| Harder or softer, depending | 27 |
| Gets rock hard, as buns | 23 |
| Superlatively ancient joke | 26 |
| Like the most ancient joke | 26 |
| Unsurpassingly unoriginal | 25 |
| Superlatively stagnant | 22 |
| Showing the least originality | 29 |
| Most dried-out, as bread | 24 |
| Least salable, perhaps | 22 |
| Least appetizing, as bread | 26 |
| Stories lacking originality? | 28 |
| Layne of Alice in Chains | 24 |
| Yalta Conference participant | 28 |
| One of the Big Three at Yalta | 29 |
| Political leader from Georgia | 29 |
| One of the Yalta threesome | 26 |
| National leader from Georgia | 28 |
| Leader born in Georgia | 22 |
| Dictator born in Georgia | 24 |
| Yalta figure: Feb. 1945 | 23 |
| World leader from Georgia | 25 |
| W.W. II's Uncle Joe | 23 |
| Soviet leader during WWII | 25 |
| Nefarious man from Georgia | 26 |
| Georgian revolutionary | 22 |
| Famous Georgian born in 1879 | 28 |
| Confrère at Potsdam: 1945 | 28 |
| 1948 Peace Prize nominee | 24 |
| Volgograd's former name | 27 |
| Russian city, for a while | 25 |
| Critical 1942-43 battle site | 28 |
| Trotskyite's opponent | 25 |
| Authoritarian follower | 22 |
| Follow way too closely | 22 |
| What some do to a quarry | 24 |
| What a crazy fan does? | 22 |
| Support for an ear of corn | 26 |
| Pursue like a predator | 22 |
| Follow in a menacing way | 24 |
| Do a bit of bird watching? | 26 |
| Didn't just follow around | 29 |
| Out-of-bounds shooters? | 23 |
| Approaching stealthily | 22 |
| "Pursues" a rocker | 28 |
| Word with book or choir | 23 |
| Suddenly stop, as an engine | 27 |
| Public bathroom division | 24 |
| Driver's inconvenience | 26 |
| Dobbin's bailiwick | 22 |
| Compartment in a stable | 23 |
| Big problem for a pilot | 23 |
| Sputtered, as an engine | 23 |
| Put off the inevitable | 22 |
| Gained time by trickery | 23 |
| User of delaying tactics | 24 |
| Person playing for time | 23 |
| One seeking to gain time | 24 |
| He purposely kills time | 23 |
| Deliberate killer of time | 25 |
| Fatten for market, as cattle | 28 |
| Private quarters in a stable? | 29 |
| Hemming and hawing, e.g. | 24 |
| Rocky, the Italian ___ | 22 |
| Prancing ... male ... mares | 27 |
| Rocky Balboa portrayer | 22 |
| Player of many a tough guy | 26 |
| "Lock Up" star | 24 |
| Sales at a convention booth? | 28 |
| Suddenly quits running | 22 |
| Gate divisions, at the track | 28 |
| Dies after turning over? | 24 |
| Dies after turning over | 23 |
| Conks out as an engine | 23 |
| Aqueduct accommodations | 23 |
| Foot-dragger's lies? | 24 |
| 2009 Miss America Katie | 23 |
| Where to find the anther | 24 |
| Pollen-producing organ | 22 |
| It's got the anther | 23 |
| Flower's pollen producer | 28 |
| Pollen-producing flower part | 28 |
| Long part of a spider plant | 27 |
| Flower's pollen holder | 26 |
| Flower's pollen bearer | 26 |
| Pollen-bearing flower parts | 27 |
| Sources of pollen grains | 24 |
| Filaments' structures | 25 |
| Dismiss pong's partner | 26 |
| Triathlete's quality | 24 |
| Marathoner's asset | 22 |
| Marathon runner's need | 26 |
| Workhorse's quality | 23 |
| What rash dieters lose | 22 |
| Ultramarathoner's need | 26 |
| Triathlete's asset | 22 |
| Miler's sine qua non | 24 |
| Marathoner's requirement | 28 |
| Marathon-runner's forte | 27 |
| Speak with involuntary pauses | 29 |
| Speak in starts and stops | 25 |