| Word with green or lasting | 26 |
| Word with green or glade | 24 |
| Word with green of glades | 25 |
| Word with glade or green | 24 |
| Word often before after | 23 |
| Word before more and lasting | 28 |
| Word before lasting or ready | 28 |
| Word before green or more | 25 |
| Word before green or glades | 27 |
| Without an end in sight | 23 |
| Precedes more and lasting | 25 |
| Part ten of our message | 23 |
| Never ___ (at no time) | 22 |
| Kind of glades or green | 23 |
| Kind of glade or green | 22 |
| It's often before after | 27 |
| It may come before after? | 25 |
| Glade or green starter | 22 |
| Frequent follower of for | 24 |
| Fairy-tale penultimate word | 27 |
| Ending for when or where | 24 |
| Ending for what or when | 23 |
| As ___, letter sign-off | 23 |
| As ____: letter closing | 23 |
| As ___ (letter sign-off) | 24 |
| As __ (letter closing) | 22 |
| Anagram of "veer" | 27 |
| "Yours as ___" | 24 |
| "Would I ___!" | 24 |
| "Rarely, if __ ..." | 29 |
| "Never, ___!" | 23 |
| "Do I ____!" | 22 |
| "Did you ___ !" | 25 |
| "Did I ___!" | 22 |
| "Boy, do I ___!" | 26 |
| "After" lead-in | 25 |
| Hillary's conquest | 22 |
| World's highest peak | 24 |
| World's highest mountain | 28 |
| Site of a 1953 conquest | 23 |
| Sir Edmund's challenge | 26 |
| Sagarmatha, to the Nepalese | 27 |
| Place in the news, June 1953 | 28 |
| Peak of Tensing's life | 26 |
| Peak first scaled in 1953 | 25 |
| News locale of 5/28/53 | 22 |
| Natives call it Chomolungma | 27 |
| Major hurdle, metaphorically | 28 |
| It's higher than K2 | 23 |
| Hillary's pinnacle | 22 |
| Hillary's claim to fame | 27 |
| Hillary's challenge | 23 |
| Goddess Mother of the World | 27 |
| Earth's highest peak | 24 |
| Man's lounging slipper | 26 |
| Chad ___ from South Bend | 24 |
| Places for Christmas trim | 25 |
| Part of Yuletide décor | 25 |
| Pop's ___ Brothers | 22 |
| Songdom's ___ Brothers | 26 |
| Rock's Phil or Don | 22 |
| Rock Hall of Fame name | 22 |
| Rock duo's surname | 22 |
| From here to eternity? | 22 |
| Civil rights leader Medgar | 26 |
| Civil rights activist Medgar | 28 |
| Tinker to ___ to Chance | 23 |
| Civil-rights leader Medgar | 26 |
| Between Tinker and Chance | 25 |
| One of a baseball trio | 22 |
| Civil rights worker Medgar | 26 |
| Tinker-Chance connection | 24 |
| Tinker to ___ to . . . | 22 |
| Noted name in civil rights | 26 |
| Civil rights martyr Medgar | 26 |
| Tinker's pivot man | 22 |
| Tinker-Chance go-between | 24 |
| Player with Chance and Tinker | 29 |
| One of a double-play trio | 25 |
| Noted civil rights leader | 25 |
| Middleman in a baseball trio | 28 |
| Middle of a noted Cubs trio | 27 |
| Middle of a famous trio | 23 |
| He left things to Chance | 24 |
| Hall of Fame infielder | 22 |
| Famous middleman of baseball | 28 |
| Famous middle man of baseball | 29 |
| Cubs' Hall of Famer | 23 |
| Baseball's Crab or Hoot | 27 |
| 'Twixt Tinker and Chance | 28 |
| "Thanks ___ much" | 27 |
| "Thanks" follower | 27 |
| "Be it ___ humble" | 28 |
| Three-time Wimbledon champ | 26 |
| Three-time Wimbledon winner | 27 |
| Six-time U.S. Open champ | 24 |
| Tennis Hall-of-Famer Chris | 26 |
| Six-time U.S. Open winner | 25 |
| Seven-time French Open champ | 28 |
| Winner of six U.S. Opens | 24 |