| Less lively | 11 |
| More tired | 10 |
| More of a bore | 14 |
| More numb | 9 |
| More like a doornail? | 21 |
| Less potent | 11 |
| Least exciting | 14 |
| Least active | 12 |
| Least stimulating | 17 |
| Least bustling, as a part of town | 33 |
| Least bouncy, as a tennis ball | 30 |
| Sharpshooters | 13 |
| They hardly ever miss | 21 |
| Sure shots | 10 |
| Nitwit? | 7 |
| Jerry Garcia fan | 16 |
| Fan of Jerry Garcia's band | 30 |
| Passenger with a free ticket | 28 |
| Nonpaying passenger | 19 |
| Jerry Garcia groupie | 20 |
| Fan of the "Touch of Grey" band | 41 |
| Fan of Jerry Garcia et al. | 26 |
| Fan of a "Grateful" band | 34 |
| It's too close to call | 26 |
| Complete tie | 12 |
| Race that finishes in a tie | 27 |
| Race rarity | 11 |
| Ties in races | 13 |
| ... a zombie? | 13 |
| Idiom for no longer able to function | 36 |
| At a total standstill | 21 |
| It's no longer spoken anywhere | 34 |
| Bringing up the rear | 20 |
| After all? | 10 |
| Tenth out of ten | 16 |
| After everyone else | 19 |
| At the very end | 15 |
| Trailing the field | 18 |
| Tenth out of 10 | 15 |
| Way behind everyone | 19 |
| Bad way to finish a race | 24 |
| Editor's concern | 20 |
| Reporter's concern | 22 |
| Freelancer's concern | 24 |
| Wire, metaphorically | 20 |
| Time by which something must be finished | 40 |
| Some people work under one | 26 |
| Reporter's due date | 23 |
| End point | 9 |
| Due time? | 9 |
| Really boring Avon lady? | 24 |
| Title place you "won't come back from," in a 1964 Jan & Dean hit | 82 |
| Exactly right | 13 |
| Absolutely perfect | 18 |
| Precisely correct | 17 |
| Exactly correct | 15 |
| Smack-dab accurate | 18 |
| Perfectly correct | 17 |
| Exactly accurate | 16 |
| Totally accurate | 16 |
| Precisely right | 15 |
| Highly accurate | 15 |
| Extremely accurate | 18 |
| Absolutely correct | 18 |
| Absolutely accurate | 19 |
| ___ one's feet (exhausted) | 30 |
| Where Jerry Garcia kept food for the band? | 42 |
| Twin | 4 |
| Exact lookalike | 15 |
| Clone in horror films? | 22 |
| Person who looks exactly like another | 37 |
| Deceased campanologist? | 23 |
| Lowest kind of bagel? | 21 |
| Unwilling to listen, with "to" | 40 |
| Unhearing | 9 |
| Unheeding | 9 |
| Heedless | 8 |
| Unwilling to listen | 19 |
| Unable to hear | 14 |
| Like Helen Keller | 17 |
| Like The Who's Tommy | 24 |
| Hard of hearing | 15 |
| Not hearing | 11 |
| Like Beethoven | 14 |
| Refusing to listen | 18 |
| Not able to hear | 16 |
| Hearing-deprived | 16 |
| Word with tone or stone | 23 |
| Unmindful | 9 |
| Not to be persuaded | 19 |
| Like most students at Gallaudet University | 42 |
| Like many sign-language users | 29 |
| Griffey's squad | 19 |
| Fall on ___ ears | 16 |
| Unlistening | 11 |
| Turn a ___ ear to | 17 |
| Like most users of sign language | 32 |
| Like Miss America of 1995 | 25 |
| Like a turned ear | 17 |
| Like a certain turned ear | 25 |