| Involve, as in an argument | 26 |
| Life, in the early days | 23 |
| It's in development | 23 |
| Human's early life stage | 28 |
| It develops into a fetus | 24 |
| Early stage of development | 26 |
| Entertainment director | 22 |
| Speaker between speeches | 24 |
| One who rules the roast? | 24 |
| One who rules the roast | 23 |
| One appearing between numbers | 29 |
| Act as a master of ceremonies | 29 |
| "And now ..." sayer | 29 |
| One who gets on with the show | 29 |
| Handler of introductions | 24 |
| Crystal, at the 2012 Oscars | 27 |
| Whom Brits call a presenter | 27 |
| Role Jessel often played | 24 |
| Roaster, or sometimes toaster | 29 |
| Preside over festivities | 24 |
| One with flow, hopefully | 24 |
| One may give facts about acts | 29 |
| One in charge of a roast? | 25 |
| Musician with flow, hopefully | 29 |
| Martin, at the 2001 Oscars | 26 |
| Maker of introductions | 22 |
| George Jessel for example | 26 |
| Drew Carey or Steve Harvey | 26 |
| Conduct a program: Colloq. | 26 |
| Comedy club host, e.g. | 22 |
| Billy Crystal, on Oscar night | 29 |
| Billy Crystal, at times | 23 |
| Battle of bands mic holder | 26 |
| "Miss America" host | 29 |
| Moderated a variety show | 24 |
| Made introductions, say | 23 |
| Hosted, toasted or roasted | 26 |
| Hosted, as a game show | 22 |
| V.I.P.'s on the dais | 24 |
| Sports banquet hosts, e.g. | 26 |
| Nightclub V.I.P.'s | 22 |
| Bert Convy and Dick Clark | 25 |
| Remark-demarcating mark | 23 |
| Punctuation used for stress | 27 |
| Parenthesis alternative | 23 |
| It might interrupt a sentence | 29 |
| Byline preceder, sometimes | 26 |
| German naval base in W.W. II | 28 |
| Seaport of northwest Germany | 28 |
| Seaport in northwest Germany | 28 |
| German port on the North Sea | 28 |
| German naval base of W.W. II | 28 |
| Princely Muslim (Var.) | 22 |
| Title in Turkey (Var.) | 22 |
| Prince of the desert (Var.) | 27 |
| Middle Eastern VIP (Var.) | 25 |
| Arabian aristocrat (Var.) | 25 |
| Prince of the Middle East | 25 |
| Muslim chieftain (Var.) | 23 |
| Middle East prince (Var.) | 25 |
| Middle East chieftain (Var.) | 28 |
| Leader wearing a kaffiyeh | 25 |
| High guy in Dubai (Var.) | 24 |
| Desert potentate (Var.) | 23 |
| Commander in a kaffiyeh | 23 |
| Arabian nobleman: var. | 22 |
| Middle Eastern bigwigs (Var.) | 29 |
| Arabian princes (Var.) | 22 |
| Some descendants of Mohammed | 28 |
| Princes of the Middle East | 26 |
| Mideast council members | 23 |
| Mideast chieftains: Var. | 24 |
| Mideast bigwigs (Var.) | 22 |
| Gulf State V.I.P.'s | 23 |
| Make scholarly corrections to | 29 |
| Correct misspellings, e.g. | 26 |
| Make scholarly revisions | 24 |
| Change, as a manuscript | 23 |
| Make textual improvements | 25 |
| Make corrections to, as text | 28 |
| Fiddle with, as a term paper | 28 |
| Correct the spelling, e.g. | 26 |
| Make scholarly revisions in | 27 |
| Make corrections (var.) | 23 |
| Make changes to, as copy | 24 |
| Did an editor's job | 23 |
| Makes changes in texts | 22 |
| Does a diaskeuast's job | 27 |
| Corrects, as a manuscript | 25 |
| Like a 911 call: Abbr. | 22 |
| Legendary Irish beauty | 22 |
| Reason to call 911: Abbr. | 25 |
| Like some profs: Abbr. | 22 |
| Prof. _____ (ex-academic) | 25 |
| Like a 911 call (abbr.) | 23 |
| Life-or-death matter: Abbr. | 27 |
| Kind of room at a hosp. | 23 |
| Kind of rm. for an R.N. | 23 |
| Kind of prof. or pres. | 22 |
| It calls for immediate attn. | 28 |