| "___ lay me down ..." | 31 |
| Start of a child's prayer | 29 |
| Start of a bedtime prayer | 25 |
| Child's prayer starter | 26 |
| "___ lay me ..." | 26 |
| Evening prayer starter | 22 |
| Bedtime-prayer start | 20 |
| "___ lay me..." | 25 |
| "___ lay me down..." | 30 |
| "___ lay me . . . " | 29 |
| "___ Know," Jack Jones hit | 36 |
| "___ ask you!" | 24 |
| ''__ know my ABC's . . .'' | 46 |
| Like some situations | 20 |
| Like a hopeless situation | 25 |
| Type of situation | 17 |
| Sure to end badly | 17 |
| Lose-lose | 9 |
| Like hopeless situations | 24 |
| Hopeless, as a situation | 24 |
| Beyond help | 11 |
| Bad kind of situation | 21 |
| Unprofitable, as a situation | 28 |
| Sure to end in failure, as a situation | 38 |
| Like an impossible situation | 28 |
| Like a frustrating situation | 28 |
| Like a choice between evils | 27 |
| Like a Catch-22 | 15 |
| Impossible, and hint to this puzzle's theme | 47 |
| Impossible | 10 |
| Hopeless, as situations go | 26 |
| Having only unfavorable outcomes | 32 |
| Grim, as a situation | 20 |
| Futile, as a situation | 22 |
| Darned-if-you-do, darned-if-you-don't | 41 |
| Certain kind of situation | 25 |
| _____ situation | 15 |
| Sailor's problem? | 21 |
| Pyrrhic victory | 15 |
| Without any chance at all (and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme) | 74 |
| In any way, in dialect | 22 |
| Folksy antonym of "entirely" | 38 |
| Absolutely not, informally | 26 |
| Still lacking knowledge | 23 |
| Still clueless | 14 |
| Still without a clue | 20 |
| Still oblivious | 15 |
| Still in the dark | 17 |
| Still at sea? | 13 |
| Just as smart | 13 |
| "Well, duh!" | 22 |
| "I'm not surprised!" | 34 |
| Words of nonsurprise | 20 |
| Reply to the expected | 21 |
| "Oh, that's why!" | 31 |
| "Ah, that explains it!" | 33 |
| 'Oh, that explains it!' | 31 |
| ''Oh, that's why!'' | 39 |
| Words before taking the plunge | 30 |
| "Last chance!" | 24 |
| Words to a waverer | 18 |
| Ultimatum in an Elvis title | 27 |
| Timetable stipulation | 21 |
| Timely phrase in a Presley hit | 30 |
| Last-chance phrase | 18 |
| Last chance! | 12 |
| ''Last chance!'' | 32 |
| Just as good | 12 |
| Stable or better | 16 |
| Just as well-off | 16 |
| Holding one's own | 21 |
| "The same," in condition | 34 |
| "About the same" | 26 |
| Traveler who's really with it? | 34 |
| 1942 Bette Davis film | 21 |
| A.A. Milne book | 15 |
| Book including the poems "Binker" and "Pinkle Purr" | 71 |
| A.A. Milne title | 16 |
| 1927 A.A. Milne book | 20 |
| "And?" | 16 |
| "OK, I'm waiting..." | 34 |
| Lyric, part 2 | 13 |
| Cry upon reaching an impasse | 28 |
| "Yet another problem?" | 32 |
| "Where do we go from here?" | 37 |
| "Again?!" | 19 |
| "The Highwayman" poet | 31 |
| Poet Alfred | 11 |
| "The Highwayman" poet Alfred | 38 |
| ''The Highwayman'' poet | 39 |
| Poet best known for "The Highwayman" | 46 |
| He wrote "The Highwayman" | 35 |
| He wrote 'The Highwayman' | 33 |
| "The Loom of Years" poet | 34 |
| "Drake" poet | 22 |
| "Drake" is his epic poem | 34 |
| The Highwayman poet | 22 |
| The Highwayman author | 24 |
| The Barrel-Organ poet | 21 |
| Poet with a seemingly self-contradictory name | 45 |