| Place needing urban renewal | 27 |
| Not the best part of town | 25 |
| Neglected neighborhood | 22 |
| Hardly a high-rent district | 27 |
| Gentrification target, maybe | 28 |
| Gentrification candidate | 24 |
| Candidate for urban renewal | 27 |
| Associate with riffraff | 23 |
| Result of getting sacked? | 25 |
| Reviled property owners | 23 |
| Far removed from uptown | 23 |
| Batter's dry spell | 22 |
| Period of financial weakness | 28 |
| Difficult time for Sosa | 23 |
| Batter's rough patch | 24 |
| Batter's nightmare | 22 |
| Bad spell at the plate | 22 |
| Declined abruptly, as stocks | 28 |
| Batters' cold streaks | 25 |
| Hard times for batters | 22 |
| Urban-renewal candidates | 24 |
| Neglected neighborhoods | 23 |
| Tossed over the shoulder | 24 |
| Placed in a hoisting device | 27 |
| Low-___ (near the ground) | 25 |
| Arc on a musical score | 22 |
| Mudslinger's utterance | 26 |
| Mudslinger's specialty | 26 |
| Speak after one too many | 24 |
| Show evidence of tippling | 25 |
| Many a campaign tactic | 22 |
| Evidence of drunkenness | 23 |
| What the drunkard often does | 28 |
| What drunk rocker will do | 25 |
| What an arc denotes, in music | 29 |
| Tying-over line, in music | 25 |
| Speak like the inebriated | 25 |
| Sot's speech problem | 24 |
| Score connector, in music | 25 |
| Run together, in music | 22 |
| Pronounce indistinctly | 22 |
| Musician's note connector | 29 |
| Musical-phrase connector | 24 |
| Give away being smashed | 23 |
| Fail to enunciate, in a way | 27 |
| Defamation of character | 23 |
| Curve between musical notes | 27 |
| Bit of dirty campaigning | 24 |
| Bit of a loaded conversation? | 29 |
| Below-the-belt comment | 22 |
| "White trash," e.g. | 29 |
| "Lying thief," e.g. | 29 |
| "Dirty rat," e.g. | 27 |
| "Dirtbag," e.g. | 25 |
| Soup eater's sound | 22 |
| Impolite sound at dinner | 24 |
| End-of-milkshake sound | 22 |
| Sound at a soda fountain | 24 |
| Impolite drinking sound | 23 |
| Drink noisily, as soup | 22 |
| Consume noisily, as soup | 24 |
| Chow down chowder noisily | 25 |
| Be unmannerly with soup | 23 |
| Be crude with consommé | 25 |
| Didn't drink daintily | 25 |
| Trademarked chilled drink | 25 |
| Slush Puppie alternative | 24 |
| Noisy nosher's sounds | 25 |
| Makes noise with a straw | 24 |
| Isn't polite with soup | 26 |
| Drinking improprieties | 22 |
| Consumes noisily, as soup | 25 |
| Consumes conspicuously? | 23 |
| Conspicuous consumption? | 24 |
| Like drink-affected speech | 26 |
| Pronounced indistinctly | 23 |
| Mumbled one's words | 23 |
| Like a sot's speech | 23 |
| Like a drunk's speech | 25 |
| Garbled one's words | 23 |
| Clay-and-water mixture | 22 |
| Pronounces indistinctly | 23 |
| Speaks like the inebriated | 26 |
| Portmanteau in pitching | 23 |
| Unsolicited manuscripts | 23 |
| Reason to wear boots, perhaps | 29 |
| Political kind of fund | 22 |
| Over-the-transom manuscripts | 28 |
| Icy fruit-flavored drink | 24 |
| Curbside mess in winter | 23 |
| Washed with lots of water | 25 |
| Walked through melted snow | 26 |
| Fruit-flavored ice drinks | 25 |
| Source of illicit money | 23 |
| Account that could be abused | 28 |
| Money for who-knows-what | 24 |
| Money for political misdeeds | 28 |
| Bribe money at the snow bank? | 29 |
| Like some curbs in winter | 25 |
| Like many a winter road | 23 |