| Sadly absent, as the departed | 29 |
| Mail to the wrong address | 25 |
| Fails to amuse, as a joke | 25 |
| The scariest ones are near | 26 |
| Swings without hitting | 22 |
| Swings that result in strikes | 29 |
| Doesn't hit the mark | 24 |
| Spin doctor's entrant? | 26 |
| Lost on the battlefield | 23 |
| Chuck Norris film of '84 | 28 |
| 1984 Chuck Norris film | 22 |
| The "Divine" Bette | 28 |
| Divine name in showbiz | 22 |
| "Divine" nickname | 27 |
| Judith Martin's alter ego | 29 |
| Returnee's question | 23 |
| Question after a separation | 27 |
| Post-business trip query | 24 |
| Lovebird's phone question | 29 |
| Coy question upon returning | 27 |
| Nursery-rhyme spider fearer | 27 |
| City on the Clark Fork River | 28 |
| TrumanÂ’s home state | 23 |
| Jefferson City's state | 26 |
| Where Clark met Lewis in 1804 | 29 |
| River through Bismarck | 22 |
| "Show Me" state | 25 |
| Write correspondance, say | 25 |
| Write seperate checks? | 22 |
| Write relevently, e.g. | 22 |
| Mess up in the bee, say | 23 |
| Femme fatale of The Muppets | 27 |
| Movie star with a big nose | 26 |
| Pageant entrant runner-up? | 26 |
| Musical set in Vietnam | 22 |
| Three-Tony winner for '91 | 29 |
| Bee winner's title? | 23 |
| Tightrope walker's worry | 28 |
| Go out of bounds, perhaps | 25 |
| Reliability contest winner? | 27 |
| Young lady, sarcastically | 25 |
| Recording artist Elliott | 24 |
| Hip-hop artist Elliott | 22 |
| Hip-hop artist ___ Elliott | 26 |
| Gold of "Benson" | 26 |
| Cloud around Niagara Falls | 26 |
| Niagara Falls condition | 23 |
| It's not quite a fog | 24 |
| Fog's fellow traveler | 25 |
| Drink served over cracked ice | 29 |
| Atomizer's release | 22 |
| Sierra ___ (soft drink) | 23 |
| Produce section effect | 22 |
| Liquor over crushed ice | 23 |
| It may obstruct vision | 22 |
| It hangs around the Amazon | 26 |
| Hazard asea or on land | 22 |
| Drops by Niagara Falls? | 23 |
| Drops by Niagara Falls | 22 |
| Drizzly day phenomenon | 22 |
| Cool morning phenomenon | 23 |
| Cloud of water particles | 24 |
| Cause of reduced visibility | 27 |
| A result of nebulization | 24 |
| ___ Maidens, floaters in Oz | 27 |
| Example of fallibility | 22 |
| "Oopsy!" evoker | 25 |
| "Oops!" prompter | 26 |
| "___ Roberts" | 23 |
| Title usually abbreviated | 25 |
| Term of address for an ensign | 29 |
| "Hey, ____!" | 22 |
| Peruvian volcano El ___ | 23 |
| Peruvian volcano El __ | 22 |
| Peru's El ___ volcano | 25 |
| El __: Peruvian volcano | 23 |
| El ___ (Peruvian volcano) | 25 |
| Identified incorrectly | 22 |
| Woman who heads a household | 27 |
| Subject of some gossip | 22 |
| Many a tryst participant | 24 |
| Basis of a scandal, maybe | 25 |
| They hang around waterfalls | 27 |
| Spray-bottle emanations | 23 |
| Visibility impediments | 22 |
| Morning weather phenomena | 25 |
| Jungle weather phenomena | 24 |
| Fogs' fellow travelers | 26 |
| Effects of many waterfalls | 26 |
| ___-eyed (close to tears) | 25 |
| Song requested in a 1971 film | 29 |
| Like some eyes at a wedding | 27 |
| Like eyes at a Gish film | 24 |
| Like areas around waterfalls | 28 |
| Erroll Garner song: 1955 | 24 |
| Erroll Garner composition | 25 |
| 1959 Johnny Mathis classic | 26 |
| "Play _____ for Me" | 29 |
| "Play ___ for Me" | 27 |
| __-eyed (close to tears) | 24 |