| Cradle that doesn't rock | 28 |
| Chew on wood, as some horses | 28 |
| Cheater's reference | 23 |
| Cheater's preparation | 25 |
| Place for pegs in a card game | 29 |
| New parents' purchases | 26 |
| Homes, in today's jargon | 28 |
| "Pinocchio" insect | 28 |
| It may be swung in Sussex | 25 |
| Turned on the waterworks | 24 |
| Reacted to a tearjerker | 23 |
| Marked a loss, in a way | 23 |
| Colonial news deliverer | 23 |
| Proclamation reader of old | 26 |
| Proclamation announcer | 22 |
| Colonists' newscaster | 25 |
| Colonial news announcer | 23 |
| TV journalist Catherine | 23 |
| Town ___ (early newsman) | 24 |
| Old-fashioned news announcer | 28 |
| News source, in olden times | 27 |
| Medieval broadcaster? | 22 |
| Handbell ringer of old | 22 |
| Bearer of town news, once | 25 |
| Town ___ (low-tech newsmen) | 27 |
| Old-fashioned broadcasters | 26 |
| Reacts to a tearjerker | 22 |
| Does more than tear up | 22 |
| "Oho!" and such | 25 |
| Gives in to a tearjerker | 24 |
| Demands a dry diaper, perhaps | 29 |
| Betrays one's blue state | 28 |
| "Help!" and such | 26 |
| "___ and Whispers" | 28 |
| Acts like Chicken Little | 24 |
| "Holy moly!" | 22 |
| "Holy smokes!" | 24 |
| Start of a Dostoyevsky title | 28 |
| Part of "CSI" | 23 |
| Punishment's partner | 24 |
| Not the best kind of wave | 25 |
| Breaking and entering, e.g. | 27 |
| Shoplifting or counterfeiting | 29 |
| Job that doesn't pay? | 25 |
| Dangerous type of wave | 22 |
| Word with fiction or rate | 25 |
| Punishment's forerunner | 27 |
| Part of "C.S.I." | 26 |
| Moriarty's specialty | 24 |
| Ma Barker's specialty | 25 |
| It may appear on a record | 25 |
| Headline story, at times | 24 |
| Error that leads to trial | 25 |
| Element in many a whodunit | 26 |
| Land bordering the Black Sea | 28 |
| Combat site of the 1850s | 24 |
| Site of a famous charge | 23 |
| Simferopol's locale | 23 |
| Simferopol is its capital | 25 |
| Its capital is Simferopol | 25 |
| Combat site of 1853-56 | 22 |
| Autonomous part of Ukraine | 26 |
| Person with convictions | 23 |
| A case might be made for one | 28 |
| Counselor with a record? | 24 |
| Small hindrance, as in plans | 28 |
| Press into small folds | 22 |
| Pinch the edges of a piecrust | 29 |
| Pinch into small folds | 22 |
| Washington/Hackman film | 23 |
| [That's a sore subject] | 27 |
| Sportscaster Collinsworth | 25 |
| NFL analyst Collinsworth | 24 |
| Collinsworth of N.F.L. fame | 27 |
| Football analyst Collinsworth | 29 |
| Pass receiver Collinsworth | 26 |
| Pass catcher Collinsworth | 25 |
| Collinsworth of the grid | 24 |
| Collinsworth of gridiron fame | 29 |
| Carter of the Vikings | 22 |
| Shortening brand since 1911 | 27 |
| It may be used for shortening | 29 |
| Certain vegetable product | 25 |
| Big name in shortening | 22 |
| Big name in cooking oils | 24 |
| Big name in cooking oil | 23 |
| They're more than pinches | 29 |
| Cause for using a hot line | 26 |
| Reason to call a hotline | 24 |
| Reason to use a hot line | 24 |
| Like a new dollar bill | 22 |
| Like fresh potato chips | 23 |
| Brit's potato chip | 22 |
| Like well-cooked bacon | 22 |
| Like fresh iceberg lettuce | 26 |
| Like autumn air, sometimes | 26 |
| Potato chip, to a Brit | 22 |
| Potato chip in Chelsea | 22 |
| Not soggy, as a cookie | 22 |
| Like well-edited prose | 22 |