| Verdi's "very" | 28 |
| Tea-producing state in India | 28 |
| Area bordering the Himalayas | 28 |
| Source of much tea from Asia | 28 |
| It's north of Bangladesh | 28 |
| Doesn't hem and haw over | 28 |
| Patience, to a puzzle solver | 28 |
| Company-owned building, e.g. | 28 |
| What height is to a hoopster | 28 |
| Something in one's favor | 28 |
| Power or control, to a tenor | 28 |
| Blue-chip stocks or diamonds | 28 |
| They may be liquid or frozen | 28 |
| They can be liquid or frozen | 28 |
| Cash, stocks and charm, e.g. | 28 |
| St. Francis's birthplace | 28 |
| Town above the Umbrian plain | 28 |
| Home of Sts. Agnes and Clare | 28 |
| Celebrated town near Perugia | 28 |
| Give the surgeon a hand, say | 28 |
| Like-minded people's gp. | 28 |
| Winner of 49 Pulitzer Prizes | 28 |
| Largest American news agency | 28 |
| Like chocolates in a sampler | 28 |
| Manager's helper (Abbr.) | 28 |
| One of the D.A.'s people | 28 |
| Office coffee fetcher: Abbr. | 28 |
| Member of a d.a.'s staff | 28 |
| Kind of fire marshall: Abbr. | 28 |
| Beleaguered exec.'s need | 28 |
| Courtroom subordinate: Abbr. | 28 |
| Take on, as a responsibility | 28 |
| Of Nineveh's home: Abbr. | 28 |
| Ancient empire on the Tigris | 28 |
| Halifax clock setting: Abbr. | 28 |
| Clock setting in Nome: abbr. | 28 |
| "The Thin Man" dog | 28 |
| 'The Thin Man' pooch | 28 |
| Terrier on the silver screen | 28 |
| Terrier in Hammett whodunits | 28 |
| Puzzlers' favorite pooch | 28 |
| Puzzler's favorite pooch | 28 |
| Nick and Nora's wirehair | 28 |
| Nick and Nora are his humans | 28 |
| Like fashionable partygoers? | 28 |
| Famous fictional fox terrier | 28 |
| Dashiell's dog detective | 28 |
| 'Royal Wedding' star | 28 |
| Rogers' frequent partner | 28 |
| Partner of Rogers and Powell | 28 |
| Intro to "Is Born" | 28 |
| _____ in the right direction | 28 |
| It blooms late in the season | 28 |
| "Star" in a garden | 28 |
| Star of "M*A*S*H"? | 28 |
| '-- saying goes ...' | 28 |
| It may take your breath away | 28 |
| "Spumante" lead-in | 28 |
| Winemaking province of Italy | 28 |
| Wine town in Piedmont, Italy | 28 |
| The Tanaro River flows by it | 28 |
| Stop on the Turin-Genoa line | 28 |
| Palazzo Alfieri's locale | 28 |
| Martini & Rossi offering | 28 |
| Italian town, famed for wine | 28 |
| City between Turin and Genoa | 28 |
| Barbera d'___ (red wine) | 28 |
| "Spumante" starter | 28 |
| -- Spumante (sparkling wine) | 28 |
| John who played Gomez Addams | 28 |
| "Marching ___ war" | 28 |
| _____ Martin, 007's auto | 28 |
| American Fur Company founder | 28 |
| Financier aboard the Titanic | 28 |
| "Titanic" casualty | 28 |
| Early Northwest trading town | 28 |
| Stars, in Kansas's motto | 28 |
| "Per ardua ad ___" | 28 |
| 1947 Tennessee Williams play | 28 |
| '70s Pontiac subcompacts | 28 |
| With one leg on each side of | 28 |
| With a leg on either side of | 28 |
| New American Leaguer in 2013 | 28 |
| Certain professional athlete | 28 |
| Team with a star in its logo | 28 |
| Minute Maid Park ballplayers | 28 |
| American Leaguers since 2013 | 28 |
| Employee's final remark? | 28 |
| Sun Devil Stadium's sch. | 28 |
| The Sun Devils of the Pac-10 | 28 |
| Tempe bumper sticker letters | 28 |
| Sun Devils' home (abbr.) | 28 |
| Ancient Assyrian city (Var.) | 28 |
| Dam that created Lake Nasser | 28 |
| It's upstream from Luxor | 28 |
| "Even __ speak..." | 28 |
| "__ sow, so . . ." | 28 |
| "One Day ___ Time" | 28 |
| "One Day --- Time" | 28 |
| Run __: pay later at the bar | 28 |