| INVEIGH | Rail popular with 5 and 8 given time off |
| CREW | An eight given credit with each-way bet (4) |
| SEAT | With 5- and 8-Across, clothing-related idiom for something that's completely improvised |
| INDEXER | One creates list at home on RH side, given time off (7) |
| RAREST | Painter given time off? Most uncommon (6) |
| THOUSAND | And 5 and 8 Mix for stern-sounding salad dish? (8,6,8) |
| POLAROPPOSITES | Completely different entities ... or the pairs of indicated words in 3-, 5- and 8- Down, in terms of meaning and location? |
| LUKEWARM | Tepid; one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (8) |
| HORRIBLE | Foul, dreadful; one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (8) |
| NINE | With 5- and 9-Across, "Head Like a Hole" band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. 7 |
| LITTLE | With 5- and 21-Across, 2006 Best Picture nominee |
| ONCE | With 5- and 6-Across, storybook beginning |
| CRUSHER | Agent of suppression; one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (7) |
| BLANCO | Military belt whitener; one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (6) |
| GROUTY | Muddy (dialect); yogurt (anag.); one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (6) |
| GODBER | Sir ___ Evans, fictional Master of Porterhouse College; one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (6) |
| FLETCH | Provide feathers for a flight; one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (6) |
| NAPPER | The head; one grabbing forty winks; one suggested by 1, 5 and 8 Across (6) |
| CROSSEDSWORDS | Disagreed with editors cutting things like this ___ 1 and 10, 5 and 11, 21 and 24, 23 and 26 (7,6) |
| TITLEROLE | Newspaper with part of 3, 5 and 21 in 13s, perhaps (5,4) |
