| Unending pain | 13 |
| Unbearable pain | 15 |
| True pain | 9 |
| The ____ and the Ecstasy | 24 |
| The ___ of defeat | 17 |
| Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods" | 51 |
| Sitting through a bad violin recital, say | 41 |
| Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g. | 41 |
| Screaming pain | 14 |
| Painful ordeal | 14 |
| Listening to an insufferable bore, often | 40 |
| It's a major pain | 21 |
| Intense suspense, e.g. | 22 |
| Hellish suffering | 17 |
| Hard going | 10 |
| Extreme misery | 14 |
| Ecstasy's literary partner | 30 |
| Ecstasy's counterpart | 25 |
| Ecstasy's companion | 23 |
| Defeated one's feeling? | 27 |
| Cause for contortions | 21 |
| Breaking Benjamin "Dear ___" | 38 |
| Awful struggle | 14 |
| Awful feeling | 13 |
| Antithesis of ecstasy | 21 |
| A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe | 39 |
| "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you": Maya Angelou | 89 |
| "The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat" | 55 |
| "The ___ and the Ecstasy": Stone | 42 |
| "The ___ and the Ecstasy": I. Stone | 45 |
| "Into the Woods" song | 31 |
| "... the ___ of defeat" | 33 |
| "... the __ of defeat" | 32 |
| ". . . and the __ of defeat" | 38 |
| ''The __ and the Ecstasy'' | 42 |
| ___ aunt (British advice columnist) | 35 |
| Plenty | 6 |
| Start of a Scott Adams quip | 27 |
| Words after "loose as" or "silly as" | 56 |
| Silly as ___ | 12 |
| Greek marketplace | 17 |
| Marketplace | 11 |
| Shopping center | 15 |
| Market | 6 |
| Ancient marketplace | 19 |
| Old marketplace | 15 |
| Shopping place | 14 |
| Ancient market | 14 |
| Israeli coin | 12 |
| Ancient gathering place | 23 |
| Athenian marketplace | 20 |
| Ancient Greek marketplace | 25 |
| Ancient Greek gathering place | 29 |
| Where Greek met Greek | 21 |
| Shopping hub of old Athens | 26 |
| Meeting place | 13 |
| Greek market | 12 |
| Assembly | 8 |
| Ancient meeting place | 21 |
| Athens sight | 12 |
| "Phobia" start | 24 |
| Market place | 12 |
| Socrates' marketplace | 25 |
| Greek mall | 10 |
| Athenian meeting place | 22 |
| Ancient mall | 12 |
| Ancient assembly area | 21 |
| Where oboli were spent | 22 |
| Plato shopped here | 18 |
| Old Athens shopping hub | 23 |
| Lead-in to phobia | 17 |
| Israeli monetary unit | 21 |
| Classical mall | 14 |
| Athens market | 13 |
| Ancient Greek public square | 27 |
| Where the ancient Greeks shopped | 32 |
| Where Greeks haggled | 20 |
| The heart of ancient Athens | 27 |
| Socrates shopped here | 21 |
| Public square, in ancient Greece | 32 |
| Plaza | 5 |
| Plato's plaza | 17 |
| Plato's marketplace | 23 |
| Outdoor market | 14 |
| Old public square | 17 |
| Old market | 10 |
| Old Greek gathering place | 25 |
| Old Athenian meeting place | 26 |
| Marketplace of old | 18 |
| Greek gathering place | 21 |
| Greek assembly | 14 |
| Athens marketplace | 18 |
| Ancient bazaar | 14 |
| Xanthippe shopped here | 22 |
| Where Plato shopped | 19 |
| Where Greeks met | 16 |
| Venue for Socrates | 18 |
| Shopping hub of Athens | 22 |
| Shopper's mecca, once | 25 |
| Plato's mall | 16 |