| Letters of recommendation | 25 |
| Adversity, optimistically | 25 |
| Eyewitness reports, maybe | 25 |
| Chuck Yeager, at one time | 25 |
| Banking assessor, perhaps | 25 |
| Aviator in search of bugs | 25 |
| Beta release, essentially | 25 |
| They often make the grade | 25 |
| Takes for a spin, perhaps | 25 |
| College application datum | 25 |
| Tries to find, in the lab | 25 |
| Where a trial takes place | 25 |
| Accepts a tough challenge | 25 |
| One might have a solution | 25 |
| Arched ceilings or vaults | 25 |
| Lunar New Year in Vietnam | 25 |
| Event in a lunar calendar | 25 |
| Lunar calendar observance | 25 |
| Ho Chi Minh City festival | 25 |
| February holiday in Hanoi | 25 |
| What a toxoid can prevent | 25 |
| Head of the Paris police? | 25 |
| What les cheveux grows on | 25 |
| Quebec "noodle" | 25 |
| It may be capped, in Caen | 25 |
| Head of l'Académie | 25 |
| Head of a French company? | 25 |
| ___ de veau (French dish) | 25 |
| Where three's a crowd | 25 |
| Rollers in the 1790's | 25 |
| Jackson Hole's county | 25 |
| Sitting Bull's tongue | 25 |
| Jackson Hole is near them | 25 |
| Grand ___ (Western range) | 25 |
| Having four parts: Prefix | 25 |
| Prefix with meter or gram | 25 |
| Vampire ___ (fanged fish) | 25 |
| Tropical, freshwater fish | 25 |
| Tankmate for an angelfish | 25 |
| Prefix for meter or spore | 25 |
| Colorful aquarium fillers | 25 |
| Shape-fitting arcade game | 25 |
| Popular game-app download | 25 |
| Game with tumbling blocks | 25 |
| Vietnamese lunar holidays | 25 |
| Stereotypical cowboy name | 25 |
| Houstonian's nickname | 25 |
| Dallas's state: Abbr. | 25 |
| ___ Avery of Looney Tunes | 25 |
| Native of Odessa or Paris | 25 |
| Native of Jim Hogg County | 25 |
| Lone Star State residents | 25 |
| Kind of ranger or leaguer | 25 |
| 1985 Michener best seller | 25 |
| Slow-smoked Southern grub | 25 |
| It's heard in Houston | 25 |
| Dallas tourists, perhaps? | 25 |
| Austin school, informally | 25 |
| Gag after having fajitas? | 25 |
| Message from a smartphone | 25 |
| Communicate by cell phone | 25 |
| Send a modern-day message | 25 |
| "C U L8R," e.g. | 25 |
| New school year purchases | 25 |
| Sends a message, in a way | 25 |
| Sends a message, nowadays | 25 |
| Scottish author Josephine | 25 |
| Whodunit writer Josephine | 25 |
| Whodunit author Josephine | 25 |
| Brat Farrar's creator | 25 |
| Bus-to-bus tickets: Abbr. | 25 |
| __F: end-of-the-week sigh | 25 |
| Comment by the work-weary | 25 |
| Weary worker's mantra | 25 |
| Workweek-ending utterance | 25 |
| Weekend warrior's cry | 25 |
| Ready-for-the-weekend cry | 25 |
| Letters said with a shout | 25 |
| Letters heard end-of-week | 25 |
| Letters after forty hours | 25 |
| Cuisine with peanut sauce | 25 |
| Pad __: Asian noodle dish | 25 |
| Cuisine with tom yum soup | 25 |
| Chiang Mai citizen, often | 25 |
| Cambodians' neighbors | 25 |
| Malaysians' neighbors | 25 |
| The Tower Bridge spans it | 25 |
| Henley Royal Regatta site | 25 |
| Word with other or rather | 25 |
| Bigger-breadbox contents? | 25 |
| "Macbeth" title | 25 |
| ___ one's lucky stars | 25 |
| "Much obliged!" | 25 |
| Statement of appreciation | 25 |
| U __ ('60s UN leader) | 25 |
| "__ she blows!" | 25 |
| "___ she blows" | 25 |
| Last name in choreography | 25 |
| Just one of those things? | 25 |
| "How about __!" | 25 |