- PAT
- Bit of butter
- Trish alternative
- Butter portion
- Butter unit
- Lady Bird follower
- Mrs. Nixon
- Serving of 14A
- Evangelist Robertson
- One way to stand
- Singer Benatar
- Overly smooth
- Sajak or Boone
- Vanna's host
- Stroke gently
- Modest butter portion
- Blue Bonnet unit
- Like a suspicious explanation
- Awkward hug element
- Touch condescendingly, perhaps
- Gentle touch
- Guitarist in 25-Across's jazz fusion combo
- Touch condescendingly, as on the head
- Gently touch
- Glib
- Lady Bird's follower
- Back stroke?
- Back tap
- Guitarist Metheny
- Love tap
- Show appreciation for
- Slap on the buns?
- Down cold
- Down __
- Back touch
- Foxborough athlete
- Bit of a stick
- Memorized
- Margarine serving
- Apt anagram of apt
- Oleo allotment
- Perfectly
- Butter serving
- By heart
- Light stroke
- Former Canadian Trade Minister Carney
- Superficially complete
- Light touch
- Gently flatten
- Androgynous "SNL" character
- Gentle stroke
- Overly facile
- Political-cartoonist Oliphant
- Unconvincingly tidy, as a novel's ending
- Word after stand or down
- Section cut from a stick
- Fluently
- Word with stand or down
- It's encouraging when it's on your back
- Emcee Sajak
- Heat coach Riley
- Benatar or Buchanan
- Keep in touch?
- With 62-Across, long-time CBS sportscaster
- A way to stand
- To a tee
- 1960s-70s First Lady
- Overly glib
- Square on a roll
- Unconvincingly facile
- Square in a breadbasket
- Too glib
- Butter bit
- Touch gently
- April Love singer Boone
- Dollop
- Garrett who shot Billy the Kid
- Butter square
- Way of standing
- Billy the Kid slayer Garrett
- First Lady after Lady Bird
- Rock singer Benatar
- Game show host Sajak
- Boone or Benatar
- Contrived
- Memorized to the letter
- Word before or after "down"
- Gentle tap
- Approving touch
- Heartbreaker singer Benatar
- Consolatory or congratulatory gesture
- Reward for an obedient dog, perhaps
- Host Sajak
- See 30-Across
- Coach Riley
- Dick's first lady
- Way to stand
- Ladybird's successor
- Sen. Moynihan
- Faint sound
- Soft touch
- ___ down: frisk
- Author Conroy
- Stand ___
- Tap gently
- Affectionate gesture
- Exactly
- Breadbasket item
- Stroke lightly
- Debby's dad
- Good way to get something down?
- Vanna's coworker
- With 38-Across, "Wheel of Fortune" host
- Frisk, with "down"
- Square of butter
- Search, with "down"
- Unconvincing, as an alibi
- Firm way to stand
- Light hit
- Square on the table?
- Rover's reward
- Encouragement "on the back"
- __ the Bunny: touch-and-feel baby book
- Square spread on a slice
- Compliment "on the back"
- Familiar saint?
- On-the-back praise
- Square on a muffin
- To the point
- Touch lightly
- __ on the back
- Stand __
- Word whose meaning can be the same when read backward
- Muffin topper
- Record-setting Lady Vols basketball coach Summitt
- How the satisfied stand
- NE player, to fans
- Vanna's partner
- Frisk, as a suspect, with "down"
- Tom Brady, before he became a Buc
- The Women of Troy novelist Barker
- Basketball coach Summitt in the Hall of Fame
- How poker players may stand
- Benatar in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- Postman __: BBC stop-motion animation series
- Hall of Fame coach Summitt
- Tap
- Tracy-Hepburn romantic comedy ____ and Mike
- The Prince of Tides author Conroy
- Encouraging touch
- Excessively glib
- Like some hands
- Reassure Rover
- Serving of butter
- Politico Buchanan
- Greet a boxer
- Like some answers
- Mr. Sajak
- Square on a bread plate
- '60s First Lady
- Bit of encouragement
- Part 4 of advice
- Portion of butter
- Morita of "The Karate Kid"
- Opportune
- Margarine portion
- Well-rehearsed
- Overly practiced
- __ hand
- Butter slice
- Bit of frisking
- Part 4 of epigram
- Stand __ (take no cards)
- Immovable.
- Timely.
- Encouraging gesture
- First Family member, 50 years ago
- Prepackaged butter portion
- Touch of encouragement
- Soft touch on the head
- Over-rehearsed
- Small portion of butter
- Apt anagram
- Having taken no cards
- Former Knicks coach Riley
- Singer Boone
- Small square
- Trite
- Butter helping
- Dab
- Square meal part?
- ___ the Bunny (kids' book)
- Hit back?
- Sportscaster Summerall
- Standard
- Tricky Dick's wife
- Word that's a synonym of its reversal
- Lady Vols coach Summitt who is the winningest NCAA basketball coach ever
- Apt.
- Commendation with the palm.
- The Rooneys, father and son.
- Fixed.
- Dick Tracy's stooge.
- An earlier Rooney.
- Actor O'Brien.
- An O'Brien of Hollywood.
- Mike's friend.
- Sen. McCarran.
- Exactly suitable.
- Girl's nickname.
- Suitably.
- Very suitable.
- Miss Suzuki.
- One of the Nixons.
- A Kennedy.
- Aptly.
- Suitable.
- Exactly suited.
- Appropriate.
- Man's nickname.
