| De bene ___ (conditionally) | 27 |
| Common crossword palindrome | 27 |
| "To be," in Latin | 27 |
| "___ quam videri" | 27 |
| Big Bertha's birthplace | 27 |
| Ruhr Valley industrial city | 27 |
| It's near Gelsenkirchen | 27 |
| West German industrial city | 27 |
| Scene of W.W. II airstrikes | 27 |
| Bad ___ (Lower Saxony city) | 27 |
| Second-century B.C. ascetic | 27 |
| Early religious sect member | 27 |
| Ancient Palestinian ascetic | 27 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls preservers | 27 |
| What makes a bloom blossom? | 27 |
| Apostrophe followers, often | 27 |
| This puzzle is missing some | 27 |
| Road signs may warn of them | 27 |
| Problem letters for lispers | 27 |
| Parts of some driving tests | 27 |
| More than half of assassins | 27 |
| Big section of a dictionary | 27 |
| About 1/9 of the dictionary | 27 |
| County in southeast England | 27 |
| Favored earl of Elizabeth I | 27 |
| Errol Flynn role of '39 | 27 |
| County whose seat is Newark | 27 |
| Former filling station name | 27 |
| Tiger Express station brand | 27 |
| Name on some Canadian pumps | 27 |
| Name on a Canadian gas pump | 27 |
| Gas-seeker's sign, once | 27 |
| Gas-seeker's sign once | 27 |
| Gas brand north of the U.S. | 27 |
| Winter clock setting in Vt. | 27 |
| It takes things to extremes | 27 |
| Suffix in the Guinness book | 27 |
| Better-than-anything ending | 27 |
| Suffix denoting extremeness | 27 |
| Record-breakers' suffix | 27 |
| Zone for Red Sox home games | 27 |
| Winter hrs. in Winter Haven | 27 |
| Winter clock setting at MIT | 27 |
| Werner Erhard's therapy | 27 |
| Werner Erhard's program | 27 |
| Setting for Columbus: Abbr. | 27 |
| N.Y.C. winter clock setting | 27 |
| D.S.T. preceder or follower | 27 |
| Boston's time, at times | 27 |
| Better-than-anything suffix | 27 |
| "Jacta alea ___!" | 27 |
| "Consummatum ___" | 27 |
| "C'__ la vie" | 27 |
| "Como ___ usted?" | 27 |
| "¿Cómo __?" | 27 |
| Spanish for "are" | 27 |
| "It is," in Spain | 27 |
| Abbr. on a college building | 27 |
| The press is the fourth one | 27 |
| Subject for a probate court | 27 |
| Property to divide, perhaps | 27 |
| Probate court's concern | 27 |
| Home with a butler, perhaps | 27 |
| Elvis's Graceland, e.g. | 27 |
| Mount Vernon and Monticello | 27 |
| Concerns of a probate court | 27 |
| Abbr. on many a cornerstone | 27 |
| Italy's Villa d'___ | 27 |
| Tivoli's Villa d'__ | 27 |
| Uruguay's Punta del ___ | 27 |
| Sunrise direction, in Spain | 27 |
| Tivoli's Villa d'-- | 27 |
| Surname of Italian nobility | 27 |
| Princely family name of old | 27 |
| Italy's Villa d'--- | 27 |
| Ferrara-ruling family, once | 27 |
| "Compás" point | 27 |
| Compact name with an accent | 27 |
| ___ Lauder, cosmetics giant | 27 |
| Miami Sound Machine surname | 27 |
| "Poly" attachment | 27 |
| Perfume ingredient, perhaps | 27 |
| Ending for "poly" | 27 |
| ____ gum (paint ingredient) | 27 |
| Fragrant chemical compounds | 27 |
| Dimethyl sulfate and others | 27 |
| Famed American photorealist | 27 |
| Met bass-baritone Simon ___ | 27 |
| Democratic senator Kefauver | 27 |
| Author Clarissa Pinkola ___ | 27 |
| 1997 All-Star pitcher Shawn | 27 |
| O.T. book read during Purim | 27 |
| O.T. book named for a woman | 27 |
| Native of a Soviet Republic | 27 |
| Like Christmas in Australia | 27 |
| Juan's "this" | 27 |
| End of Missouri's motto | 27 |
| Land on the Gulf of Finland | 27 |
| Independent land since 1991 | 27 |
| Language related to Finnish | 27 |