| 2012 debater against Barack | 27 |
| They don't have fingers | 27 |
| Musts for Garvey and Carter | 27 |
| Gloves for Gehrig and Berra | 27 |
| Walter played by Danny Kaye | 27 |
| Hall of Fame slugger Johnny | 27 |
| N.L. home-run king: 1939-40 | 27 |
| Org. for the Boys of Summer | 27 |
| Year in Leo IX's papacy | 27 |
| Year in the reign of Leo IX | 27 |
| Year in Macbeth's reign | 27 |
| Birth year of King Philip I | 27 |
| Noted reverend's inits. | 27 |
| Jan. honoree's monogram | 27 |
| Annual honoree's inits. | 27 |
| Fr. governess's address | 27 |
| Real Salt Lake's league | 27 |
| Messieurs' mates: Abbr. | 27 |
| Ladies of Versailles: Abbr. | 27 |
| When Dubya became president | 27 |
| When a 1981 baby will be 21 | 27 |
| Early third millennium date | 27 |
| "This is gooood!" | 27 |
| Extinct bird of New Zealand | 27 |
| Bygone relative of the kiwi | 27 |
| Extinct relative of the emu | 27 |
| Bygone flock of New Zealand | 27 |
| Big birds in the bush, once | 27 |
| Zoo's fence alternative | 27 |
| Hazard for a castle invader | 27 |
| Castle-visitor's hurdle | 27 |
| Advanced sandcastle feature | 27 |
| Half of a major 1999 merger | 27 |
| They're hard to control | 27 |
| Greets overenthusiastically | 27 |
| Coffee-and-chocolate flavor | 27 |
| Chocolate-and-coffee flavor | 27 |
| Civil War reenactment, e.g. | 27 |
| Soft-soled shoes, for short | 27 |
| Like Mary Quant's style | 27 |
| Trendy (in an untrendy way) | 27 |
| Like some '60s fashions | 27 |
| Like Linc Hayes's squad | 27 |
| Like Carnaby Street fashion | 27 |
| Hip dresser of the '60s | 27 |
| Fashionable, '60s-style | 27 |
| "Squad" of old TV | 27 |
| Sleep __ (computer setting) | 27 |
| Measure of central tendency | 27 |
| Proved to be quite a poser? | 27 |
| Historic Detroit innovation | 27 |
| Earliest assembly-line Ford | 27 |
| Car that only came in black | 27 |
| Car available only in black | 27 |
| '20s assembly-line Ford | 27 |
| Old computer dial-up device | 27 |
| Not given to self-promotion | 27 |
| Computer program subsection | 27 |
| Springfield barkeep Szyslak | 27 |
| Howard of the Three Stooges | 27 |
| Fourth one counted, perhaps | 27 |
| Enabler of Barney and Homer | 27 |
| Curly's comedic brother | 27 |
| "Simpsons" server | 27 |
| Homer Simpson's hangout | 27 |
| Country singer Bandy et al. | 27 |
| "Simpsons" tavern | 27 |
| 90s sitcom featuring Brandy | 27 |
| ___ & Chandon champagne | 27 |
| Umlaut-bearing bubbly brand | 27 |
| Mineral-hardness scale name | 27 |
| Mineral hardness scale name | 27 |
| __ scale (hardness measure) | 27 |
| 'Ostentatious? --?' | 27 |
| Exclamation from Miss Piggy | 27 |
| "Pardonnez- ___!" | 27 |
| ___-meme (myself, to Henri) | 27 |
| Des -- (Iowa's capital) | 27 |
| Like a well-prepared turkey | 27 |
| Like a good red velvet cake | 27 |
| Drinks favored by Hemingway | 27 |
| Chocolatiers' equipment | 27 |
| Chocolatier's equipment | 27 |
| Marilyn had one on her face | 27 |
| Spy fiction stock character | 27 |
| Frequent guest at Toad Hall | 27 |
| "Tartuffe" writer | 27 |
| "Tartuffe" author | 27 |
| City near Rock Island, Ill. | 27 |
| Jump out of one's skin? | 27 |
| Snakes' renewal process | 27 |
| Like a volcano's output | 27 |
| Comes out of one's skin | 27 |
| Soccer player's driver? | 27 |
| Alice, to Dennis the Menace | 27 |
| Addressee of many a request | 27 |
| N.Y.C. cultural institution | 27 |
| Mecca for N.Y.C. art lovers | 27 |
| "One ___, please" | 27 |
| Critical time for a matador | 27 |