| A pageant winner's title | 28 |
| "My Fair Lady" | 24 |
| March in Atlantic City? | 23 |
| Longed for fog to roll in? | 26 |
| The pool-playing actor __ | 25 |
| Like many a dead letter | 23 |
| Singles to female singles? | 26 |
| Fails to seize the day | 22 |
| Theme-day parade queen | 22 |
| Lillian's seafood platter | 29 |
| Tiara winner in 1991 and 2000 | 29 |
| Item discussed in SALT talks | 28 |
| Hornets and Wasps, e.g. | 23 |
| Falcons and Patriots, e.g. | 26 |
| All the rockets in existence? | 29 |
| Movie about a young diva? | 25 |
| 2003 Kelly Clarkson hit | 23 |
| Evolutionary chain mystery | 26 |
| Anthropological mysteries | 25 |
| Creature not yet found? | 23 |
| Name on a police report | 23 |
| Jigsaw puzzler's bane | 25 |
| Admiral's nightmare? | 24 |
| Longing to see Italy again? | 27 |
| Ground-to-satellite problem? | 28 |
| "Impossible" on TV | 28 |
| Battle site: Nov. 25, 1863 | 26 |
| He has creed, will travel | 25 |
| Movie franchise since 1996 | 26 |
| Deportment on the Discovery? | 28 |
| Informal word for a wife | 24 |
| Household head, perhaps | 23 |
| "The little woman" | 28 |
| "Little woman" | 24 |
| Area explored by De Soto | 24 |
| Hawk of West and South | 22 |
| MAGNOLIA MICHAEL AND FAMILY | 27 |
| Setting for Faulkner or Twain | 29 |
| How a young lady succeeds? | 26 |
| The Mad Barbara Stanwyck | 27 |
| Christie's gumshoe | 22 |
| Christie's female tec | 25 |
| Agatha Christie sleuth | 22 |
| Springtime Playboy honoree | 26 |
| Mary Ann Mobley, in 1959 | 24 |
| Annual Vicksburg pageant | 24 |
| One of 51 in Atlantic City | 26 |
| Stick in the wrong place | 24 |
| Wisconsin pageant title | 23 |
| Cole Porter classic of 1934 | 27 |
| University of Montana site | 26 |
| People who must be shown | 24 |
| Pass up an opportunity | 22 |
| Like hors d'ouevres | 23 |
| Squandered early years | 22 |
| Vicksburg lithographs? | 22 |
| Start of the accusation | 23 |
| Cohort of Professor Plum | 24 |
| "Clue" suspect | 24 |
| Get off on the wrong foot | 25 |
| Requiring a retraction | 22 |
| Gave a false account of | 23 |
| Contest winner from the South | 29 |
| One of fifty-one in a pageant | 29 |
| Come too late for the dance | 27 |
| Fall short, so to speak | 23 |
| Recipient of a 1300-gem crown | 29 |
| Big annual beauty contest | 25 |
| Lady of the house, familiarly | 29 |
| Title first awarded in 1952 | 27 |
| Pageant title since 1952 | 24 |
| Wearer of a crown since 1952 | 28 |
| Pageant owned by Donald Trump | 29 |
| Beauty pageant since 1952 | 25 |
| Mariah Carey Christmas song | 27 |
| F.D.R.'s secretary et al. | 29 |
| Capable of getting all wrong | 28 |
| Regret of a reformed thief? | 27 |
| Colorful fog phenomenon | 23 |
| Watered sparingly, in a way | 27 |
| Like many houseplants, daily | 28 |
| Covered with a fine spray | 25 |
| Stereotypical gangster leader | 29 |
| Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson | 28 |
| Expert on Icelandic sagas? | 26 |
| Ms. magazine competitor? | 24 |
| Doctor Jekyll's alter ego | 29 |
| Don't mess with him! | 24 |
| Call a jab a hook, e.g. | 23 |
| Nearsighted TV character | 24 |
| Calls a spade a diamond, e.g. | 29 |
| Unfailingly friendly fellow | 27 |
| Man of one's dreams | 23 |
| 1954 #1 hit by the Chordettes | 29 |
| Title for a touchy person | 25 |
| Mess up, as a punch line | 24 |
| Do at the wrong moment | 22 |
| Choose the wrong moment | 23 |
| Done at the wrong moment | 24 |
| Is too soon or too late | 23 |