| Opera ... wine ... boot | 23 |
| One end of the Bernina Pass | 27 |
| New York's Little _____ | 27 |
| Neighbour of Switzerland | 24 |
| Nation in its Second Republic | 29 |
| Marco Polo's country | 24 |
| Lire used to be spent here | 26 |
| Land on the Tyrrhenian Sea | 26 |
| Lake Como's location | 24 |
| Lake Como's locale | 22 |
| Its calling code is +39 | 23 |
| It's shaped like a boot | 27 |
| Home of St. Peter's | 23 |
| Home of Romeo and Juliet | 24 |
| Four-time World Cup winners | 27 |
| Davis Cup winner: 1976 | 22 |
| Current World Cup champs | 24 |
| Country shaped like a boot | 26 |
| Country on the Adriatic | 23 |
| Country in a grand tour | 23 |
| Center of the Renaissance | 25 |
| Byron and Keats lived here | 26 |
| Boot-shaped European country | 28 |
| Boot in the Mediterranean | 25 |
| Boot in geography class? | 24 |
| Autostrada's place | 22 |
| An original eurozone member | 27 |
| A neighbor of Switzerland | 25 |
| 2006 FIFA World Cup winners | 27 |
| "Harold in ___" | 25 |
| "Is ___ emergency?" | 29 |
| __-TASS (Russian news agency) | 29 |
| ___-TASS, Moscow news agency | 28 |
| ___-TASS (Russian press org.) | 29 |
| Russian news agency acronym | 27 |
| Half a Russian news agency | 26 |
| -- -TASS (news agency) | 22 |
| __-Tass: Russian news agency | 28 |
| __-Tass: Moscow news agency | 27 |
| "Take ___ a sign" | 27 |
| Oft-misused contraction | 23 |
| "Think of ___ ..." | 28 |
| "Play ____ it lays" | 29 |
| 'Think of -- a loan' | 28 |
| Source of the Mississippi | 25 |
| Mississippi River source | 24 |
| A source of the Mississippi | 27 |
| Mississippi's source lake | 29 |
| Minnesota county or lake | 24 |
| "Leave ___ that!" | 27 |
| Let's just leave ___ that | 29 |
| "Do __ once!" | 23 |
| 'Take -- face value' | 28 |
| "What'll ___?" | 28 |
| "How tough can __?" | 29 |
| "How bad can ___?" | 28 |
| "Can ___ true?" | 25 |
| Words in a Beatles song title | 29 |
| The Beatles' Let ____ | 28 |
| Beatles' title part | 23 |
| "Let ---" (Beatles) | 29 |
| "Let ___ known ..." | 29 |
| "How hard can __?" | 28 |
| "How hard can ___?" | 29 |
| "How hard can __ ?" | 29 |
| "How can ---?" | 24 |
| "Could ___?" | 22 |
| 'What'll --?' | 25 |
| 'Let -- known ...' | 26 |
| 'Can -- true?' | 22 |
| ''Let ___'' | 27 |
| Calamine lotion target | 22 |
| Cast wearer's frustration | 29 |
| Scratcher's target | 22 |
| Sumac souvenir, perhaps | 23 |
| Septennial affliction? | 22 |
| Cast wearer's problem | 25 |
| Result of a mosquito bite | 25 |
| Result of a bite, maybe | 23 |
| Reason for head-scratching | 26 |
| Cast wearerÂ’s problem | 25 |
| Calamine-lotion target | 22 |
| Zinc oxide may treat it | 23 |
| What a wool shirt can do | 24 |
| Trigger-finger tingle? | 22 |
| Trigger finger problem? | 23 |
| This needs to be scratched | 26 |
| The seven-year problem | 22 |
| Suffer from urtication | 22 |
| Seventh anniversary ruiner? | 27 |
| Scratcher's concern | 23 |
| Result of touching poison ivy | 29 |
| Result of an insect bite | 24 |
| Result of a flea, maybe | 23 |
| Not quite a compulsion | 22 |
| Nails' target, sometimes | 28 |
| Mosquito-bite reaction | 22 |
| It may come with a bite | 23 |
| It may be hard to reach | 23 |
| Irritating skin sensation | 25 |