| Word with play or run | 21 |
| Word with living or bitter | 26 |
| Word with head or tail | 22 |
| Word with deep or tight | 23 |
| Word with deep or dead | 22 |
| Word with "living" or "dead" | 48 |
| Word printed on a maze | 22 |
| Word before result | 18 |
| Word before and after "over" | 38 |
| Word after loose or tight | 25 |
| Word after living or dead | 25 |
| Word after deep or tight | 24 |
| Word "split" in this puzzle's eight longest answers | 65 |
| Wind it up | 10 |
| Wideout, in football | 20 |
| Where to join the line | 22 |
| Where this word comes | 21 |
| Where this word belongs | 23 |
| Where this appears, appropriately | 33 |
| Where this answer is, appropriately | 35 |
| What's last | 15 |
| What you don't want a good show to do | 41 |
| What this is, fittingly | 23 |
| What a checkmate causes | 23 |
| Type of zone or table | 21 |
| Type of table or zone | 21 |
| Traveling Wilburys: "___ of the Line" | 47 |
| Top or bottom | 13 |
| Tom Brady target | 16 |
| Tight ___, in football | 22 |
| This, with "the" | 26 |
| This, for example, with "the" | 39 |
| This, appropriately | 19 |
| This may be tight or loose | 26 |
| This clue's place, aptly enough | 35 |
| This Across answer, appropriately | 33 |
| The ultimate state | 18 |
| The last word in some stories | 29 |
| The last word in movies? | 24 |
| The Doors "The ___" | 29 |
| The bitter ___ | 14 |
| The ___ of history | 18 |
| The ___ [fittingly] | 19 |
| The ___ | 7 |
| Testaverde target | 17 |
| Terminate a relationship | 24 |
| Target of some passes | 21 |
| Target for Tom Brady | 20 |
| Tail __ | 7 |
| Tackle's linemate | 21 |
| Tackle's line mate | 22 |
| T formation participant | 23 |
| Stop going | 10 |
| Stallworth's position | 25 |
| Split or tight one | 18 |
| Split or tight Jet | 18 |
| Split or tight follower | 23 |
| Sometimes it's bitter | 25 |
| Sometimes it is bitter | 22 |
| Something sometimes split | 25 |
| Sinclair's "World's ___" | 42 |
| Share of responsibility | 23 |
| Result of a coup de grâce | 28 |
| Receiver, frequently | 20 |
| Reason for being | 16 |
| Rarely used computer key | 24 |
| Quarterback target | 18 |
| QB's target, often | 22 |
| QB's target | 15 |
| QB's frequent target | 24 |
| Put a stopper on | 16 |
| Prime-rib cut | 13 |
| Prime rib cut | 13 |
| Priestley's "Eden ___" | 36 |
| Potential pass target | 21 |
| Position for Russ Francis | 25 |
| Player who may be tight | 23 |
| Place for some notes | 20 |
| Pigskin chaser | 14 |
| Phish "Possum, your ___ is the road" | 46 |
| Pet Shop Boys "West ___ Girls" | 40 |
| Period's place in a sentence | 32 |
| Period of play in curling | 25 |
| Pearl Jam "The ___" | 29 |
| PC key below Home | 17 |
| Part to grab hold of, maybe | 27 |
| Part of the line always saved for you | 37 |
| Part of the "Line" the Traveling Wilburys were going to | 65 |
| Page Down neighbor | 18 |
| One working on a line | 21 |
| One of eleven | 13 |
| One may get a pass | 18 |
| One may be tight or defensive | 29 |
| One may be tight | 16 |
| One may be on the line | 22 |
| One may be dead | 15 |
| One can be loose or tight | 25 |
| Omega, in a way | 15 |
| Often-unwanted slice of bread | 29 |
| Offensive one, at times | 23 |