| "Iliad," notably | 26 |
| "Beowolf" is one | 26 |
| ___ fail (big thumbs-down) | 26 |
| Connoisseur of fine dining | 26 |
| Serious flu outbreak, e.g. | 26 |
| Literary postscript (Var.) | 26 |
| Like Bush Sr., religiously | 26 |
| "Star Trek" unit | 26 |
| Poetic form used by Horace | 26 |
| Romulus, vis-Ã -vis Rome | 26 |
| Name derived from a person | 26 |
| Series of important events | 26 |
| Heroic poetry, Greek style | 26 |
| "Theogeny," e.g. | 26 |
| Marner's adopted child | 26 |
| 'House' actor Omar | 26 |
| Minirecord albums, briefly | 26 |
| Leader of ancient Ephesus? | 26 |
| Electromotive force symbol | 26 |
| Word before salts or Downs | 26 |
| Racetrack town near London | 26 |
| Maker of the MX-80 printer | 26 |
| Sweetener in a blue packet | 26 |
| Six and half-a-dozen, e.g. | 26 |
| Big name in credit reports | 26 |
| Time for the history books | 26 |
| Victoria's reign, e.g. | 26 |
| Significant period of time | 26 |
| Newsworthy time in history | 26 |
| It's a ballpark figure | 26 |
| It didn't get ratified | 26 |
| Ballpark figure, for short | 26 |
| Triple Crown consideration | 26 |
| Titled years, collectively | 26 |
| The Great Depression, e.g. | 26 |
| The Eisenhower years, e.g. | 26 |
| Stat for Stephen Strasburg | 26 |
| Stat for Seaver or Santana | 26 |
| Stat for Jonathan Papelbon | 26 |
| Proposal before the states | 26 |
| Pitching statistics: Abbr. | 26 |
| Pedro Martinez's pride | 26 |
| Notable period of the past | 26 |
| No. important to a pitcher | 26 |
| Low fig. for Randy Johnson | 26 |
| Common, Roman or Christian | 26 |
| Coldwell Banker competitor | 26 |
| A balk might make it go up | 26 |
| Periods of historical note | 26 |
| Important times in history | 26 |
| Horse-and-buggy and others | 26 |
| Historic stretches of time | 26 |
| Topics for history courses | 26 |
| Times that are distinctive | 26 |
| President's term, e.g. | 26 |
| Noteworthy periods of time | 26 |
| Macedonian and Mayan, e.g. | 26 |
| History book sections, say | 26 |
| Emperor's reigns, e.g. | 26 |
| Depression and Prohibition | 26 |
| Deadball and steroid, e.g. | 26 |
| Chapters in social studies | 26 |
| Chapters in a history book | 26 |
| Alexandrian and Napoleonic | 26 |
| Alexandrian and Babylonian | 26 |
| Subject to being wiped out | 26 |
| Shake, as an Etch A Sketch | 26 |
| Remove from the blackboard | 26 |
| Prepare for reuse, perhaps | 26 |
| Wipe off a chalkboard, say | 26 |
| Start to correct, in a way | 26 |
| Clean off, as a blackboard | 26 |
| Helped with the blackboard | 26 |
| Most golf pencils lack one | 26 |
| They help get the lead out | 26 |
| What a smudge may indicate | 26 |
| Puzzle solver's smudge | 26 |
| Between quod and faciendum | 26 |
| Calliope's sister muse | 26 |
| Sister goddess of Calliope | 26 |
| Greek Muse of lyric poetry | 26 |
| Wagner's Earth goddess | 26 |
| "Rheingold" role | 26 |
| Solid ground, in Stuttgart | 26 |
| Two-way poetic preposition | 26 |
| Before, in an old syllable | 26 |
| "___ I saw Elba" | 26 |
| You may see it before long | 26 |
| Lyrical "before" | 26 |
| Vague time frame indicator | 26 |
| Poet's palindrome word | 26 |
| Byronic "before" | 26 |
| "Before" of yore | 26 |
| Palindrome in a palindrome | 26 |
| Double-bladed ___ II razor | 26 |
| "Heir" homophone | 26 |
| "--- I saw Elba" | 26 |
| Demonstrating good posture | 26 |
| On twos, rather than fours | 26 |
| Ready for action, in a way | 26 |