| Policy wiz, in D.C. slang | 25 |
| Policy expert, slangily | 23 |
| Bookish sort, slangily | 22 |
| Kiddie-lit confectioner Willy | 29 |
| Dahl character with a factory | 29 |
| Role for Wilder or Depp | 23 |
| Roald Dahl's chocolatier | 28 |
| Oompa-Loompas' boss | 23 |
| Film role for Wilder and Depp | 29 |
| Confectioner of fiction | 23 |
| Candymaker of literature | 24 |
| Candy man played by Depp | 24 |
| Bar manufacturer of film | 24 |
| Like some policy experts | 24 |
| Was triumphant in the end | 25 |
| Succeeded after a struggle | 26 |
| Old radio announcer Tony | 24 |
| Stubborn person's word | 26 |
| Uncooperative contraction | 25 |
| "I ___ tell" | 22 |
| Spoiled child's word | 24 |
| "This __ do!" | 23 |
| "I --- Grow Up" | 25 |
| "I ___ tell!" | 23 |
| Had the right numbered balls | 28 |
| Doctor's assurance | 22 |
| Soup on a Chinese buffet | 24 |
| Take-out soup, perhaps | 22 |
| Often-fried Chinese appetizer | 29 |
| Dumpling in Chinese soup | 24 |
| Alternative to eggdrop | 22 |
| __ noodles: Chinese dish | 24 |
| Asian soup ingredients | 22 |
| With You, 1974 Murray hit | 25 |
| Parents to child, part 4 | 24 |
| Is found untrue, as an excuse | 29 |
| Seek the affections of | 22 |
| Try to win the hand of | 22 |
| Charm with candy and flowers | 28 |
| Charm with flowers and candy | 28 |
| Whisper sweet nothings to | 25 |
| Seek someone's favor | 24 |
| Try to win, in romance | 22 |
| Try one's suit on? | 22 |
| Shower with gifts, say | 22 |
| Shower with flowers, say | 24 |
| Ply with wine and flowers | 25 |
| Make some advances toward | 25 |
| Make amorous advances to | 24 |
| Make a court appearance? | 24 |
| Lavish with flowers, e.g. | 25 |
| It's pitched by a suitor | 28 |
| "Face/Off" director | 29 |
| It's chopped in the fall | 28 |
| Fifth-anniversary gift | 22 |
| Fifth anniversary gift | 22 |
| Carpentry raw material | 22 |
| Word with shed or work | 22 |
| With 34D, a pretty tree | 23 |
| WhittlerÂ’s material | 23 |
| Whittler's material | 23 |
| White ____ Saskatchewan | 23 |
| The "W" in IWA | 24 |
| She said In ____ , Mani-toba | 28 |
| Ronnie of The Rolling Stones | 28 |
| Reading Dynamics proponent | 26 |
| Potbellied stove's fuel | 27 |
| Mother Love Bone's Andrew | 29 |
| Macbeth's Birnam ___ | 24 |
| Irwin's driver, e.g. | 24 |
| Golf club now made of metal | 27 |
| Carpenter's staple | 22 |
| Anniversary gift after linen | 28 |
| Alternative to an iron | 22 |
| 5th wedding anniversary gift | 28 |
| "Knock on ___" | 24 |
| Whiskey-aging container | 23 |
| Simple percussion instrument | 28 |
| Landscapers' machines | 25 |
| Print from a carved block | 25 |
| Relief print of a sort | 22 |
| Print from a carving block | 26 |
| Output from an old printer | 26 |
| Albrecht Dürer works | 23 |
| One of the anniversaries | 24 |
| Traditional Dutch shoe | 22 |
| Barriers with pickets, often | 28 |
| It may help stir the batter | 27 |
| Some salad accessories | 22 |
| One stoked to provide warmth | 28 |
| Pattern seen in lumber | 22 |
| Stork with a featherless head | 29 |
| Stack of fireplace logs | 23 |
| Item under a tarp maybe | 24 |
| Energy source of sorts | 22 |
| Hamster's wild cousin | 25 |
| Village west of Chicago | 23 |
| President before Warren | 23 |
| 1919 Peace Prize winner | 23 |
| A president and his conflict | 28 |