| Prone to complaining | 20 |
| Prone to beefing | 16 |
| It's most useful when it's cracked | 42 |
| Defeat, slangily | 16 |
| Use an eggbeater | 16 |
| Party enforcer | 14 |
| Congressional big shot | 22 |
| Beat to a froth | 15 |
| Party manager, in Congress | 26 |
| Horse trainer's aid | 23 |
| Blender speed | 13 |
| Beat, as cream | 14 |
| Beat bigtime | 12 |
| Use an eggbeater on | 19 |
| Thoroughly trounce | 18 |
| Smartness exemplar | 18 |
| Senate party VIP | 16 |
| Senate official | 15 |
| Senate leadership post | 22 |
| Senate big shot | 15 |
| Sen. Cranston is one | 20 |
| Quirt, for one | 14 |
| Party disciplinarian | 20 |
| Lion tamer's need | 21 |
| Lion tamer's handful | 24 |
| Legislative disciplinarian | 26 |
| Kind of lash or saw | 19 |
| Kind of lash | 12 |
| Indiana prop | 12 |
| Incite, with "up" | 27 |
| Flagellate | 10 |
| Defeat, sportswise | 18 |
| Congressional party chief | 25 |
| Congress bigwig | 15 |
| Charioteer's prop | 21 |
| Certain congressman | 19 |
| BDSM prop | 9 |
| "___ It" Devo | 23 |
| Horse-race sound | 16 |
| Showy authority figure | 22 |
| Jockeys? | 8 |
| Devo's biggest hit | 22 |
| 1980 new wave classic | 21 |
| Auto accident injury | 20 |
| Do-Right's nemesis | 22 |
| Possible result of a rear-ender | 31 |
| Popular insurance injury | 24 |
| Some car-related injuries | 25 |
| Affects adversely, as by a sudden change | 40 |
| Thoroughly exhausted | 20 |
| Host: "Is Bobby ___?" | 31 |
| Abused toast spread? | 20 |
| Mistreated spread? | 18 |
| Byproduct of an exhausted dairy cow? | 36 |
| Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass tune of 1965 | 48 |
| Barista's supply | 20 |
| Spuds that lost a fight? | 24 |
| Fluffy side | 11 |
| Golf-bet loser, after the 18th green? | 37 |
| Made quickly, as a meal | 23 |
| Lion tamer, at times | 20 |
| Powerful ball-hiker? | 20 |
| Lash LaRue, to some? | 20 |
| Ones who are too big for their britches | 39 |
| Impertinent youngsters | 22 |
| Brash upstarts | 14 |
| Greyhound's small lookalike | 31 |
| Scapegoat, e.g. | 15 |
| Item in a strawberry shortcake recipe | 37 |
| Nocturnal bird with an onomatopoeic name | 40 |
| Nightjar's kin | 18 |
| Goatsuckers | 11 |
| Defeats handily | 15 |
| Congressional officials | 23 |
| S&M props | 13 |
| Produces quickly, with "up" | 37 |
| Political party officials | 25 |
| Lion tamers' needs | 22 |
| Lion tamers' aids | 21 |
| Legislative bigwigs | 19 |
| Congressional V.I.P.'s | 26 |
| Two-person cutting tool | 23 |
| Jerk in two directions | 22 |
| Subject to simultaneous opposing forces | 39 |
| Beset in two ways at once | 25 |
| Affect with two opposing forces at once | 39 |
| Affect with opposite forces | 27 |
| Swings violently | 16 |
| Aptly named reptile | 19 |
| Draws quickly, as a gun | 23 |
| Party leader's ostentation? | 31 |
| Scales Grand Canyon | 19 |
| Seam finisher | 13 |
| Finish a fabric edge, perhaps | 29 |
| Puts together in a hurry | 24 |
| Creates quickly | 15 |
| Blend an illegal street drug? | 29 |
| Put together quickly | 20 |
| Prepare quickly | 15 |
| Prepare posthaste | 17 |