| Pre-premiere performances | 25 |
| Final practice sessions | 23 |
| Dinner-jacket accessory | 23 |
| Number at a bridal boutique | 27 |
| Clothing store specification | 28 |
| Suit yourself admirably? | 24 |
| Prepare for a premiere, maybe | 29 |
| Don one's Sunday best | 25 |
| Put on one's Sunday best | 28 |
| Little girl's game | 22 |
| Get ready for the prom | 22 |
| Prepare for a costume party | 27 |
| Suitable for evening wear | 25 |
| Like a top hat and tails | 24 |
| Black-tie, for example | 22 |
| Arrived at, as a conclusion | 27 |
| Was in a no-win situation? | 26 |
| Obtained water from a well | 26 |
| John or Ellen of stage fame | 27 |
| Fictional girl detective | 24 |
| Carolyn Keene sleuth Nancy | 26 |
| Worked as a cartoonist | 22 |
| Took a gun out of its holster | 29 |
| Teen detective of fiction | 25 |
| Removed from a holster | 22 |
| Provoked, as enemy fire | 23 |
| Performed a duel action? | 24 |
| Ontario Premier George | 22 |
| Obtained water, in a way | 24 |
| Nancy, the amateur sleuth | 25 |
| Nancy ___, young sleuth | 23 |
| Nancy ___, fictional sleuth | 27 |
| Major Leaguer Stephen or J.D. | 29 |
| Literary detective Nancy | 24 |
| Had no play in crazy eights | 27 |
| Got it out of the well, e.g. | 28 |
| Fictional sleuth Nancy | 22 |
| Famed name in stage lore | 24 |
| Drafted, with "up" | 28 |
| Dennis of 10000 Maniacs | 23 |
| Brought in, as a crowd | 22 |
| Actor John ___: 1853-1927 | 25 |
| What the forgetful artist did | 29 |
| Mrs. Tom Green, for 163 days | 28 |
| Sitcom star since 1995 | 22 |
| '90s-'00s sitcom star | 29 |
| Philadelphia university | 23 |
| University in Philadelphia | 26 |
| Philadelphia institution | 24 |
| Soft & __: Dial product | 27 |
| Soft & __: deodorant | 24 |
| Soft & -- deodorant | 23 |
| Soft & ___ (Dial product) | 29 |
| Gillette's Soft & ___ | 29 |
| Word on a deodorant label | 25 |
| Waterproof, in product names | 28 |
| Soft & -- (deodorant) | 25 |
| Soft & __: Henkel brand | 27 |
| Soft & ___ (Dial brand) | 27 |
| Not wet, in a product name | 26 |
| Certain ___ (antiperspirant) | 28 |
| Bacheller's Darius | 22 |
| Small amount of liquid | 22 |
| What certain guards do well | 27 |
| Practical joker's device | 28 |
| Ball-bouncing hoops player | 26 |
| Advances the basketball | 23 |
| Helped with the dishes | 22 |
| Did a dishwashing chore | 23 |
| Put through the wringer | 23 |
| Prune or raisin descriptor | 26 |
| Made raisins or beef jerky | 26 |
| Like some strawflowers | 22 |
| Like some flower arrangements | 29 |
| Like raisins or prunes | 22 |
| Like raisins and jerky | 22 |
| Like a raisin in the sun | 24 |
| Hung on the clothesline | 23 |
| Helped at the kitchen sink | 26 |
| Assisted the dishwasher | 23 |
| More in need of moisturizer | 27 |
| Word with hair or clothes | 25 |
| More in need of a drink | 23 |
| Not so rainy, climatewise | 25 |
| Less sweet, at a wine tasting | 29 |
| They're full of hot air | 27 |
| Hotel bathroom amenities | 24 |
| Uses laundry equipment | 22 |
| Applies heat to damp clothes | 28 |
| ___ up (quits talking) | 22 |
| Having the least rainfall | 25 |
| Oenophile's superlative | 27 |
| Like the Atacama Desert | 23 |
| Having the least vermouth | 25 |
| Snowstorm's aftermath | 25 |
| Pollster's interest | 23 |
| Headache for a snow shoveler | 28 |
| "Get my __?" | 22 |
| "Catch my ___?" | 25 |
| Winter driving hazards | 22 |