| Takes the odds | 14 |
| Lays one's chips on the table | 33 |
| Gets Dolly the sheep to defect? | 31 |
| Puts up get-out-of-jail money | 29 |
| Copes | 5 |
| Gets by with less | 17 |
| Manages with what one has | 25 |
| Manages by hook or crook | 24 |
| Barely gets along | 17 |
| Tally, so to speak | 18 |
| Be comprehensible | 17 |
| Succeeds in spades | 18 |
| Enlarges a photocopy? | 21 |
| Matches the scorecard, so to speak | 34 |
| Plays a hole to its "quota," say | 42 |
| Holes as expected | 17 |
| Does some fine shooting | 23 |
| Avoids a bogey | 14 |
| Buries the hatchet | 18 |
| Prepares an edition | 19 |
| Invents, as a story | 19 |
| Forgives and forgets | 20 |
| Ad-libs, maybe | 14 |
| Win a place on a team | 21 |
| Qualify for a team | 18 |
| Survive inspection | 18 |
| Come up to snuff | 16 |
| ... drama just to __ | 20 |
| Move along quickly | 18 |
| Squeeze in an appointment (for) | 31 |
| Provide a schedule slot (for) | 29 |
| Provide (for), in a schedule | 28 |
| What this crossword is, in a way? | 33 |
| Absentee's exam | 19 |
| Absent student's exam | 25 |
| Absent student's accommodation | 34 |
| Be belligerent | 14 |
| Attack in a big way | 19 |
| Start a battle | 14 |
| Ignore a 1960s slogan | 21 |
| Be militaristic | 15 |
| Gilbert island | 14 |
| Ray Charles: "___ Whoopee" | 36 |
| Ray Charles "___ Whoopee" | 35 |
| Kiss "___ Love" | 25 |
| "___ Whoopee!" (1920s hit) | 36 |
| "___ Whoopee!" (1920's hit) | 41 |
| "___ It," 1979 top 10 hit | 35 |
| "__ Whoopee!" ('20s tune) | 39 |
| '-- Whoopee (1929 hit)' | 31 |
| End of the sleeper's observation | 36 |
| End of the banner | 17 |
| End of story | 12 |
| Powerful shark | 14 |
| Shark variety | 13 |
| Speedy shark | 12 |
| Shark | 5 |
| Large shark | 11 |
| Powerful mackerel shark | 23 |
| Mackerel shark | 14 |
| Blue-and-white shark | 20 |
| Shark type | 10 |
| Deep-sea predator | 17 |
| Certain shark | 13 |
| Warm-water shark | 16 |
| Sort of shark | 13 |
| Fast-swimming shark | 19 |
| Deadly shark | 12 |
| Blue-gray shark | 15 |
| Tough shark | 11 |
| Mackerel family shark | 21 |
| Hammerhead kin | 14 |
| Dangerous shark | 15 |
| Bonito shark | 12 |
| White-bellied shark | 19 |
| Warm-blooded shark | 18 |
| Variety of shark | 16 |
| Tasty shark | 11 |
| Swift shark | 11 |
| Speedy fish | 11 |
| Slender shark | 13 |
| Shortfin shark | 14 |
| Shortfin or longfin predator | 28 |
| Shark sort | 10 |
| Shark on some menus | 19 |
| Powerful swimmer | 16 |
| Migratory shark | 15 |
| High-leaping shark | 18 |
| Hammerhead cousin | 17 |
| Great white relative | 20 |
| Atlantic shark | 14 |
| A kind of shark | 15 |
| "Shortfin" or "longfin" fish | 48 |
| Some sharks | 11 |
| Powerful sharks | 15 |
| Large sharks | 12 |
| Strong sharks | 13 |
| Speedy sharks | 13 |
| Sharks whose teeth were used in Maori jewelry | 45 |
| Fast-swimming predators | 23 |