| Overwhelms by argument | 22 |
| Workplace for Reps. and Dems. | 29 |
| House and Senate: Abbr. | 23 |
| Capitol Hill group: Abbr. | 25 |
| Attached houses?: Abbr. | 23 |
| Did a Cuban ballroom dance | 26 |
| Joined a reception line? | 24 |
| Joined a line, in a way | 23 |
| They provide plenty of kicks | 28 |
| Group of dancing Brits? | 23 |
| Of the same biological group | 28 |
| Like a pageant prize winner | 27 |
| Sniggler's instruments? | 27 |
| Like many a cold sufferer | 25 |
| Indication of a stuffy head | 27 |
| New kind of corporation | 23 |
| Class on an African river? | 26 |
| Certain central African | 23 |
| Brazzaville inhabitants | 23 |
| African living in Kinshasa | 26 |
| The act of felicitating | 23 |
| Word on a birthday card | 23 |
| Hallmark store section | 22 |
| Greetings to new parents | 24 |
| "Mazel Tov!" | 22 |
| Cunning bloodhound? O-no! | 25 |
| One who paints dunce caps? | 26 |
| Parabolas, ellipses, etc. | 25 |
| Ellipses, parabolas, etc. | 25 |
| Monkey puzzle tree, e.g. | 24 |
| Prisoner who's a dunce? | 27 |
| Phrase connector, briefly | 25 |
| And, if, or but: Abbr. | 22 |
| Conclude by presumption | 23 |
| Marks get taken by them | 23 |
| Between husband and wife | 24 |
| Recite a verb's forms | 25 |
| Latin student's task | 24 |
| Practice an occult art | 22 |
| Imagine, with "up" | 28 |
| Swindle court appointees? | 25 |
| Piano composer ___ Nancarrow | 28 |
| Hank Morgan, in a Twain tale | 28 |
| Child vis-a-vis numbered dots | 29 |
| What a slur does to notes | 25 |
| "Roseanne" surname | 28 |
| Roseanne and family, on TV | 26 |
| Boxer Billy's racket? | 25 |
| Dan's co-anchor in 1994 | 27 |
| Amusement park-going girl? | 26 |
| Angry outburst, redundantly | 27 |
| Secretly plots to harm | 22 |
| Graffiti on a jail wall? | 24 |
| Suggest, as associations | 24 |
| Directs a ship's helmsman | 29 |
| Product of a Spanish pine | 25 |
| White Sox baseman Gillaspie | 27 |
| Emulate William I of England | 28 |
| Made progress in therapy | 24 |
| Pete and Neil who took steps | 28 |
| "Much Ado" role | 25 |
| Writer Aiken and actor Bain | 27 |
| Start of a paraphrased quote | 28 |
| Occasional I.R.S. windfall | 26 |
| Deferred payment of a sort | 26 |
| A committee may reach it | 24 |
| One who didn't say no? | 26 |
| Path for the risk-averse | 24 |
| Saved, as one's strength | 28 |
| Against lateral portions? | 25 |
| "Right away, boss" | 28 |
| Hand over, as for sale | 22 |
| Assist financially, in a way | 28 |
| Second-hand kind of shop | 24 |
| Comprising band members | 23 |
| British government security | 27 |
| Say 'there, there' | 26 |
| Pilot's instrument panel | 28 |
| Sympathetic supporters | 22 |
| Offers a shoulder to cry on | 27 |
| Gives emotional strength to | 27 |
| Comforter's activity | 24 |
| Prepared the first course? | 26 |
| There's only one in Iowa | 28 |
| Letters, for the most part | 26 |
| Groups in joint ventures | 24 |
| Ones who sleep with queens? | 27 |
| Grist for a Dan Brown novel | 27 |
| Emulate Brutus and Cassius | 26 |
| Occasionally amended doc. | 25 |
| Building business, for short | 28 |
| Like the speed of light | 23 |
| Pestering, redundantly | 22 |
| Things that don't change | 28 |
| They're not variable | 24 |
| Mozart's bride in 1782 | 26 |
| Fill with anxiety or dread | 26 |
| Leading Georgia newspaper | 25 |
| A walk around the deck, e.g. | 28 |
| Walks once taken by Truman | 26 |