| Time by which something must be finished | 40 |
| Where Jerry Garcia kept food for the band? | 42 |
| Person who looks exactly like another | 37 |
| Unwilling to listen, with "to" | 40 |
| Like most students at Gallaudet University | 42 |
| Like most users of sign language | 32 |
| What you might go, if you rock too hard | 39 |
| What Beethoven started to become in 1801 | 40 |
| Ones who sign, with "the" | 35 |
| Like Tommy, of the Who's 1969 rock opera | 44 |
| Like students at Gallaudet College | 34 |
| Like Beethoven and Rush Limbaugh | 32 |
| Like an ignorer's ear, idiomatically | 40 |
| Fundraiser for the hearing-impaired? | 36 |
| Refuses to hear (with ''is'') | 45 |
| "Let's Make a ___" | 32 |
| Word with "big" or "raw" | 44 |
| Successful conclusion of a negotiation | 38 |
| "Let's shake on it!" | 34 |
| "I accept your terms!" | 32 |
| TV word before and after "or no" | 42 |
| Reply to Howie Mandel's query | 33 |
| Proposal from "the Banker" | 36 |
| Order to the person holding the deck of cards | 45 |
| It can be "big" or "no big" | 47 |
| Impatient cardplayer's demand | 33 |
| Game show offering from Wayne Brady | 35 |
| Command to a person holding a deck of cards | 43 |
| "Let's Make a ---" | 32 |
| "I'll take your offer!" | 37 |
| "I'll take it, Howie!" | 36 |
| "I agree to your terms!" | 34 |
| Kind of "ship" with a franchise | 41 |
| Crack investigator's target? | 32 |
| "Sure, I'll play!" | 32 |
| "I'm ready to play!" | 34 |
| Puts one's cards on the table | 33 |
| Hot band might get a few offered | 32 |
| Put one's cards on the table | 32 |
| Was responsible for a full house? | 33 |
| Gave some people in Vegas a hand? | 33 |
| Sold, with ''in'' | 33 |
| Addressed, with "with" | 32 |
| Wormer in "Animal House," for one | 43 |
| Wormer of "Animal House," e.g. | 40 |
| Cain of "Lois & Clark" | 36 |
| "People-Powered Howard" | 33 |
| Wormer of "Animal House," for one | 43 |
| Wormer in "Animal House," e.g. | 40 |
| Unsuccessful candidate in the 2004 primaries | 44 |
| Priest, or river in British Columbia | 36 |
| One of Trollope's Barchester characters | 43 |
| One of Frank's "Rat Pack" | 39 |
| One in charge of discipline, maybe | 34 |
| Legendary college basketball coach Smith | 40 |
| He was "Dizzy" about baseball | 39 |
| Forest of ___ in Gloucestershire | 32 |
| Democratic National Committee head | 34 |
| Cinema idol James: 1931–55 | 33 |
| Actor McDermott, also known as Mr. Tori Spelling | 48 |
| "Rebel Without a Cause" star | 38 |
| Silas of the Continental Congress | 33 |
| American revolutionary who recruited Lafayette | 46 |
| Revolutionary War diplomat Silas | 32 |
| Patriot-diplomat of the 1770's | 34 |
| Franklin's colleague in France | 34 |
| Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress | 48 |
| Colonists' first foreign emissary | 37 |
| American Revolutionary patriot Silas | 36 |
| Rat Pack member from Steubenville, Ohio | 39 |
| One heading the office of student roasts? | 41 |
| "That's Amore" crooner | 36 |
| Troi on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 37 |
| Durbin of 30's-40's musicals | 36 |
| Counselor Troi aboard the Enterprise | 36 |
| 1930s-'40s singer/actress Durbin | 36 |
| "Star Trek" empath Troi | 33 |
| "I Love a Mystery" actress Lund | 41 |
| "Can't Help Singing" star Durbin | 46 |
| They're in control of their faculties | 41 |
| Ones in control of their faculties? | 35 |
| They work to maintain their faculties | 37 |
| They keep control of their faculties | 36 |
| College president's underlings | 34 |
| "The ___ December," Bellow book | 41 |
| Word with "me" or "John" | 44 |
| "How ___ to my heart . . . " | 38 |
| "___ Mr. Henshaw" (Beverly Cleary book) | 49 |
| "___ Me," Ustinov autobiography | 41 |
| "___ Heart," 1964 song | 32 |
| "___ Heart," 1964 film | 32 |
| "__ sir or madam . . ." | 33 |
| __ Sir or Madam (letter starter) | 32 |
| Start of a missive to Ms. Van Buren | 35 |
| Start for someone seeking advice | 32 |
| Column begun in 1956 by Pauline Phillips | 40 |
| "The Wreck of the Mary ___" | 37 |
| "Wreck of the Mary ___" | 33 |
| "The Wreck of the Mary __" | 36 |
| "The Wreck of the Mary ---" | 37 |