| Ability to make plants grow | 27 |
| A first name in film annals | 27 |
| ABC medical hit, familiarly | 27 |
| Auto's "face" | 27 |
| Alfred E. Neuman expression | 27 |
| AT&T competitor of yore | 27 |
| A type of room or conductor | 27 |
| Associations for mutual aid | 27 |
| Aid in relieving xerostomia | 27 |
| Artist's smudge remover | 27 |
| Arnold's early hangouts | 27 |
| Arm-twisting wrestling hold | 27 |
| Associates (with), slangily | 27 |
| Asian city on the Red River | 27 |
| A "Hilton" locale | 27 |
| Apollo Theater neighborhood | 27 |
| Ancient stringed instrument | 27 |
| Author of gold rush stories | 27 |
| Apparel for a Dr. Seuss cat | 27 |
| Alberta's Medicine ____ | 27 |
| Ascot races fashion feature | 27 |
| Arrest, with "in" | 27 |
| A "Laugh-In" star | 27 |
| Anne of "Volcano" | 27 |
| Apparent or presumptive one | 27 |
| Activision's Guitar ___ | 27 |
| All ___ up (beside oneself) | 27 |
| Author better known as Saki | 27 |
| Actress who stinks at golf? | 27 |
| Aware of, in '60s slang | 27 |
| Antonym of "fire" | 27 |
| “Java” trumpeter Al | 27 |
| Any of the Billboard Top 40 | 27 |
| Allowing passage in and out | 27 |
| Area with lots of shootings | 27 |
| Augustus' poet laureate | 27 |
| Abbr. for a British monarch | 27 |
| Atlanta, for Delta Airlines | 27 |
| Author of Les Miserables | 27 |
| A sci-fi writer's award | 27 |
| Anthrax guitarist Scott ___ | 27 |
| Assure victory in, slangily | 27 |
| Alternative in a Frost poem | 27 |
| Anti-___ (airplane devices) | 27 |
| Athena's mythical blood | 27 |
| Acute care wards, for short | 27 |
| Actress and director Lupino | 27 |
| Ancient range in Asia Minor | 27 |
| Airport check-in essentials | 27 |
| A good one may come to mind | 27 |
| Author's notebook items | 27 |
| Auteur's starting point | 27 |
| Alter ___ (exact duplicate) | 27 |
| Auto mechanic's concern | 27 |
| Apathetic one's comment | 27 |
| Air travel needs, for short | 27 |
| Aid in retriever retrieval? | 27 |
| A summer house it's not | 27 |
| Applebee's sister chain | 27 |
| Afternoon hour on a sundial | 27 |
| Ancient Greek class reading | 27 |
| Apple that's plugged in | 27 |
| Apple with a seedless core? | 27 |
| Announcement from a hallway | 27 |
| Actress Balin and namesakes | 27 |
| Alternative to Rep. to Dem. | 27 |
| Annual May event, for short | 27 |
| Â Â Follower of Paul? | 27 |
| Adjective for argon or neon | 27 |
| A gumshoe often pays for it | 27 |
| Ab ___ (from the beginning) | 27 |
| At a Lakers home game, e.g. | 27 |
| An accomplice to, as a plot | 27 |
| Â Â Properly lined up | 27 |
| Aetna's business: Abbr. | 27 |
| Attach a yoke or harness to | 27 |
| Attached to a trailer hitch | 27 |
| Artist Grant Wood, by birth | 27 |
| Apple's Nano or Shuffle | 27 |
| Aggressive card-table words | 27 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini, for one | 27 |
| Anniversary gift after wood | 27 |
| A "pumping" metal | 27 |
| Attended to pressing needs? | 27 |
| Attends to pressing matters | 27 |
| Abbr. on some clothing tags | 27 |
| Abbr. on a garment sale tag | 27 |
| Abbr. on a marked-down item | 27 |
| Agcy. that revs up in April | 27 |
| “The hour ___ hand” | 27 |
| A question of introspection | 27 |
| Abbr. on mariners' maps | 27 |
| Abbr. on a cruise itinerary | 27 |
| Anagram of "lies" | 27 |
| Ariel Sharon and Golda Meir | 27 |
| An original eurozone member | 27 |
| A source of the Mississippi | 27 |
| “___ be a pleasure” | 27 |
| A bullet often precedes one | 27 |
| Autobiography featuring Ike | 27 |