| Peripheries | 11 |
| Beats, but barely | 17 |
| Barely defeats | 14 |
| Noses out | 9 |
| Noses (out) | 11 |
| Moves sideways | 14 |
| Finishes the lawn | 17 |
| Does some yard work | 19 |
| Beats (out) | 11 |
| Barely wins | 11 |
| A cube has twelve | 17 |
| Selvages | 8 |
| Rough around the ___ | 20 |
| Outer reaches | 13 |
| Moves with caution | 18 |
| Moves crabwise | 14 |
| Knives' sharp parts | 23 |
| Just squeaks by | 15 |
| Just nips | 9 |
| Just beats (with "out") | 33 |
| Jigsaw puzzle starters | 22 |
| Beats by a little | 17 |
| Applies rickrack to | 19 |
| A sphere lacks them | 19 |
| Wins by a close score | 21 |
| Where Springsteen finds "Darkness"? | 45 |
| Where planes meet | 17 |
| Where ice skates meet the ice | 29 |
| Where faces meet | 16 |
| Upper hands | 11 |
| Trims rims | 10 |
| They may be sanded down | 23 |
| They may be rough and may need smoothing | 40 |
| The outer limits | 16 |
| The E of Euler's formula V + F - E = 2 | 42 |
| Suspenseful parts of the seats | 30 |
| Squeezes (past) | 15 |
| Some swords have two | 20 |
| Some rockers have rough ones | 28 |
| Some jigsaw pieces | 18 |
| Sharp borders | 13 |
| Puts fringes on | 15 |
| Precarious positions | 20 |
| Plain and deckle | 16 |
| Pieces jigsaw puzzlers usually start with | 41 |
| Perimeter parts | 15 |
| Parts causing paper cuts, say | 29 |
| Neatens, as a lawn | 18 |
| Narrow surfaces | 15 |
| Morrissey "The ___ Are No Longer Parallel" | 52 |
| Meredith Brooks "Blurring the ___" | 44 |
| Liminal areas | 13 |
| Knives' sharp sides | 23 |
| Head starts | 11 |
| Good places to start on a jigsaw puzzle | 39 |
| Geometrical borders | 19 |
| Finishes, as a lawn | 19 |
| Egyptian pyramid's eight | 28 |
| Easy jigsaw pieces to start with | 32 |
| Easy bits of a jigsaw puzzle | 28 |
| Defeats by a whisker | 20 |
| Cutting sides | 13 |
| Cutting parts | 13 |
| Cubes have a dozen | 18 |
| Cube's dozen | 16 |
| Cube dozen | 10 |
| Creeps slowly | 13 |
| Borders of tables | 17 |
| Blurry area, maybe | 18 |
| Blades' sharp sides | 23 |
| Beats narrowly | 14 |
| Beats by a nose, with "out" | 37 |
| Beats by a nose (with "out") | 38 |
| Beats by a bit | 14 |
| Beats 1-0, say | 14 |
| Barely beats, with "out" | 34 |
| Ball's lack | 15 |
| Ax parts | 8 |
| An octahedron has twelve | 24 |
| Adds fringe | 11 |
| A pyramid has six | 17 |
| A hexagon has six of them | 25 |
| A cube has 12 of them | 21 |
| 12 on a cube | 12 |
| Enters stealthily | 17 |
| Sidles through a doorway | 24 |
| Manages to add | 14 |
| Just barely places | 18 |
| Enters, but just barely | 23 |
| Enters obliquely | 16 |
| Enters gingerly | 15 |
| Moves gradually closer | 22 |
| One applied to a grindstone | 27 |
| Chisel or axe | 13 |
| With a side leading | 19 |
| With a side foremost | 20 |
| How to put a coin in a coin slot | 32 |
| How some can't get a word in | 32 |
| More out there | 14 |
| More uptight | 12 |