| Person of grace and dignity | 27 |
| In the second-best category | 27 |
| English and French, for two | 27 |
| Margot Fonteyn's milieu | 27 |
| Sign-off for Spanish spies? | 27 |
| "La Mer" composer | 27 |
| Robert Graves's emperor | 27 |
| Part of a compound sentence | 27 |
| Part of the pectoral girdle | 27 |
| Catfight participants, e.g. | 27 |
| Tool that can extract nails | 27 |
| Environmentalist's goal | 27 |
| Thoroughly beat somebody up | 27 |
| Freedom from guilt or blame | 27 |
| Places where it's sunny | 27 |
| One iron, in old golf lingo | 27 |
| Climbing plant with flowers | 27 |
| Piano sonata composer Muzio | 27 |
| Political rival of Pericles | 27 |
| Deaf school founder Laurent | 27 |
| 1980s tennis star Jose-Luis | 27 |
| Four-line biographical poem | 27 |
| Miss Marple's discovery | 27 |
| Challenge for rock climbers | 27 |
| Big red dog of kids' TV | 27 |
| Prevailing weather patterns | 27 |
| WHERE ACCOUNTS ARE SETTLED? | 27 |
| Josey Wales portrayer: 1976 | 27 |
| "Cheyenne" hiker? | 27 |
| Like some wings, poetically | 27 |
| Dual-purpose bedroom device | 27 |
| Lively rhythmic entertainer | 27 |
| "ER" actor George | 27 |
| ''Almost!'' | 27 |
| Like most strategy meetings | 27 |
| Neared, with "on" | 27 |
| It may be followed by [sic] | 27 |
| Like one's best friends | 27 |
| Good and bad for a marketer | 27 |
| Subject for a meteorologist | 27 |
| Golf-course restaurant site | 27 |
| Crossword creator, at times | 27 |
| Crossword writer's task | 27 |
| All-white-keys chord: abbr. | 27 |
| Computer technology website | 27 |
| Website with gadget reviews | 27 |
| Provided fuel for an engine | 27 |
| Once-common commercial fuel | 27 |
| Certain fuel storage locale | 27 |
| Like tsunami-affected areas | 27 |
| Putting forth little effort | 27 |
| Parts of some fancy jackets | 27 |
| Having a common axis (Var.) | 27 |
| Andean drug-yielding plants | 27 |
| Tip of the vertebral column | 27 |
| Committee leadership sharer | 27 |
| Dawn-welcomer's welcome | 27 |
| Dire early morning warning? | 27 |
| What stylish gangsters wear | 27 |
| Long-eared dogs, informally | 27 |
| Pilgrim's head covering | 27 |
| Challenge for Henry Higgins | 27 |
| The pig in pigs in blankets | 27 |
| Silkworm's habitat: Fr. | 27 |
| Overfamiliarity with ROT13? | 27 |
| Junior programmer, slangily | 27 |
| Indicators of intelligence? | 27 |
| Ways a fish avoids capture? | 27 |
| Iowa college football team? | 27 |
| Nice thing to do peacefully | 27 |
| Live in the same time frame | 27 |
| "Friends" hotspot | 27 |
| Group who loves dirt (Var.) | 27 |
| Turn over in one's mind | 27 |
| Hairdressers' creations | 27 |
| Washer attachment, at times | 27 |
| Inventing, as an expression | 27 |
| Account with a drug dealer? | 27 |
| Noncaloric cola, familiarly | 27 |
| "Pile of ___ ..." | 27 |
| Hades rarity, it's said | 27 |
| Protective garden structure | 27 |
| They'll give you chills | 27 |
| Group of unfriendly wolves? | 27 |
| Cough-and-sniffles medicine | 27 |
| Big name in outdoor cooking | 27 |
| Like an air-filled lifeboat | 27 |
| Philatelist or numismatist? | 27 |
| "Hold that tiger" | 27 |
| Graduation day V.I.P.'s | 27 |
| Pre-law classroom exercise? | 27 |
| One surrounds the Parthenon | 27 |
| It joined the Union in 1876 | 27 |
| Some broadcast-booth banter | 27 |
| Kid finishing a book, maybe | 27 |
| Child with a box of crayons | 27 |
| What impatient children do? | 27 |
| Everyone who didn't win | 27 |
| Brig. Gen.'s underlings | 27 |
| Noted television lieutenant | 27 |