| Starter for fast or sayer | 25 |
| Most like a chimney sweep | 25 |
| Like Santa's laundry? | 25 |
| Something given to pacify | 25 |
| Piece of food for dipping | 25 |
| Bread, vis-Ã -vis gravy | 25 |
| 1982 title role for Meryl | 25 |
| She famously had a choice | 25 |
| One whose logic is faulty | 25 |
| Second or tenth, in a way | 25 |
| Rookie's superstition | 25 |
| Second of four at college | 25 |
| Contemporary of Aeschylus | 25 |
| One of a modern TV family | 25 |
| Catherine Malfitano, e.g. | 25 |
| They get high on occasion | 25 |
| Its natural key is E flat | 25 |
| Get the last bit of gravy | 25 |
| Querying words about June | 25 |
| 1957 hit for Jimmy Dorsey | 25 |
| Refresher between courses | 25 |
| Like details to be spared | 25 |
| Word with throat or loser | 25 |
| Word after saddle or cold | 25 |
| One who storms off, maybe | 25 |
| MTV correspondent Tabitha | 25 |
| More painful to the touch | 25 |
| Most painful to the touch | 25 |
| Bay of Naples resort town | 25 |
| "My apologies!" | 25 |
| Slow server's comment | 25 |
| Put in alphabetical order | 25 |
| Separate into like groups | 25 |
| Like computer data, often | 25 |
| Some post office machines | 25 |
| Combat pilot's flight | 25 |
| Gets ready to wash, maybe | 25 |
| Worrisome letters to send | 25 |
| Lusitania's last gasp | 25 |
| What the Titanic sent out | 25 |
| Call in a watery calamity | 25 |
| Tapped-out message, often | 25 |
| Symbolic "help" | 25 |
| Sparks's frantic call | 25 |
| Sinking ship's signal | 25 |
| Sinking feeling outburst? | 25 |
| Marine "mayday" | 25 |
| Help-wanted announcement? | 25 |
| Help wanted announcement? | 25 |
| Desperate call, for short | 25 |
| Alert for the Coast Guard | 25 |
| "Send help now" | 25 |
| Former Cubs slugger Sammy | 25 |
| Former Wrigley Field star | 25 |
| Seven-time All-Star Sammy | 25 |
| 1960 Everly Brothers tune | 25 |
| "Just terrible" | 25 |
| Rating two stars, perhaps | 25 |
| "My sympathies" | 25 |
| Mediocre women's club | 25 |
| They're used to scour | 25 |
| "See if I care" | 25 |
| "Well, sor-RY!" | 25 |
| One dominated by spirits? | 25 |
| One in need of drying out | 25 |
| Sighter of pink elephants | 25 |
| One who may not be served | 25 |
| One seeing pink elephants | 25 |
| One living the high life? | 25 |
| "___ is Paris!" | 25 |
| Pepys's closing words | 25 |
| They fail to pass the bar | 25 |
| They're often blitzed | 25 |
| They seem to live in bars | 25 |
| ___ voce (in a low voice) | 25 |
| Five-centime piece of old | 25 |
| Canadian penny, in Quebec | 25 |
| Without a ___ (penniless) | 25 |
| Bronze coin of old France | 25 |
| 1/20 of a franc, formerly | 25 |
| ___'wester (rain hat) | 25 |
| Word with food or brother | 25 |
| Thing often sold to Satan | 25 |
| Genre for Aretha Franklin | 25 |
| Brevity's role in wit | 25 |
| Island-mainland separator | 25 |
| Dive suddenly, as a whale | 25 |
| 'The -- of Music' | 25 |
| Television-friendly quote | 25 |
| Classic Cicely Tyson film | 25 |
| Cicely Tyson film of 1972 | 25 |
| Foley artist's output | 25 |
| "It could work" | 25 |
| Makes tentative inquiries | 25 |
| Beginning course, perhaps | 25 |
| Vegetable or tomato, e.g. | 25 |
| Place for a fly, in jokes | 25 |
| Gazpacho or cock-a-leekie | 25 |
| Course taken with a spoon | 25 |
| Tomato and chicken noodle | 25 |