| Softball officials, briefly | 27 |
| Plate cleaners, at times | 24 |
| Diamond quartet, briefly | 24 |
| Ballpark arbiters, briefly | 26 |
| You might be safe with them | 27 |
| They stand behind catchers | 26 |
| They sometimes bounce mgrs. | 27 |
| They make judgment calls | 24 |
| They make calls at home | 23 |
| They know when you're out | 29 |
| They decide what's fair | 27 |
| They closely monitor slides | 27 |
| Some make calls at home | 23 |
| Quartet on a baseball field | 27 |
| Ones who might cry foul? | 24 |
| Officials on a diamond | 22 |
| Officials behind batters | 24 |
| Men pocketing baseballs | 23 |
| Judges those who steal | 22 |
| Diamond men, for short | 22 |
| Diamond figures, briefly | 24 |
| Decision makers, for short | 26 |
| Calls K's at the plate | 26 |
| Calls balls and strikes | 23 |
| Callers of strikes and balls | 28 |
| Bill Klem's colleagues | 26 |
| Balls-and-strikes callers | 25 |
| "Safe!" crackers? | 27 |
| "Ball!" callers | 25 |
| Last in an indefinite series | 28 |
| Interjections of doubt | 22 |
| Speakers' pause fillers | 27 |
| Speaker's hesitations | 25 |
| Fluent speakers avoid them | 26 |
| "Er" relatives | 24 |
| Nationwide mil. instruction | 27 |
| Manpower program: Abbr. | 23 |
| Erstwhile draft initials | 24 |
| Mandela's birth town | 24 |
| Coal industry labor org. | 24 |
| Org. for underground workers | 28 |
| Org. concerned with shafts | 26 |
| Grp. that gets the shaft? | 25 |
| Coal diggers' org. | 22 |
| Coal digger's org. | 22 |
| Article in La Repubblica | 24 |
| ___ voce (unanimously) | 22 |
| ___ corda (musical direction) | 29 |
| ___ corda (music marking) | 25 |
| Spanish feminine article | 24 |
| Old-time actress Merkel | 23 |
| Juanita's "a" | 27 |
| Indefinite article in Italy | 27 |
| Fish high on the food chain | 27 |
| Bride of the Red Cross Knight | 29 |
| Article in "El Sol" | 29 |
| Article for a muchacha | 22 |
| ___ voce (without dissent) | 26 |
| ___ corda: Dir. to a pianist | 28 |
| ___ corda (piano direction) | 27 |
| __ corda (music marking) | 24 |
| Lacking the skill, e.g. | 23 |
| Lacking requisite skills | 24 |
| In want of the wherewithal | 26 |
| FBI capture of April 1996 | 25 |
| Japanese eel and rice dish | 26 |
| Eel, on a Japanese menu | 23 |
| Eel, in sushi restaurants | 25 |
| Eel, at a sushi restaurant | 26 |
| Freshwater eel, at sushi bars | 29 |
| Eel, in Japanese restaurants | 28 |
| Caterpillar roll component | 26 |
| Describing eternal youth | 24 |
| Not getting by the censors | 26 |
| Nixed by the censors, perhaps | 29 |
| Like a repressed grievance | 26 |
| Tenn.'s ___ Mountains | 25 |
| Watchman asleep on the job? | 27 |
| Out of one's league? | 24 |
| One of the Algonquin tribes | 27 |
| Not laughing at a joke, maybe | 29 |
| With no dissent: Abbr. | 22 |
| United in opinion: abbr. | 24 |
| One kind of consent: Abbr. | 26 |
| There's no disputing it | 27 |
| One whom everyone is for | 24 |
| Decision beyond dispute | 23 |
| Not appropriate or suitable | 27 |
| Suitable's opposite | 23 |
| Beat swords into plowshares | 27 |
| Render harmless, as a gunman | 28 |
| Prevent from making a hit? | 26 |
| Clean, to some sergeants | 24 |
| Makes harmless, in a way | 24 |
| Beats swords into plowshares | 28 |
| Having a single component | 25 |
| Having only one component | 25 |
| Having but one component | 24 |
| Of one kind, in chemistry | 25 |
| Molecules of only one kind | 26 |