| He wrote "Time eases all things" | 42 |
| Author of "Oedipus at Colonus" | 40 |
| Rookie of the Year's concern | 32 |
| Worry of an 'overnight success' | 39 |
| Promising rookies' doses of reality | 39 |
| Last year's frosh class, now | 32 |
| Second-year collegians, informally | 34 |
| Second-year collegians, for short | 33 |
| "And of so easy and ___ stop": Shak. | 46 |
| Internet bathing/grooming site come-on? | 39 |
| Overly sentimental or overly wet | 32 |
| Singing range for castrati, often | 33 |
| Kristin Chenoweth's voice type | 34 |
| Italian for "what is above" | 37 |
| Castrato's register, perhaps | 32 |
| Open courts used by opera singers? | 34 |
| HBO hit show (with "The") | 35 |
| ... Bada Bing!, with "The" | 36 |
| Absorbs, with ''up'' | 36 |
| Pieces of solid food for dipping | 32 |
| Absorbs (with ''up'') | 37 |
| Soaks (up), as with a paper towel | 33 |
| Absorbs, as liquid (with "up") | 40 |
| ___ Camel (Snoopy's airplane) | 33 |
| Unimpressed person's comment | 32 |
| Spanish guitarist-composer: 1778-1839 | 37 |
| Bird called an ortolan in England | 33 |
| "And what is ___ . . . ?" | 35 |
| "And what is ___ as . . . " | 37 |
| "What is ___ as a day . . . ?" | 40 |
| "What is ___ as . . . ?" | 34 |
| "And what is ___ as a . . . ?" | 40 |
| "And what is ___ . . . ?": Lowell | 43 |
| ''. . . __ as a day in June'' | 45 |
| " . . . ___ a day in June" | 36 |
| Collect on the surface, in chemistry | 36 |
| Potassium ___ (food preservative) | 33 |
| Potassium ___ (food mold inhibitor) | 35 |
| Between-course palate refreshers | 32 |
| Acid derived from mountain ash berries | 38 |
| Sugar substitutes shown chemically as C6H8(OH)6 | 47 |
| Kevin who played a small-screen Hercules | 40 |
| Gathers on a surface, chemically | 32 |
| Gathers on the surface, chemically | 34 |
| One who might win a spelling competition | 40 |
| Activity in which spelling counts? | 34 |
| Morally reprehensible Roman emperor? | 36 |
| Like a Monday morning quarterback? | 34 |
| Thumb or throat condition, perhaps | 34 |
| Like a running back after a game | 32 |
| Feeling yesterday's exercise, perhaps | 41 |
| Feeling yesterday's exercise | 32 |
| Your throat might be this from yelling | 38 |
| Tom Waits "Tango Till They're ___" | 48 |
| Like rocker after an intense show | 33 |
| Like one taken off the payroll, maybe | 37 |
| Like a gym visitor the next day, maybe | 38 |
| Feeling it in one's quads, say | 34 |
| "And they were ___ afraid" | 36 |
| " . . . ___ labour's bath": Shak. | 47 |
| Stark Young's "___ the Rose" | 42 |
| "___ the Rose," Young novel | 37 |
| "___ the Rose," book by Stark Young | 45 |
| "___ Rose": S. Young book | 35 |
| Like someone who's been knitting all day? | 45 |
| French social philosopher Georges | 33 |
| The New Yorker cartoonist Edward | 32 |
| The New Yorker caricaturist Edward | 34 |
| French socialist philosopher Georges | 36 |
| French historian: 1842–1906 | 34 |
| Famed French historian: 1842-1906 | 33 |
| Agnès ___, favorite of Charles VII | 37 |
| "The Red and the Black" protagonist | 45 |
| "Reflections on Violence" author | 42 |
| One who refuses to shake hands, maybe | 37 |
| One moaning and groaning after a defeat | 39 |
| One griping about being knocked off | 35 |
| "You got lucky" mutterer | 34 |
| They're often ticked after being licked | 43 |
| "Either/Or" writer Kierkegaard | 40 |
| Reason for a massage appointment | 32 |
| First-time-in-the-saddle consequence | 36 |
| Ted who wrote "The Kennedy Legacy" | 44 |
| Author of the 1965 biography "Kennedy" | 48 |
| With "eye," public blights | 36 |
| They're painful to the touch | 32 |
| Public blights (with "eye") | 37 |
| Saddle ___ (equestrians' woes) | 34 |
| Saddle __ (cowboy's complaint) | 34 |
| Epitomes of obvious differentness | 33 |
| Forage grass from which sugar and syrup are made | 48 |
| Seven-time major-league All-Star Alfonso | 40 |
| Former Yankee second baseman Alfonso | 36 |
| Former and current Yankee Alfonso | 33 |
| “The Social Network” screenwriter Aaron | 47 |
| "The Alchemy of Finance" author George | 48 |
| Hungarian-born philanthropist George | 36 |
| Hungarian-born financier/philanthropist | 39 |
| George of the Open Society Institute | 36 |
| ___ Fund Management (investment company) | 40 |