #1 | 22 |
| DAR President General, e.g. | 27 |
| Senior members of a group | 25 |
| Sir Arthur Conan and family | 27 |
| Opera company with muscle | 25 |
| "Really ...?!" | 24 |
| "How ___ do?" | 23 |
| "Fiddler" query | 25 |
| Memo to a waiting taxidermist | 29 |
| Irritable diner's query | 27 |
| Bobby Freeman question, 1958 | 28 |
| Jury members meditate? | 22 |
| Donut lover's discipline? | 29 |
| Romantic bunch of flora | 23 |
| Sleeping cave denizen? | 22 |
| Displaced person, abbr. | 23 |
| Classic comic strip setting | 27 |
| Oxford doctorate, briefly | 25 |
| Certain doctorate, for short | 28 |
| U.N. license-plate initials | 27 |
| Graduation awards: Abbr. | 24 |
| Centerpiece of many a park | 26 |
| North Korea, initially | 22 |
| Combo vaccine, for short | 24 |
| Mixed vaccine, briefly | 22 |
| Cabinet section: Abbr. | 22 |
| Store divisions: Abbr. | 22 |
| Coll. or bus. sections | 22 |