| Members of a certain fleet | 26 |
| Curb queuers, sometimes | 23 |
| Crane operators' perches | 28 |
| City shortage in bad weather | 28 |
| Checkers, for instance | 22 |
| Where business is picking up? | 29 |
| Place for a pickup line? | 24 |
| Grand Central queueing spot | 27 |
| Chocolate-yielding tree | 23 |
| Bean used in making chocolate | 29 |
| Seed used as Aztec currency | 27 |
| Wonka's favorite tree? | 26 |
| Tree whence chocolate comes | 27 |
| Tree used to make chocolate | 27 |
| Major export of Ivory Coast | 27 |
| Ingredient of chocolate | 23 |
| Important West Indies crop | 26 |
| Hershey's raw material | 26 |
| Hershey company purchase | 24 |
| Treasure hunter's find | 26 |
| Where the loot gets left | 24 |
| Bank robber's secret | 24 |
| Where cash might be stashed | 27 |
| Valuables hiding place | 22 |
| Teach's repository | 22 |
| Squirrel's nuts, maybe | 26 |
| Secret store of supplies | 24 |
| Distinguishing feature | 22 |
| Mark of official approval | 25 |
| Official seal on a document | 27 |
| Sound from the henhouse | 23 |
| Laugh like the Wicked Witch | 27 |
| Wicked Witch's outburst | 27 |
| Saguaro and prickly pear | 24 |
| They have sticking points | 25 |
| Prickly pear and saguaro | 24 |
| Prickly pear and barrel | 23 |
| Parts of the desert flora | 25 |
| Desert landscape features | 25 |
| Woes for Wile E. Coyote | 23 |
| Western movie backdrops | 23 |
| Things with sticking points | 27 |
| They're hardly spineless | 28 |
| They have many needles | 22 |
| Stickers in the desert | 22 |
| Source of dragon fruit | 22 |
| Saguaro, opuntia, etc. | 22 |
| Prickly pears, for example | 26 |
| Prickly pear producers | 22 |
| Prickly pear and cereus | 23 |
| Petrified Forest flora | 22 |
| Gila woodpeckers nest in them | 29 |
| Flora of the Mojave Desert | 26 |
| Chollas, saguaros, etc. | 23 |
| It has points in Arizona | 24 |
| Old-man ___, Mexican plant | 26 |
| Mescal or prickly pear | 22 |
| Low-maintenance potted plant | 28 |
| It contains points in Arizona | 29 |
| It can be sticky in Arizona | 27 |
| Desert flora sight, perhaps | 27 |
| Dirty rotten scoundrel | 22 |
| Gentleman's opposite | 24 |
| Ungentlemanly gentleman | 23 |
| Probably not Mr. Right | 22 |
| One who may be slapped | 22 |
| One a woman can't trust | 27 |
| He's not Mr. Right | 22 |
| Character like Steerforth | 25 |
| Certainly not a gentleman | 25 |
| Country club summer job | 23 |
| G.M. luxury car, informally | 27 |
| Expensive car, in slang | 23 |
| British Columbia sea ser-pent | 29 |
| Rhythmic, as a drumbeat | 23 |
| Having a rhythmic beat | 22 |
| Having a rhythmic fall | 22 |
| Virtuosic improvisation | 23 |
| Elaborate solo passage | 22 |
| Midshipman's counterpart | 28 |
| Naval Academy freshman | 22 |
| Student at the Citadel | 22 |
| Military academy enrollee | 25 |
| Colorado Springs student | 24 |
| Air Force Academy student | 25 |
| Younger son or brother | 22 |
| Would-be police officer | 23 |
| Student in a military uniform | 29 |
| Military-school student | 23 |
| Military school attendee | 24 |
| Midshipman counterpart | 22 |
| General starting point? | 23 |
| General starting off point? | 27 |
| Eisenhower: 1911–15 | 26 |
| Ones getting marching orders | 28 |
| Military-school students | 24 |
| Midshipmen's rivals | 23 |
| They take marching orders | 25 |
| Students at the U.S.M.A. | 24 |
| Starfleet Academy students | 26 |