| Serious thinker's diet? | 27 |
| Hallowe'en golfer Mike? | 27 |
| Wacky Olympic skiing event? | 27 |
| Gateway to a strange place? | 27 |
| ___-Bilt (power tool brand) | 27 |
| Debt disregarders, slangily | 27 |
| Goes back on one's word | 27 |
| Invites in enthusiastically | 27 |
| Use a blowtorch on, perhaps | 27 |
| Do the work of a pipefitter | 27 |
| Some construction junctions | 27 |
| Social worker's concern | 27 |
| Hardly rare, in restaurants | 27 |
| "Let me think..." | 27 |
| Words of apology — NOT! | 27 |
| Like a samaritan's help | 27 |
| Versed in the classics, say | 27 |
| "They crushed us" | 27 |
| "They creamed us" | 27 |
| Like Dylan Thomas, by birth | 27 |
| Certain pugilist, for short | 27 |
| Painful paintball souvenirs | 27 |
| ___ one's way (proceed) | 27 |
| Late playwright Wasserstein | 27 |
| Start of a frank discussion | 27 |
| Memorable crosswords editor | 27 |
| "What ___ wrong?" | 27 |
| Took a chance with a dance? | 27 |
| American Airlines stock ___ | 27 |
| The tenacious candidate ___ | 27 |
| Carroll's Walrus did it | 27 |
| "___ number one!" | 27 |
| Contraction with number one | 27 |
| "As you ___ ... " | 27 |
| "--- number one!" | 27 |
| "___ not worthy!" | 27 |
| Cellar dwellers' lament | 27 |
| Negative verbal contraction | 27 |
| It's not always a beast | 27 |
| Horror film creature, maybe | 27 |
| HeÂ’s not always a beast | 27 |
| Mineral resembling feldspar | 27 |
| Don of the '60s Tigers | 27 |
| Horror film director Craven | 27 |
| Former Mets manager Westrum | 27 |
| Director Craven or Anderson | 27 |
| Director Anderson or Craven | 27 |
| 1980s N.B.A. guard Matthews | 27 |
| Network censor's motto? | 27 |
| North Sea feeder of Germany | 27 |
| Visitors' fair warning? | 27 |
| Snipes of "Blade" | 27 |
| Actor who plays terrorists? | 27 |
| ___ Islands off N Australia | 27 |
| Prince Edward's earldom | 27 |
| Hardy novel locale, usually | 27 |
| Smith's comrade in arms | 27 |
| Wagon train's direction | 27 |
| TV's "Batman" | 27 |
| Direction for a wagon train | 27 |
| Area recommended by Greeley | 27 |
| Wind often bringing a storm | 27 |
| Home of soccer's United | 27 |
| Words to a second runner-up | 27 |
| Wrong, with "all" | 27 |
| How sloppy kisses are given | 27 |
| Lunar anti-prohibitionists? | 27 |
| Assassination, in spy lingo | 27 |
| '-- all been there' | 27 |
| Breakup line from a farmer? | 27 |
| Groggy person's inquiry | 27 |
| Barrier Ahab stands behind? | 27 |
| George Michael duo, 1981-86 | 27 |
| Prestigious business school | 27 |
| Abbott's second baseman | 27 |
| "That awful cad!" | 27 |
| Horner's self-appraisal | 27 |
| "Gotta love him!" | 27 |
| "Oh ___ was Mary" | 27 |
| "___ I just say?" | 27 |
| "You guessed it!" | 27 |
| Long-story starter, perhaps | 27 |
| Question from the horrified | 27 |
| Response to an interruption | 27 |
| "Can I help you?" | 27 |
| "___ it be, pal?" | 27 |
| Diner server's question | 27 |
| 'How about if ...?' | 27 |
| "How are things?" | 27 |
| 'Why act that way?' | 27 |
| Alternative to white or rye | 27 |
| Sound of a child on a swing | 27 |
| Kid's sliding board cry | 27 |
| Cry from a water slide user | 27 |
| 'This ride is fun!' | 27 |
| Influential one, informally | 27 |
| Spiral-shelled sea creature | 27 |
| "Over" attachment | 27 |
| History teacher's query | 27 |
| What an echo answers: Byron | 27 |