| Exhibit, as with smarminess | 27 |
| ___-Locka (suburb of Miami) | 27 |
| WWII price-rationing agency | 27 |
| WWII cost-stabilizing agcy. | 27 |
| WWII cost-regulating agency | 27 |
| '40s cost-control agcy. | 27 |
| -- -Locka (town near Miami) | 27 |
| Birthstone of some Scorpios | 27 |
| Notorious '95 hurricane | 27 |
| It's softer than quartz | 27 |
| Good name for a gemologist? | 27 |
| Gem of the oldest continent | 27 |
| The Olympic Australis, e.g. | 27 |
| Relative of a cat's-eye | 27 |
| It's formed from silica | 27 |
| Gemstone of hydrated silica | 27 |
| Black or harlequin follower | 27 |
| Birthstone for many a Libra | 27 |
| Display a shimmer of colors | 27 |
| Gems usually without facets | 27 |
| Victor Vasarely's genre | 27 |
| Work with wavy lines, maybe | 27 |
| Some psychedelic decoration | 27 |
| Julian Stanczak's genre | 27 |
| What blossoms do, in poetry | 27 |
| Use a poet's corkscrew? | 27 |
| High expectation for Eliza? | 27 |
| "Black gold" bloc | 27 |
| "Black gold" grp. | 27 |
| Grp. with crude intentions? | 27 |
| Gp. that includes Venezuela | 27 |
| Angola joined it in '07 | 27 |
| Vienna-based commercial gp. | 27 |
| Qatar and the UAE are in it | 27 |
| Org. Indonesia left in 2008 | 27 |
| Oil giant with HQ in Vienna | 27 |
| Notorious price controllers | 27 |
| Mideast oil-producing group | 27 |
| Gp. that Gabon left in 1995 | 27 |
| "Black gold" org. | 27 |
| Guest columnist's piece | 27 |
| Newspaper's essay forum | 27 |
| Newspaper page with columns | 27 |
| Recent Angelina Jolie piece | 27 |
| Page where readers write in | 27 |
| Page of comment and opinion | 27 |
| Page named for its location | 27 |
| Page for syndicated columns | 27 |
| Like a William Safire piece | 27 |
| Daily opinion page, briefly | 27 |
| It's made up of columns | 27 |
| Newspaper pages with essays | 27 |
| Guest pieces in a newspaper | 27 |
| Columns with notable slants | 27 |
| Spouge music creator Jackie | 27 |
| German car make owned by GM | 27 |
| 1970s-'80s Mantas, e.g. | 27 |
| Not resolved, as a question | 27 |
| Word with "house" | 27 |
| Start, as a savings account | 27 |
| Golf or tennis championship | 27 |
| Feature of many a reception | 27 |
| When no games are scheduled | 27 |
| Part of a flexible schedule | 27 |
| Admitted the first customer | 27 |
| It concludes the off season | 27 |
| It concludes the off-season | 27 |
| First of two baseball games | 27 |
| Real-estate sales technique | 27 |
| Starts to receive customers | 27 |
| Hangs out one's shingle | 27 |
| Where to find clear sailing | 27 |
| Where clippers go at a clip | 27 |
| Considering, as suggestions | 27 |
| Like some women's shoes | 27 |
| Letters accompanying a zero | 27 |
| Letters near zero, at times | 27 |
| "Carmen," for one | 27 |
| Kathleen Battle's field | 27 |
| Something to see at the Met | 27 |
| It might end on a high note | 27 |
| "Turandot" is one | 27 |
| "Siegfried," e.g. | 27 |
| "Pagliacci," e.g. | 27 |
| "Lohengrin," e.g. | 27 |
| Works in the music business | 27 |
| Singing phantom's haunt | 27 |
| Lincoln Center presentation | 27 |
| Kiri Te Kanawa's milieu | 27 |
| Joan Sutherland's field | 27 |
| Certain phantom's haunt | 27 |
| "Otello," for one | 27 |
| "Louise," for one | 27 |
| "Fidelio" for one | 27 |
| "Euridice" is one | 27 |
| "Ernani," for one | 27 |
| What's acted on in math | 27 |
| Much of Mozart's oeuvre | 27 |
| Janet Baker's specialty | 27 |
| Like the Metropolitan scene | 27 |