| Fertile Crescent's place | 28 |
| Land of the obi and the Gobi | 28 |
| Where the water buffalo roam | 28 |
| Turkey's locale, in part | 28 |
| Tibetan Plateau's locale | 28 |
| The Kara Sea is on its north | 28 |
| Shortest continent, in a way | 28 |
| Self-titled #1 album of 1982 | 28 |
| Land shared by Iraq and Iran | 28 |
| Jordan River's continent | 28 |
| Its capital once was Ephesus | 28 |
| It includes India and Israel | 28 |
| It has a lot of Turkey in it | 28 |
| Green region on a Risk board | 28 |
| Background for Kipling works | 28 |
| 1982 self-titled debut album | 28 |
| Hard, pungent Italian cheese | 28 |
| Pungent Parmesan alternative | 28 |
| Koreans and Cambodians, e.g. | 28 |
| Vladivostok inhabitant, e.g. | 28 |
| Many tonal language speakers | 28 |
| Parenthetical script comment | 28 |
| In reserve Weakerthans tune? | 28 |
| They might be in parentheses | 28 |
| "... say, not ___" | 28 |
| "Highly unlikely!" | 28 |
| Book of poems by John Ciardi | 28 |
| "Nemesis" novelist | 28 |
| Science-fiction writer Isaac | 28 |
| It's _____ to tell a lie | 28 |
| Words on a vintage store tag | 28 |
| Sales tag on irregular goods | 28 |
| In whatever condition exists | 28 |
| "Let me repeat..." | 28 |
| "To reiterate,..." | 28 |
| 'Be that -- may ...' | 28 |
| "__ turns out ..." | 28 |
| Word before "were" | 28 |
| "Play it ___ lays" | 28 |
| It doesn't hurt to do it | 28 |
| "___ me if I care" | 28 |
| One way to get what you want | 28 |
| "Go ahead, shoot!" | 28 |
| It can't hurt to do this | 28 |
| Break a rule in the military | 28 |
| "May I ___ favor?" | 28 |
| 'May I -- question?' | 28 |
| Show polite interest in, say | 28 |
| "No questions ___" | 28 |
| 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 |