| Precise, proper party pooper | 28 |
| Word with donna or ballerina | 28 |
| Word with ballerina or donna | 28 |
| Event that narrows the field | 28 |
| Book with Dick and Jane, say | 28 |
| Like Longfellow's forest | 28 |
| Like the earliest life forms | 28 |
| Like Evangeline's forest | 28 |
| Enhance one's appearance | 28 |
| Paisley Park Records founder | 28 |
| Charming or Charles preceder | 28 |
| It may be fine in a contract | 28 |
| One of Franklin's fortes | 28 |
| Before (with "to") | 28 |
| A ___ (conceived beforehand) | 28 |
| Optics device used by Newton | 28 |
| Straight-laced and then some | 28 |
| Madison Ave. worker, perhaps | 28 |
| Band's consultants, e.g. | 28 |
| What a star athlete may turn | 28 |
| Word in many software titles | 28 |
| Watson is one; so was Holmes | 28 |
| Something many amateurs turn | 28 |
| Athlete who isn't green? | 28 |
| Like some televised tourneys | 28 |
| Congressional investigations | 28 |
| To cattle, it's shocking | 28 |
| One of the prexy's staff | 28 |
| College lecturer, familiarly | 28 |
| College teachers, informally | 28 |
| Very productive, as a writer | 28 |
| Where a queen may be crowned | 28 |
| Ad for an upcoming broadcast | 28 |
| Homework problem in geometry | 28 |
| Geometry homework assignment | 28 |
| Support, with "up" | 28 |
| Rabbit, to David Copperfield | 28 |
| Ringing phone on stage, e.g. | 28 |
| Like some even distributions | 28 |
| Like many even distributions | 28 |
| Purple ___ (flowery writing) | 28 |
| Lutheran or Methodist: Abbr. | 28 |
| Necessity in muscle-building | 28 |
| For the time being, in Latin | 28 |
| Shape-shifting Greek sea god | 28 |
| Old man of the sea, to Homer | 28 |
| Prefix before type or planet | 28 |
| Pleased with one's feats | 28 |
| Walks about looking for prey | 28 |
| Shareholder's substitute | 28 |
| Stockholder's substitute | 28 |
| Letters at 7, on some phones | 28 |
| Straight-laced finger-wagger | 28 |
| Libertarians they aren't | 28 |
| King Frederick I's realm | 28 |
| Ad Council output, for short | 28 |
| TV ad for a charity, perhaps | 28 |
| Program interrupter, briefly | 28 |
| Non-revenue-generating TV ad | 28 |
| One of many written by David | 28 |
| Anagram of "lamps" | 28 |
| "Te Deum," for one | 28 |
| The Bible's longest book | 28 |
| Old Testament book after Job | 28 |
| Antimatter song about hymns? | 28 |
| Manners expressed in letters | 28 |
| Smokey Bear spots, for short | 28 |
| Warm-up exam for HS students | 28 |
| Junior's exam, for short | 28 |
| High-school jr.'s ordeal | 28 |
| Early college entrance exam. | 28 |
| Hurdles for high-school jrs. | 28 |
| High school exams, for short | 28 |
| Prefix for "false" | 28 |
| Penultimate of a group of 24 | 28 |
| Abbreviation on Greek tires? | 28 |
| Tire pressure measure: Abbr. | 28 |
| Symbol of the planet Neptune | 28 |
| Letter between chi and omega | 28 |
| "Love You" lead-in | 28 |
| Trident-shaped Greek letters | 28 |
| They're pitchfork-shaped | 28 |
| Letter afterthoughts letters | 28 |
| Some afterthoughts, in brief | 28 |
| Followers of closings: Abbr. | 28 |
| Hushed "Hey, you!" | 28 |
| ''Hey you!'' | 28 |
| "Ahem" alternative | 28 |
| "Over here!" sound | 28 |
| Hissed "Hey, you!" | 28 |
| "Over here!" noise | 28 |
| Street peddler's opener? | 28 |
| Relative of "ahem" | 28 |
| This will get your attention | 28 |
| Start of a whispered comment | 28 |
| Quiet "Over here!" | 28 |
| Furtive 'Looky here' | 28 |
| Fence's opening, perhaps | 28 |
| Certain conversation starter | 28 |
| "Yo!" in a library | 28 |