| Recyclable container | 20 |
| Ready for refilling | 19 |
| Pour out from | 13 |
| On "E" | 16 |
| Like the other part of the half full glass | 42 |
| Like some promises or threats | 29 |
| Like some nests | 15 |
| Like recycled bottles | 21 |
| Like a useless gas tank | 23 |
| Like a growling stomach | 23 |
| Like a bottle ready to be recycled | 34 |
| Jackson Browne's "Running on ---" | 47 |
| It's hard to run on it | 26 |
| It's dangerous to run on | 28 |
| Ineffective, as a threat | 24 |
| Holding nothing | 15 |
| Handed or headed start | 22 |
| Get it all out | 14 |
| Gas-gauge word | 14 |
| Gas gauge warning | 17 |
| Gas gauge level | 15 |
| E, on a gas gauge | 17 |
| E on a gas gauge | 16 |
| Devoid of contents | 18 |
| Devoid of content | 17 |
| Dangerous thing to run on | 25 |
| Bottle ready to be recycled | 27 |
| Bottle in a recycling bin | 25 |
| Beyond low | 10 |
| Below low | 9 |
| "E" on a gas gauge | 28 |
| "An ___ bag cannot stand upright" | 43 |
| Junk food, to a nutritionist | 28 |
| Cause of unhealthful weight gain | 32 |
| Result of flying the coop? | 26 |
| Where the parents are home alone | 32 |
| What many older parents face | 28 |
| What grown children may leave behind | 36 |
| The home, to some middle-agers | 30 |
| Syndrome that some parents experience when children leave home | 62 |
| Richard Mulligan TV show | 24 |
| Richard Mulligan TV series (1988-95) | 36 |
| Part 11: Their final legacy | 27 |
| Loneliness syndrome when kids leave home | 40 |
| 1980s-'90s Richard Mulligan sitcom | 38 |
| Parent whose kids have moved out | 32 |
| Parent of college kids, perhaps | 31 |
| One in a midlife crisis, perhaps | 32 |
| College freshman's parent, maybe | 36 |
| Coed's parent, maybe | 24 |
| Drain, as a bank account | 24 |
| Prepare for new owners, as a house | 34 |
| Clear, as a theater | 19 |
| What cads often spew | 20 |
| Much campaign rhetoric | 22 |
| Guarantees that mean nothing | 28 |
| Meaningless verbiage | 20 |
| Insincere talk, and a hint to the starts of this puzzle's four other longest entries | 88 |
| Spend all one's cash | 24 |
| Type measures | 13 |
| Printers' measures | 22 |
| Type squares | 12 |
| Print measures | 14 |
| Ambulance letters | 17 |
| Type widths | 11 |
| Dash lengths | 12 |
| Printer's measures | 22 |
| Printing measures | 17 |
| Print units | 11 |
| CPR pros | 8 |
| Bad ___, German spa | 19 |
| Printer's measure | 21 |
| Middle of summer? | 17 |
| Type units | 10 |
| Printer's widths | 20 |
| Printer's concern | 21 |
| Rheine's river | 18 |
| Printing widths | 15 |
| Printers' widths | 20 |
| Letters on an ambulance | 23 |
| Bad ___ (German spa) | 20 |
| Some dashes | 11 |
| Mommy has three | 15 |
| Print widths | 12 |
| Ambulance initials | 18 |
| Typesetting units | 17 |
| Dash widths | 11 |
| 911 respondent, briefly | 23 |
| Typesetting measures | 20 |
| Typesetter's units | 22 |
| Swimming center? | 16 |
| Common pair? | 12 |
| Ambulance abbr. | 15 |
| Abbr. on an ambulance | 21 |
| 911 response org. | 17 |
| Maximum limits? | 15 |
| Bad ___, Germany | 16 |
| 911 responders: Abbr. | 21 |
| Typography units | 16 |
| Typesetting widths | 18 |