| Blow a ___ | 10 |
| Predecessor to a circuit breaker | 32 |
| It prevents overloads | 21 |
| It can be blown | 15 |
| Electrical protector | 20 |
| Electric-circuit protector | 26 |
| A hothead has a short one | 25 |
| Time-bomb mechanism | 19 |
| Something to blow | 17 |
| Something blown before a fight? | 31 |
| Overload preventer | 18 |
| Oft-blown circuit component | 27 |
| Music-video cable station | 25 |
| Liquefy by heat | 15 |
| Item often blown | 16 |
| Item in a box in the basement | 29 |
| It may blow when it's hot | 29 |
| It may be tripped | 17 |
| It may be kept in a box in the basement | 39 |
| It may be found in a box in the basement | 40 |
| Firework part | 13 |
| Electrical overload protector | 29 |
| Don't blow it | 17 |
| Current governor | 16 |
| Cord on a firecracker | 21 |
| Circuit safety device | 21 |
| Circuit safeguard | 17 |
| Circuit breaker's kin | 25 |
| Cherry bomb stem | 16 |
| Bottle rocket part | 18 |
| Automotive part | 15 |
| Blended | 7 |
| Melted | 6 |
| Melted together | 15 |
| Amalgamated | 11 |
| Made into an alloy | 18 |
| Combined by melting | 19 |
| Blended, as copper wires | 24 |
| Welded together | 15 |
| Welded | 6 |
| Melded together | 15 |
| Melded | 6 |
| Joined with heat | 16 |
| Joined by melting | 17 |
| Did a welder's job | 22 |
| Printer part | 12 |
| Laser printer part | 18 |
| Laser printer component | 23 |
| Joins together | 14 |
| They may be blown in boxes | 26 |
| Electrical safety devices | 25 |
| Firecracker parts | 17 |
| Circuit breakers replaced these | 31 |
| Things useful when put in a box | 31 |
| Things often blown | 18 |
| The impatient have short ones | 29 |
| Old circuit breakers | 20 |
| Melts together | 14 |
| Blasting caps' adjuncts | 27 |
| Atomic process | 14 |
| Word with Asian or jazz | 23 |
| Type of jazz or cuisine | 23 |
| Synthesis | 9 |
| Solar-energy basis | 18 |
| Nuclear-reaction process | 24 |
| Melting action | 14 |
| Emulate a colicky infant | 24 |
| Noisy dispute | 13 |
| Act the mother hen | 18 |
| Worry excessively | 17 |
| Complain about trifles | 22 |
| Type of budget | 14 |
| Something to kick up | 20 |
| Partner of bother | 17 |
| One kind of budget | 18 |
| Go to trouble | 13 |
| Pretentious display | 19 |
| Nitpicked | 9 |
| Went to a lot of trouble | 24 |
| Sweated the details | 19 |
| Picked at, picked at, picked at | 31 |
| Made a big to-do | 16 |
| Acted the bridezilla | 20 |
| Is overly attentive | 19 |
| Goes to a lot of trouble | 24 |
| Takes great care | 16 |
| Makes mountains out of molehills | 32 |
| Complains about trivialities | 28 |
| Acts unhappy, as a baby | 23 |
| Acts like a mother hen | 22 |
| Nitpicker | 9 |
| Hard-to-please type | 19 |
| Hard-to-please one | 18 |
| Particular sort | 15 |
| Finicky | 7 |
| Detail-oriented | 15 |
| Meticulous to a fault | 21 |
| Quite particular | 16 |
| Tough to please | 15 |
| Tending to nitpick | 18 |