| Reasons some games run long: Abbr. | 34 |
| Nail-biting sports events, briefly | 34 |
| Fifth quarters, so to speak: Abbr. | 34 |
| Mel who played at the Polo Grounds | 34 |
| Mel of baseball and crossword fame | 34 |
| Mel who was #4 at the Polo Grounds | 34 |
| Giant Mel enshrined in Cooperstown | 34 |
| 12-time baseball All-Star, 1934-45 | 34 |
| Canadian city once known as Bytown | 34 |
| Playful swimmer hunted for its fur | 34 |
| German aviation pioneer Lilienthal | 34 |
| German chancellor ___ von Bismarck | 34 |
| Name of the Syracuse Orange mascot | 34 |
| A Graham who was a defense cracker | 34 |
| "High Noon" actor Kruger | 34 |
| 'Laura' director Preminger | 34 |
| Cards once traded for Gehrigs, say | 34 |
| "That hurt my feelings!" | 34 |
| "You ___ to know better" | 34 |
| ''Yes, monsieur!'' | 34 |
| Magazine once published by Playboy | 34 |
| "Absolutely," in Avignon | 34 |
| Measure of prevention or strength? | 34 |
| "___ Town" (Wilder play) | 34 |
| " . . . ___ daily bread" | 34 |
| 1950 film "___ Very Own" | 34 |
| "The Fault in ___ Stars" | 34 |
| "--- Father, who art..." | 34 |
| "__ Father, who art ..." | 34 |
| ''__ Miss Brooks'' | 34 |
| Belonging to me and y'all both | 34 |
| It makes "mine" a double | 34 |
| "Act I: Daily Life" play | 34 |
| Any one of multiple English rivers | 34 |
| Sister publication of The Advocate | 34 |
| Ratt "___ of the Cellar" | 34 |
| Ani DiFranco "In or ___" | 34 |
| "Odd Man ___," 1947 film | 34 |
| Harte's John Oakhurst, for one | 34 |
| Adjective for some winter garments | 34 |
| Voivod: "The ___ Limits" | 34 |
| ''The ___ Limits'' | 34 |
| Got too big for one's britches | 34 |
| Have a higher batting average than | 34 |
| Be superior to, as in the military | 34 |
| You get 27 on a diamond, typically | 34 |
| Sometimes the ninth has only three | 34 |
| Be victorious in a certain contest | 34 |
| Oasis "I'm ___ Time" | 34 |
| Certain fertility clinic specimens | 34 |
| Shape of the track at Oaklawn Park | 34 |
| Where a Bush is sometimes planted? | 34 |
| Most powerful workstation, perhaps | 34 |
| "Hansel and Gretel" prop | 34 |
| Into which went Gretel's witch | 34 |
| "Hansen and Gretel" prop | 34 |
| CBer's "Back to you" | 34 |
| No longer thinking about, as an ex | 34 |
| Kiss "Rock and Roll ___" | 34 |
| In a superior position, relatively | 34 |
| "I am so ___ that jerk!" | 34 |
| ''__ the Rainbow'' | 34 |
| Discontinued investigative series? | 34 |
| Needs a new radiator hose, perhaps | 34 |
| Adverb with "optimistic" | 34 |
| Phrase on 40th birthday party mugs | 34 |
| It starts after the fourth quarter | 34 |
| Roman who recorded Greek mythology | 34 |
| Roman "Art of Love" poet | 34 |
| He wrote "Metamorphoses" | 34 |
| "The Art of Love" author | 34 |
| City near the Cantabrian Mountains | 34 |
| "You ___ it to yourself" | 34 |
| "How much do I ___ you?" | 34 |
| "A Prayer for ___ Meany" | 34 |
| "A Prayer for --- Meany" | 34 |
| Wilson of ''Cars'' | 34 |
| Uncle ___ in "Star Wars" | 34 |
| Meany written about by John Irving | 34 |
| ___ Falls, Nile dam site in Uganda | 34 |
| Winner of four gold medals in 1936 | 34 |
| Has to send a check with Form 1040 | 34 |
| Harry Potter's Hedwig, for one | 34 |
| Pussycat's companion, in verse | 34 |
| Mail-carrying creature of Hogwarts | 34 |
| Keats's "gloom-bird" | 34 |
| Harry Potter's Hedweg, for one | 34 |
| "Tu-whit tu-whoo" caller | 34 |
| They're known for head-turning | 34 |
| Lit "My ___ Worst Enemy" | 34 |
| Paul's brand, Newman's ___ | 34 |
| Defeats regularly, in sports lingo | 34 |
| What Hercules captured from Geryon | 34 |
| Gertrude Atherton's were black | 34 |
| Products of hydrocarbon combustion | 34 |
| Laughing gas and water, chemically | 34 |
| Spring bloomer with a beastly name | 34 |
| Maker of whisks, can openers, etc. | 34 |
| Company that makes kitchen gadgets | 34 |
| Petroleum giant's stock symbol | 34 |