| Type of desk basket | 19 |
| Like some office boxes | 22 |
| Like some desk trays | 20 |
| Like bidirectional doors | 24 |
| Going either direction | 22 |
| Double-door words | 17 |
| Desk-box words | 14 |
| Desk-basket words | 17 |
| Desk tray words | 15 |
| Desk tray labels | 16 |
| Come ___ of the rain | 20 |
| Come __ of the rain (dry off) | 29 |
| Come __ of the rain | 19 |
| Bidirectional, like a door | 26 |
| Needing aspirin, e.g. | 21 |
| Far from comfy | 14 |
| Doubled over, maybe | 19 |
| " . . . draw thy breath ___": Hamlet | 46 |
| Not completely | 14 |
| Not outright | 12 |
| Not wholly | 10 |
| Not totally | 11 |
| Using ink, as a signature | 25 |
| Hard to change | 14 |
| Brave way to solve crosswords | 29 |
| One way to solve crosswords | 27 |
| Improper way to take the SAT | 28 |
| Impressive way to solve a puzzle | 32 |
| How the confident solve | 23 |
| How some solve crosswords | 25 |
| How some people solve crosswords | 32 |
| How prison tattoos may be etched | 32 |
| How confident crossword solvers solve | 37 |
| Done permanently, as writing | 28 |
| Best way to sign | 16 |
| Facing danger | 13 |
| Under attack, perhaps | 21 |
| Tied to the train tracks, e.g. | 30 |
| Being threatened | 16 |
| Appearing live | 14 |
| Face to face | 12 |
| Actually present | 16 |
| Actually appearing live | 23 |
| Broken | 6 |
| Like Humpty Dumpty, ultimately | 30 |
| Properly positioned | 19 |
| Where it should be | 18 |
| Ensconced | 9 |
| Situated correctly | 18 |
| Properly situated | 17 |
| One way to jog | 14 |
| Up for grabs | 12 |
| Live, as a football | 19 |
| Like balls used during a game | 29 |
| Like a live ball | 16 |
| Up for grabs, politically | 25 |
| Up for grabs, as convention delegates | 37 |
| Unlike a dead ball | 18 |
| Not out-of-bounds, as a ball | 28 |
| Needing to be fielded, as a baseball | 36 |
| Live, as a game ball | 20 |
| Live, as a fair ball | 20 |
| Live, as a ball | 15 |
| Like a football, at times | 25 |
| Like a fair ball as opposed to a foul ball | 42 |
| Alive, to players | 17 |
| Running things | 14 |
| Calling the shots | 17 |
| Commanding | 10 |
| Running the country | 19 |
| Like current heads of state | 27 |
| Holding the reins | 17 |
| Holding office | 14 |
| "A friend ___ is a friend lost": H. B. Adams | 54 |
| Available, in a way | 19 |
| Still published | 15 |
| Available, as a book | 20 |
| Available from the publisher | 28 |
| For all to see | 14 |
| For everyone to see | 19 |
| Where some scenes are made | 26 |
| Where many scenes occur | 23 |
| Enter, as data | 14 |
| Two cents' worth | 20 |
| Opinions | 8 |
| Two cents worth | 15 |
| Advice | 6 |
| Data fed to a computer | 22 |
| Data to be entered | 18 |
| Two cents | 9 |
| Enter, as computer data | 23 |
| Data for a computer | 19 |
| Suggestions, e.g. | 17 |
| Suggestion box data | 19 |
| Raw data, often | 15 |
| Raw data, e.g. | 14 |
| Keypad's function | 21 |
| Ideas, suggestions, etc. | 24 |
| Enter, in a way | 15 |
| Enter via keyboard | 18 |