| You can always count on them | 28 |
| They can always be counted on | 29 |
| Collectible calculators | 23 |
| Calculating machines of old | 27 |
| Y2K-compliant calculator | 24 |
| They're to be counted on | 28 |
| Summers in the Far East? | 24 |
| Rudimentary calculators | 23 |
| Classroom clickers of old | 25 |
| Calculating instruments | 23 |
| Arithmetic-teaching devices | 27 |
| Adders from ancient Egypt | 25 |
| Taken ___ (caught unawares) | 27 |
| Where the offended are taken? | 29 |
| Taken ___ (disconcerted) | 24 |
| Surprising way to be taken | 26 |
| Taken -- (caught unawares) | 26 |
| Taken -- (caught by surprise) | 29 |
| Taken __: disconcerted | 22 |
| Taken ____ (surprised) | 22 |
| Taken ___ (given a turn) | 24 |
| Surprised way to be taken | 25 |
| Stunned way to be taken | 23 |
| Startling way to be taken | 25 |
| You can always count on this | 28 |
| Non-electronic calculator | 25 |
| Instrument made from bamboo | 27 |
| Gadget you can count on? | 24 |
| Device you can count on | 23 |
| Counter-intuitive calculator? | 29 |
| Calculator's cousin | 23 |
| Calculator's ancestor | 25 |
| Ancestor of a calculator | 24 |
| In ___ way (suffering) | 22 |
| The Story of ___ Boy | 22 |
| Make ___ call (misjudge) | 24 |
| In --- way (suffering) | 22 |
| In ___ way: having difficulty | 29 |
| In ___ way (seriously ill) | 26 |
| "Not ___ plan" | 24 |
| Toward the ship's rear | 26 |
| Toward the back of the boat | 27 |
| Towards the stern of a ship | 27 |
| Toward the back of the ship | 27 |
| At the rear, to a sailor | 24 |
| Towards the back of the boat | 28 |
| Rearward, on the briny | 22 |
| Not forward, to a salt | 22 |
| Not forward, to a sailor | 24 |
| Near the back, nautically | 25 |
| Mother-of-pearl source | 22 |
| Source of mother-of-pearl | 25 |
| Chinese symbol of wealth | 24 |
| Source of iridescent buttons | 28 |
| Mother-of-pearl mollusk | 23 |
| Latin American delicacy | 23 |
| Edible marine gastropod | 23 |
| Clam's big brother | 22 |
| A source of mother-of-pearl | 27 |
| Mother-of-pearl sources | 23 |
| Mollusks in oval shells | 23 |
| Sources of mother-of-pearl | 26 |
| California seafood treats | 25 |
| A mother-of-pearl source | 24 |
| "___ le roi!" | 23 |
| Opposite of "Vive!" | 29 |
| Opposite of "vive" | 28 |
| Middle Eastern garments | 23 |
| Youth who mocked Demeter | 24 |
| Start of a Parisian protest | 27 |
| Start of a French protest | 25 |
| Sans-culottes' words | 24 |
| Pierre's down with! | 23 |
| Overseas rebellion cry | 22 |
| Gallic rebel's word | 23 |
| French revolter's shout | 27 |
| French mutineer's phrase | 28 |
| Command to a French poodle? | 27 |
| Certain Arabian garments | 24 |
| Camel's-hair garments | 25 |
| "Down with le roi!" | 29 |
| "___ le tyran!" | 25 |
| Lower in public estimation | 26 |
| Took down more than a peg | 25 |
| Taken down several pegs | 23 |
| Reduces in rank or esteem | 25 |
| Cause embarrassment to | 22 |
| Cause to be embarrassed | 23 |
| Bring embarrassment to | 22 |
| What execs throw for #1 band | 28 |
| Go like ___ out of hell | 23 |
| Diminish, as a nuisance | 23 |
| Ridded of, as asbestos | 22 |
| Diminishes in intensity | 23 |
| Took ___: lost abundle | 23 |
| Take ___ (lose heavily) | 23 |
| Take ___ (lose big time) | 24 |
| Take ___ (lose a bundle) | 24 |
| Take ___ (go bankrupt) | 22 |
| "Mamma Mia!" group | 28 |