| "American Pie" embankment | 35 |
| "American Pie" destination | 36 |
| Zep "Mean old ___ taught me to weep and moan" | 55 |
| Where to await the Robert E. Lee | 32 |
| Where McLean drove the Chevy | 28 |
| Where Don McLean drove his Chevy | 32 |
| What Don McLean drove his Chevy to | 34 |
| What "broke" for Zeppelin | 35 |
| Water holder-backer | 19 |
| Water bank | 10 |
| Wall of sandbags, maybe | 23 |
| Wall near a bed | 15 |
| Waiting place of song | 21 |
| Waiting area for the Robert E. Lee | 34 |
| Structure with high-water marks | 31 |
| Structure destroyed by Katrina | 30 |
| Spillover stopper | 17 |
| Sight on the Mississippi | 24 |
| Sight at New Orleans | 20 |
| Sea wall's kin | 18 |
| Sea wall relative | 17 |
| Sandbags, maybe | 15 |
| Royal reception | 15 |
| Robert E. Lee waiting spot | 26 |
| River-flood preventer | 21 |
| River-flood barrier | 19 |
| River-bank landing | 18 |
| River landing place | 19 |
| Result of some sandbagging | 26 |
| Quay on a river | 15 |
| Quay for the Robert E. Lee | 26 |
| Protective river embankment | 27 |
| Protective bank | 15 |
| Presidential reception | 22 |
| President's reception | 25 |
| Morning reception | 17 |
| Monarch's reception | 23 |
| Mississippi River sight | 23 |
| Mississippi bank | 16 |
| Man-made embankment | 19 |
| Man-made bank | 13 |
| Led Zeppelin tune, "When the ___ Breaks" | 50 |
| Led Zep "When the ___ Breaks" | 39 |
| Led Zep "When the ___ breaks, mama, you got to move" | 62 |
| It's dry in "American Pie" | 40 |
| It was dry in "American Pie" | 38 |
| It may get high marks | 21 |
| It keeps the river out of town | 30 |
| If it breaks, things get wet | 28 |
| Floodplain feature | 18 |
| Flood-control barrier | 21 |
| Flood zone structure | 20 |
| Flood zone sight | 16 |
| Flood prevention barrier | 24 |
| Flood blocker | 13 |
| Fashionable party | 17 |
| Embankment to ward off floods | 29 |
| Earthen dike | 12 |
| Don McLean drove his Chevy here | 31 |
| Dike's kin | 14 |
| Delta dike | 10 |
| Common lowland sight | 20 |
| Coastal safety measure | 22 |
| Bank that may get in trouble? | 29 |
| Bank support? | 13 |
| Bank security feature | 21 |
| Bad thing to be breached | 24 |
| Artificial embankment | 21 |
| Antiflood structure | 19 |
| Aid in flood control | 20 |
| "When the ___ Breaks" (old blues song) | 48 |
| "When the ___ breaks I'll have no place to stay" | 62 |
| "Drove my Chevy to the ___" | 37 |
| "Drove my Chevy to the ___..." (1972 lyric) | 53 |
| "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ..." | 41 |
| " . . . waiting on the ___" | 37 |
| Like a pool table, ideally | 26 |
| Destroy completely | 18 |
| On the ___ (honest) | 19 |
| Completely destroy | 18 |
| Carpenter's aid | 19 |
| Tool box item | 13 |
| Be honest (with) | 16 |
| Video game stage | 16 |
| Video game segment | 18 |
| Tool-box item | 13 |
| Tool with a bubble | 18 |
| Tell it like it is | 18 |
| One of 256 for Pac-Man | 22 |
| Nivellate | 9 |
| Kind of headed | 14 |
| Horizontal | 10 |
| Either way, it's flat | 25 |
| Word with top (first-rate) | 26 |
| Without a slant | 15 |
| With a flat surface | 19 |
| Perfectly horizontal | 20 |
| Parking-garage division | 23 |
| Parking lot location | 20 |
| Palindromic tool | 16 |