| Press conference participant | 28 |
| Show hospitality at the door | 28 |
| Activity for Barbara Walters | 28 |
| Words on an information desk | 28 |
| "All I ___ you..." | 28 |
| Invite to dinner and a movie | 28 |
| Express romantic interest in | 28 |
| Requests, with 'for' | 28 |
| Displays curiosity, in a way | 28 |
| ___ for it (invites trouble) | 28 |
| Invites across the threshold | 28 |
| Invite as one's date for | 28 |
| Invite to the penthouse, say | 28 |
| Attempt to consummate a date | 28 |
| Manual transmissions?: Abbr. | 28 |
| Handy form of communication? | 28 |
| Visual communication?: Abbr. | 28 |
| Like those with poor grades? | 28 |
| Bad thing to be at the wheel | 28 |
| Capital north of Addis Ababa | 28 |
| Voice of Up's curmudgeon | 28 |
| Moore co-star on '70s TV | 28 |
| Editor Grant's portrayer | 28 |
| Unlike the life of the party | 28 |
| Viper with an upturned snout | 28 |
| Snake with an upturned snout | 28 |
| Orphan Annie's protector | 28 |
| "Worm of the Nile" | 28 |
| Snake of southwestern Europe | 28 |
| Killer of Antony's lover | 28 |
| "Cleopatra" animal | 28 |
| Vegetable of the lily family | 28 |
| Bunch in the vegetable aisle | 28 |
| Org. that advocates adoption | 28 |
| Colorado music festival site | 28 |
| Popular place to go downhill | 28 |
| Common sights in the Rockies | 28 |
| "Ad astra per ___" | 28 |
| Like Henry James' papers | 28 |
| Material that coats arteries | 28 |
| Former defense secretary Les | 28 |
| It makes you a better person | 28 |
| Common medicine cabinet item | 28 |
| In ___ (having difficulties) | 28 |
| Pharaohs' sacred symbols | 28 |
| Cleopatra's executioners | 28 |
| Herpetologists' subjects | 28 |
| Cold-blooded African killers | 28 |
| Source of a Biblical jawbone | 28 |
| Shrek's companion is one | 28 |
| It might be kicked or kissed | 28 |
| Verdi's "very" | 28 |
| Tea-producing state in India | 28 |
| Area bordering the Himalayas | 28 |
| Source of much tea from Asia | 28 |
| It's north of Bangladesh | 28 |
| Doesn't hem and haw over | 28 |
| Patience, to a puzzle solver | 28 |
| Company-owned building, e.g. | 28 |
| What height is to a hoopster | 28 |
| Something in one's favor | 28 |
| Power or control, to a tenor | 28 |
| Blue-chip stocks or diamonds | 28 |
| They may be liquid or frozen | 28 |
| They can be liquid or frozen | 28 |
| Cash, stocks and charm, e.g. | 28 |
| St. Francis's birthplace | 28 |
| Town above the Umbrian plain | 28 |
| Home of Sts. Agnes and Clare | 28 |
| Celebrated town near Perugia | 28 |
| Give the surgeon a hand, say | 28 |
| Like-minded people's gp. | 28 |
| Winner of 49 Pulitzer Prizes | 28 |
| Largest American news agency | 28 |
| Like chocolates in a sampler | 28 |
| Manager's helper (Abbr.) | 28 |
| One of the D.A.'s people | 28 |
| Office coffee fetcher: Abbr. | 28 |
| Member of a d.a.'s staff | 28 |
| Kind of fire marshall: Abbr. | 28 |
| Beleaguered exec.'s need | 28 |
| Courtroom subordinate: Abbr. | 28 |
| Take on, as a responsibility | 28 |
| Of Nineveh's home: Abbr. | 28 |
| Ancient empire on the Tigris | 28 |
| Halifax clock setting: Abbr. | 28 |
| Clock setting in Nome: abbr. | 28 |
| "The Thin Man" dog | 28 |
| 'The Thin Man' pooch | 28 |
| Terrier on the silver screen | 28 |
| Terrier in Hammett whodunits | 28 |
| Puzzlers' favorite pooch | 28 |
| Puzzler's favorite pooch | 28 |
| Nick and Nora's wirehair | 28 |
| Nick and Nora are his humans | 28 |
| Like fashionable partygoers? | 28 |
| Famous fictional fox terrier | 28 |
| Dashiell's dog detective | 28 |
| 'Royal Wedding' star | 28 |
| Rogers' frequent partner | 28 |