| Charlie Chan's #1 and #2 | 28 |
| Business partners, sometimes | 28 |
| Natasha Rostova's friend | 28 |
| U.S./Canada's ___ Canals | 28 |
| Superior–Huron canals | 28 |
| It's better, in a phrase | 28 |
| Better, to an impatient boss | 28 |
| Distinguished Chinese family | 28 |
| André and Mia adopted her | 28 |
| Like an active chimney sweep | 28 |
| Like Santa on Christmas Eve? | 28 |
| Absorb (with "up") | 28 |
| One of last year's frosh | 28 |
| Second-year student, briefly | 28 |
| Second-year student, shortly | 28 |
| Second year student, shortly | 28 |
| Last year's frosh, today | 28 |
| Junior's junior, briefly | 28 |
| Certain collegian, for short | 28 |
| William Styron title heroine | 28 |
| They have the highest ranges | 28 |
| Absorbs, with "up" | 28 |
| How it's done for short | 28 |
| Jimmy Dorsey tune of '57 | 28 |
| 1937 #1 hit for Guy Lombardo | 28 |
| Potassium ___ (preservative) | 28 |
| Material that's absorbed | 28 |
| ___ acid (food preservative) | 28 |
| Like some subjects or losers | 28 |
| Like some pitchers' arms | 28 |
| Albert ___, French historian | 28 |
| Tabitha formerly of MTV News | 28 |
| Philosophy's Kierkegaard | 28 |
| Saddle __ (cowboy's woe) | 28 |
| Series of premises, in logic | 28 |
| Related to Greeks, sometimes | 28 |
| It's sweet, when parting | 28 |
| What Dolores means literally | 28 |
| Board game with SLIDE spaces | 28 |
| Arrange alphabetically, e.g. | 28 |
| Organize alphabetically, say | 28 |
| To some degree, colloquially | 28 |
| To some extent, colloquially | 28 |
| Put in ascending order, e.g. | 28 |
| Performs a database function | 28 |
| Out of ___ (discombobulated) | 28 |
| Letters in the sand, perhaps | 28 |
| Urgent transmission of sorts | 28 |
| Sailor's distress signal | 28 |
| Intl. signal adopted in 1912 | 28 |
| "Mayday!" relative | 28 |
| What the USCG may respond to | 28 |
| Sparks's frantic message | 28 |
| Seaman's "911" | 28 |
| Helmsman's panicked plea | 28 |
| Familiar telegraphy sequence | 28 |
| "Mamma Mia" number | 28 |
| "I'm drowning" | 28 |
| "Come and get us!" | 28 |
| "--- yer old man!" | 28 |
| "___ yer old man!" | 28 |
| One-time Cub with a big club | 28 |
| Former Rangers slugger Sammy | 28 |
| Dominican-born baseball star | 28 |
| Diamond-dominating Dominican | 28 |
| Cubs' sluggin' Sammy | 28 |
| Â Â Sluggin' Sammy | 28 |
| Family of Slammin' Sammy | 28 |
| Nothing to get excited about | 28 |
| ''Already?'' | 28 |
| "Leaving already?" | 28 |
| "Beg your pardon!" | 28 |
| 'A thousand pardons' | 28 |
| Flip response to a complaint | 28 |
| One unlikely to pass the bar | 28 |
| Ones who go for many rounds? | 28 |
| Where to sleep off a bender? | 28 |
| Almost worthless French coin | 28 |
| Former French franc fraction | 28 |
| Aretha Franklin's got it | 28 |
| The "Motown Sound" | 28 |
| Grammy subcategory of Gospel | 28 |
| Chitlins and ham hocks, e.g. | 28 |
| Grim Reaper's collection | 28 |
| "The ___ of Music" | 28 |
| Destroyer of an ocean inlet? | 28 |
| "Cream of" serving | 28 |
| "Come and get it!" | 28 |
| Making the mouth pucker, say | 28 |
| Like a basic taste sensation | 28 |
| News origin, when unspecific | 28 |
| San Francisco thoroughbreads | 28 |
| Rationalizing from the inept | 28 |
| Negative reaction to failure | 28 |
| Disdain for the unattainable | 28 |
| Lose enthusiasm for: Colloq. | 28 |
| Vice in a French restaurant? | 28 |
| March master John Philip ___ | 28 |
| Bandmaster from 1880 to 1931 | 28 |
| Band member's instrument | 28 |