| Twangy stringed instrument | 26 |
| Twangy musical instrument | 25 |
| Instrument for a rock star | 26 |
| Metallic playing marble | 23 |
| Certain playing marble | 22 |
| More intense, as a stare | 24 |
| Powerful shooter marbles | 24 |
| Rainbow trouts, informally | 26 |
| Nickname for 1943 pennies | 25 |
| Metallic playing marbles | 24 |
| Certain playing marbles | 23 |
| Most intense, as a gaze | 23 |
| Features of some bear traps | 27 |
| Roberts-Fields-Parton film | 26 |
| Broadway debut in 2005 | 22 |
| Bessemer-converter owners | 25 |
| Carnegie's cronies | 22 |
| Where heavy metal was founded | 29 |
| Where some plates are made | 26 |
| Skeet shooting challenge? | 25 |
| Fills with determination | 24 |
| Brace oneself for a storm? | 26 |
| Feature of some Doc Martens | 27 |
| Component of some clogs | 23 |
| Common work boot feature | 24 |
| Eastern city's nickname | 27 |
| Metaphor for a sharp mind | 25 |
| What a sharp mind is like | 25 |
| Symbol for a sharp mind | 23 |
| Like Einstein's mind | 24 |
| Comparison for some minds | 25 |
| Keen minds, metaphorically | 26 |
| Part of a suit of armor | 23 |
| 1989 Rolling Stones album | 25 |
| Sink-side item, perhaps | 23 |
| Abrasive polishing aid | 22 |
| Under-the-sink cleaners | 23 |
| Unwavering, as a stare | 22 |
| Like a cold, hard gaze | 22 |
| Harsh, as some glances | 22 |
| Donald Fagen band ___ Dan | 25 |
| Metalworkers' locales | 25 |
| 'Deacon Blues' band | 27 |
| One of the Dutch Masters | 24 |
| Jan ___, Dutch painter | 22 |
| The Cat Family painter | 25 |
| Dutch painter: 1626–79 | 29 |
| Dutch painter Jan ____ | 22 |
| 17th-century painter Jan | 24 |
| 17th-century Dutch painter | 26 |
| "Serenade" painter | 28 |
| Some Rijksmuseum paintings | 26 |
| Some Rijksmuseum holdings | 25 |
| Painter Jan and family | 22 |
| Cheap's rhyming antonym | 27 |
| Likely to cause sticker shock | 29 |
| Like the face of El Capitan | 27 |
| Awfully high, as a price | 24 |
| Hard to climb, perhaps | 22 |
| Extremely high, as prices | 25 |
| Cheap's rhyming opposite | 28 |
| Brew in a teapot, e.g. | 22 |
| Tough to climb, perhaps | 23 |
| Tough to climb, in a way | 24 |
| Like the fiscal cliff? | 22 |
| Like some admission charges | 27 |
| Like inflationary prices | 24 |
| Like El Capitan's face | 26 |
| Like an uphill battle? | 22 |
| Like a canyon's sides | 25 |
| Considerable, as discounts | 26 |
| Adjective for a canyon wall | 27 |
| Prepared tea, in a way | 22 |
| Like tea bags, traditionally | 28 |
| Completely absorbed (in) | 24 |
| Increase, as an incline | 23 |
| Become more declivitous | 23 |
| Necessitate a change in gears | 29 |
| Increase one's grade? | 25 |
| Increase in verticality | 23 |
| Become more precipitous | 23 |
| Gets more arduous, in a way | 27 |
| Inclines more and more | 22 |
| Becomes more precipitous | 24 |
| Most difficult to climb | 23 |
| Mountain-road warning sign | 26 |
| Marathoner's challenge | 26 |
| San Francisco trademark | 23 |
| Skyline feature, perhaps | 24 |
| Word with chase or jack | 23 |
| Village skyline highlight | 25 |
| Jack must be nimble here | 24 |
| Feature of the high church? | 27 |
| A spire is part of one | 22 |
| Competition for pastors? | 24 |
| Places for church bells | 23 |
| Locales of some belfries | 24 |
| How gas prices sometimes rise | 29 |
| How gables are pitched | 22 |
| Wets through and through | 24 |