| "Ring ___ new": Tennyson | 34 |
| "Meet me ___ middle of the day" (Steve Forbert) | 57 |
| "___ white room" Cream lyric | 38 |
| "___ Wet," Shute novel | 32 |
| "___ Mood," 1939 song | 31 |
| "___ Good Old Summertime" | 35 |
| "___ Gloaming . . . " | 31 |
| "___ Ghetto" | 22 |
| "___ beginning..." | 28 |
| ____ pink | 9 |
| ___ pink (healthy) | 18 |
| ___ news (current) | 18 |
| ___ money (rich) | 16 |
| ___ dark (clueless) | 19 |
| __ main (primarily) | 19 |
| Red-handed | 10 |
| How not to get caught | 21 |
| Where Phil Collins could feel it coming | 39 |
| Prevalent, as a rumor | 21 |
| On everyone's mind | 22 |
| Run __: be characteristic | 25 |
| At a strong advantage | 21 |
| Show about evening performers' topper varieties? | 52 |
| Eastwood film | 13 |
| . . . a thriller with John Malkovich as an assassin? | 52 |
| Risking danger | 14 |
| Oscar-nominated Clint Eastwood thriller | 39 |
| Hot Clint Eastwood film | 23 |
| GO TIE KIND OF DIRE | 19 |
| Eastwood thriller about a Secret Service agent | 46 |
| Eastwood thriller | 17 |
| Eastwood flick | 14 |
| At immediate risk | 17 |
| Trusted by the powers that be, maybe | 36 |
| Privy to confidential information | 33 |
| Being produced | 14 |
| End of the bio | 14 |
| Operating at a loss | 19 |
| Losing money | 12 |
| Debt-ridden | 11 |
| Overdrawn | 9 |
| Having financial trouble, like a communist? | 43 |
| Having creditors | 16 |
| Similarly troubled | 18 |
| Sharing by chance | 17 |
| Where disclaimers are buried | 28 |
| Socially active | 15 |
| Proceeding nicely | 17 |
| Alert to what's going on | 28 |
| Really focused, as an athlete | 29 |
| One day | 7 |
| Not too late | 12 |
| After a bit | 11 |
| By the deadline | 15 |
| With the appropriate musical tempo | 34 |
| Under the wire | 14 |
| Sufficiently early | 18 |
| Keeping the rhythm | 18 |
| Familiar, in Dijon | 18 |
| Early enough | 12 |
| Certain kind of stitch | 22 |
| By deadline | 11 |
| Before the buzzer | 17 |
| Before the bell, say | 20 |
| "A stitch ___" | 24 |
| Not domestic (abbr.) | 20 |
| Pt. of IHOP | 11 |
| Part of IHOP | 12 |
| Like LAX | 8 |
| Part of ILGWU | 13 |
| Part of IBM: Abbr. | 18 |
| Part of IOC: Abbr. | 18 |
| Like some airports (abbr.) | 26 |
| IOC part: Abbr. | 15 |
| Global: Abbr. | 13 |
| Worldwide (abbr.) | 17 |
| The "I" in IHOP: Abbr. | 32 |
| Not domestic: Abbr. | 19 |
| Like some airports: Abbr. | 25 |
| Like JFK Airport | 16 |
| Designation for JFK airport | 27 |
| Wd. in many airport names | 25 |
| U.N.-like | 9 |
| Pt. of UPI | 10 |
| Pt. of IMF | 10 |
| Pt. of ILO | 10 |
| Part of UPI | 11 |
| Part of ISBN: Abbr. | 19 |
| Part of IHOP: Abbr. | 19 |
| Part of IHOP (abbr.) | 20 |
| Part of I.M.F.: Abbr. | 21 |
| Part of I.L.G.W.U.: Abbr. | 25 |
| Not dom. | 8 |
| Like the WTO | 12 |
| Like the Olympics: Abbr. | 24 |
| Like some flights to LAX | 24 |
| Like SFO and SAN | 16 |
| Like many JFK flights | 21 |
| Like JFK or LAX, briefly | 24 |
| Like a global corp. | 19 |