| Have it your way | 16 |
| Hear the latest dope | 20 |
| Become hep | 10 |
| Whistle-accompanying words | 26 |
| "Lookie there!" | 25 |
| Instruction #1 for roofers? | 27 |
| Order to a longshoreman? | 24 |
| Borrow money | 12 |
| Coexist | 7 |
| Be congenial | 12 |
| Have birthdays pile up | 22 |
| ___ next to nothing (make do) | 29 |
| Be cordial with a lamb's mom? | 33 |
| Excel at school | 15 |
| Do well in class | 16 |
| The chimney sweep promised to... | 32 |
| Start hankering | 15 |
| Start to squirm | 15 |
| Lose patience, in a way | 23 |
| Develop an itch, as it were | 27 |
| Join the other waiters? | 23 |
| Be rewarded for good work | 25 |
| Take in more | 12 |
| Start pulling down more? | 24 |
| Prove meritorious at work | 25 |
| Earn more, say | 14 |
| Be rewarded on the job | 22 |
| Be rewarded at work | 19 |
| Feel out | 8 |
| ___ out of (hit home) | 21 |
| "Hey, Bono and the Edge, check into the Hilton"? | 58 |
| Buy everyone beers? | 19 |
| Finally start | 13 |
| Receive stunning news | 21 |
| Have a chance to win | 20 |
| Be fleeced | 10 |
| Buy sipping aids on the cheap? | 30 |
| Be the recipient of some handicapping info | 42 |
| Be talked into betting, perhaps | 31 |
| Be rewarded for good service | 28 |
| Brief vacation | 14 |
| Spur-of-the-moment vacation | 27 |
| Heist planner's concern | 27 |
| Fugitive's feat | 19 |
| Elude capture | 13 |
| Discover how to do something? | 29 |
| Robber's need, maybe | 24 |
| Need after a bank job | 21 |
| Escape vehicle after a heist | 28 |
| Bank robber's wheels | 24 |
| Bank heist idler | 16 |
| Aid for a bank heist | 20 |
| Laptop designed for vacationers? | 32 |
| Added-on program for vacationers? | 33 |
| 1969 Beatles hit | 16 |
| 1969 Beatles chart-topper | 25 |
| Regain | 6 |
| Recoup | 6 |
| Beatles' hit | 16 |
| Beatles #1 hit of 1969 | 22 |
| 1969 #1 hit | 11 |
| Fix but good | 12 |
| Return Shearer's phone call? | 32 |
| Blitzen's seating instruction to his sleigh driver? (No dark forces at work here!) | 86 |
| What the theme answers can do | 29 |
| Phrase used with the finger | 27 |
| "You know where you can stick it!" | 44 |
| Make Jack toil? | 15 |
| Beatles tune about "Les Oiseaux"? | 43 |
| Manage to survive | 17 |
| Just barely make it | 19 |
| Survive adversity | 17 |
| Pass unnoticed | 14 |
| Survive, just | 13 |
| Survive day-to-day | 18 |
| Squeak through | 14 |
| Live paycheck to paycheck, say | 30 |
| Live paycheck to paycheck, albeit successfully | 46 |
| Barely survive | 14 |
| "I'll ___ . . . ": 1928 song | 42 |
| Wind up like a poor burglar | 27 |
| Be nailed in the act | 20 |
| Hit a dead end mazewise? | 24 |
| Just sit, as soup or coffee | 27 |
| Go into a slump | 15 |
| Turn yellow | 11 |
| Jump online, or a hint to the long theme answers | 48 |
| Make a start | 12 |
| Begin work in earnest | 21 |
| "Hurry!" (or this puzzle's theme) | 47 |
| Willie Sutton's motto? | 26 |
| Memo to a sluggish walnut processor | 35 |
| Begin an activity | 17 |
| ... to the thunder | 18 |
| Coupon site come-on | 19 |
| Swallow with difficulty | 23 |
| Dance to disco | 14 |
| Fetch Halloween costumes from the attic? | 40 |
| Queen song covered by Nine Inch Nails | 37 |
| Feather packer's job? | 25 |