| Scaling needs | 13 |
| Rock climbers' needs | 24 |
| Ring's border | 17 |
| Ring enclosure | 14 |
| Ring edges | 10 |
| Painters | 8 |
| Operational details, informally | 31 |
| On the ___ (in trouble) | 23 |
| On the ___ (close to defeat) | 28 |
| Obstacle-course items | 21 |
| Learning the __ (getting trained) | 33 |
| Lassoes | 7 |
| Know the ___ | 12 |
| Items in bell towers | 20 |
| It's good to know them | 26 |
| Ins and outs, so to speak | 25 |
| Hornswoggles, with "in" | 33 |
| Escape artist's props | 25 |
| Entices, with "in" | 28 |
| Draws (in) | 10 |
| Does cowboy work | 16 |
| Cattlemen's aids | 20 |
| Catches, rodeo-style | 20 |
| Catches, as dogies | 18 |
| Catches, as calves | 18 |
| Buntlines, e.g. | 15 |
| Boxing-ring boundaries | 22 |
| Boxing ring sights | 18 |
| Boxing ring sides | 17 |
| Boxing boundaries | 17 |
| Bobstays, e.g. | 14 |
| Basic techniques | 16 |
| Basic procedures, idiomatically | 31 |
| Recruits successfully | 21 |
| Snags, so to speak | 18 |
| Sets up for a scam | 18 |
| Lures by phishing, say | 22 |
| Way up the slope | 16 |
| Way to the top | 14 |
| Skier's pull | 16 |
| Simple ski lift | 15 |
| Basic way up a slope | 20 |
| Aid for skiing uphill | 21 |
| More viscous | 12 |
| More cordlike | 13 |
| More wiry | 9 |
| More stringy | 12 |
| Threadlike | 10 |
| Cordlike | 8 |
| Glutinous | 9 |
| Fibrous | 7 |
| Thickly fibrous | 15 |
| Well-sinewed | 12 |
| Like thick vines | 16 |
| Like thick cords | 16 |
| Like challah dough | 18 |
| Not pouring smoothly, as a liquid | 33 |
| Long, strong, and fibrous | 25 |
| Like viscid threads | 19 |
| Like thick twine | 16 |
| Like stringy threads | 20 |
| Hard to chew, maybe | 19 |
| Glutinous; viscous | 18 |
| Forming viscid threads | 22 |
| Forming strands | 15 |
| Adjective for some vines | 24 |
| Composer Ned | 12 |
| "Air Music" composer Ned | 34 |
| "Air Music" composer | 30 |
| Pulitzer-winning composer Ned | 29 |
| Composer of the 2005 opera "Our Town" | 47 |
| Composer from Ind. | 18 |
| American composer Ned | 21 |
| Air Music composer | 20 |
| "Santa Fe Songs" composer | 35 |
| "Air Music" Pulitzer winner, 1976 | 43 |
| "Air Music" Pulitzer winner | 37 |
| ''Air Music'' composer | 38 |
| Pulitzer music prize winner: 1976 | 33 |
| Pulitzer composer Ned | 21 |
| Ned who wrote the opera "Our Town" | 44 |
| Ned who won the Pulitzer for his "Air Music" | 54 |
| Ned who composed "Air Music" | 38 |
| Ned ___, U.S. composer | 22 |
| Composer/writer Ned | 19 |
| Composer/author Ned | 19 |
| Composer of the song cycle "Evidence of Things Not Seen" | 66 |
| Composer of "Penny Arcade" | 36 |
| Classical composer Ned | 22 |
| American composer 1923- | 24 |
| Air Music composer | 21 |
| 1976 Pulitzer winner for "Air Music" | 46 |
| 1976 Pulitzer musician Ned | 26 |
| "Whitman Cantata" composer | 36 |
| "Miss Julie" composer Ned | 35 |
| "Miss Julie" composer | 31 |
| "Fantasy and Polka" (1988) composer | 45 |
| "Evidence of Things Not Seen" composer | 48 |
| "Air Music" composer, 1974 | 36 |
| ''String Symphony'' composer | 44 |