| Peak years | 10 |
| Peak period | 11 |
| Much-watched interest rate | 26 |
| Most fundamental | 16 |
| Like top-quality beef | 21 |
| Like some numbers and rib | 25 |
| Like 2 or 7, but not 27 | 23 |
| Kind of time or rib | 19 |
| Kind of rib or time | 19 |
| Kind of minister or suspect | 27 |
| In the ___ of life | 18 |
| First-quality | 13 |
| Do a pump job | 13 |
| Best part of life | 17 |
| Beef rating | 11 |
| 2 or 3, but not 4 | 17 |
| Desirable real estate | 21 |
| Line through Greenwich, England | 31 |
| Greenwich feature | 17 |
| Geographical reference line | 27 |
| 2, 3 and 5, e.g. | 16 |
| Lots with ocean views, usually | 30 |
| School book | 11 |
| Percussion cap | 14 |
| Introductory book | 17 |
| Furniture cover | 15 |
| First coat | 10 |
| Undercoat | 9 |
| Introductory reading | 20 |
| First coat of paint, sometimes | 30 |
| Elementary textbook | 19 |
| Simple text | 11 |
| Preliminary coat of paint | 25 |
| Preliminary coat | 16 |
| Novice's text | 17 |
| It may be under enamel | 22 |
| Hornbook | 8 |
| Grade-school text | 17 |
| First-grade book | 16 |
| First layer of furniture protection | 35 |
| Easy reader | 11 |
| Book with Dick and Jane, say | 28 |
| Book for a first grader | 23 |
| Body shop application | 21 |
| Basic book | 10 |
| Base coat | 9 |
| Abecedarium | 11 |
| Painter's preliminary layer | 31 |
| Pricey beef lover's entrée | 33 |
| Dish often served au jus | 24 |
| Beef lover's order | 22 |
| Schoolbooks | 11 |
| School books | 12 |
| Readers | 7 |
| Detonators | 10 |
| They cover the basics | 21 |
| Kinds of coats | 14 |
| Elementary texts | 16 |
| Early textbooks | 15 |
| Base coats | 10 |
| Prepares to paint | 17 |
| 7 and 11 | 8 |
| Undercoats a surface | 20 |
| Two and three, for two | 22 |
| Starts a pump | 13 |
| Prepares, as paint | 18 |
| Prepares, as a surface for painting | 35 |
| Prepares, as a pump | 19 |
| Prepares the pump | 17 |
| Numbers like 3 and 5, but not 4 | 31 |
| Instructs beforehand | 20 |
| 7, 11 and 13 | 12 |
| 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc. | 20 |
| 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, etc. | 24 |
| Gear up for Halloween? | 22 |
| Do a Halloween hollowing-out chore? | 35 |
| Watchful hours? | 15 |
| TV schedule section | 19 |
| News preceder, often | 20 |
| Network ratings focus | 21 |
| When most TV sets are on | 24 |
| When most top-rated shows are on, and a hint to the kind of numbers in the starred answers | 90 |
| When most people watch TV | 25 |
| When many night visions occur? | 30 |
| When a State of the Union speech is given | 41 |
| What "Saturday Night Live" players are not ready for, supposedly | 74 |
| Viewing period | 14 |
| TV term | 7 |
| TV evenings | 11 |
| The hot slots are in it | 23 |
| It follows the evening news | 27 |
| From 8 to 11 | 12 |
| Evening TV viewing period | 25 |
| Evening hours | 13 |
| Certain TV hours | 16 |
| 8 to 11, on TV | 14 |
| 8 P.M.-to-11 P.M. on the tube | 29 |
| Earliest | 8 |
| Like Longfellow's forest | 28 |
| Widely-panned 2007 thriller | 27 |