| Gear component | 14 |
| Start of Descartes' phrase | 30 |
| Start of a line ending in a sum? | 32 |
| Literally, "I think" | 30 |
| Epistemological principle, familiarly | 37 |
| Descartes opening | 17 |
| "Ergo" preceder | 25 |
| "___ ergo sum" | 24 |
| '-- ergo sum' | 21 |
| French brandy | 13 |
| After-dinner order | 18 |
| Fine brandy | 11 |
| After-dinner brandy | 19 |
| Hennessy or Courvoisier | 23 |
| French spirits | 14 |
| Courvoisier, for one | 20 |
| Courvoisier or Remy Martin | 26 |
| Café royale ingredient | 25 |
| Snifter filler | 14 |
| Product of a pot still | 22 |
| Liquor in a sidecar | 19 |
| Hennessy, e.g. | 14 |
| Grapes for dessert? | 19 |
| Drink served in a snifter | 25 |
| Crêpe suzette flavorer | 25 |
| Courvoisier or Hennessy | 23 |
| Colombard grapes product | 24 |
| Brandy variety | 14 |
| Brandy center | 13 |
| Gear teeth | 10 |
| Gear parts | 10 |
| Sprockets | 9 |
| Minor players | 13 |
| They have teeth | 15 |
| Teeth that aren't flossed | 29 |
| Mechanical teeth | 16 |
| Lowly workers, figuratively | 27 |
| Vital elements | 14 |
| They aren't major players | 29 |
| Teeth on a wheel | 16 |
| Parts of the machine, maybe | 27 |
| Machinist's teeth | 21 |
| Bit players in a big machine | 28 |
| Vital parts | 11 |
| Vital components | 16 |
| Unimportant workers | 19 |
| Some working parts | 18 |
| Nobody employees in the system | 30 |
| Minor yet vital employees | 25 |
| Minor functionaries | 19 |
| Minor employees | 15 |
| Minor but essential workers | 27 |
| Little fish in big ponds | 24 |
| Industrial revolution elements? | 31 |
| Gear teeeth | 11 |
| Gear components | 15 |
| Cockboats | 9 |
| Bit players | 11 |
| Live together | 13 |
| Share quarters | 14 |
| What lions and lambs rarely do | 30 |
| Share more than space | 21 |
| Share digs | 10 |
| Share a pad | 11 |
| Set up house together | 21 |
| Cagney role | 11 |
| "Over There" composer | 31 |
| "Over There" songwriter | 33 |
| Song-and-dance man | 18 |
| "Yankee Doodle Dandy" songwriter | 42 |
| "Give My Regards to Broadway" composer | 48 |
| ''Over There'' composer | 39 |
| George M. ___ | 13 |
| George M. | 9 |
| Composer of "Over There" | 34 |
| Composer George M. | 18 |
| Cagney's "Yankee Doodle Dandy" role | 49 |
| Broadway immortal | 17 |
| ASCAP charter member | 20 |
| "Over There" songwriter George M. | 43 |
| "Little Nellie Kelly" playwright | 42 |
| "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" composer | 50 |
| "Give My Regards to Broadway" writer George M. | 56 |
| "George M!" focus | 27 |
| ''The Man Who Owned Broadway'' | 46 |
| ''Over There'' penner | 37 |
| ''I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy'' composer | 58 |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | 19 |
| Winning Cagney role | 19 |
| Subject of the musical "George M!" | 44 |
| Songwriter with a statue in Manhattan's Duffy Square | 56 |
| One-time "King of Broadway" | 37 |
| Memorable showman | 17 |
| Joel Grey portrayal | 19 |
| He wrote "Little Johnny Jones" | 40 |
| He wrote "Gambling": 1929 | 35 |
| He was actually born on the third of July | 41 |
| He gave his regards to Broadway | 31 |
| George who was nicknamed "the man who owned Broadway" | 63 |
| George Michael, the showman | 27 |