| Task done with a Pink Pearl | 27 |
| Puzzle solver's smudges | 27 |
| The "E" in Q.E.D. | 27 |
| The "E" of Q.E.D. | 27 |
| Latin "was to be" | 27 |
| Sister of Clio and Calliope | 27 |
| Versifier's inspiration | 27 |
| One of Zeus's daughters | 27 |
| Puzzler's favorite Muse | 27 |
| Muse that carries a kithara | 27 |
| Muse of poets and musicians | 27 |
| Mime motivator, classically | 27 |
| "The lovely Muse" | 27 |
| Third planet from die Sonne | 27 |
| Literary "before" | 27 |
| Versifier's preposition | 27 |
| Part of a famous palindrome | 27 |
| Obsolete "before" | 27 |
| Byronian "before" | 27 |
| This may appear before long | 27 |
| Syllable-saving preposition | 27 |
| Spanish letter two after pe | 27 |
| Sooner than, to Shakespeare | 27 |
| Sooner than, to a sonneteer | 27 |
| Poetic “previously” | 27 |
| Poet's 'before' | 27 |
| Palindrome in many a stanza | 27 |
| Middle of an old palindrome | 27 |
| Leading up to, in Lit class | 27 |
| Homonym for "air" | 27 |
| Before, as written by poets | 27 |
| Bard's 'before' | 27 |
| " ___ I saw Elba" | 27 |
| Like a soldier at attention | 27 |
| Like a Chihuahua's ears | 27 |
| ___ Set (kid's builder) | 27 |
| Gift for a budding engineer | 27 |
| "...___ saw Elba" | 27 |
| "... __ saw Elba" | 27 |
| "...--- saw Elba" | 27 |
| St. Simeon Stylites was one | 27 |
| Before this time, in poetry | 27 |
| "__ Tu": 1974 hit | 27 |
| 1974 hit "--- Tu" | 27 |
| Start of an Andy Capp toast | 27 |
| Soy, ___, es (Sp. I lesson) | 27 |
| '-- Tu' (1974 song) | 27 |
| "Cogito, ___ sum" | 27 |
| Second word from Descartes? | 27 |
| It may lead to a conclusion | 27 |
| Word preceding a conclusion | 27 |
| Word before "sum" | 27 |
| "It follows that" | 27 |
| Headache for a grain farmer | 27 |
| Units for exercise machines | 27 |
| Verdi's '-- tu' | 27 |
| Joseph C. Lincoln character | 27 |
| European conductor ___ Klas | 27 |
| "Hulk" actor Bana | 27 |
| __ the Red (Norse explorer) | 27 |
| Lindros formerly of the NHL | 27 |
| Holder of political office? | 27 |
| Children's author Carle | 27 |
| One of several Danish kings | 27 |
| Olympic speed skater Heiden | 27 |
| Obama cabinet member Holder | 27 |
| Julia Roberts's brother | 27 |
| Holder in the Obama cabinet | 27 |
| Ancient explorer __ the Red | 27 |
| Susan Lucci's character | 27 |
| Emmy-winning role for Susan | 27 |
| Susan Lucci's Emmy role | 27 |
| Plant used for making pipes | 27 |
| Wilson famed for needlework | 27 |
| Rhododendron's relative | 27 |
| NBC news correspondent Hill | 27 |
| 1999 Emmy-winning soap role | 27 |
| 'Fanny' author Jong | 27 |
| TV antiheroine for 41 years | 27 |
| Bell heather and tree heath | 27 |
| Actor/director Von Stroheim | 27 |
| Creator of Jenny and Oliver | 27 |
| Composer-conductor Korngold | 27 |
| Swedish jazz trumpeter Rolf | 27 |
| Explorer from ca. A.D. 1000 | 27 |
| Slim Viking's nickname? | 27 |
| Source of the Niagara River | 27 |
| Buffalo's body of water | 27 |
| Site of Villa Maria College | 27 |
| One of five bodies of water | 27 |
| Ohio's Lake ___ College | 27 |
| O'Neill's ___ Smith | 27 |
| Northwest Pennsylvania city | 27 |
| Lake that sounds mysterious | 27 |
| Lake in view from Cleveland | 27 |
| ___ Smith, O'Neill hero | 27 |
| Where Perry triumphed: 1813 | 27 |
| Pennsylvania city or county | 27 |
| Only four-letter Great Lake | 27 |
| One of five great waterways | 27 |