| Prologue's antecedent | 25 |
| Not the present or future | 25 |
| Carbo-loader's course | 25 |
| Popular pre-marathon meal | 25 |
| Italian restaurant option | 25 |
| Angel hair on your tongue | 25 |
| Fettuccine or tagliatelle | 25 |
| Elbows on the table, say? | 25 |
| Carbo-loader's option | 25 |
| Carbo-loader's choice | 25 |
| Paper-towel tube material | 25 |
| Business-card paper stock | 25 |
| Colors on '80s albums | 25 |
| Dry run for kindergarten? | 25 |
| Like idyllic country life | 25 |
| Highly spiced smoked beef | 25 |
| Breakfast or dessert item | 25 |
| Customs of dessert chefs? | 25 |
| Lady Bird's successor | 25 |
| Unconvincing, as an alibi | 25 |
| Congratulations indicator | 25 |
| "__-Pan": carol | 25 |
| ___-cake (tots' game) | 25 |
| Handy children's game | 25 |
| Spitzer's predecessor | 25 |
| Software update of a sort | 25 |
| Chopped hors d'oeuvre | 25 |
| Frenchified chopped liver | 25 |
| Cracker topper, sometimes | 25 |
| __ Philippe (watch brand) | 25 |
| Eucharistic service plate | 25 |
| Inventor's protection | 25 |
| Inventor's possession | 25 |
| Inventor's safeguards | 25 |
| Protections for inventors | 25 |
| Preventers of many thefts | 25 |
| Hors d'oeuvre spreads | 25 |
| Place of least resistance | 25 |
| Branch of medicine: Abbr. | 25 |
| The green stuff on copper | 25 |
| South African author Alan | 25 |
| Devoted to one's land | 25 |
| Some pro football players | 25 |
| New England football team | 25 |
| Eight Boy Scouts, usually | 25 |
| Squares with dinner rolls | 25 |
| New England team, to fans | 25 |
| Congratulations of a sort | 25 |
| Auctioneer's delivery | 25 |
| The Reagans' daughter | 25 |
| Singer/songwriter Scialfa | 25 |
| Quarter Pounder component | 25 |
| Item thrown on a barbecue | 25 |
| Duke who married an Astin | 25 |
| "Simpsons" twin | 25 |
| Henry IV's birthplace | 25 |
| Gave de ___, French river | 25 |
| Partner of Peter and Mary | 25 |
| Cézanne or Gauguin | 25 |
| Prentiss from San Antonio | 25 |
| The second Mrs. Tanqueray | 25 |
| Cohort of Randy and Simon | 25 |
| St. ___ Girl (beer brand) | 25 |
| Physics Nobelist Wolfgang | 25 |
| 1946 Wimbledon champ Betz | 25 |
| St. ___ Cathedral, London | 25 |
| Nondieter's trademark | 25 |
| Children's Hour, e.g. | 25 |
| Dance of the 16th century | 25 |
| Like "66," etc. | 25 |
| Road crew worker, perhaps | 25 |
| ___ the way (facilitates) | 25 |
| Kitten "mitten" | 25 |
| Investigate, kitten-style | 25 |
| One moves before the king | 25 |
| Playing piece for Fischer | 25 |
| Piece captured en passant | 25 |
| One of the king's men | 25 |
| King protector, sometimes | 25 |
| Forward-moving game piece | 25 |
| Borrow some money against | 25 |
| Lowest-value chess pieces | 25 |
| Hands on a Little Monster | 25 |
| Latin for 'peace' | 25 |
| "___ vobiscum!" | 25 |
| Worker's compensation | 25 |
| What crime doesn't do | 25 |
| Type of loan or candy bar | 25 |
| ___ full (satisfy a debt) | 25 |
| Contribute, as to a kitty | 25 |
| --- full (satisfy a debt) | 25 |
| Avoiding interest charges | 25 |
| Discount shoe-store chain | 25 |
| Monthly rent, for example | 25 |
| Under-the-table promotion | 25 |
| "Fork it over!" | 25 |
| Lunchroom staple, briefly | 25 |
| "NewsHour" home | 25 |
| Nielsen client since 2009 | 25 |
| Jim LehrerÂ’s employer | 25 |