| Invitation request, perhaps | 27 |
| Start of a Roger Ebert quip | 27 |
| Reason for a lack of glory? | 27 |
| Short fiber of silk or wool | 27 |
| Short fiber for yarn making | 27 |
| Item for New Year's Eve | 27 |
| Pecan or filbert, in France | 27 |
| Type of pass, in basketball | 27 |
| Fancy, as a basketball pass | 27 |
| Some court pleas, for short | 27 |
| Big Easy museum, familiarly | 27 |
| Wanderers' wherewithal? | 27 |
| Roberto Durán's plea | 27 |
| LUCKY FIDO, ABOUT HIS OWNER | 27 |
| Pen name for actor Richard? | 27 |
| Its newspaper is the Nugget | 27 |
| City near the Arctic Circle | 27 |
| Knowing no more than before | 27 |
| Like some supermarket items | 27 |
| Matter of little importance | 27 |
| Not in the sphere of ethics | 27 |
| Part of old English refrain | 27 |
| Word for a volunteer worker | 27 |
| Like the United Way and NPR | 27 |
| Lack of trust or dependence | 27 |
| Restaurant section, perhaps | 27 |
| Like a bout on an undercard | 27 |
| War minister's problem? | 27 |
| Oriental restaurant cartel? | 27 |
| Headlock accompanier, often | 27 |
| Salad orderer's request | 27 |
| One who tokes before lunch? | 27 |
| Flight getting in at 12:00? | 27 |
| Brand of insecticide strips | 27 |
| Tribute to an Italian city? | 27 |
| "That's O.K." | 27 |
| "It's a snap" | 27 |
| Cyberneticist's hot dog | 27 |
| “I was just asking” | 27 |
| Irv of the 50's Yankees | 27 |
| Rock common in South AfricA | 27 |
| Scene of Operation Overlord | 27 |
| Artist is short of a spring | 27 |
| Cambodia's ___ Sihanouk | 27 |
| Connecticut suburb of N. Y. | 27 |
| Titanic's resting place | 27 |
| Country established in 1948 | 27 |
| Where Olaf I or Olaf II sat | 27 |
| Blow on the beak, old style | 27 |
| It might go with green hair | 27 |
| Cut off one's ___ . . . | 27 |
| Compulsively curious (var.) | 27 |
| Warning on an airplane wing | 27 |
| It may be flared or pierced | 27 |
| They have seals of approval | 27 |
| Food critic's criticism | 27 |
| "None whatsoever" | 27 |
| Weather report on the range | 27 |
| Basketball-broadcast phrase | 27 |
| Have ___ to (be unattached) | 27 |
| ___ than (time-limit words) | 27 |
| Classic Grant/ Bergman film | 27 |
| Like a road in a Frost poem | 27 |
| "_____ worry ..." | 27 |
| "___ worry . . ." | 27 |
| One of Hamlet's choices | 27 |
| Where candy is locked away? | 27 |
| Of a certain part of speech | 27 |
| Silly goose or sitting duck | 27 |
| Longer kin of short stories | 27 |
| They're new and unusual | 27 |
| Sign prohibiting sunshades? | 27 |
| State of a bottle-fed baby? | 27 |
| Middle of __ (remote place) | 27 |
| Desolate place, so to speak | 27 |
| "___ can be told" | 27 |
| Like substances in city air | 27 |
| Harmful to one's health | 27 |
| Disarmament treaty concerns | 27 |
| Controversial power sources | 27 |
| Cousin of a bare-faced lie? | 27 |
| Closer to being in the buff | 27 |
| Ambulance chaser's ploy | 27 |
| Book between Lev. and Deut. | 27 |
| Most people look out for it | 27 |
| Necessity in many passwords | 27 |
| Where habits are picked up? | 27 |
| On the clergyman's mind | 27 |
| Frequent partner of Fonteyn | 27 |
| 1961 Soviet defector Rudolf | 27 |
| "The Flying Finn" | 27 |
| Harbor long-term resentment | 27 |
| Place for prekindergartners | 27 |
| Temperature taker, at times | 27 |
| Certified medical assistant | 27 |
| Sensitivity to cashews, say | 27 |
| Snickers or Baby Ruth, e.g. | 27 |
| Crushed almond spread, e.g. | 27 |
| Chocolaty spread since 1964 | 27 |
| Healthful, in product names | 27 |