| Sticks around the pool hall | 27 |
| Sticks around a game parlor | 27 |
| Some sharks' sticks | 23 |
| Rods for "Fats" | 25 |
| Implements for Minnesota Fats | 29 |
| Hints at the pool table? | 24 |
| Entrance requirements? | 22 |
| Certain hustler's tools | 27 |
| Bridges can support them | 24 |
| Aids after blanking out | 23 |
| One or two game implements? | 27 |
| Hustler's tool, maybe | 25 |
| What some comments are off of | 29 |
| Take into custody, in a way | 27 |
| Some remarks are off this | 25 |
| Off the ___ (impromptu) | 23 |
| They may be slapped on | 22 |
| Word with French or hand | 24 |
| Russian music critic César | 29 |
| Russian composer César | 25 |
| ___ bono (of what good?) | 24 |
| Prompter's activity | 23 |
| Stage assistant's job | 25 |
| Teleprompter's purpose | 26 |
| Stage prompter's job | 24 |
| Providing offstage direction | 28 |
| Style of preparing food | 23 |
| Scary St. Bernard of fiction | 28 |
| King novel about a rabid dog | 28 |
| Stephen King's mad dog | 26 |
| Stephen King novel: 1981 | 24 |
| Rabid dog of Castle Rock | 24 |
| Pinto charger of horror lit | 27 |
| Movie about a St. Bernard | 25 |
| King's Saint Bernard | 24 |
| Dog in a Stephen King tale | 26 |
| Dog created by Stephen King | 27 |
| 1981 Stephen King thriller | 26 |
| 1981 Stephen King novel | 23 |
| Gazpacho ingredient, briefly | 28 |
| Salad slice, for short | 22 |
| Potential pickle, for short | 27 |
| Pickle-to-be, slangily | 22 |
| Pickle-to-be, informally | 24 |
| Pickle vegetable, for short | 27 |
| Green gourd, informally | 23 |
| Greek salad slice, briefly | 26 |
| Gourd's "cuz" | 27 |
| A vegetable, for short | 22 |
| They're often pickled | 25 |
| Salad ingredients, briefly | 26 |
| Salad veggies, informally | 25 |
| Salad ingredients, for short | 28 |
| Pickled vegetables, for short | 29 |
| Pickle sources, familiarly | 26 |
| Pickle plants, for short | 24 |
| Gherkins, colloquially | 22 |
| First of a dead-end trio? | 25 |
| Beginning of a dead end | 23 |
| ___-de-sac (dead-end street) | 28 |
| ___-de-sac (blind alley) | 24 |
| Pick the pick of the litter | 27 |
| Put aside the inferior ones | 27 |
| Gathers choice parts from | 25 |
| "I Spy" co-star | 25 |
| Robert of "I Spy" | 27 |
| Robert of 'I Spy' | 25 |
| Co-star of "I Spy" | 28 |
| "PT 109" actor | 24 |
| "I Spy" star | 22 |
| Religious splinter group | 24 |
| Type of film or following | 25 |
| Branch Davidians, e.g. | 22 |
| Extremely devoted group | 23 |
| Movie following, maybe | 22 |
| Like many midnight movies | 25 |
| Heaven's Gate, e.g. | 23 |
| Extremist religious sect | 24 |
| Extremist religious group | 25 |
| Close-knit religious group | 26 |
| Branch Davidian sect, for one | 29 |
| Bevy of bug-eyed believers | 26 |
| Groups with fringe benefits? | 28 |
| Some religious whackos | 22 |
| Part of an expensive string | 27 |
| Some art gallery patrons | 24 |
| Curry powder ingredient | 23 |
| Chili powder ingredient | 23 |
| Indian restaurant seasoning | 27 |
| Spice often added to curries | 28 |
| Plant used for flavoring | 24 |
| Herb popular in Indian food | 27 |
| Garam masala component | 22 |
| Chili-powder ingredient | 23 |
| Spicy Robert Burns poem? | 24 |
| Clinton cabinet member | 22 |
| Former New York governor | 24 |
| Pataki's predecessor | 24 |
| New York governor Andrew | 24 |
| Governor before Pataki | 22 |