| Minute beef | 11 |
| Minor carp | 10 |
| Mar. tourney | 12 |
| Mar. hoops tourney | 18 |
| Luminance unit | 14 |
| Louse to be | 11 |
| Little peeve | 12 |
| Little complaint | 16 |
| Little beef | 11 |
| Larva of a parasite | 19 |
| Kind of wit or pick | 19 |
| Kind of picker or wit | 21 |
| Kind of pick or wit | 19 |
| Juvenile louse | 14 |
| It's picked by the picky | 28 |
| It's hardly worth picking | 29 |
| It's a little louse | 23 |
| It may be picked by the picky | 29 |
| Immature parasite | 17 |
| Hoops competition, briefly | 26 |
| Have a ___ to pick | 18 |
| Handpicked thing | 16 |
| Garden event each spring | 24 |
| Fussy picker's target | 25 |
| Event whose MVPs have included George Mikan and Walt Frazier | 60 |
| Dunderhead, in Dover | 20 |
| Detail to pick? | 15 |
| Critic's pick? | 18 |
| Critic's pick | 17 |
| College hoops tournament | 24 |
| College hoops contest since 1938 (abbr.) | 40 |
| Coll. cagers' contest | 25 |
| Coll. basketball contest | 24 |
| Bug egg | 7 |
| Bit of carping | 14 |
| Basketball tournament at MSG | 28 |
| Basketball tourn. letters | 25 |
| Basketball championship of which St. John's has won the most, 6 | 67 |
| Annual sports event: Abbr. | 26 |
| Annual roundball competition (abbr.) | 36 |
| Annual NYC basketball tourney | 29 |
| Annual hoops event, for short | 29 |
| Annual hoops contest: Abbr. | 27 |
| Annual hoops contest, for short | 31 |
| Annual court tourn. | 19 |
| Annual competition first won by the Temple Owls, for short | 58 |
| Annual college hoops contest | 28 |
| Annual coll. hoops contest | 26 |
| Annual coll. basketball contest | 31 |
| Annual basketball tourney | 25 |
| Annual basketball event: Abbr. | 30 |
| Annual B-ball tourney | 21 |
| Annual b-ball shootout | 22 |
| Annual b-ball event | 19 |
| Annual B-ball championship | 26 |
| A picky person may pick one | 27 |
| A basketball tourn. | 19 |
| "Picked" picayune point | 33 |
| -- to pick | 10 |
| ___-picker (overly critical one) | 32 |
| ____ -pick | 10 |
| ___ pick (cavil) | 16 |
| __ relude to "pick" | 29 |
| Silents star Naldi | 18 |
| Naldi of silents | 16 |
| Actress Talbot | 14 |
| Actress Naldi | 13 |
| Naldi of the silents | 20 |
| Donizetti opera | 15 |
| Naldi of silent films | 21 |
| Actress Talbot or Naldi | 23 |
| Naldi of the Ziegfeld Follies | 29 |
| Miss Naldi | 10 |
| Girl in an old song | 19 |
| Silent screen star Naldi | 24 |
| New York congresswoman Lowey | 28 |
| Naldi of old films | 18 |
| Talbot of TV | 12 |
| Silent actress Naldi | 20 |
| Old-time actress Talbot or Naldi | 32 |
| Naldi of films | 14 |
| Congresswoman ___ Lowey | 23 |
| Actress Naldi of the silents | 28 |
| Talbot or Naldi of films | 24 |
| Talbot or Naldi of acting | 25 |
| Talbot of "Hogan's Heroes" | 40 |
| Spanish girl of song | 20 |
| Silents actress Naldi | 21 |
| Silent-film star Naldi | 22 |
| Silent star Naldi | 17 |
| Nickname for a Spanish girl | 27 |
| New York congresswoman ___ Lowey | 32 |
| Naldi of the "Ziegfeld Follies" | 41 |
| Naldi of silents fame | 21 |
| Naldi of film | 13 |
| Italian-American film vamp Naldi | 32 |
| Congresswoman Lowey | 19 |
| Actress-dancer Naldi | 20 |
| Actress Naldi of silents | 24 |
| 1920s leading lady ___ Naldi | 28 |