| Frisks, with "down" | 29 |
| Congratulatory or consoling gestures | 36 |
| Butter bits | 11 |
| Boone and O'Brien | 21 |
| Tom Brady and his bunch | 23 |
| Strikes lightly | 15 |
| Rewards for Fido | 16 |
| Reassures, in a way | 19 |
| Praises for pups | 16 |
| Oleo squares | 12 |
| Loving strokes | 14 |
| Little touches | 14 |
| Frisks | 6 |
| Butter dabs | 11 |
| Breadbasket bunch | 17 |
| Boone and Hingle | 16 |
| Bits of butter | 14 |
| Walks with light footsteps | 26 |
| Touches lovingly | 16 |
| Touches gently | 14 |
| Tom Brady's team, to fans | 29 |
| Three-time grid champs of the 2000s | 35 |
| They're welcome on the back | 31 |
| They may be on the back | 23 |
| They may be directed toward the back | 36 |
| TD trailers | 11 |
| Super Bowl XXXVI champs, to fans | 32 |
| Squares with dinner rolls | 25 |
| Spygate team, for short | 23 |
| Spread things? | 14 |
| Some encouragement | 18 |
| Some congratulations | 20 |
| Servings of butter | 18 |
| Sajak and Summerall | 19 |
| Sajak and O'Brien | 21 |
| Regina ______ (Memorial Cup winners 1974) | 41 |
| Puts on a foundation | 20 |
| Prepackaged butter portions | 27 |
| Portions of butter | 18 |
| O'Brien and Rooney | 22 |
| O'Brien and Boone | 21 |
| Nixon and Schroeder | 19 |
| New England team, to fans | 25 |
| New England NFLers | 18 |
| New England grid team | 21 |
| New England eleven, familiarly | 30 |
| Light slaps | 11 |
| Lads from Limerick | 18 |
| Inventors' papers: Abbr. | 28 |
| Hingle et al. | 13 |
| Hingle and Boone | 16 |
| Gillete Stadium players, familiarly | 35 |
| Foxboro team, for short | 23 |
| Foxboro pros, for short | 23 |
| Forms of encouragement | 22 |
| Encouraging signs? | 18 |
| Encourages, perhaps | 19 |
| Consoles, in a way | 18 |
| Congratulations of a sort | 25 |
| Congratulates, in a way | 23 |
| Congratulates in a way | 22 |
| Congratulates | 13 |
| Compliments for Fido | 20 |
| Certain congratulations | 23 |
| Butter pieces | 13 |
| Boone and Sajak | 15 |
| Benatar and Boone | 17 |
| Back supports? | 14 |
| Back compliments | 16 |
| Affectionate taps | 17 |
| Gullible guy | 12 |
| Easily bamboozled sort | 22 |
| Easy victim | 11 |
| Easy prey | 9 |
| Easily duped sort | 17 |
| Swindler's easy mark | 24 |
| Singer Cline | 12 |
| "I Fall To Pieces" singer Cline | 41 |
| Victim of a scam | 16 |
| Sweet Dreams role | 20 |
| One easily pushed over | 22 |
| Object of an April Fools joke | 29 |
| Good April fool target | 22 |
| Film award for animals | 22 |
| Comedienne Kelly | 16 |
| Cline of country | 16 |
| Cline of song | 14 |
| Actress Kelly from Brooklyn | 27 |
| 1964 Jerry Lewis film with The | 34 |
| "Crazy" singer Cline | 30 |
| "Crazy" name | 22 |
| "Crazy" Cline | 23 |
| 'Crazy' singer Cline | 28 |
| ___ Mink, Hawaii's first Congresswoman | 42 |
| "Walkin' After Midnight" singer | 45 |
| Country Music Hall of Fame member | 33 |
| "So Wrong" singer, 1962 | 33 |
| Late country singer | 19 |
| First female solo artist in the Country Music Hall of Fame | 58 |
| Country singer with the 1961 hit "Crazy" | 50 |