| Item in a Valentine bouquet | 27 |
| House of Lancaster emblem | 25 |
| Flower for one's honey | 26 |
| Aid when going to court | 23 |
| Valentine's Day dozen | 25 |
| Game that involves sending | 26 |
| Elementary school game | 22 |
| Children's outdoor game | 27 |
| Remove more moisture from | 25 |
| Hang up on the line again | 25 |
| Put back on the clothesline | 27 |
| Go through a cycle again | 24 |
| 1990 World Series champs | 24 |
| Great American Ball Park team | 29 |
| Wines to serve with beef | 24 |
| Sommeliers' offerings | 25 |
| Raspberry and cherry, e.g. | 26 |
| Oscar-winning film for Beatty | 29 |
| Johnny Bench's team | 23 |
| 1990 World Series winners | 25 |
| 1981 Warren Beatty epic | 23 |
| World Series winners: 1990 | 26 |
| Wines that go with steaks | 25 |
| Wines that aren't whites | 28 |
| Sommelier's choices | 23 |
| Flick with Beatty and Keaton | 28 |
| Fire engine and beet, e.g. | 26 |
| Communists, pejoratively | 24 |
| Color range in lipsticks | 24 |
| Cincinnati baseball team | 24 |
| Beatty's Oscar film | 23 |
| Baseball's oldest team | 26 |
| 1981 Beatty-Keaton epic | 23 |
| 1975 World Series champs | 24 |
| Wines with steaks, usually | 26 |
| Warren Beatty movie: 1981 | 25 |
| Warren Beatty film of '81 | 29 |
| Vermilion and cardinal | 22 |
| Tom Seaver's teammates | 26 |
| They share a bench with Bench | 29 |
| They go well with beef | 22 |
| Sommeliers' suggestions | 27 |
| Sommelier's category | 24 |
| Some National Leaguers | 22 |
| Seaver's teammates | 22 |
| Seaver's colleagues | 23 |
| Rose's team, aptly | 22 |
| Riverfront Stadium players | 26 |
| Riverfront Stadium nine | 23 |
| Rhode Islanders of a kind | 25 |
| Professional team in Ohio | 25 |
| Prize-winning Beatty film | 25 |
| Popular lipstick colors | 23 |
| Pete Rose's ex-teammates | 28 |
| Pete Rose's colleagues | 26 |
| Oscar winner Buttons, et al. | 28 |
| Nancy Wilson and Janis Joplin | 29 |
| Merlot, Médoc, etc. | 22 |
| Médoc, merlot, etc. | 22 |
| McCarthy's targets | 22 |
| McCarthy sought them out | 24 |
| Marge Schott's team | 23 |
| Marge Schott's boys | 23 |
| Losers in '72 series | 24 |
| Ken Griffey Jr. and the boys | 28 |
| Johnny Bench's squad | 24 |
| John Birchers' foes | 23 |
| Houses "___" | 22 |
| Henna, rose and cherry | 22 |
| Half the checkers, usually | 26 |
| Fire-engine and Indian, e.g. | 28 |
| Film directed by Beatty | 23 |
| Darlings of Cincinnati | 22 |
| Crimson, scarlet, etc. | 22 |
| Cranberry and cherry, for two | 29 |
| Comic Skelton and others | 24 |
| Cinergy Field athletes | 22 |
| Cincinnati baseballers | 22 |
| Cincinnati ballplayers | 22 |
| Checker player's choice | 27 |
| Certain National League team | 28 |
| Cellar-dwelling Ohioans | 23 |
| Carmine's relatives | 23 |
| Carmine and scarlet, e.g. | 25 |
| Cardinal, cerise and maroon | 27 |
| Cardinal and vermilion | 22 |
| Brezhnev's followers | 24 |
| Boogeymen of 1950s politics | 27 |
| Best Picture nominee of 1981 | 28 |
| Bench's benchmates | 22 |
| Beatty's 1981 movie | 23 |
| Beatty flick set in Russia | 26 |
| Baseball team from Ohio | 23 |
| 1981 Warren Beatty movie | 24 |
| 1981 Warren Beatty drama | 24 |
| 1981 Best Picture nominee | 25 |
| 1976 World Series champs | 24 |
| 1975-76 World Series champs | 27 |
| 1975-76 baseball champs | 23 |
| 1972 Bronson-Mifune western | 27 |