| Busboy's job, sometimes? | 28 |
| Source of durable wood | 22 |
| They might become bats | 22 |
| Sources of durable wood | 23 |
| Sources of baseball bats | 24 |
| Assyrian's supreme God | 26 |
| Assyrian's main deity | 25 |
| Cause of global panic in 1957 | 29 |
| Versatile restaurant style | 26 |
| Quadrennial sporting event | 26 |
| Turkey, to a cartographer | 25 |
| Part of a cold comparison | 25 |
| Stage whisper from EIsie? | 25 |
| Locale d'Indochine | 22 |
| Le plus grand continent | 23 |
| Largest continent to Pierre | 28 |
| China's continent: Fr. | 26 |
| China, etc., to French | 22 |
| "Like that matters" | 29 |
| “Restrooms ahead”? | 26 |
| Start of a Faulkner novel | 25 |
| Faulkner's grime story? | 27 |
| "Dum iaceo moriens" | 29 |
| Work by Erica Faulkner | 22 |
| Family of winged robbers | 24 |
| "... my way" | 22 |
| "___ and breathe!" | 28 |
| The foolish left to perish? | 27 |
| Take ___ (sample some) | 22 |
| Take ___ (taste, as wine) | 25 |
| Take ___ (taste the wine) | 25 |
| Take ___ (sample a drink) | 25 |
| Take __ (drink slowly) | 22 |
| Have ___ (try a drink) | 22 |
| Saudi Arabian province | 22 |
| Province of Saudi Arabia | 24 |
| Region of Saudi Arabia | 22 |
| Saudi Arabian district | 22 |
| Province on the Red Sea | 23 |
| Province in SW Saudi Arabia | 27 |
| Province in Saudi Arabia | 24 |
| Part of Faisal's realm | 26 |
| District of Saudi Arabia | 24 |
| "Do __, not..." | 25 |
| J. Paul Getty autobiography | 27 |
| "My view is ..." | 26 |
| "In my opinion" | 25 |
| Quotation citer's intro? | 28 |
| Parts 3 and 7 of the quip | 25 |
| "___ saying ..." | 26 |
| Try to get dirt on, say | 23 |
| Display some interest in | 24 |
| Think of another question | 25 |
| With suspicion, old-style | 25 |
| Like a sideways glance | 22 |
| Matriarchal buck-passing | 24 |
| Took an informal survey | 23 |
| Part three of the quote | 23 |
| Invited to dinner, perhaps | 26 |
| Invited from the balcony | 24 |
| "When they ___" | 25 |
| Give up a solo effort, say | 26 |
| Personal offer to help | 22 |
| Make impossible demands | 23 |
| Seller's hoped-for number | 29 |
| Henderson, with his metronome | 29 |
| Search engine with a butler | 27 |
| ___ question (inquires) | 23 |
| Makes extraordinary demands | 27 |
| Makes daunting demands (of) | 27 |
| Makes general inquiries | 23 |
| Doesn't know when to quit | 29 |
| Invites for a social call | 25 |
| Invites, as to an apartment | 27 |
| Invites to the top floor unit | 29 |
| Help desk invitation maybe, | 27 |
| "Now I ___!" | 22 |
| Cocktail made with sloe gin | 27 |
| Prog-metal band Animals ___ | 27 |
| Song of warning for sailors | 27 |
| Sailor's favorite tune? | 27 |
| ___ as two peas in a pod | 24 |
| ___ not (in all probably) | 25 |
| In _____ (batting poorly) | 25 |
| "He's ___ fox" | 28 |
| Military weapon: abbr. | 22 |
| Comparable to a wet hen | 23 |
| Comparable to a March hare | 26 |
| Comparable to a wet hen? | 24 |
| From the capital of Eritrea | 27 |
| "___ the eye" | 23 |
| "Service with ___" | 28 |
| 1925 Sinclair Lewis novel | 25 |
| "I thought ---!" | 26 |
| Clear ___ (not clear at all) | 28 |
| Clear -- (hard to understand) | 29 |
| Clear ___ (very unclear) | 24 |
| Middle of an animated query | 27 |
| Unfortunate thing to hit | 24 |
| Hit ___ (run into trouble) | 26 |