| Costly strings, for short | 25 |
| Attack by plane, in a way | 25 |
| Machine-gunned from above | 25 |
| Machine-guns from a plane | 25 |
| Lead-in for face or flush | 25 |
| Prepare food for the baby | 25 |
| Result of overuse of eyes | 25 |
| Elbows without water, say | 25 |
| Word with jacket or laced | 25 |
| Narrow waterway for ships | 25 |
| Made things difficult for | 25 |
| Juan de Fuca and Magellan | 25 |
| Fail to hit in the clutch | 25 |
| Leave in a bad place, say | 25 |
| Leather fastener, perhaps | 25 |
| Short of cash, informally | 25 |
| Powerfully built athletes | 25 |
| Prepares for a rough ride | 25 |
| Thüringen thoroughfare | 25 |
| Fender guitar, familiarly | 25 |
| The "S" in SALT | 25 |
| Flag-capturing board game | 25 |
| Low-altitude cloud layers | 25 |
| Pertaining to rock layers | 25 |
| San Francisco pants-maker | 25 |
| Backbreaker, in a proverb | 25 |
| It's used for drawing | 25 |
| Grist for Rumpelstiltskin | 25 |
| Bolger's guts in 1939 | 25 |
| Animal bedding, sometimes | 25 |
| Informal opinion sampling | 25 |
| Fast-food dispenser items | 25 |
| Moves away from the flock | 25 |
| Ripken's record, e.g. | 25 |
| Person who can barely run | 25 |
| One barely getting along? | 25 |
| Trout fishing site, often | 25 |
| It went past the old mill | 25 |
| Moved steadily or swiftly | 25 |
| Stripped of nonessentials | 25 |
| "Silkwood" star | 25 |
| "Ironweed" star | 25 |
| 'Mamma Mia!' star | 25 |
| Avenue crosser, sometimes | 25 |
| Williams's conveyance | 25 |
| Reputation among homeboys | 25 |
| The ____ of San Francisco | 25 |
| Smart in a worldly sense | 25 |
| Military capability, e.g. | 25 |
| Throat ailment, for short | 25 |
| Pharyngeal woe, for short | 25 |
| Bug causing a sore throat | 25 |
| Ready to freak out, maybe | 25 |
| Frets, in modern parlance | 25 |
| Marathoners' injuries | 25 |
| Exam taken on a treadmill | 25 |
| Parts of medical checkups | 25 |
| Person on the battlefield | 25 |
| Climactic musical finales | 25 |
| Muscle fiber furrow, e.g. | 25 |
| Track coach's concern | 25 |
| What to take a reverse in | 25 |
| Quality of a shrill sound | 25 |
| Fouled-off pitch, perhaps | 25 |
| Forty-niner's fantasy | 25 |
| Affect one's emotions | 25 |
| Commit a foul in the ring | 25 |
| Starts as a conversation | 25 |
| Begins, as a conversation | 25 |
| Where picketers assemble? | 25 |
| Word with first or second | 25 |
| Skinny guy's nickname | 25 |
| Anniversary gift, perhaps | 25 |
| Attachments to some deals | 25 |
| Hang, as Christmas lights | 25 |
| Pay a poker debt, perhaps | 25 |
| "77 Sunset ___" | 25 |
| Word with steak or search | 25 |
| Take off, or takeoff spot | 25 |
| Narrow piece, as of cloth | 25 |
| U.S. colony, symbolically | 25 |
| Zebra's claim to fame | 25 |
| Easy-park shopping places | 25 |
| Ecdysiast's specialty | 25 |
| Flashing light at a disco | 25 |
| Walked with determination | 25 |
| Stretched one's legs? | 25 |
| It's pushed in a park | 25 |
| Babe-in-arms alternative? | 25 |
| Longtime senator Thurmond | 25 |
| Possessing muscular might | 25 |
| Work on the cutting edge? | 25 |
| It gives a barber an edge | 25 |
| Violins and violas: Abbr. | 25 |
| Bering and Taiwan (Abbr.) | 25 |
| Apple ___ (German pastry) | 25 |
| Play the ukulele, perhaps | 25 |
| Play the guitar, in a way | 25 |
| Play lightly, as a guitar | 25 |
| Like pearls on a necklace | 25 |