| Salk's study | 16 |
| Sabin's study | 17 |
| Largely eradicated disease | 26 |
| Jonas Salk's target | 23 |
| F.D.R.'s affliction | 24 |
| What Salk vaccine prevents | 26 |
| What Salk conquered | 19 |
| What Dr. Salk helped cure | 25 |
| Virus disease | 13 |
| Target of the Salk vaccine | 26 |
| Target of Salk and Sabin | 24 |
| Salk's foe | 14 |
| Salk's field | 16 |
| Salk's concern | 18 |
| Salk target | 11 |
| Salk foe | 8 |
| Salk cured us of it | 19 |
| Sabin vaccine target | 20 |
| Old disease | 11 |
| March of Dimes' original crusade | 36 |
| It struck F.D.R. in 1921 | 24 |
| Former scourge | 14 |
| FDR's affliction | 20 |
| F.D.R. affliction | 17 |
| Dr. Salk's target: 1952–55 | 37 |
| Dr. Salk's target | 21 |
| Dr. Sabin's target | 22 |
| Dr. Sabin's field | 21 |
| Dr. Sabin studied it | 20 |
| Challenge for F.D.R. | 20 |
| Bygone epidemic cause | 21 |
| Arthur C. Clarke's affliction | 33 |
| Ailment suffered by F.D.R. | 26 |
| Affliction FDR was diagnosed with | 33 |
| Ancient Greek city-state | 24 |
| Suffix for cities | 17 |
| End for "Anna" or "Indiana" | 47 |
| City-state in ancient Greece | 28 |
| Major in govt. | 14 |
| Major for civic-minded frosh | 28 |
| Future lawyer's major, possibly | 35 |
| Future bureaucrat's major, briefly | 38 |
| Course in govt. | 15 |
| Kind of sausage | 15 |
| Sausage type | 12 |
| Put the finishing touches on | 28 |
| Cultivation | 11 |
| Urbane quality | 14 |
| Touch up, like a candidate for office? | 38 |
| Suavity | 7 |
| Spit's partner | 18 |
| Shoeshine offering | 18 |
| Shoeboy's offering | 22 |
| Shoe shiner | 11 |
| Make shoes shine | 16 |
| Lodz language | 13 |
| Like kielbasa and pierogi | 25 |
| Like Copernicus | 15 |
| Like Chopin | 11 |
| Knock (off) | 11 |
| Do a shoe job | 13 |
| Buff pumps | 10 |
| Beeswax | 7 |
| ___ off (finish) | 16 |
| ___ off (do in a hurry) | 23 |
| Refined trombones? | 18 |
| Footwear that makes an impression | 33 |
| Holiday-dinner entrée | 24 |
| Finish quickly | 14 |
| Finish fully | 12 |
| Fine-tune a written work | 24 |
| Do some self-editing | 20 |
| Spiff up footwear | 17 |
| Civil | 5 |
| Tactful | 7 |
| Deferential | 11 |
| Respectful | 10 |
| Like Miss Manners | 17 |
| Gentlemanly | 11 |
| Showing regard | 14 |
| What it costs nothing to be | 27 |
| Well mannered | 13 |
| Wary of curses? | 15 |
| Showing good manners | 20 |
| Saying "Please" and "How do you do?," say | 61 |
| Not at all boorish | 18 |
| Like thank-yous | 15 |
| Like Alphonse and Gaston | 24 |
| Exhibiting refinement | 21 |
| With respect | 12 |
| "Go easy, Mr. Roper," said Tom ___ | 44 |
| Nicer | 5 |
| More mannerly | 13 |
| More well-bred | 14 |
| Better mannered | 15 |
| Judicious | 9 |
| Prudent or crafty | 17 |
| Discreet | 8 |
| Body type? | 10 |
| Body _____ | 10 |