| Unconvincingly feeble | 21 |
| Unbelievable, as an excuse | 26 |
| Type of excuse or duck | 22 |
| Terse dismissal | 15 |
| Sucky | 5 |
| Sparkly gold fabric | 19 |
| Showy wear | 10 |
| Shoot in the foot? | 18 |
| Pricey fabric | 13 |
| Poor, as excuses | 16 |
| Palinesque prefix before "stream" | 43 |
| Not very believable, as an excuse | 33 |
| Not up to standards | 19 |
| Not hip? | 8 |
| Not even slightly convincing | 28 |
| Not believable | 14 |
| Needing crutches | 16 |
| Needing a cane | 14 |
| Metallic material | 17 |
| Limping, say | 12 |
| Like uneventful show | 20 |
| Like some e_cuses | 17 |
| Like some ducks | 15 |
| Like poor excuses | 17 |
| Like one who limps | 18 |
| Like many excuses | 17 |
| Like John Silver | 16 |
| Like Chester of "Gunsmoke" | 36 |
| Like Charley's horse? | 25 |
| Like a woefully weak excuse | 27 |
| Like a weak joke | 16 |
| Liberace fabric | 15 |
| Kind of brain or duck | 21 |
| Ill composed | 12 |
| How some runners pull up | 24 |
| Hobbling, say | 13 |
| Handicapped, in a way | 21 |
| Hamstrung, e.g. | 15 |
| Gold fabric | 11 |
| Glitzy gown material | 20 |
| Glitzy fabric | 13 |
| Glitzy dress material | 21 |
| Glitz in a gown | 15 |
| Glittery evening-gown fabric | 28 |
| Glittery dress fabric | 21 |
| Getting hardly any laughs | 25 |
| Footsore | 8 |
| Feeble, as an excuse | 20 |
| Fancy fabric with metallic threads | 34 |
| Evening-gown fabric | 19 |
| Duck or brain | 13 |
| Duck of a kind | 14 |
| Duck leader | 11 |
| Dress material for a ball | 25 |
| Disco fabric | 12 |
| Couturier's fabric | 22 |
| Costly cloth | 12 |
| Claudicant | 10 |
| Beneath serious consideration | 29 |
| An anagram for male | 19 |
| "You're going home at 9:00??" | 43 |
| "You can do better than that" | 39 |
| "How unfair and outrageous," to a teen | 48 |
| "Boring!" | 19 |
| " . . . and the ___ walk": Matthew 11:5 | 49 |
| ____ duck | 9 |
| ___ duck (reelection loser) | 27 |
| ___ duck (losing politician serving out a term) | 47 |
| __ duck | 7 |
| Expert in ornamental fabrics? | 29 |
| Bozo or dodo | 12 |
| Kind of session | 15 |
| Caused to hobble | 16 |
| Shot in the foot | 16 |
| On crutches | 11 |
| Caused to limp | 14 |
| Twelfth Hebrew letter | 21 |
| Made defective | 14 |
| Limping, perhaps | 16 |
| Limping, maybe | 14 |
| Hit in the leg | 14 |
| Disabled, in a way | 18 |
| Defeated incumbent | 18 |
| Politician with limited power | 29 |
| Politician with a limited future | 32 |
| Political retiree-to-be | 23 |
| One with no future | 18 |
| One serving out a term | 22 |
| One not re-elected | 18 |
| One losing power, perhaps | 25 |
| Mouse in the House? | 19 |
| Kind of Congressman | 19 |
| Fading politico | 15 |
| Certain November also-ran | 25 |
| ''My dog ate my homework,'' e.g. | 48 |
| Classroom response, at times | 28 |
| Without believability | 21 |
| In an unconvincing way | 22 |
| In an ineffectual way | 21 |
| In a weak or clumsy way | 23 |