| ___ shame (rout in a bout) | 26 |
| Finish one's Masters? | 25 |
| Where to play miniature golf? | 29 |
| Pretend to feel a certain way | 29 |
| Scheme to trick someone | 23 |
| Packages of yarn or thread | 26 |
| Encouraged in mischief | 22 |
| Eat a calorie-free diet? | 24 |
| Painter ___ de Chavannes | 24 |
| Volcanic hill of France | 23 |
| Puerto Rican Ozzfest band | 25 |
| Present for people like you | 27 |
| Baffle tennis great Rod? | 24 |
| Sudoku site, in the paper | 25 |
| Crosswords and the like | 23 |
| End of the holiday message | 26 |
| Material for drainage lines | 27 |
| Adhesive pipe protector | 23 |
| Sarge's charges: Abbr. | 26 |
| U.S.M.C. recruits: Abbr. | 24 |
| Ryan and Benjamin: Abbr. | 24 |
| Ryan and Benjamin (Abbr.) | 25 |
| Ones under sgts., in the Army | 29 |
| Most G.I.'s: Abbr. | 22 |
| Benjamin et al.: Abbr. | 22 |
| A lot of mil. personnel | 23 |
| Agcy. once run by Ickes | 23 |
| Dominate, in leetspeak | 22 |
| Dominate, in geekspeak | 22 |
| English engraver et al. | 23 |
| Shaw's porcine play? | 24 |
| Doting legendary sculptor | 25 |
| Africans of small stature | 25 |
| Former name of the bonobo | 25 |
| Lumbering critter of Borneo | 27 |
| Sgt. Carter, in 60's TV? | 28 |
| Old talk show host Joe | 22 |
| Christie sleuth Parker | 22 |
| Christie detective Parker ___ | 29 |
| 60's talk show host Joe | 27 |
| Gets bigger and bigger | 22 |
| Source of sulfuric acid | 23 |
| Sulfide-containing group | 24 |
| Minerals that look like gold | 28 |
| Fire starter's obsession | 28 |
| Impulse to start fires | 22 |
| Ones drawn to flames, briefly | 29 |
| What we watch on July 4 | 23 |
| Win that wasnÂ’t worth it | 28 |
| Gray cardinal of Arizona | 24 |
| 1983 Michael Jackson song | 25 |
| "Thriller" jam | 24 |
| He knew his right triangles | 27 |
| Greek who knew his numbers | 26 |
| Humorously surrealistic | 23 |
| Shrubby evergreen plant | 23 |
| Folded Pizza Hut offering | 25 |
| Writer/humorist Joe [white] | 27 |
| Interview near an inn? | 22 |
| ___ Qum, Turkmen desert | 23 |
| Plant chewed in Arabia | 22 |
| Chewable Mideast stimulant | 26 |
| African tea leaves (Var.) | 25 |
| Mideast orchestral group? | 25 |
| Hopping video game character | 28 |
| Venerable pyramid game | 22 |
| Orange video game hero | 22 |
| Noted cubist of the '80s? | 29 |
| Hopping arcade character | 24 |
| 1983 arcade game sequel | 23 |
| Start of a sports prediction | 28 |
| Post-snap ploy, briefly | 23 |
| 4th-and-inches play, often | 26 |
| Ontario Freeway, colloquially | 29 |
| Which was to be done: Abbr. | 27 |
| Chinese wellness practice | 25 |
| Chinese meditative practice | 27 |
| Dynasty that unified China | 26 |
| Longstanding Chinese dynasty | 28 |
| Money spent in Albania | 22 |
| Just deserts, in Iran? | 22 |
| Hebrew letter before resh | 25 |
| Four times a year: Abbr. | 24 |
| Personal oral cotton swab? | 26 |
| Book-page sizes: Abbr. | 22 |
| Hype around a bad doctor? | 25 |
| Snake oil salesman kin | 22 |
| Malpractice suit figure | 23 |
| Sounded like a bufflehead | 25 |
| Certain potion peddlers | 23 |
| They treat people badly | 23 |
| Campus center, perhaps | 22 |
| One-fourth of a circle | 22 |
| Printer's block of type | 27 |
| Yielding a parabola, in a way | 29 |
| Square dance for four couples | 29 |
| One followed by 15 zeros | 24 |
| One followed by 15 zeroes | 25 |
| They involves eight atoms | 25 |
| Avoid/shun/skirt/eschew | 23 |