| Practice pitching | 17 |
| Pitch hard | 10 |
| Emulate Ryan | 12 |
| Emulate Harry (The Cat) Brecheen | 32 |
| "Yawn in technicolor", so to speak | 44 |
| Point fingers | 13 |
| Pitcher, in slang | 17 |
| One who winds up on a field | 27 |
| One having a fling? | 19 |
| Moundsman | 9 |
| Major League pitcher, e.g. | 26 |
| Baseball-team member | 20 |
| Ace, say | 8 |
| Chucks | 6 |
| Tosses the horsehide | 20 |
| Throws with force | 17 |
| Throws hard | 11 |
| Uses a discus | 13 |
| Slings | 6 |
| Propels a javelin | 17 |
| Jaculates | 9 |
| Emulates Valenzuela | 19 |
| Deals with a discus | 19 |
| Heckles vehemently, with "at" | 39 |
| Really big to-do | 16 |
| Impresario Sol | 14 |
| Memorable impresario | 20 |
| Manager of Pavlova and Peerce | 29 |
| American impresario Sol | 23 |
| "Impresario" memoirist Sol | 36 |
| Second-largest Great Lake | 25 |
| Michigan neighbor | 17 |
| Cheboygan's lake | 20 |
| Second largest Great Lake | 25 |
| Saginaw Bay's lake | 22 |
| One of the great five | 21 |
| Georgian Bay's lake | 23 |
| City in S.D. | 12 |
| Ann Arbor's river | 21 |
| Ypsilanti's river | 21 |
| Wyandot Indian | 14 |
| When it comes to lakes, it's great | 38 |
| View from Cheboygan | 19 |
| Tribe with a lake named after it | 32 |
| Tribe also called the Wyandot | 29 |
| Start of HOMES | 14 |
| Second-largest lake in North America | 36 |
| Second largest of the Great Lakes | 33 |
| Second largest of the Great Lakes | 34 |
| Second largest "Great Lake" | 37 |
| Saginaw Bay Lake | 16 |
| River through Ann Arbor | 23 |
| Port or Lake | 12 |
| Port ___, Mich. | 15 |
| Part of H.O.M.E.S. | 18 |
| One of the ''great'' waterways | 46 |
| Neighbor of Michigan | 20 |
| Mackinac Island's surroundings | 34 |
| Mackinac Island's locale | 28 |
| Mackinac Island's lake | 26 |
| Lake that holds the largest lake island | 39 |
| Lake named for a tribe | 22 |
| Lake containing Saginaw Bay | 27 |
| Lake between Michigan and Erie | 30 |
| Indian or Lake | 14 |
| Indian or black bass | 20 |
| First of HOMES | 14 |
| Erie's feeder | 17 |
| Cherokee's cousin | 21 |
| By surface area, second-largest Great Lake | 42 |
| Another of the Greats | 21 |
| 'Yippee!' | 17 |
| "The Last ___" | 24 |
| Triumphal shout | 15 |
| 'Yay!' | 14 |
| "Yeah!" | 17 |
| ''Whoopee!'' | 28 |
| Last __ | 7 |
| It may be last | 14 |
| "The Last ___": O'Connor | 38 |
| Tumultuous event | 16 |
| O'Connor's "The Last ___" | 43 |
| It's behind a pair of hips | 30 |
| It follows a pair of hips | 25 |
| "Yay, we did it!" | 27 |
| "Good show!" | 22 |
| Hearty cheers | 13 |
| Good-natured cheers | 19 |
| It may bring down the house | 27 |
| Weatherman's bad news | 25 |
| Hazel, for one | 14 |
| W.W. II British fighter plane | 29 |
| Upgrade from a tropical storm | 29 |
| Surge intensifier | 17 |
| Late-summer concern | 19 |
| Caribbean offspring | 19 |
| "Key Largo" backdrop | 30 |
| "Get a move on!" | 26 |
| Speed things up | 15 |
| Move with haste | 15 |