| Cockpit colleague | 17 |
| Robert L. Scott's metaphor for God | 38 |
| One who's not fully in control | 34 |
| One of an air pair | 18 |
| Flight deck figure | 18 |
| Captain's standby | 21 |
| Airline crew member | 19 |
| Airline "second banana" | 33 |
| Air aide | 8 |
| Air aid | 7 |
| Handling | 8 |
| What Broadway offers? | 21 |
| "Billy the Kid" composer | 34 |
| Composer Aaron | 14 |
| 1997 Stallone film | 18 |
| "Rodeo" composer Aaron | 32 |
| "Fanfare for the Common Man" composer | 47 |
| Indonesian officer? | 19 |
| Lame excuse | 11 |
| Renege | 6 |
| Weak excuse | 11 |
| Shirker's excuse | 20 |
| Quit (on) | 9 |
| Evasion of responsibility | 25 |
| Civil War figure | 16 |
| Poisonous brown snake | 21 |
| Lincoln cent | 12 |
| Elemental serpent? | 18 |
| American pit viper | 18 |
| Yankee who sympathized with the South during the Civil War | 58 |
| Sympathizer with the C.S.A. | 27 |
| Snake also known as the highland moccasin | 41 |
| Police officer's woe? | 25 |
| Pit viper | 9 |
| Pilot snake | 11 |
| N.A. snake | 10 |
| Anti-Civil War Northerner | 25 |
| Plumber's order | 19 |
| American film director | 22 |
| "Lost in Translation" director Sofia | 46 |
| Four-time Best Director nominee | 31 |
| Family with three generations of Oscar winners | 46 |
| Director that Lucas based Han Solo on | 37 |
| Director of "The Godfather" | 37 |
| Director of "Apocalypse Now" | 38 |
| Big name in Hollywood and Napa | 30 |
| 2003 Best Original Screenplay winner | 36 |
| "Lost in Translation" director | 40 |
| "Apocalypse Now" director | 35 |
| Coconut meat | 12 |
| Dried coconut meat | 18 |
| Coconut oil source | 18 |
| Malaysian export | 16 |
| Source of coconut oil | 21 |
| Dried coconut | 13 |
| The dried meat of the coconut | 29 |
| South Sea export | 16 |
| Source of an oil | 16 |
| Pacific-islands export | 22 |
| Edible part of the coconut | 26 |
| Dried meat of the coconut | 25 |
| Coconut-oil source | 18 |
| Coconut product | 15 |
| Coconut kernel | 14 |
| Sting participants | 18 |
| Pinches | 7 |
| Filches | 7 |
| Swipes | 6 |
| Steals | 6 |
| Police officers | 15 |
| Perp pursuers | 13 |
| Takes the wrong way? | 20 |
| Steals, ironically | 18 |
| Robbers' chasers | 20 |
| Police | 6 |
| Men in blue | 11 |
| Booking agents? | 15 |
| Beat pounders | 13 |
| They catch robbers | 18 |
| The heat | 8 |
| The finest | 10 |
| Show with a "Bad Boys" theme song | 43 |
| Robbers' foes | 17 |
| Real-life TV show | 17 |
| FOX reality series | 18 |
| Flatfoots | 9 |
| Cruiser drivers | 15 |
| Crew in blue | 12 |
| Beat walkers | 12 |
| TV show where many are seen shirtless | 37 |
| TV reality series | 17 |
| True-crime TV show | 18 |
| True-crime TV series | 20 |
| Ticket writers | 14 |
| Ticket givers | 13 |
| They've got the beat but never dance to it | 46 |
| They've got the beat | 24 |
| They're on the beat | 23 |
| They're dressed in blue, often | 34 |
| The good guys, in a chase film | 30 |