| Tokyo, in days of yore | 22 |
| Tokyo, back in the day | 22 |
| Shogunate seat of power | 23 |
| Shogunate headquarters | 22 |
| Shogunate capital of Japan | 26 |
| Old Japanese city name | 22 |
| Old Far Eastern capital | 23 |
| Nigerian native or tongue | 25 |
| Nigerian native or language | 27 |
| Japanese word for metropolis | 28 |
| Japanese seat of government | 27 |
| Japanese capital, formerly | 26 |
| Japanese capital of yore | 24 |
| Japan's old capital | 23 |
| Japan's ___-Tokyo Museum | 28 |
| Japan's ___ Castle | 22 |
| Former capital on Honshu | 24 |
| Backward poem from Tokyo? | 25 |
| Ancient Dead Sea kingdom | 24 |
| Land of Herod Agrippa II | 24 |
| Land conquered by Saul | 22 |
| Neighbor of ancient Palestine | 29 |
| Ancient Dead Sea region | 23 |
| Ancient Dead Sea country | 24 |
| Region near ancient Palestine | 29 |
| Old region near Dead Sea | 24 |
| Neighbor of old Palestine | 25 |
| Land conquered by David | 23 |
| Kingdom south of Judah | 22 |
| Birthplace of Herod the Great | 29 |
| Biblical land near Moab | 23 |
| Biblical Dead Sea kingdom | 25 |
| Ancient rival of Judah | 22 |
| Ancient land south of Judea | 27 |
| Ancient land near Palestine | 27 |
| Ancient land in modern Jordan | 29 |
| Member of a Biblical group | 26 |
| Katey Sagal's TV husband | 28 |
| He played TV's Al Bundy | 27 |
| Al Bundy's portrayer | 24 |
| 'Modern Family' actor | 29 |
| Harris and Hardy, e.g. | 22 |
| Wired workers, briefly | 22 |
| Harris and O'Neill | 22 |
| Sullivan and O'Neill | 24 |
| Broadbent and Schreyer | 22 |
| Money managers?: Abbr. | 22 |
| People people, briefly | 22 |
| Masthead listings, for short | 28 |
| Masthead contents, briefly | 26 |
| TV's Grimley and Norton | 27 |
| The Begleys, Sr. and Jr. | 24 |
| Text tweakers, for short | 24 |
| Some People readers, briefly | 28 |
| Slate workers, for short | 24 |
| Script righters: Abbr. | 22 |
| Newsroom workers, for short | 27 |
| Newspaper staffers, for short | 29 |
| Newspaper dept. supervisors | 27 |
| Money changers?: Abbr. | 22 |
| Magazine staffers, for short | 28 |
| Glamour types, for short | 24 |
| Bradley and Begley, for two | 27 |
| Alt-weekly workers, briefly | 27 |
| Actors Norton and Harris | 24 |
| Actors Harris and Norton | 24 |
| Actor Harris and others | 23 |
| Will Shortz and others: Abbr. | 29 |
| Wheels of Fortune, for short? | 29 |
| TV's Norton and Grimley | 27 |
| Trixie's husband, et al. | 28 |
| Trixie's hubby et al. | 25 |
| Textbook updates, e.g.: Abbr. | 29 |
| T. Herman Zweibel et al. | 24 |
| Syntax auditors: Abbr. | 22 |
| Story assigners, in brief | 25 |
| Stelmach and Goldenberg | 23 |
| Staff of Life, for short | 24 |
| Some WSJ or NYT employees | 25 |
| Some staffers, for short | 24 |
| Some lexicographers, briefly | 28 |
| Shape shifters?: Abbr. | 22 |
| Seventeen people?: Abbr. | 24 |
| Seventeen people, briefly | 25 |
| Schreyer and Broadbent, e.g. | 28 |
| Salon workers, for short? | 25 |
| Redundancy removers: abbr. | 26 |
| Ralph's bud and others | 26 |
| Publishing hirees, for short | 28 |
| Publishers' hirees: Abbr. | 29 |
| Post positions, briefly | 23 |
| Post markers, for short? | 24 |
| Playboy types, for short | 24 |
| Playboy types, briefly | 22 |
| Periodical changers: Abbr. | 26 |
| People at People, for short | 27 |
| Parenting experts?: Abbr. | 25 |
| Paper wheels, briefly? | 22 |
| Paper cutters, for short | 24 |
| Paper cutters, briefly? | 23 |