| Text | Length |
| Dolt or thug | 12 |
| Dion hit "My Heart Will_____" | 39 |
| Criminal-gang member | 20 |
| "The show must ___!" | 30 |
| "The ___ Show" (radio program that featured Peter Sellers) | 68 |
| "Keep talking" | 24 |
| "I'm listening ..." | 33 |
| "I'm listening . . ." | 35 |
| "Continue" | 20 |
| ''Please continue'' | 35 |
| One way to celebrate | 20 |
| Thugs | 5 |
| Mob heavies | 11 |
| Roughnecks | 10 |
| Hooligans | 9 |
| Hoods | 5 |
| Gangland thugs | 14 |
| Squad members? | 14 |
| Mob thugs | 9 |
| Hoods; thugs | 12 |
| Hoods or simps | 14 |
| Hired hoodlums | 14 |
| Gangland group | 14 |
| Bullyboys | 9 |
| This puzzle's title | 23 |
| Black-footed albatross | 22 |
| Foolish person, slangily | 24 |
| Sticky semiliquid | 17 |
| Sticky matter | 13 |
| Greasy stuff | 12 |
| Messy gel | 9 |
| Icky or sticky stuff | 20 |
| Gwyneth Paltrow's website | 29 |
| Yucky muck | 10 |
| Yucky crud | 10 |
| Viscous gunk | 12 |
| Viscous crud | 12 |
| Tar, e.g. | 9 |
| Sticky, wet stuff | 17 |
| Sticky, viscous stuff | 21 |
| Sticky blob | 11 |
| Semi-sticky stuff | 17 |
| Icky sticky stuff | 17 |
| Hand-cleaning brand | 19 |
| Child with poor manners | 23 |
| Child lacking manners | 21 |
| Cause of a sticky situation? | 28 |
| Salon raid? | 11 |
| Honking bird | 12 |
| Gander, e.g. | 12 |
| Gaggle member | 13 |
| Silly fellow | 12 |
| Barnyard honker | 15 |
| "Silly" bird | 22 |
| Swan relative | 13 |
| Mother _____ | 12 |
| Honker in a skein | 17 |
| Christmas dinner bird | 21 |
| Brant or blue | 13 |
| Anthony Edwards, in "Top Gun" | 39 |
| "Duck, duck" follower | 31 |
| Winged honker | 13 |
| Toulouse, e.g. | 14 |
| Stir up, in a way | 17 |
| Source of a fairy-tale fortune | 30 |
| Silly fowl | 10 |
| Part of a gaggle | 16 |
| One taking a gander? | 20 |
| Nene, e.g. | 10 |
| Nene | 4 |
| Golden-egg layer | 16 |
| Gander's mate | 17 |
| Formation flier | 15 |
| Christmas entree | 16 |
| Character who dies in "Top Gun" | 41 |
| Brant | 5 |
| Yule pièce de résistance | 30 |
| You can get down from it? | 25 |
| Ying Yang Twins "Grey ___" | 36 |
| Word with "bumps" or "eggs" | 47 |
| Word after Mother or Canada | 27 |
| Web-footed female | 17 |
| V-formation flier | 17 |
| V member | 8 |
| V component | 11 |
| The Cratchits' Christmas dinner | 35 |
| Swan's kin | 14 |
| Source of foie gras | 19 |
| Snow or Mother follower | 23 |
| Snow or Canada | 14 |
| Silly type | 10 |
| Silly person, or a migratory bird | 33 |
| Silly one? | 10 |
| Silly Mother? | 13 |
| Seasonal flyer | 14 |
| Reliever Gossage | 16 |
| Quink or brant | 14 |
| Poke lewdly | 11 |
| One that might take a gander | 28 |
| One in a gaggle | 15 |
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