| Like a play that's been whistled | 36 |
| Like a mackerel? | 16 |
| Like a battery needing a charge | 31 |
| King of reckoning | 17 |
| Kind of reckoning | 17 |
| Kind of line or lock | 20 |
| Kind of letter or issue | 23 |
| Kind of issue | 13 |
| Kind of end or heat | 19 |
| Kind of beat or heat | 20 |
| Jerry Garcia band, for short | 28 |
| James Joyce's "The ___" | 37 |
| Grateful group? | 15 |
| Giveaway description? | 21 |
| Free of charge? | 15 |
| Disconnected, as a phone line | 29 |
| Devoid of customers | 19 |
| Describing Latin or Sanskrit | 28 |
| Conked out, as a battery | 24 |
| Conked out for good | 19 |
| Christie's "___ Man's Mirror" | 47 |
| Breathless? | 11 |
| Bogart thriller ____ Reckoning | 34 |
| Bo-o-o-o-ring | 13 |
| Beyond recharging, possibly | 27 |
| Beat or pan | 11 |
| Another kind of duck | 20 |
| A sea | 5 |
| "You are ___ to me" | 29 |
| "The Walking ___," 1936 horror film | 45 |
| "The ___ Pool" (Eastwood flick) | 41 |
| "Live/___" (landmark 1969 live album) | 47 |
| "In the Dark" band's nickname, with "the" | 65 |
| "Fifteen men on the ___ man's chest" | 50 |
| "Drop ___!" | 21 |
| "15 men on a ___ man's chest ..." | 47 |
| "___ Souls": Gogol | 28 |
| "___ Souls," Gogol novel | 34 |
| "___ Reckoning," Bogart film | 38 |
| ___-letter office | 17 |
| _____ ringer | 12 |
| _____ as a door-nail | 20 |
| ___ Sea (part of Jordan's boundary) | 39 |
| ___ reckoning | 13 |
| ___ Kennedys | 12 |
| ___ heat | 8 |
| __ in the water | 15 |
| Completely gone | 15 |
| Totally gone | 12 |
| Completely lifeless | 19 |
| Unquestionably gone | 19 |
| Unanimated, to the max | 22 |
| Really gone | 11 |
| Not just gone | 13 |
| Gone, and never to return | 25 |
| Definitely deceased | 19 |
| Completely out | 14 |
| "Old Marley was as ___" | 33 |
| Muffle | 6 |
| Numb | 4 |
| Anesthetize | 11 |
| Benumb | 6 |
| Desensitize | 11 |
| Make numb | 9 |
| Muffle, as sound | 16 |
| Make soundproof | 15 |
| Use Novocain | 12 |
| Muffle, as a sound | 18 |
| Make vapid | 10 |
| Make quieter | 12 |
| Make less sensitive | 19 |
| Kill, as pain | 13 |
| Blunt; diminish | 15 |
| Blunt or obscure | 16 |
| Apply novocaine to | 18 |
| Apply Novocain, e.g. | 20 |
| Blind alley | 11 |
| Like a McJob | 12 |
| Not a through street | 20 |
| Maze feature | 12 |
| Having no possibility for progress | 34 |
| Site of many a turnaround | 25 |
| No exit | 7 |
| Low-traffic street | 18 |
| Kingsley play: 1935 | 19 |
| Kingsley play | 13 |
| Having no future, as a job | 26 |
| Bogart film: 1937 | 17 |
| Blind alley, e.g. | 17 |
| Young tough guys in '30s films | 34 |
| Maze features | 13 |
| They go nowhere | 15 |
| They get you nowhere | 20 |
| Streets with no outlet | 22 |
| Maze mistakes | 13 |
| Maze annoyances | 15 |
| Many leads, ultimately | 22 |
| Kin of culs-de-sac | 18 |
| Jobs with no potential | 22 |
| Less stimulating | 16 |