| Ex-Defense Secretary William | 28 |
| Emulate a snake in the grass | 28 |
| Emerge, with "out" | 28 |
| Early Bird was the first one | 28 |
| E. A. Robinson's Richard | 28 |
| Eat ___ (suffer humiliation) | 28 |
| Emmy-winning forensic series | 28 |
| Elián Gonzalez's home | 28 |
| Either of two Chicago mayors | 28 |
| Eccentric surrealist painter | 28 |
| Exemplars of firm friendship | 28 |
| Eight hours, to many workers | 28 |
| Equestrian gold medalist Jim | 28 |
| Exclamation with a handshake | 28 |
| Early American patriot Silas | 28 |
| Edgar-winning Ira Levin play | 28 |
| End of the 4th qtr., usually | 28 |
| Elizabeth I's astrologer | 28 |
| England/Wales boundary river | 28 |
| Edgar who painted ballerinas | 28 |
| Easing of govt. restrictions | 28 |
| English actor Sir ___ Jacobi | 28 |
| Enharmonic of B double sharp | 28 |
| Early Saint-Laurent employer | 28 |
| Evidence in a paternity suit | 28 |
| Evidence in a paternity case | 28 |
| Emmett Brown, to Marty McFly | 28 |
| Erstwhile Genoese magistrate | 28 |
| Exclamation from a blockhead | 28 |
| End of a Fred Flintstone cry | 28 |
| Ending for Scooby or Scrappy | 28 |
| End of a rural wake-up call? | 28 |
| End of a Bedrock catchphrase | 28 |
| El ___ (fabled city of gold) | 28 |
| Emulate a grandparent, maybe | 28 |
| Expression of mild disbelief | 28 |
| Evoking a "ho-hum" | 28 |
| Engage in a street auto race | 28 |
| English admiral and explorer | 28 |
| Eugene O'Neill specialty | 28 |
| Expression of disappointment | 28 |
| Eminem's mentor/producer | 28 |
| Early Nets great, familiarly | 28 |
| Exhibit extreme anticipation | 28 |
| Electronic act Justice, e.g. | 28 |
| Eponymous furniture designer | 28 |
| Erode, with "away" | 28 |
| Erode, with "into" | 28 |
| E for ___ ; or reverberation | 28 |
| Environmental-related prefix | 28 |
| Environmentalist's subj. | 28 |
| Environmental science: Abbr. | 28 |
| Environmentalists' subj. | 28 |
| Edible starchy tuberous root | 28 |
| Excessive fluid accumulation | 28 |
| Egyptian pyramid's eight | 28 |
| Easy bits of a jigsaw puzzle | 28 |
| End of some e-mail addresses | 28 |
| End of many e-mail addresses | 28 |
| End of many campus addresses | 28 |
| E-mail address ending, maybe | 28 |
| Ending with profit or racket | 28 |
| Ending for profit or auction | 28 |
| Endings for draft and employ | 28 |
| Easy-to-make breakfast brand | 28 |
| Easily bruised item, perhaps | 28 |
| Erstwhile name of a republic | 28 |
| Exile locale: 1814–15 | 28 |
| End of a familiar palindrome | 28 |
| Early philosophical hot spot | 28 |
| Engineering specialty: Abbr. | 28 |
| Elevated railways, for short | 28 |
| End of the yellow brick road | 28 |
| Ending for "exist" | 28 |
| Env. within an env., perhaps | 28 |
| Encouraging concert hall cry | 28 |
| Every streetcar line has one | 28 |
| Ending for buckminsterfuller | 28 |
| Einstein's "E" | 28 |
| E, in Einstein's formula | 28 |
| Exclamation of the impatient | 28 |
| Eliza's mentor, to Eliza | 28 |
| Elect to a Hall of Fame, say | 28 |
| Ending with absorb or differ | 28 |
| Extend hospitality, in a way | 28 |
| Epoch of the Tertiary Period | 28 |
| Epoch in which mammals arose | 28 |
| Epoch in the Tertiary Period | 28 |
| Environmental watchdog agcy. | 28 |
| Ecology-oriented govt. group | 28 |
| Electrified weapon, at times | 28 |
| Electrified sports equipment | 28 |
| Equipment for some Olympians | 28 |
| English town worth its salt? | 28 |
| Expressionist painter Heckel | 28 |
| Estrada of "CHiPs" | 28 |
| Eponymous oilman Halliburton | 28 |
| Eagles that sound deserving? | 28 |
| Ending for "ranch" | 28 |
| Emails the wrong person, say | 28 |