| Second NAACP president | 22 |
| Medal awarded by the NAACP | 26 |
| Heavyweight Leon or Michael | 27 |
| He defeated Ali: Feb. 1978 | 26 |
| Music magazine editors? | 23 |
| Public relations budget? | 24 |
| Balletic basketball maneuver | 28 |
| Sail at the America's Cup | 29 |
| Sail for a downwind course | 26 |
| Revolving fishing lure | 22 |
| Part of many board games | 24 |
| Board-game component, perhaps | 29 |
| Web-making part of a spider | 27 |
| Tale tellers, sometimes | 23 |
| Stationary biking group | 23 |
| Yarn-producing machine | 22 |
| Conical children's toy | 26 |
| Old-fashioned textile device | 28 |
| Yarn-making device of yore | 26 |
| Machine for making yarn | 23 |
| Colonial household need | 23 |
| Blood Sweat and Tears hit | 29 |
| Old yarn-making machines | 24 |
| Second-generation shows | 23 |
| Armed like a porcupine | 22 |
| Lose control at the Indy 500 | 28 |
| 17th-century rationalist | 24 |
| Twirl members of the clergy? | 28 |
| Doesn't buy a vowel | 23 |
| Turns of the roulette wheel | 27 |
| Music radio station data | 24 |
| Emulates Rumpelstiltskin | 24 |
| Does a deejay's job | 23 |
| Distorts for political gain | 27 |
| Certain board game turns | 24 |
| Sells, as a subsidiary | 22 |
| Goes from Alice to Flo | 22 |
| Expends energy with no result | 29 |
| Bachelor's counterpart | 26 |
| Miss Marple or Miss Havisham | 28 |
| Frumpy loner, stereotypically | 29 |
| Eleanor Rigby, for one | 22 |
| Bachelorette, pejoratively | 26 |
| Play a Merv Griffin creation | 28 |
| Like the barrel cactus | 22 |
| Like hedgehogs and cacti | 24 |
| Having some hard processes | 26 |
| Prickly trait carrier? | 22 |
| Moldings at base of a column | 28 |
| Insect's opening for air | 28 |
| Well-thrown football pass | 25 |
| Shape of the Milky Way | 22 |
| Pasta or staircase shape | 24 |
| Inflation, metaphorically | 25 |
| Godsmack song that winds? | 25 |
| Form of a well-thrown pigskin | 29 |
| Common notebook binding | 23 |
| Rotated, as a football | 22 |
| Went around and around | 22 |
| Passed a football in a way | 26 |
| Increased, as inflation | 23 |
| Flew like a football pass | 25 |
| Strains on pocketbooks | 22 |
| Do the wage-price routine | 25 |
| Quarterback's ideal | 23 |
| Certain football passes | 23 |
| Well-thrown football passes | 27 |
| Passes by Montana, usually | 26 |
| One way to get up and around? | 29 |
| Medieval castle feature | 23 |
| It gets you up and around | 25 |
| Talent show contestant | 22 |
| Voiceless, in phonetics | 23 |
| Skyline sight, perhaps | 22 |
| A church could have one | 23 |
| Tapering church feature | 23 |
| Skyline sight, sometimes | 24 |
| Empire State Building peak | 26 |
| Chrysler Building feature | 25 |
| Upper part of a steeple | 23 |
| Trinity Church feature | 22 |
| Transamerica Pyramid feature | 28 |
| The point of a church? | 22 |
| Small-town skyline feature | 26 |
| Pyramidal peak, perhaps | 23 |
| Part of a village skyline | 25 |
| One making a point at church? | 29 |
| Spring-flowering shrub | 22 |
| Shrub also called meadowsweet | 29 |
| Rose-related flowering shrub | 28 |
| Common flowering shrub | 22 |
| Bridal wreath, for one | 22 |
| Like Independence Hall | 22 |
| Small town skyline sights | 25 |
| Parts of a city skyline | 23 |
| Part of a New England skyline | 29 |
| Bryce Canyon formations | 23 |
| Word on Lindbergh's plane | 29 |
| Party to a séance | 24 |
| Haunted-house resident | 22 |