| Most fraught with danger | 24 |
| Like the worst predictions | 26 |
| Â Â Most hopeless | 23 |
| "Dies Irae" is one | 28 |
| Straight-bladed dagger | 22 |
| Nowitzki of the Mavericks | 25 |
| Highlander's weapon | 23 |
| Highlander's dagger | 23 |
| Clive Cussler hero Pitt | 23 |
| 2006-07 NBA MVP Nowitzki | 24 |
| Fräulein's frocks | 24 |
| Some board members: Abbr. | 25 |
| Ones who make scenes?: Abbr. | 28 |
| Members of the board (abbr.) | 28 |
| Back lot biggies (abbr.) | 24 |
| Scandalmonger's love | 24 |
| Unflattering revelations | 24 |
| Sometimes it's dished | 25 |
| Political campaign ammunition | 29 |
| Incriminating information | 25 |
| Grass roots environment? | 24 |
| Gossip's stock-in-trade | 27 |
| Word with cheap or bike | 23 |
| Word before poor or cheap | 25 |
| What a vacuum cleaner vacuums | 29 |
| Scandalmonger's buzz | 24 |
| Scandal-sheet contents | 22 |
| Rural road surface, perhaps | 27 |
| National Enquirer fodder | 24 |
| Grist for the gossip mill | 25 |
| Grass roots environment | 23 |
| Gossipmonger's stuff | 24 |
| Gossip that's dished | 24 |
| '92 Alice in Chains album | 29 |
| Way out in the country | 22 |
| Freeway's old ancestor | 26 |
| Word with laundry or pool | 25 |
| Unscrupulous, as a fighter | 26 |
| Word before bird or bomb | 24 |
| Like some looks and laundry | 27 |
| Like Eastwood's Harry | 25 |
| Epithet for Harry Callahan | 26 |
| ___ Harry, Eastwood role | 24 |
| Some forwarded e-mails | 22 |
| Bits of a blue routine | 22 |
| Bar exchanges, perhaps | 22 |
| Unsportsmanlike conduct | 23 |
| Mucking out the pigs, e.g. | 26 |
| Disagreeable, tedious tasks | 27 |
| Put down, in the 'hood | 26 |
| Insult in the 'hood | 23 |
| Treat a rapper with contempt | 28 |
| Speak ill of, in slang | 22 |
| Treat rudely, in slang | 22 |
| Put down, modern-style | 22 |
| Put down on the street | 22 |
| Prefix with "array" | 29 |
| Prefix for play or band | 23 |
| Insult, in the rap world | 24 |
| Bad-mouth, in street parlance | 29 |
| Treat with contempt, slangily | 29 |
| Treat rudely, slangily | 22 |
| Refuse to give props to | 23 |
| Put down, to Puff Daddy | 23 |
| Put down, on the street | 23 |
| Put down, in street slang | 25 |
| Prefix with prove or solve | 26 |
| Prefix with play or band | 24 |
| Prefix with place or grace | 26 |
| Prefix with like or ability | 27 |
| Prefix with array or robe | 25 |
| Persephone's spouse | 23 |
| Opposite-creating prefix | 24 |
| Malign, as yo' mama | 23 |
| Knock, in the 'hood | 23 |
| God of the lower world | 22 |
| Give a hard time, slangily | 26 |
| Denigrate, in the hood | 22 |
| Criticize, in 90's slang | 28 |
| Belittle, in the 'hood | 26 |
| Belittle, as yo' mama | 25 |
| Band's introduction? | 24 |
| Bad-mouth to a rapper, | 22 |
| Affront, in street slang | 24 |
| ____ Pater: underworld god | 26 |
| Â Â Gushes forth: Var. | 28 |
| Knock out of commission | 23 |
| Puts out of commission | 22 |
| Neutralizes, as a bomb | 22 |
| Turns off, as an alarm | 22 |
| Have differing opinions | 23 |
| Doesn't come to terms | 25 |
| Code-writer's medium | 24 |
| Win over by persuasion | 22 |
| Take one's defenses away | 28 |
| No longer able to shoot | 23 |
| Describing the Venus de Milo? | 29 |
| Makes friendly or harmless | 26 |
| Titanic sinking, for one | 24 |
| The Westray Mine ____, 1992 | 27 |