| Hitter of 66 homers in 1998 | 27 |
| Hard-hitting guy in Chicago | 27 |
| Former Rangers slugger Sammy | 28 |
| Former home run champ Sammy | 27 |
| Dominican-born baseball star | 28 |
| Diamond-dominating Dominican | 28 |
| Cubs' sluggin' Sammy | 28 |
| Cub #21 of the 1990s-2000s | 26 |
| Chicago diamond cutter? | 23 |
| Annual home run derby name | 26 |
| 600 Home Run Club member | 24 |
| 1998 N.L. M.V.P. from Chicago | 29 |
| 1997-99 N.L. strikeout leader | 29 |
| '98 homerun derby name | 26 |
| Â Â Sluggin' Sammy | 28 |
| "Such a tragedy" | 26 |
| Enough to make you cry | 22 |
| Lament after a loss, maybe | 26 |
| 1960 Everly Brothers tune | 25 |
| "What a tragedy" | 26 |
| "That sucks" | 22 |
| "My heart bleeds" | 27 |
| "Just terrible" | 25 |
| "It's a pity" | 27 |
| "I feel for you" | 26 |
| Latin singer Mercedes and kin | 29 |
| Family of Slammin' Sammy | 28 |
| 2003 single from The Shins | 26 |
| Not great, not horrible | 23 |
| Passable, but that's it | 27 |
| Not great, not terrible | 23 |
| Eliciting a shrug, perhaps | 26 |
| "OK, I guess" | 23 |
| Nothing to get excited about | 28 |
| Neither great nor terrible | 26 |
| Neither great nor awful | 23 |
| "Could be better" | 27 |
| Worthy of a C, perhaps | 22 |
| Rating two stars, perhaps | 25 |
| Neither terrible nor great | 26 |
| Like a .250 batting average | 27 |
| Between great and terrible | 26 |
| Barely adequate, maybe | 22 |
| Adjective for a .250 hitter | 27 |
| "Nothing special" | 27 |
| Mediocre steamed dish? | 22 |
| ''Already?'' | 28 |
| "Leaving already?" | 28 |
| Response to an early returner | 29 |
| "This early?" | 23 |
| "Going already?" | 26 |
| Thumbs-sideways from Ebert? | 27 |
| It might have two stars | 23 |
| Words after "Oops!" | 29 |
| "My sympathies" | 25 |
| "Beg your pardon!" | 28 |
| 'A thousand pardons' | 28 |
| Mediocre follower of Marx? | 26 |
| Mediocre women's club | 25 |
| Pot-cleaning implement | 22 |
| Brand-name pot scrubber | 23 |
| Under-the-sink scourers | 23 |
| They're used to scour | 25 |
| Roman epithet for Juno | 22 |
| Prolonged, in music: Abbr. | 26 |
| Slowed musical passage | 22 |
| "See if I care" | 25 |
| Flippant response to a rebuke | 29 |
| Flip response to a complaint | 28 |
| "Well, sorr-ry!" | 26 |
| "Well, sorr-r-r-y!" | 29 |
| "Well, sor-RY!" | 25 |
| "Tough noogies!" | 26 |
| "Get used to it!" | 27 |
| Thoroughbred farm slur? | 23 |
| One known to hit the bottle | 27 |
| One unlikely to pass the bar | 28 |
| One dominated by spirits? | 25 |
| One who drinks too much | 23 |
| One unlikely to pass the bar? | 29 |
| One in need of drying out | 25 |
| One always taking shots? | 24 |
| Inveterate brown-bagger | 23 |
| Sighter of pink elephants | 25 |
| Overindulger of a sort | 22 |
| One with bottled-up feelings? | 29 |
| One with a gut full of rotgut | 29 |
| One who's very wet? | 23 |
| One who's usually gone | 26 |
| One who's all wet? | 22 |
| One who sees pink elephants | 27 |
| One who rarely passes the bar | 29 |
| One who may not be served | 25 |
| One who likes cheap shots? | 26 |
| One who is quite a downer? | 26 |
| One seeing pink elephants | 25 |
| One living the high life? | 25 |
| One likely to go [hic!] | 23 |
| One likely to be cut off | 24 |
| One in the spirit world? | 24 |