| Symbolic political barrier | 26 |
| Onetime European barrier | 24 |
| Notation on a laundry slip | 26 |
| Former European barrier | 23 |
| Continental divide, once | 24 |
| Barrier noted by Churchill | 26 |
| Attended to pressing needs? | 27 |
| Helped with the laundry | 23 |
| Did some pressing work? | 23 |
| Took creases out of clothes | 27 |
| Settled, with "out" | 29 |
| Worked (out), as a riff | 23 |
| Took care of pressing needs | 27 |
| Removed clothing wrinkles | 25 |
| Ready to wear, in a way | 23 |
| Ready to be hung up, say | 24 |
| Creased or de-creased? | 22 |
| Completely smooth, now | 22 |
| Attended to pressing matters? | 29 |
| Attended to pressing business | 29 |
| Attached, as some patches | 25 |
| Resolved, as differences | 24 |
| He has pressing problems | 24 |
| One with pressing issues? | 25 |
| One with pressing duties? | 25 |
| Certain laundry worker | 22 |
| One with pressing business | 26 |
| One working on a board | 22 |
| Dry cleaner's employee | 26 |
| One whose work is decreasing? | 29 |
| Dry cleaner's machine | 25 |
| Tuesday worker, in a refrain | 28 |
| One with pressing work? | 23 |
| One with pressing duties | 24 |
| One with pressing concerns? | 27 |
| One with pressing chores? | 25 |
| One with pressing business? | 27 |
| One with a pressing job | 23 |
| One concerned about wrinkles? | 29 |
| Housekeeper, sometimes | 22 |
| He tends to pressing matters | 28 |
| Crease maker, at times | 22 |
| What a tyrant rules with | 24 |
| '82 Motorhead album | 23 |
| Steed that helped open West | 27 |
| Locomotive, informally | 22 |
| Like many Rod Serling works | 27 |
| Like many O. Henry stories | 26 |
| Like some twists of fate | 24 |
| Like some Swift writing | 23 |
| Like an O. Henry ending | 23 |
| Like a broker going broke | 25 |
| Having an unexpected twist | 26 |
| Unexpectedly appropriate | 24 |
| Unexpected, as some endings | 27 |
| Self-contradictory, in a way | 28 |
| Like some unexpected endings | 28 |
| Like some modern mustaches | 26 |
| Like many an O. Henry story | 27 |
| Like a fire at the firehouse | 28 |
| Like "Big deal!" | 26 |
| Funny in a twisted way | 22 |
| Alanis Morissette song | 22 |
| "Isn't it ___?" | 29 |
| Life's strange turns | 24 |
| Life's little twists | 24 |
| Outcomes other than expected | 28 |
| Opposite-of-expected outcomes | 29 |
| Literary incongruities | 22 |
| Features of O. Henry stories | 28 |
| Pressing one's suit? | 24 |
| Resolving, as differences | 25 |
| Marvel Comics superhero | 23 |
| Tony Stark's alter ego | 26 |
| Robert Downey Jr. movie | 23 |
| Robert Downey Jr. title role | 28 |
| Lou Gehrig or Cal Ripken | 24 |
| Epithet given Lou Gehrig | 24 |
| 2008 Robert Downey Jr. hit | 26 |
| Tireless male athletes | 22 |
| Athletes with great endurance | 29 |
| Annual triathlon competitors | 28 |
| One working with magnetite | 26 |
| Like some T-shirt decals | 24 |
| Like patches or decals | 22 |
| Like some T-shirt designs | 25 |
| Attach, as some patches | 23 |
| Like some T-shirt images | 24 |
| Like some punk rock patches | 27 |
| Like some denim patches | 23 |
| Like some decals and patches | 28 |
| Like some clothing patches | 26 |
| Easy to attach, as a patch | 26 |
| Certain T-shirt design | 22 |
| Attach with heat, as a patch | 28 |
| Affixed with heat, as a patch | 29 |
| Affix, as some patches | 22 |
| Edmund Fitzgerald cargo | 23 |
| Underground rock source | 23 |
| Shipment to a steel mill | 24 |