| Artist clears the bases? | 24 |
| Athena's appearance? | 24 |
| A stargazer may make one | 24 |
| Acronym-y Pearl Jam song | 24 |
| Afflictions and troubles | 24 |
| Advanced in the playoffs | 24 |
| A Southern sodbuster ___ | 24 |
| Accountants' backups | 24 |
| A more dilapidated state | 24 |
| Advent-season decoration | 24 |
| Assumed to be irrelevant | 24 |
| Anesthetist's error? | 24 |
| Appalachian state: Abbr. | 24 |
| Axis vs. Allies conflict | 24 |
| Axis-vs.-Allies conflict | 24 |
| Axis and Allies conflict | 24 |
| Ashley Judd's sister | 24 |
| Axes in a geometry class | 24 |
| Annual event run by ESPN | 24 |
| Airport security measure | 24 |
| A street drug, for short | 24 |
| America's Cup vessel | 24 |
| Asia's longest river | 24 |
| American-Chinese eatery? | 24 |
| Annual sch. publications | 24 |
| Abbr. on a golf tee sign | 24 |
| A mi. has 1,760 of these | 24 |
| Aden is its largest city | 24 |
| Admin of the Navy: Abbr. | 24 |
| Archer's wood source | 24 |
| Alpine "music" | 24 |
| Albumen's shell-mate | 24 |
| Attention-getting shouts | 24 |
| Abbr. for seasons played | 24 |
| Anal ending, in Britain? | 24 |
| Annihilate, arcade-style | 24 |
| Alphabet ends, in Canada | 24 |
| Astronauts experience it | 24 |
| A son of Cronus and Rhea | 24 |
| Aries, Leo et al.: Abbr. | 24 |
| Astrologer's concern | 24 |
| Actress Kazan or Kravitz | 24 |
| Animal-filled attraction | 24 |
| Author ___ Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Author --- Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Anthony Quinn title role | 24 |
| Author taught by HG Wells | 25 |
| Alexander's outdueler | 25 |
| Assoc. for aging rockers? | 25 |
| Adders from ancient Egypt | 25 |
| Abbreviation abbreviation | 25 |
| Alphabet's first five | 25 |
| At right angles to a ship | 25 |
| At right angles to a keel | 25 |
| Act as a lookout, perhaps | 25 |
| Act as a lookout for, say | 25 |
| Aids in criminal activity | 25 |
| A Levy who loved a Murphy | 25 |
| Adjective for some seamen | 25 |
| A pinch of SALT, briefly? | 25 |
| Al Capp cartoon character | 25 |
| Away from one's mouth | 25 |
| Australian hard-rock band | 25 |
| All-Star starting pitcher | 25 |
| A pair of deuces beats it | 25 |
| Amtrak's bullet train | 25 |
| Alternative to mushrooms? | 25 |
| Adolescent's outbreak | 25 |
| About 4,047 square meters | 25 |
| About 4,050 square meters | 25 |
| Auto amenities, for short | 25 |
| Abbr. on a toothpaste box | 25 |
| Abbr. on toothpaste boxes | 25 |
| Any of Aesop's morals | 25 |
| Actress ___ Isaacs Menken | 25 |
| A wife of Esau: Gen. 36:2 | 25 |
| Arkin of Chicago Hope | 25 |
| Adjust to a new situation | 25 |
| Adjust to the environment | 25 |
| Author ___ Virginia Woolf | 25 |
| Arabian Peninsula seaport | 25 |
| Also-ran with Estes: 1956 | 25 |
| Â Â Torch carriers? | 25 |
| Add bells and whistles to | 25 |
| Adds to or subtracts from | 25 |
| A chaperon is usually one | 25 |
| Agcy. succeeded by N.R.C. | 25 |
| Almost an eternity (Var.) | 25 |
| Akron, Ohio minor leaguer | 25 |
| Ancient Greek storyteller | 25 |
| Andrews or Edwards: Abbr. | 25 |
| Archaic "prior" | 25 |
| Architecture with a point | 25 |
| Award for mystery writers | 25 |
| Approach AARP eligibility | 25 |
| Application form question | 25 |
| Adjective for a patriarch | 25 |
| Author-movie critic James | 25 |
| Author James ___: 1909-55 | 25 |
| Aspiring actor's need | 25 |