| 1867 admission to the USA | 25 |
| 1867 admission to the Union: Abbr. | 34 |
| "Equality before the law" is its motto: Abbr. | 55 |
| Cornhusker State Town Car? | 26 |
| Beaks | 5 |
| Pen points | 10 |
| Bird beaks | 10 |
| Birds' beaks | 16 |
| Bills on birds | 14 |
| Bird's beaks | 16 |
| Tortoises' beaks | 20 |
| Cardinals' beaks | 20 |
| Anterior elongations of an animal's head | 44 |
| Interstellar cloud | 18 |
| Dumbbell, e.g. | 14 |
| Space cloud | 11 |
| Astronomical cloud | 18 |
| Space spiral | 12 |
| Part of a galaxy | 16 |
| Observatory sighting | 20 |
| Interstellar dust cloud | 23 |
| Hubble sighting | 15 |
| Group of star systems | 21 |
| Distant cloud | 13 |
| Crab, for one | 13 |
| Very, very, very distant cloud | 30 |
| Spiral ___ | 10 |
| Sci-fi author's award | 25 |
| Possible outcome of a supernova explosion | 41 |
| Outer-space gas cloud | 21 |
| Outer-space cloud | 17 |
| Orion ___ | 9 |
| Mount Palomar sighting | 22 |
| Literally, ''cloud'' | 36 |
| Interstellar matter | 19 |
| Interstellar gas cloud | 22 |
| Group of distant galaxies | 25 |
| Gaseous cloud | 13 |
| Galactic mass | 13 |
| Distant cloud? | 14 |
| Crab ___ | 8 |
| Crab __ | 7 |
| Cosmic cloud | 12 |
| Collection of star systems | 26 |
| Cloudlike patch seen at night | 29 |
| Cloudlike patch in the night sky | 32 |
| Cloudlike mass | 14 |
| Cloud viewed by astronomers | 27 |
| Cloud of interstellar gas or dust | 33 |
| Cloud of interstellar gas and dust | 34 |
| Cloud of gas and dust | 21 |
| Cloud of dust and gas in space | 30 |
| Cloud in Orion | 14 |
| Celestial cloud | 15 |
| Award won by Asimov, Herbert and Le Guin | 40 |
| Award for sci-fi writers | 24 |
| Astronomer's subject | 24 |
| Japanese computer giant | 23 |
| IBM competitor | 14 |
| Tokyo-based electronics giant | 29 |
| Compaq rival | 12 |
| Japanese rival of IBM | 21 |
| Japanese computer company | 25 |
| Japanese competitor of IBM | 26 |
| Asian electronics giant | 23 |
| Japanese IT company | 19 |
| Japanese computer inits. | 24 |
| Japanese computer co. | 21 |
| I.B.M. competitor | 17 |
| Brand of DVD player | 19 |
| Big name in LCD TVs | 19 |
| Big name in IT | 14 |
| And not: Lat. | 13 |
| "Empowered by innovation" sloganeer | 45 |
| Tokyo-based computer giant | 26 |
| Tokyo-based chip maker | 22 |
| Semiconductor manufacturer | 26 |
| Required: Abbr. | 15 |
| Reqd. | 5 |
| Makers of the Express 5800 | 26 |
| Maker of many ATMs | 18 |
| Japanese supercomputer maker | 28 |
| Japanese smartphone maker | 25 |
| Japanese monitor manufacturer | 29 |
| Japanese information technology giant | 37 |
| Japanese I.T. giant | 19 |
| Japanese co. that built many supercomputers | 43 |
| Japanese chip maker | 19 |
| Japan-based IT multinational | 28 |
| Japan-based computer co. | 24 |
| Jap. computer giant | 19 |
| Former Davis Cup sponsor | 24 |
| Essential: abbr. | 16 |
| Computer giant in Tokyo | 23 |
| Big name in servers | 19 |
| Big name in Japanese semiconductors | 35 |
| Big Japanese computer maker: Abbr. | 34 |
| Big Japanese computer firm | 26 |
| Big IT corp. | 12 |
| Big inits. in Japanese computers | 32 |