| More in need of rinsing | 23 |
| Not as well-rinsed, perhaps | 27 |
| Filled with more melodrama | 26 |
| "Passions" is one | 27 |
| "Dallas," e.g. | 24 |
| Detergent factory, e.g.? | 24 |
| Ivory, Coast and others | 23 |
| Telenovelas, in English | 23 |
| Some afternoon TV shows | 23 |
| Afternoon entertainment | 23 |
| Where Jack Wagner moonlighted | 29 |
| Vanishing daytime fare | 22 |
| Television "operas" | 29 |
| Tearjerkers, sometimes | 22 |
| Some daytime programming | 24 |
| Shows to do laundry by? | 23 |
| Milieu for Carey and Lucci | 26 |
| Afternoon network fare | 22 |
| Bathroom cleaner target | 23 |
| Daytime drama celebrity | 23 |
| Soft mineral often carved | 25 |
| They're seen around bars | 28 |
| Bubbles in the dishwater | 24 |
| Get oneself in a lather | 23 |
| Pre-rinse condition, perhaps | 28 |
| Like an unrinsed washer load | 28 |
| Verdi product, full of froth? | 29 |
| Fly into the wild blue yonder | 29 |
| Reach new heights, in a way | 27 |
| Head for the stratosphere | 25 |
| Travel in a hot air balloon | 27 |
| Plummet's opposite | 22 |
| What hawks and hopes can do | 27 |
| Triple, quadruple or more | 25 |
| Take off like an eagle | 22 |
| Rise stratospherically | 22 |
| Rise above the ordinary | 23 |
| Leave the turkeys behind | 24 |
| Have flights like kites | 23 |
| Go into the wild blue yonder | 28 |
| Emulate witches on brooms | 25 |
| Do really well, as it were | 26 |
| Rose dramatically, as a stock | 29 |
| Went higher and higher | 22 |
| Rose and rose and rose | 22 |
| Rode a thermal current | 22 |
| Eagles or hawks, at times | 25 |
| Glider pilot's art | 22 |
| Rises to great heights | 22 |
| Heads for the stratosphere | 26 |
| Glides high into the sky | 24 |
| Emulates J. L. Seagull | 22 |
| Reach, as great heights | 23 |
| In order that one might | 23 |
| Dry white Italian wine | 22 |
| Dry, white Italian wine | 23 |
| Dry, white Italian glassful | 27 |
| Dry Italian table wine | 22 |
| White wine from Verona | 22 |
| Italian white wine variety | 26 |
| Dry white Italian glassful | 26 |
| Kind of sister or story | 23 |
| Word with sister or story | 25 |
| Be visibly disconsolate | 23 |
| Kind of story or sister | 23 |
| Word before sister or story | 27 |
| React to a jilting, maybe | 25 |
| Julie Andrews film: 1981 | 24 |
| 1981 Julie Andrews film | 23 |
| Word with sister and story | 26 |
| What a tearjerker evokes | 24 |
| Type of story or sister | 23 |
| Tear up, and then some | 22 |
| Sound after a breakup, maybe | 28 |
| Sister or story starter | 23 |
| Say "boo-hoo" | 23 |
| Revealing Julie Andrews film | 28 |
| One may be choked back | 22 |
| Melodramatic cartoon word | 25 |
| Julie Andrews comedy, 1981 | 26 |
| It's heaved by a weeper | 27 |
| Initials for a dirty guy? | 25 |
| Express despair, in a way | 25 |
| Exhibit despair, in a way | 25 |
| Epithet used by H.S.T. | 22 |
| Comic-book sound effect | 23 |
| Blake Edwards movie: 1981 | 25 |
| Acronym for an asshole | 22 |
| Abbr. for a not-so-nice guy | 27 |
| 1981 satire on Hollywood | 24 |
| 1981 Julie Andrews movie | 24 |
| 1981 Blake Edwards comedy | 25 |
| [I'm heartbroken!] | 22 |
| '81 Julie Andrews comedy | 28 |
| Japanese buckwheat noodle | 25 |
| Noodles in Japanese cookery | 27 |
| Buckwheat noodles of Japan | 26 |
| 1984 Paul McCartney hit | 23 |
| To that terrible extent | 23 |
| Paul McCartney hit of 1984 | 26 |