| Combat pilots' missions | 27 |
| Puts into neat little piles | 27 |
| It may be tapped out at sea | 27 |
| Smoke signal message, maybe | 27 |
| Skipper's distress call | 27 |
| Mariner's distress call | 27 |
| Mariner's call for help | 27 |
| "Mayday" relative | 27 |
| ''Mayday!'' | 27 |
| Universal signal since 1908 | 27 |
| Sparks's desperate call | 27 |
| Ocean's "911" | 27 |
| International distress sig. | 27 |
| "Mayday! Mayday!" | 27 |
| ···---··· | 27 |
| 1998 home run record chaser | 27 |
| Slugger who rivaled McGwire | 27 |
| Slugger who retired in 2009 | 27 |
| McGwire's rival in 1998 | 27 |
| Hitter of 66 homers in 1998 | 27 |
| Hard-hitting guy in Chicago | 27 |
| Former home run champ Sammy | 27 |
| "My heart bleeds" | 27 |
| "It's a pity" | 27 |
| Passable, but that's it | 27 |
| "Could be better" | 27 |
| Like a .250 batting average | 27 |
| Adjective for a .250 hitter | 27 |
| "Nothing special" | 27 |
| Thumbs-sideways from Ebert? | 27 |
| "Get used to it!" | 27 |
| One known to hit the bottle | 27 |
| One who sees pink elephants | 27 |
| Pope St. ___: 166–75 | 27 |
| "Yeah ... anyway" | 27 |
| "Na na na-na na!" | 27 |
| 'Serves you right!' | 27 |
| Clip of Maisie at the beach | 27 |
| 'And -- bed': Pepys | 27 |
| "Got that right!" | 27 |
| They're often plastered | 27 |
| They don't pass the bar | 27 |
| Teetotalers they're not | 27 |
| Five centimes in old France | 27 |
| Niçoise nickel no longer | 27 |
| One second in a restaurant? | 27 |
| Aretha Franklin's genre | 27 |
| Aretha Franklin's music | 27 |
| 1967 hit for Sam & Dave | 27 |
| Safe and __ (out of danger) | 27 |
| Quick quote in a news story | 27 |
| Simon & Garfunkel album | 27 |
| Mulligatawny or consommé | 27 |
| ___ up (like some jalopies) | 27 |
| Chowder eater's utensil | 27 |
| Improve a muscle car engine | 27 |
| Make more awesome, as a car | 27 |
| Pie-in-the-face comic Sales | 27 |
| Potential cooking disaster? | 27 |
| Bibliography acknowledgment | 27 |
| Reporter's requirements | 27 |
| California Gold Rush staple | 27 |
| Role for Clifton Webb: 1952 | 27 |
| Monty Python theme composer | 27 |
| March master John Philip __ | 27 |
| The March King's family | 27 |
| Supreme Court Justice David | 27 |
| Sotomayor's predecessor | 27 |
| Where birds fly in the fall | 27 |
| Dixie, with "The" | 27 |
| Province of the Netherlands | 27 |
| From Polynesia and environs | 27 |
| Trip to Tahiti, for example | 27 |
| Remembrance of things past? | 27 |
| Tar's heading, casually | 27 |
| Former Soho coin, for short | 27 |
| Townships near Johannesburg | 27 |
| Put in the ground, in a way | 27 |
| Indulge in youthful follies | 27 |
| Item unfit for a silk purse | 27 |
| They may be Red in baseball | 27 |
| Fenway Park nine, for short | 27 |
| A.L.'s Red or White ___ | 27 |
| Bobby-___ ('40s figure) | 27 |
| Protein derived from a bean | 27 |
| Source of vegetable protein | 27 |
| Environmental source of ink | 27 |
| Chinese restaurant giveaway | 27 |
| Cantonese cuisine condiment | 27 |
| Bacon composition, at times | 27 |
| Multipurpose protein source | 27 |
| ___ bean (versatile legume) | 27 |
| Where fat cats get less fat | 27 |
| Where you might get steamed | 27 |
| Where one might get steamed | 27 |
| Where losing is intentional | 27 |
| Where exfoliation may occur | 27 |
| Resort with mineral springs | 27 |
| Place of therapeutic waters | 27 |
| New Age music player, often | 27 |