| Sci-fi writer's creation | 28 |
| Sci-fi author's creation | 28 |
| Pulitzer's New York paper | 29 |
| Philosopher's concept | 25 |
| "What in the __?" | 27 |
| Venerable reference work | 24 |
| A. W. Clausen's concern | 27 |
| Jim Yong Kim is its president | 29 |
| International credit source | 27 |
| Olympic champion, for one | 25 |
| Most-watched sports event | 25 |
| International sporting event | 28 |
| Colorful almanac feature | 24 |
| United Nations' goal | 24 |
| Six billion and change | 22 |
| The United States, notably | 26 |
| Olympian's achievement | 26 |
| Athlete's ambition | 22 |
| Wells' warring factions | 27 |
| Sides in a Wellsian war | 23 |
| ___ Fair (N.Y. 1939 event) | 26 |
| Separated by a wide chasm | 25 |
| Flushing Meadows exposition | 27 |
| Meeting of global leaders | 25 |
| International conflict | 22 |
| Jimmy Doolittle, for one | 24 |
| Ken Follett best-seller | 23 |
| 2007 Ken Follett novel | 22 |
| One-nighters for Jo Anne | 24 |
| Early bird's breakfast | 26 |
| Word with inch or tape | 22 |
| Antivirus software target | 25 |
| Word with book or silk | 22 |
| Word after silk or earth | 24 |
| Tequila bottle additive | 23 |
| Inside of a jumping bean | 24 |
| Early-bird's victim | 23 |
| Early bird's treat | 22 |
| Early bird's prize | 22 |
| Destructive computer program | 28 |
| Bit of bait from the backyard | 29 |
| Moved like a night crawler | 26 |
| Brought about, deviously | 24 |
| Unwelcome sight on an apple | 27 |
| Theoretical space passageway | 28 |
| Get involved with insidiously | 29 |
| Some of them are flukes | 23 |
| Payoff for early birds | 22 |
| Computer network menaces | 24 |
| Like a bad apple, perhaps | 25 |
| Like secondhand clothing | 24 |
| Starting to come apart | 22 |
| In need of patching, e.g. | 25 |
| Completely gone, like a buzz | 28 |
| Stopped working, as medicine | 28 |
| Made rocker Grace anxious? | 26 |
| He of the knitted brow | 22 |
| Hardly the carefree sort | 24 |
| They may keep you up at night | 29 |
| "What, me ___?" | 25 |
| Topic of quotation below | 24 |
| What things could always be | 27 |
| Marriage vow condition | 22 |
| Better's antithesis | 23 |
| For better or for ____ | 22 |
| Deserving fewer stars (than) | 28 |
| "Which is ___ ...?" | 29 |
| A more dilapidated state | 24 |
| Opposite of 'improve' | 29 |
| In an inferior situation | 24 |
| In a lousier condition | 22 |
| Part 3 of the perspective | 25 |
| Deserving the booby prize | 25 |
| Deserving of the booby prize | 28 |
| Pessimistic expectation | 23 |
| In the ___ way (very much) | 26 |
| Golden Raspberry Awards word | 28 |
| Furthest from the best | 22 |
| Top ten welfare screw-ups? | 26 |
| Firmly twisted wool yarn | 24 |
| Fabric such as gabardine | 24 |
| You, to you, at times? | 22 |
| Golden Turkey Award recipient | 29 |
| Autumn at its poorest? | 22 |
| Least desirable wharves? | 24 |
| Most inferior sausage? | 22 |
| Brewer's malt infusion | 26 |
| Plant, vegetable or herb | 24 |
| St. John's, for one | 23 |
| St. John has a famous one | 25 |
| St John's, for one | 23 |
| Malt infusion to make beer | 26 |
| Follower of St. John's | 26 |
| Fermenting malt infusion | 24 |
| Ending of some plant names | 26 |
| Ending of many plant names | 26 |
| Part of "FWIW" | 24 |
| Like a sound investment | 23 |
| Really slow ship from China? | 28 |
| Deserving of your time | 22 |