| Creamed chipped beef base | 25 |
| Burnt Archers of Loaf song? | 27 |
| Best man's responsibility | 29 |
| Best man's assignment | 25 |
| Anyone greatly acclaimed | 24 |
| A raft, in diner slang | 22 |
| "Skoal," for one | 26 |
| "Raft" in a diner | 27 |
| "Cheers!" is one | 26 |
| "Cheers!" e.g. | 24 |
| 'Skoal!,' e.g. | 22 |
| How some battles are fought | 27 |
| Drank to the health of | 22 |
| Did a best man's job | 24 |
| Whom we lift a glass to | 23 |
| Subject of some roasts | 22 |
| One offering good wishes | 24 |
| It has a darkness setting | 25 |
| Where to leggo your Eggo? | 25 |
| Wedding reception V.I.P. | 24 |
| Wedding reception figure | 24 |
| One who offers good wishes | 26 |
| Dual-purpose kitchen device | 27 |
| Some wedding guests or gifts | 28 |
| Saying 'Skoal!,' say | 28 |
| Honoring at a banquet, say | 26 |
| Browning over a fire or grill | 29 |
| Woman presiding at a banquet | 28 |
| Wedding reception tributes | 26 |
| Raises one's glass to | 25 |
| Complimentary speeches | 22 |
| After-wedding offerings | 23 |
| Wedding reception events | 24 |
| One thing a best man does | 25 |
| Wedding reception rituals | 25 |
| Wedding reception highlights | 28 |
| Salutes before drinking | 23 |
| Raises one's spirits? | 25 |
| Parts of many celebrations | 26 |
| Moments of raised spirits? | 26 |
| Glass-clinking rituals | 22 |
| Glass-clinkers' proposals | 29 |
| French ___ (breakfast treats) | 29 |
| Chess great keeping warm? | 25 |
| Not just approximately | 22 |
| How perfectionists do things? | 29 |
| How perfectionists do things | 28 |
| Fit ___ (suit perfectly) | 24 |
| Fit ___ (be perfect on) | 23 |
| Perfectly, for the chef | 23 |
| Book of the Apocrypha: Abbr. | 28 |
| Nightshade family member | 24 |
| Contents of some pouches | 24 |
| Powerful Washington lobby | 25 |
| Business that serves smokers | 28 |
| Erskine Caldwell title | 22 |
| Trinidad's sister island | 28 |
| Trinidad's partner | 22 |
| Trinidad's neighbor | 23 |
| Island southeast of Grenada | 27 |
| Its chief town is Scarborough | 29 |
| Island united with Trinidad | 27 |
| Half a Caribbean republic | 25 |
| Â Â West Indies isle | 26 |
| Repeated part of a soliloquy | 28 |
| Start of a famous soliloquy | 27 |
| Start of a Hamlet soliloquy | 27 |
| One of Hamlet's options | 27 |
| Start of a classic question | 27 |
| Half of Hamlet's dilemma | 28 |
| Start of a Hamlet speech | 24 |
| Start of a Hamlet musing | 24 |
| Shakespeare soliloquy start | 27 |
| Prospective, as a bride | 23 |
| Part of Hamlet's query | 26 |
| Part of Hamlet's dilemma | 28 |
| Part of a stage question | 24 |
| Opening of a soliloquy | 22 |
| Idol "___ a Lover" | 28 |
| Hamlet's soliloquy opener | 29 |
| Hamlet's infinitive | 23 |
| First words for Hamlet | 22 |
| Caesar's "esse" | 29 |
| "Got ___ real!" | 25 |
| "... or not ___" | 26 |
| "___ or not . . . " | 29 |
| " . . . or not ___" | 29 |
| 'It Had -- You' | 23 |
| 'There ought -- law!' | 29 |
| What poor Uncle Harry wanted | 28 |
| Angry pitcher's choice? | 27 |
| Bring ___ (use effectively) | 27 |
| "And so ___" | 22 |
| "Early ___ . . . " | 28 |
| Where people who retire go | 26 |
| Half of Pepys's sign-off | 28 |
| "Early ___ ..." | 25 |
| "And so ___": Pepys | 29 |
| John Fletcher's Rx? | 23 |
| Lady Macbeth's last words | 29 |