| "Ready or ___ ..." | 28 |
| "__ another word!" | 28 |
| Words with problem or chance | 28 |
| "___ pretty sight" | 28 |
| "This is ___ test" | 28 |
| "This should ___!" | 28 |
| A flat one may evoke a wince | 28 |
| Speech-giver's reference | 28 |
| Answer to the Little Red Hen | 28 |
| "Sorry, too busy!" | 28 |
| "Tell it ___ Gath" | 28 |
| Unavailable for appointments | 28 |
| Upshot of bad service, maybe | 28 |
| Private club gratuity policy | 28 |
| Tag player's declaration | 28 |
| Like tag players, most often | 28 |
| "Sorry, wrong guy" | 28 |
| "Some other time!" | 28 |
| "Come back later!" | 28 |
| Yvette's "our" | 28 |
| __ Dame (Indiana university) | 28 |
| "I beg to differ!" | 28 |
| "On the contrary!" | 28 |
| Tube addict's punishment | 28 |
| Teen's punishment, maybe | 28 |
| Punishment for a teen, maybe | 28 |
| "Hold yer horses!" | 28 |
| Words to an impatient person | 28 |
| What "-ence" forms | 28 |
| Any boy or girl could be one | 28 |
| Animal, vegetable or mineral | 28 |
| Word sometimes in apposition | 28 |
| What an article may refer to | 28 |
| Subject of a sentence, often | 28 |
| Soup or salad, grammatically | 28 |
| Board and walk and boardwalk | 28 |
| Bell, book, and candle, e.g. | 28 |
| ''Entre __'' | 28 |
| Its fourth Thu. is a holiday | 28 |
| Star that brightens suddenly | 28 |
| Stars that brighten and fade | 28 |
| 'Picnic' actress Kim | 28 |
| One of Jane Austen's six | 28 |
| Jeff Farro band ___ American | 28 |
| "Billy Budd," e.g. | 28 |
| ___ Sad (city on the Danube) | 28 |
| Porto-___ (capital of Benin) | 28 |
| Word on the back of a dollar | 28 |
| Before another moment passes | 28 |
| "--- you tell me!" | 28 |
| Unprofitable, as a situation | 28 |
| Like an impossible situation | 28 |
| Like a frustrating situation | 28 |
| Cry upon reaching an impasse | 28 |
| "Car Talk" carrier | 28 |
| "Car Talk" network | 28 |
| Where Nina Totenberg reports | 28 |
| Popular news source, briefly | 28 |
| Americans might pledge to it | 28 |
| "On Point" station | 28 |
| "On Point" network | 28 |
| "Car Talk" station | 28 |
| 'Tell Me More' airer | 28 |
| 'On the Media' airer | 28 |
| Org. that sticks to its guns | 28 |
| Body with many arms, briefly | 28 |
| Supporter of arms, for short | 28 |
| Gp. against gun control laws | 28 |
| Second Amendment-touting gp. | 28 |
| Second Amendment rights org. | 28 |
| Second Amendment rights grp. | 28 |
| Piece-keeping group? (abbr.) | 28 |
| Org. with lots of big shots? | 28 |
| Org. that's into firing? | 28 |
| Org. opposing the Brady bill | 28 |
| Org. concerned about heaters | 28 |
| Grp. that sticks to its guns | 28 |
| Gp. concerned with magazines | 28 |
| Govt. agency of the 30's | 28 |
| F.D.R.'s Blue Eagle grp. | 28 |
| Brady bill opponent, briefly | 28 |
| Blue Eagle org. of the 1930s | 28 |
| Seagoing mil. training group | 28 |
| Campus midshipmen's org. | 28 |
| Intelligence gathering dept. | 28 |
| Top-secret intelligence org. | 28 |
| Secret decoder ring?: Abbr. | 28 |
| Part of the Dept. of Defense | 28 |
| Org. protecting U.S. secrets | 28 |
| Org. employing cryptologists | 28 |
| Intel interpreter, for short | 28 |
| Top-level U.S. advisory grp. | 28 |
| Foreign policy advisory grp. | 28 |
| Brief moment of time (abbr.) | 28 |
| Tiny fraction of time: Abbr. | 28 |
| Extremely short time (abbr.) | 28 |
| Math prof's funding org. | 28 |
| Cause of a bank fee, briefly | 28 |
| Abbr. stamped on a bad check | 28 |
| Its capital is Sydney: Abbr. | 28 |