| Certain Coast Guard officers | 28 |
| Store hay on a farm, perhaps | 28 |
| Opposite of "free" | 28 |
| Nutritional supplement brand | 28 |
| Student of Elves, in Tolkien | 28 |
| Talking tree of Middle-earth | 28 |
| Suffix with insist or differ | 28 |
| Suffix with depend or absorb | 28 |
| Sinus specialist, succinctly | 28 |
| Forest of Fangorn inhabitant | 28 |
| Ending with absorb or differ | 28 |
| International understandings | 28 |
| International accommodations | 28 |
| ''Welcome!'' | 28 |
| ''Come in!'' | 28 |
| Hacker's carriage return | 28 |
| "This way in" sign | 28 |
| Extend hospitality, in a way | 28 |
| Dangles a carrot in front of | 28 |
| Course on insects, for short | 28 |
| Lure into committing a crime | 28 |
| _____-temps (meanwhile): Fr. | 28 |
| ___ nous (between ourselves) | 28 |
| French for 'between' | 28 |
| Recommendation letter, maybe | 28 |
| It may have one or two sides | 28 |
| Duck à l'orange, e.g. | 28 |
| Chicken cordon bleu, for one | 28 |
| Contestants' submissions | 28 |
| Dictionary word in bold type | 28 |
| Tolkien's tree creatures | 28 |
| Sinus specialists, for short | 28 |
| Tolkien's tree shepherds | 28 |
| Tolkien's Fangorn et al. | 28 |
| Tolkien's ___ of Fangorn | 28 |
| Destruction of Isengard vets | 28 |
| Dendriform Tolkien creatures | 28 |
| Stationer's piece: abbr. | 28 |
| It's stamped at the P.O. | 28 |
| It may have a window (abbr.) | 28 |
| Concluding remarks to a poem | 28 |
| Ballade's closing stanza | 28 |
| The-grass-is-greener feeling | 28 |
| "May It Be" singer | 28 |
| "The Celts" singer | 28 |
| 2002 Best Song Oscar nominee | 28 |
| "Watermark" singer | 28 |
| Singer born in Gaoth Dobhair | 28 |
| Pop star from County Donegal | 28 |
| One-named Gaelic folk singer | 28 |
| "Sail Away" singer | 28 |
| Many end with '-ase' | 28 |
| Agents of biochemical change | 28 |
| Epoch of the Tertiary Period | 28 |
| Epoch in which mammals arose | 28 |
| Epoch in the Tertiary Period | 28 |
| Ancestor of the modern horse | 28 |
| Astronomer's time period | 28 |
| Long, long, long time period | 28 |
| It may seem like an eternity | 28 |
| Forever and a day, seemingly | 28 |
| A gazillion years, seemingly | 28 |
| What a waiting time may seem | 28 |
| Two or more eras, in geology | 28 |
| Phanerozoic or Archean, e.g. | 28 |
| One billion years to Hubble | 28 |
| It keeps going and going ... | 28 |
| Incalculable amounts of time | 28 |
| Mythical goddess of the dawn | 28 |
| Volkswagen coupe convertible | 28 |
| Thea's daughter, in myth | 28 |
| Agcy. that polices polluters | 28 |
| Air quality overseer (Abbr.) | 28 |
| Org. with an Office of Water | 28 |
| Toxic-level monitor, briefly | 28 |
| Fuel efficiency rater: Abbr. | 28 |
| Air quality watchdogs: abbr. | 28 |
| They got the lead out: abbr. | 28 |
| Org. whose seal has a flower | 28 |
| Org. that controls emissions | 28 |
| Org. doing atmospheric tests | 28 |
| Org. concerned with fracking | 28 |
| Environmental watchdog agcy. | 28 |
| Ecology-oriented govt. group | 28 |
| Uniform's shoulder piece | 28 |
| Military shoulder decoration | 28 |
| Disney World's __ Center | 28 |
| Walt Disney World attraction | 28 |
| Walt Disney World theme park | 28 |
| Fencer's harmless weapon | 28 |
| What one carries for parries | 28 |
| Sport with automated scoring | 28 |
| Sport played to three points | 28 |
| Sport fought to three points | 28 |
| Safer alternative to a saber | 28 |
| It's thrust at Olympians | 28 |
| It's heavier than a foil | 28 |
| It'll keep you en garde? | 28 |
| It has about a 35-inch blade | 28 |
| French for "sword" | 28 |