- Boone
- Reward for a good horse
- Way to stand in poker
- Mother of Julie
- Boone or Nixon
- O'Brien or Boone
- Boone or O'Brien
- Hingle
- Kind of poker hand
- Miss Carroll
- One-pointer in Football: Abbr.
- Firm
- Summerall
- Brown or O'Brien
- Hingle or O'Brien
- Caress
- Fido's reward
- Like some poker hands
- Modern descendant of Daniel Boone
- One of the Kennedys
- Paulsen from South Bend, Wash.
- A Boone
- Lad from Limerick
- Ready
- Light blow
- Actor Harrington
- Londonderry lad
- Touch of approval
- A daughter of Rose Kennedy
- Actor Hingle
- Approving tap
- Boone or Harrington
- Friendly touch
- Piece of butter
- Betty followed her
- Butter measure
- A Nixon or Buchanan
- Pend.'s pal
- Poker stand
- TV host Sajak
- Kind of hand
- Actor ___ O'Brien
- Congratulate in a way
- Exactly right
- How some stand
- Like some alibis
- To a science
- Mastered perfectly
- Congratulations, of a sort
- One way to get things down
- Show of support
- You can stand this!
- Oversimplified
- Irishman, informally
- Learned perfectly
- Massage part
- Early 70's White House name
- Gesture of affection
- Too simple
- Motion while saying "Good dog!"
- Rehearsed
- Reward, as a dog
- Too rehearsed
- Bit of congratulations
- Stroke
- ___-a-cake
- Overly rehearsed
- Too 3-Down
- You might not be able to stand this
- One way to get something down
- Unisex name
- Nice touch
- Nonverbal congratulations
- Bit of consolation
- Congratulate nonverbally
- Single serving of butter
- Congratulations indicator
- Square for a roll
- Too smooth
- A nice touch
- Action done while saying "Good dog"
- Have down ___
- Simple and glib
- Word that is its own synonym when spelled backward
- Word that, when spelled backward, becomes its own synonym
- First lady before Betty
- Small butter portion
- Word that, spelled backward, can be a clue for itself
- Boston footballer, for short
- Reassuring touch
- Too slick
- Consoling touch
- Serving of butter, as might go on top of several answers in this puzzle
- Well-practiced, as an answer
- With 4-Down, someone who might repossess your car when you go bankrupt?
- Motion accompanying the words "There, there"
- One way to stand in poker
- See 52-Across
- Word that's its own synonym in reverse
- Comforting gesture
- Down ___
- Gently touch, either forward or backward
- Small butter unit
- {/With 74-Across, gesture of approval/}
- TV's Sajak
- ___ on the back
- Comforting touch
- Down ___ (memorized)
- Rehearsed, say
- Reward for a dog
- Unit of butter
- Boone with the kitschy "In a Metal Mood: No More Nice Guy"
- On the back at work, it's good; on the backside at work, it's bad
- Rocker Benatar
- Sajak of TV
- Weezer drummer Wilson
- Best Shot Benatar
- '80s icon Benatar
- Train singer Monahan
- Germs/Nirvana/Foo Fighters guitarist ___ Smear
- Reform Party name
- Loving touch
- Christian right name
- Hillary's replacing him
- 42 Across name
- Fourth after George, Al, and Ralph
- Kansas senator Roberts
- First name of a Kansas senator
- A Day at the races
- Basketball coach Riley, who recently notched his 1,000th victory
- Donald's Reform Party rival
- Reform party chairman Choate
- Robertson, who called a McCain co-chairman a "vicious bigot"
- How stubborn people stand
- Perfunctory, as an answer
- Touch-related word that, when reversed, is another touch-related word
- Androgynous "Saturday Night Live" character
- Best way to get it down
- Androgynous one of "Saturday Night Live"
- One way to stand in a card game
- Butter lump
- A way to get it down
- Touch affectionately
- Julia Sweeney character
- Sajak of "Wheel of Fortune"
- Affectionate touch
- Square on toast
- Wheel of Fortune host Sajak
- Butter quantity
- Tap, as a back
- ___ the Bunny (touch-and-feel book)
- Stand or "down" follower
- Touch on the back
- Congratulatory touch, maybe
- Touch on the head
- Apt anagram of tap
- Musician Metheny
- Vanna's co-star
- Poker player's stand
- Word with stand
- Buchanan
- Butter mass
- Relevant
- Perennial presidential candidate Paulsen
- Tap, backward
- How to stand?
- Movement in Black poet Parker
- The Ms. ___ Show
- A ___ on the back
- Encouraging shoulder touch
- Synonym of 1-Down that's 1-Down backwards
- Dog's reward
- Caress tenderly
- Good way to get it down
- Vanna's colleague
- Touch with tenderness
- Wheel of Fortune first name
- Benatar of rock
- Stand ___ (take no cards)
- First lady Nixon
- Inexact quantity of butter
- New England gridder, for short
- Reward for an obedient puppy
- Sajak who sells vowels
- Gender-neutral name
- Touch that's another touch backwards
- Nickname that drops "-ricia"
- Backwards tap
- Just right
- Place to stand
- NFL kicker's score
- It might go on a roll
- With 80 Across, "Love Is a Battlefield" rocker
- Cash of courts
- Cash of the courts
- With 54-Down, three-time NBA coach of the year
- Facile
- Apply 63-Across to this word in three pairs of answers
- [See 39-Down]
- Simplistic
- Unconvincing
- Gillette Stadium player, for short
- Colleague of Vanna
- No clue
- Spreadable square
- Quite smooth
- Touch lovingly
- Unconvincingly glib
