| Rehearsed | 9 |
| Poker player's stand | 24 |
| Piece of butter | 15 |
| Pend.'s pal | 15 |
| Paulsen from South Bend, Wash. | 30 |
| Patrick, for short | 18 |
| Part 4 of advice | 16 |
| Overly rehearsed | 16 |
| Overly practiced | 16 |
| Overly facile | 13 |
| One-pointer in Football: Abbr. | 30 |
| One way to stand in a card game | 31 |
| One way to get something down | 29 |
| On the back at work, it's good; on the backside at work, it's bad | 73 |
| O'Brien or Boone | 20 |
| New England athlete, to fans | 28 |
| Motion while saying "Good dog!" | 41 |
| Mother of Julie | 15 |
| Morita of "The Karate Kid" | 36 |
| Modern descendant of Daniel Boone | 33 |
| Miss Carroll | 12 |
| Memorized to the letter | 23 |
| Massage part | 12 |
| MacKenzie King's dog | 24 |
| Love tap | 8 |
| Lady Vols coach Summitt who is the winningest NCAA basketball coach ever | 72 |
| Lad from Limerick | 17 |
| Kind of poker hand | 18 |
| Julia Sweeney character | 23 |
| Irishman, informally | 20 |
| Inventor's award | 20 |
| Hingle or O'Brien | 21 |
| Hingle | 6 |
| Greet Fido | 10 |
| Good way to get something down? | 31 |
| Good way to get it down | 23 |
| Frisk (with "down") | 29 |
| Frisk with down | 16 |
| First Lady after Lady Bird | 26 |
| Firm way to stand | 17 |
| Famous Prime Ministerial pooch | 30 |
| Exactly suitable | 16 |
| Encouragement "on the back" | 37 |
| Emcee Sajak | 11 |
| Early 70's White House name | 31 |
| Debby's dad | 15 |
| Congratulations indicator | 25 |
| Congratulate nonverbally | 24 |
| Congratulate in a way | 21 |
| Butter mass | 11 |
| Buchanan | 8 |
| Brown or O'Brien | 20 |
| Boone with the kitschy "In a Metal Mood: No More Nice Guy" | 68 |
| Boone or Harrington | 19 |
| Bit of frisking | 15 |
| Bit of consolation | 18 |
| Bit of congratulations | 22 |
| Betty followed her | 18 |
| Back tap | 8 |
| Approving tap | 13 |
| Answers, sometimes | 18 |
| Androgynous one of "Saturday Night Live" | 50 |
| Androgynous "SNL" character | 37 |
| Actor Hingle | 12 |
| Actor ___ O'Brien | 21 |
| Action that is a synonym of its reverse spelling | 48 |
| A Nixon or Buchanan | 19 |
| A daughter of Rose Kennedy | 26 |
| A Boone | 7 |
| "Wheel of Fortune" host Sajak | 39 |
| "Wheel of Fortune" first name | 39 |
| "The Prince of Tides" author Conroy | 45 |
| "Heartbreaker" singer Benatar | 39 |
| "Best Shot" Benatar | 29 |
| "April Love" singer Boone | 35 |
| "___ the Bunny" (kids' book) | 42 |
| '80s icon Benatar | 21 |
| '60s First Lady | 19 |
| _____Quinn | 10 |
| ___-cake | 8 |
| ___-cake (child's game) | 27 |
| ___-cake (children's game) | 30 |
| ___-cake (baby's game) | 26 |
| Paw, to Pedro | 13 |
| Bygone polit. entity | 20 |
| "__-Pan": carol | 25 |
| __-cake: baby's game | 24 |
| __-cake (kids' game) | 24 |
| __-cake | 7 |
| ___-cake (tots' game) | 25 |
| Nursery game | 12 |
| Handy children's game | 25 |
| Start of a Mother Goose rhyme | 29 |
| Cuomo's successor | 21 |
| Three-term New York governor | 28 |
| New York governor before Spitzer | 32 |
| Cuomo's successor as New York governor | 42 |
| Spitzer's predecessor | 25 |
| He introduced Bush at the 2004 GOP convention | 45 |
| Governor Spitzer predecessor | 28 |