| Make a windy pronouncement? | 27 |
| Make a romantic pronouncement | 29 |
| South, in bridge columns | 24 |
| One possibly seeking a slam | 27 |
| Bridge player who calls trump | 29 |
| Offers up a fighting chance? | 28 |
| Lower in the social status | 26 |
| Bust to a private, say | 22 |
| Like a disowned debutante | 25 |
| Render harmless, in a way | 25 |
| Render harmless, perhaps | 24 |
| Make unable to scratch | 22 |
| Rendered harmless, in a way | 27 |
| Making less threatening | 23 |
| Evelyn Waugh novel: 1928 | 24 |
| Says "No, thanks" | 27 |
| Investors' worries | 22 |
| Make extracts from by boiling | 29 |
| Concentrates, in a way | 22 |
| Boils down, like an extract | 27 |
| Cryptologist's rant? | 24 |
| Uses a key on, perhaps | 22 |
| Emulates a cryptographer | 24 |
| Low neckline on a dress | 23 |
| Radiation cleanup, for short | 28 |
| Purification process, briefly | 29 |
| Activity for the E.P.A. | 23 |
| One goal of the E.P.A. | 22 |
| Place a medal upon a hero | 25 |
| Highly regarded, militarily | 27 |
| Pre-Christmas preparation #1 | 28 |
| Another name for this day | 25 |
| Marked by dignity and taste | 27 |
| Appropriate social behavior | 27 |
| They employ red herrings | 24 |
| Without youthful vigor | 22 |
| Infamous 1941 date, briefly | 27 |
| Christmas times: Abbr. | 22 |
| Like some races and hopes | 25 |
| 1958 Frankie Avalon hit | 23 |
| Pfeiffer of 'Cybill' | 28 |
| Honor, with "to" | 26 |
| Name in the front of a book | 27 |
| Makes a commitment (to) | 23 |
| Like Sherlock's methods | 27 |
| Transferred, as property | 24 |
| Transferred property legally | 28 |
| Transferred an estate, e.g. | 27 |
| Actress-singer Sandra ___ | 25 |
| Butter-loving TV chef Paula | 27 |
| Paula of the Food Network | 25 |
| Celebrity chef in hot water | 27 |
| Bobby or Jamie of cooking | 25 |
| TV chef, to her critics? | 24 |
| "As ___ the ocean" | 28 |
| Poor alternative to the Devil | 29 |
| Places for diving boards | 24 |
| Doughnuts are fried in it | 25 |
| How some Oreos are eaten | 24 |
| Ambulance chaser's target | 29 |
| "Machine Head" band | 29 |
| Cincinnati color scheme? | 24 |
| Bathysphere's milieu | 24 |
| Lanternfish's home | 22 |
| Intervals on a sounding line | 28 |
| Chasms in the Black and White | 29 |
| Areas explored by submarines | 28 |
| Difficult to eradicate | 22 |
| Ocean salvaging equipment | 25 |
| Sound that's heaved | 23 |
| Outside the solar system | 24 |
| Probe's destination | 23 |
| The Grand Canyon, e.g.? | 23 |
| Marceau very far from Earth? | 28 |
| A "Star Trek" | 23 |
| 90's TV spinoff series | 26 |
| 'Star Trek' spin-off | 28 |
| Famed Watergate tipster | 23 |
| Advice-giving ruminant? | 23 |
| Horn-to-horn contact sport? | 27 |
| Large dog bred for hunting | 26 |
| Norman Mailer's town | 24 |
| Colonial clothing material | 26 |
| Leather for a frontiersman | 26 |
| Fur trader's supply | 23 |
| Hat favored by Sherlock Homes | 29 |
| Middle of a driver's quip | 29 |
| Byzantine church icons | 22 |
| Kipling's ill-fated Danny | 29 |
| Kipling's dastardly Danny | 29 |
| Heroic Kipling soldier | 22 |
| "E.T." actress | 24 |
| Scratched the surface? | 22 |
| Murderer's graffiti? | 24 |
| Tag a clock with graffiti? | 26 |
| For all intents and purposes | 28 |
| Actual, even if not by law | 26 |
| Render harmless, as a snake | 27 |
| Neutralize, as a cobra | 22 |
| Takes the bite out of? | 22 |