| Pole position | 13 |
| First designated spot at a swim meet, perhaps | 45 |
| Swimmer's assignment, perhaps | 33 |
| Relay assignment | 16 |
| Pole position or pool position | 30 |
| Inside track, at times | 22 |
| Inside track | 12 |
| "The Da Vinci Code" hero Robert ___ | 45 |
| Tony-winning "Frost/Nixon" actor | 42 |
| Actor Frank from Bayonne | 24 |
| Two-time Masters winner Bernhard | 32 |
| Two-time green jacket wearer Bernhard | 37 |
| Actress' dream? | 19 |
| "Piers Plowman" poet, possibly | 40 |
| Cross-country skiing | 20 |
| NASA research center | 20 |
| Aeronautical pioneer | 20 |
| Fritz and k.d. | 14 |
| Director Fritz's family | 27 |
| Director Fritz and singer K.D. | 30 |
| Andrew and Fritz | 16 |
| Andrew and Cosmo | 16 |
| Film maker's argot? | 23 |
| Poet-dramatist-novelist Hughes | 30 |
| Times past, to Burns | 20 |
| Something auld | 14 |
| 'Auld --' | 17 |
| Jersey Lily of stage | 20 |
| Actress called "The Jersey Lily" | 42 |
| Terminology | 11 |
| Urdu, for one | 13 |
| More than a few words | 21 |
| English or Latin | 16 |
| English or French | 17 |
| Dan Fogelberg "The ___ of Love" | 41 |
| Contract content | 16 |
| Body follower | 13 |
| Quotation: Part I | 17 |
| Place to practice Spanish at school | 35 |
| Places with tapes | 17 |
| Spelling bee contestant request #3 | 34 |
| Translators' specialties | 28 |
| Pleasantly lazy | 15 |
| Absent animation | 16 |
| Concern about being able to communicate in a foreign country? | 61 |
| Become weak | 11 |
| Absence of animation | 20 |
| Leaf monkey | 11 |
| Ropes with deadeyes | 19 |
| Poet Sidney | 11 |
| Noted Georgian poet | 19 |
| N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Willie | 27 |
| He wrote "Song of the Chattahoochee" | 46 |
| Georgia's Lake ___, behind the Buford Dam | 45 |
| Corn poet Sidney | 19 |
| "Tiger Lilies" novelist Sidney | 40 |
| "The Symphony" poet | 29 |
| "The Marshes of Glynn" writer Sidney | 46 |
| " . . . Chattahoochee" poet | 37 |
| Music man Lester | 16 |
| Bandleader Lester ___ | 21 |
| Bandleader Lester | 17 |
| Band leader Lester | 18 |
| Weather-affecting Pacific cooling | 33 |
| Weather influencer | 18 |
| The girl: Sp. | 13 |
| Possible cause of turbulent weather | 35 |
| Phenomenon that lowers sea surface temperature | 46 |
| Pacific Ocean phenomenon of lower water temperatures | 52 |
| Oceanic phenomenon that affects weather | 39 |
| Ocean phenomenon affecting the weather | 38 |
| Cooling in the equatorial Pacific | 33 |
| Climate pattern during a cool phase | 35 |
| Cause of a wet spell, perhaps | 29 |
| Cause of a dry spell in the Midwest | 35 |
| Legal scholar Guinier et al. | 28 |
| Legal scholar Guinier and others | 32 |
| Spindlier | 9 |
| More long and thin | 18 |
| Wanted: Financial worker who's not so stocky | 48 |
| Superlatively slender | 21 |
| Most long and slender | 21 |
| Most angular | 12 |
| More long-limbed | 16 |
| Taller and leaner | 17 |
| More rangy | 10 |
| More loose-jointed | 18 |
| How the tall are built | 22 |
| In limp or awkward fashion | 26 |
| Skinny one's feature | 24 |
| Famed jazz pianist/singer, post-diet? | 37 |
| Falcon of Europe | 16 |
| Male falcons | 12 |
| N. African falcons | 18 |
| Falcons | 7 |
| Upton Sinclair's Budd | 25 |
| Upton Sinclair's Mr. Budd | 29 |
| Tenor Ross of radio fame | 24 |
| P.G.A.'s Wadkins | 20 |
| One of the singing Rosses | 25 |