| Contest headed for overtime | 27 |
| Dressed informally, perhaps | 27 |
| Telephone system connectors | 27 |
| Direct communications links | 27 |
| Require a designated driver | 27 |
| "Laura" star Gene | 27 |
| Bar in a steering mechanism | 27 |
| Steering linkage connectors | 27 |
| Many opera houses have them | 27 |
| Feature of some fancy cakes | 27 |
| They might require overtime | 27 |
| Father's Day favorites? | 27 |
| 10-10 and 4-4, but not 10-4 | 27 |
| Cuff links' mate, maybe | 27 |
| Cord on a tar's hammock | 27 |
| Involve, as a related issue | 27 |
| Computer graphics extension | 27 |
| Princeton or Clemson mascot | 27 |
| Hobbes of comics fame, e.g. | 27 |
| "Easy there, ___" | 27 |
| Seafood cocktail ingredient | 27 |
| Mine-field inspector, maybe | 27 |
| Initials for a royal couple | 27 |
| Kipling's Rikki-__-Tavi | 27 |
| 2010 chart-topper for Ke$ha | 27 |
| Up to that time, poetically | 27 |
| 1961 hit song by The Angels | 27 |
| 'Shop -- you drop!' | 27 |
| Portuguese diacritical mark | 27 |
| Diacritical mark in Spanish | 27 |
| Popular vote winner of 1876 | 27 |
| São Sebastião has two | 27 |
| Shower floor piece, perhaps | 27 |
| It may be stuck to the wall | 27 |
| Ceramic flooring installers | 27 |
| Shoots from stems of plants | 27 |
| Russ Westover's heroine | 27 |
| Early feminist author Olsen | 27 |
| Compartments that hold cash | 27 |
| Result of pushing too hard? | 27 |
| Feature of Earth's axis | 27 |
| Be a little cockeyed, maybe | 27 |
| "Ivanhoe" contest | 27 |
| Soon-to-be loser at pinball | 27 |
| Treasury secretary Geithner | 27 |
| Minnesota governor Pawlenty | 27 |
| San Antonio NBA star Duncan | 27 |
| Roth of "Rob Roy" | 27 |
| Jerry Seinfeld contemporary | 27 |
| Distinctive voice qualities | 27 |
| "Stop the clock!" | 27 |
| This is served in the clink | 27 |
| This is served at Sing Sing | 27 |
| One of a pair of nonwaiters | 27 |
| "The ___ Machine" | 27 |
| "___ on my hands" | 27 |
| Malcolm McDowell film: 1979 | 27 |
| Voyager Golden Record, e.g. | 27 |
| It's swiped to check in | 27 |
| They're punched at work | 27 |
| Officiated at a track event | 27 |
| Like tournament chess games | 27 |
| Cause and effect separators | 27 |
| Having an extended opening? | 27 |
| Chess-tournament constraint | 27 |
| Features of many quiz shows | 27 |
| In tune with current events | 27 |
| Fictional H.G. Wells device | 27 |
| Angry Birds or Tetris, e.g. | 27 |
| TV programmer's concern | 27 |
| New Year's Eve hot spot | 27 |
| Some arithmetic to memorize | 27 |
| Where the past comes alive? | 27 |
| Car-engine valve controller | 27 |
| "_____ of Athens" | 27 |
| Tragedy about a misanthrope | 27 |
| Island of the Lesser Sundas | 27 |
| East -- (nation since 2002) | 27 |
| East __ (nation since 2002) | 27 |
| The Leary that was tripping | 27 |
| James Bond portrayer Dalton | 27 |
| Coarse grass used as fodder | 27 |
| Part of the alloy britannia | 27 |
| Two-thirds of a canine star | 27 |
| Sheriff's star material | 27 |
| Contents of a stannary mine | 27 |
| America "___ Man" | 27 |
| Tom Tom Club's Weymouth | 27 |
| Rock-and-roll singer Turner | 27 |
| Brown of The New Yorker | 27 |
| "S.N.L." alum Fey | 27 |
| Fire-starter's material | 27 |
| Cause of bad singing, often | 27 |
| G.I.'s helmet, slangily | 27 |
| Pixie dust leaver, to Peter | 27 |
| Shakespeare's Sly, e.g. | 27 |
| "Peter Pan" pixie | 27 |
| One famed for heartlessness | 27 |
| 1987 Dreyfuss/DeVito comedy | 27 |
| One of the Flying Wallendas | 27 |