| Mother riding a flying gander | 29 |
| Mother or silly | 15 |
| Mother of rhyme | 15 |
| Mother ___ stories | 18 |
| Mother ___ (nursery rhyme source) | 33 |
| Kind of step or neck | 20 |
| Kind of step | 12 |
| Kid-lit gold source | 19 |
| It may be in a skein | 20 |
| Inane one | 9 |
| Hughes's plane Spruce _____ | 31 |
| Honking flier | 13 |
| Honker on high | 14 |
| Hissing animal | 14 |
| High hanger | 11 |
| He said ____ Bay, Labrador | 26 |
| Graylag, e.g. | 13 |
| Graylag or specklebelly | 23 |
| Gossage or Goslin | 17 |
| Golden-egg source | 17 |
| Golden-egg producer | 19 |
| Golden-egg layer, in a fairy tale | 33 |
| Golden egg producer | 19 |
| Golden egg layer of story | 25 |
| Gold source of fable | 20 |
| Fox and ______ | 14 |
| Formation flyer | 15 |
| Farm bird | 9 |
| Fairy tale Mother | 17 |
| Embden, e.g. | 12 |
| Duck, duck follower | 19 |
| Duck relative | 13 |
| Double O honker | 16 |
| Dinner for the Cratchits | 24 |
| Dickensian holiday meal | 23 |
| Christmas fowl | 14 |
| Christmas entree, maybe | 23 |
| Brant or quink | 14 |
| Belgian "Synrise" band | 32 |
| Aureate egg producer | 20 |
| Anserine bird | 13 |
| Animal that hisses | 18 |
| Aesopian source of wealth | 25 |
| A Canadian transient | 20 |
| "The Snow ___" | 24 |
| "Father ___" (1964 Cary Grant film) | 45 |
| _____ Bay, Labrador | 19 |
| ____ Lake, Labrador | 20 |
| Popular children's paperback series | 39 |
| Reaction to a ghost story | 25 |
| Cold reaction | 13 |
| Thrilled response | 17 |
| Signs of fear | 13 |
| Sign of fear | 12 |
| Literary series with "Monster Blood" and "Night of the Living Dummies" | 90 |
| Coldness symptoms | 17 |
| Big fat zero | 12 |
| Score of zero | 13 |
| Big zero | 8 |
| Zero on the scoreboard | 22 |
| Scoreboard entry | 16 |
| Zero, in sports slang | 21 |
| All-star Yankee reliever in the late '70s | 45 |
| An All-Star pitcher in 1985 | 27 |
| 70's-80's Yankee pitching ace | 37 |
| Bird's dessert | 18 |
| Part of a lamp, perhaps | 23 |
| Flexible type of desk lamp | 26 |
| Manipulable lamp | 16 |
| Curved part of a lamp | 21 |
| Adjustable desktop light | 24 |
| Dorm-room accessory | 19 |
| Adjustable light source | 23 |
| They're curved and flexible | 31 |
| Spurs to action | 15 |
| Invigorates | 11 |
| Quickly increases | 17 |
| Prods to action | 15 |
| Stimulates, slangily | 20 |
| Stimulates, informally | 22 |
| Pokes in the rear | 17 |
| Pinches the buttocks | 20 |
| Foolish or scatterbrained | 25 |
| Socialize | 9 |
| Leave the house | 15 |
| Stop burning | 12 |
| See socially (with "with") | 36 |
| Leave home | 10 |
| Take a date to a movie, e.g. | 28 |
| Take a date to a movie | 22 |
| Play your last card | 19 |
| Exceed | 6 |
| Read through | 12 |
| Rehash | 6 |
| Succeed impressively | 20 |
| Bush league, for short | 22 |
| Political affiliation of RMN | 28 |
| Bush league? | 12 |
| Elephant grp. | 13 |
| Republicans | 11 |