| Declaration commemoration | 25 |
| What we observe on July 4 | 25 |
| Kick-off time for summer | 24 |
| It began in Philadelphia | 24 |
| Highest-grossing film of 1996 | 29 |
| Firecrackers go off on it | 25 |
| Divorcee's favorite time? | 29 |
| Pennsylvania attraction | 23 |
| Movie for the unaffiliated? | 27 |
| Nonpartisan celebration? | 24 |
| Onetime library catalog need | 28 |
| 3x5 office supply item | 22 |
| Like most reference books | 25 |
| Like stocks and almanacs | 24 |
| Like almanacs, usually | 22 |
| Listing alphabetically | 22 |
| Librarian's assignmenT | 26 |
| Shade of blue: Comb. form | 25 |
| Singer with a punctuated name | 29 |
| Fluid for a cartoonist | 22 |
| Cartoonist's choice | 23 |
| Calligrapher's medium | 25 |
| How some jokes are told | 23 |
| Hoosier State regulation? | 25 |
| Locale of Hoosier beaches? | 26 |
| NBA team taking a siesta? | 25 |
| Butler U.'s location | 24 |
| Birthplace of David Letterman | 29 |
| Night spots in New Delhi? | 25 |
| World's fair pavilion | 25 |
| The smell of Geronimo? | 22 |
| Ceylon's waterfront | 23 |
| Feller and Garcia, for years | 28 |
| Over a billion South Asians | 27 |
| Gandhi and Sitting Bull | 23 |
| Hot time in Cleveland? | 22 |
| Hot times in Cleveland? | 23 |
| U.S. statehood entrant: 1907 | 28 |
| Site of a land rush, once | 25 |
| Okla. from 1820 to 1840 | 23 |
| Hitchhiker from Calcutta? | 25 |
| Mythical Asian creature? | 24 |
| Two-man test of strength | 24 |
| Soft, plain-woven fabric | 24 |
| Sanskrit's language group | 29 |
| Sanskrit or Hindi, e.g. | 23 |
| Punjabi or Bengali, e.g. | 24 |
| Of some Bengali languages | 25 |
| Of a Pakistani language | 23 |
| Hindi is a subgroup of it | 25 |
| Grammarian's mood: Abbr. | 28 |
| Bengali language group | 22 |
| Unemployment rate, e.g. | 23 |
| Economist's figure | 22 |
| Do a grand jury's job | 25 |
| Accuse of a crime in court | 26 |
| Formally charge, in court | 25 |
| Do a grand-jury function | 24 |
| Charge with an offense | 22 |
| Brought charges against | 23 |
| Non-label musical group | 23 |
| Sundance entry, informally | 26 |
| The Decemberists genre | 22 |
| They prey on small mammals | 26 |
| Tennis drop shot from Gandhi? | 29 |
| Needing replacement parts | 25 |
| Compose, as a poem or a story | 29 |
| White metallic element | 22 |
| Not easily discouraged | 22 |
| People who work in Java | 23 |
| Winter league activity | 22 |
| Concerts held in arenas? | 24 |
| Shusher's recommendation | 28 |
| Feature of some fancy resorts | 29 |
| City in Madhya Pradesh | 22 |
| Chief of the Vedic gods | 23 |
| Vedic god of rain and thunder | 29 |
| Hindu god of weather and war | 28 |
| Hindu god of war and weather | 28 |
| Chief god of the early Hindus | 29 |
| Chief god of early Hinduism | 27 |
| Like RuPaul, when performing | 28 |
| Turned out surprisingly? | 24 |
| How Hoffman played Tootsie | 26 |
| Department in central France | 28 |
| Ready to roll, as a car | 23 |
| How herds of cattle arrive? | 27 |
| Neither Dems. nor Reps. | 23 |
| Unaffiliated voters (abbr.) | 27 |
| Unaffiliated voters: Abbr. | 26 |
| Some candidates: Abbr. | 22 |
| Some candidates (abbr.) | 23 |
| Pol. middle-of-the-roaders | 26 |
| Middle-of-the-roaders: Abbr. | 28 |
| 1991-95 Tour de France champ | 28 |
| High-finance football team | 26 |
| Heavy-duty windbreaker? | 23 |
| Exists as an activating force | 29 |
| STP logo sporter, perhaps | 25 |
| Race-sanctioning biggie | 23 |