| Boot-shaped European country | 28 |
| Boot with a heel in the Ionian Sea | 34 |
| Boot land | 9 |
| Boot in the Mediterranean | 25 |
| Boot in geography class? | 24 |
| Birthplace of this puzzle's subject | 39 |
| Axis power | 10 |
| Autostrada's place | 22 |
| Autostrada setting | 18 |
| Asti locale | 11 |
| An original eurozone member | 27 |
| Amerigo Vespucci's homeland | 31 |
| A neighbor of Switzerland | 25 |
| A neighbor of Austria | 21 |
| A NATO member | 13 |
| A G8 nation | 11 |
| 2006 World Cup champs | 21 |
| 2006 FIFA World Cup winners | 27 |
| 1982 World Cup winner | 21 |
| "The Boot" of Europe | 30 |
| "Paradise of exiles": Shelley | 39 |
| "Life Is Beautiful" setting | 37 |
| "Harold in ___" | 25 |
| "Boot" land | 21 |
| "Is ___ emergency?" | 29 |
| "Let's call __ evening" | 37 |
| Call ___ evening | 16 |
| Call __ evening | 15 |
| Make __ adventure | 17 |
| Call -- evening | 15 |
| "I'd consider _____ honor!" | 41 |
| "I'd consider ____ honor" | 39 |
| "I'd consider ___ honor" | 38 |
| "I'd consider ___ honor!" | 39 |
| 'I'd consider -- honor' | 35 |
| ___-TASS (Russian news agency) | 30 |
| ___-Tass news agency | 20 |
| __-Tass | 7 |
| ___-Tass | 8 |
| Moscow news acronym | 19 |
| __-Tass: news agency | 20 |
| __-TASS (Russian news agency) | 29 |
| ___-TASS, Moscow news agency | 28 |
| ___-TASS (Russian press org.) | 29 |
| Tass heading | 12 |
| Russian news agency acronym | 27 |
| Russian communications acronym since 1992 | 41 |
| It was added to a news agency's name in 1992 | 48 |
| Half a Russian news agency | 26 |
| -- -TASS (Russian news source) | 30 |
| -- -TASS (news agency) | 22 |
| __-Tass: Russian news agency | 28 |
| __-Tass: Moscow news agency | 27 |
| _____ Tass (Russian news agency) | 32 |
| ____ Tass news agency | 21 |
| __-TASS (Russian news agency) | 30 |
| Take ___ a blessing | 19 |
| Philippine group | 16 |
| "Take ___ a sign" | 27 |
| Take ___ it comes | 17 |
| "Take ___ a compliment" | 33 |
| "Take __ a compliment" | 32 |
| "Play ___ It Lays": Didion | 36 |
| "Take ___ a compliment!" | 34 |
| Philippine natives | 18 |
| "Play ___ It Lays," 1972 film | 39 |
| Take___ it comes | 16 |
| Take ____ read | 14 |
| Oft-misused contraction | 23 |
| Filipino group | 14 |
| "Think of ___ ..." | 28 |
| "Take __ a compliment!" | 33 |
| "Play ____ it lays" | 29 |
| "I'll take ___ a compliment" | 42 |
| "But I must also feel ___ a man": Macduff | 51 |
| 'Think of -- a loan' | 28 |
| 'Take -- a compliment' | 30 |
| ''Take ___ it comes'' | 37 |
| Source of the Mississippi | 25 |
| Mississippi River source | 24 |
| Minnesota lake | 14 |
| Lake ___, source of the Mississippi | 35 |
| Mississippi source | 18 |
| Lake that's a source of the Mississippi | 43 |
| Lake that feeds the Mississippi | 31 |
| Lake source of the Mississippi | 30 |
| Minnesota county whose seat is Grand Rapids | 43 |
| Lake in Minnesota's Clearwater County | 41 |
| A source of the Mississippi | 27 |
| Ol' Man River's source | 30 |
| Mississippi's source lake | 29 |
| Minnesota's first state park | 32 |
| Minnesota lake that feeds the Mississippi | 41 |
| Minnesota county west of St. Louis | 34 |
| Minnesota county or lake | 24 |
| Lake, source of the Mississippi | 31 |
| Lake that's the source of the Mississippi | 45 |
| Lake that's the "true head" of the Mississippi | 60 |
| Lake that is the source of the mighty Mississippi | 49 |
| Lake that is a source of the Mississippi | 40 |