| NCAA tournament nail-biters | 27 |
| Decisive periods, for short | 27 |
| Sudden-death periods: Abbr. | 27 |
| Sudden death periods: Abbr. | 27 |
| Some sports score notations | 27 |
| Some March Madness finishes | 27 |
| Some game enders, for short | 27 |
| Shootout preceders, briefly | 27 |
| Exciting periods, for short | 27 |
| Exciting periods in the NHL | 27 |
| Exciting NBA periods: Abbr. | 27 |
| County of Cooperstown, N.Y. | 27 |
| Baseball's Little Giant | 27 |
| Legendary Giant slugger Mel | 27 |
| Twenty-two-season Giant Mel | 27 |
| Polo Grounds legend Mel (3) | 27 |
| Legendary Mel of the Giants | 27 |
| Giants manager of the 1940s | 27 |
| Giant star in three decades | 27 |
| 1936-38 N.L. home run champ | 27 |
| Ontario-Quebec border river | 27 |
| Capital on the Rideau Canal | 27 |
| Quebec/Ontario border river | 27 |
| School : fish :: raft : ___ | 27 |
| 'Beetle Bailey' dog | 27 |
| Comics dog in army fatigues | 27 |
| Sgt. Snorkel's sidekick | 27 |
| Graham of the gridiron fame | 27 |
| First king of modern Greece | 27 |
| “Beetle Bailey” dog | 27 |
| Aviation pioneer Lilienthal | 27 |
| "Simpsons" driver | 27 |
| ___ the Great: 10th century | 27 |
| Holy Roman emperor, 962-973 | 27 |
| Several Holy Roman emperors | 27 |
| HRE's the Great and son | 27 |
| Giant legend Mel and family | 27 |
| Reaction to an insect bite? | 27 |
| Opposite of "aah" | 27 |
| Cry when attacked by a tack | 27 |
| Should, with "to" | 27 |
| "You __ to know!" | 27 |
| Opposite of "non" | 27 |
| Marie Louise de la Ramée | 27 |
| A Dog of Flanders author | 27 |
| Smallish weight measurement | 27 |
| An ____ of prevention . . . | 27 |
| "___ Miss Brooks" | 27 |
| The Lord's Prayer start | 27 |
| Lord's Prayer beginning | 27 |
| Not yours or mine, yet both | 27 |
| Owned jointly by you and me | 27 |
| "Victory is ___!" | 27 |
| Any of three English rivers | 27 |
| River through York, England | 27 |
| Opposite of safe, sometimes | 27 |
| "Lemme ___ here!" | 27 |
| Bested, as Takeru Kobayashi | 27 |
| Surpass at the dinner table | 27 |
| Best at putting things away | 27 |
| Word before limits or space | 27 |
| USS Enterprise milieu | 27 |
| Payment to the I.R.S., e.g. | 27 |
| Bargain-hunter's locale | 27 |
| Words before sight and mind | 27 |
| R.E.M. "___ Time" | 27 |
| ___ order (not functioning) | 27 |
| More than three miles away? | 27 |
| Common vending-machine sign | 27 |
| Like melons in spring, e.g. | 27 |
| Words before bail or parole | 27 |
| The triple in a triple play | 27 |
| The triple of a triple play | 27 |
| Ballpark scoreboard posting | 27 |
| The double of a double play | 27 |
| Rural-urban transition area | 27 |
| Clear, highly potent liquor | 27 |
| Fertility clinic collection | 27 |
| Breakfast item in old Rome? | 27 |
| Some progametes, eventually | 27 |
| Nero's breakfast order? | 27 |
| Necessities for pregnancies | 27 |
| Basis for Ovid's omelet | 27 |
| Like one White House office | 27 |
| 440-yard long path, perhaps | 27 |
| Coffee-table shape, perhaps | 27 |
| A Perfect Circle's logo | 27 |
| High-level Washington place | 27 |
| Shapes of many roller rinks | 27 |
| One end of a fallopian tube | 27 |
| In the form of a race track | 27 |
| Pizzeria's sine qua non | 27 |
| They're often preheated | 27 |
| "___ the Rainbow" | 27 |
| Continued on the other side | 27 |
| In a managerial position to | 27 |
| Final Jimmy Eat World song? | 27 |
| In the tenth month, perhaps | 27 |
| One taking too many courses | 27 |
| Made extensive revisions to | 27 |