___ lie (lie on bare ground or thin grass), 5 letters
Affording no leeway, 5 letters
Closely constrained, 5 letters
In need of altering, perhaps, 5 letters
In need of letting out, 5 letters
Intimate, as friends, 5 letters
Like some schedules, 5 letters
Nearly even, as a race, 5 letters
Really in sync, as a band, 5 letters
Reluctant to part with a buck, 5 letters
Too small, as clothing, 5 letters
Too small, as pants, 5 letters
Tour bus conditions, 5 letters
Very friendly (with), 5 letters
Hermetically sealed, 12 letters
A triple spot weld, 15 letters
Difficult place to be in, 11 letters
What Ramona wore in a 1966 Chuck Berry song, 10 letters
According to the announcer, Giant is secure, 7 letters
Get thin, dancing to Squeeze (7), 7 letters
Make more secure with certain rocket, we hear (7), 7 letters
Squeeze giant on the tongue (7), 7 letters
Turn a vise handle clockwise, 7 letters
*Tersely edited epilogues?, 9 letters
Football linemen, or an apt description of the last words of the answers to starred clues, 9 letters
Repaired a tourniquet, 9 letters
One applying pressure to eight mixed up in back rent? (9), 9 letters
Prepare for lean times, 15 letters
Brings a boxing punch under control?, 16 letters
Make things tougher (on), 15 letters
Better start spending less, 15 letters
Get ready for hard times!, 15 letters
Times are getting tougher..., 15 letters
Comparatively soused, 7 letters
Comparatively stewed, 7 letters
Like a size 8 blouse vis-, 7 letters
Magician's command to a person tying ropes, 7 letters
More drumlike, proverbially, 7 letters
More effective, as pass coverage, 7 letters
More like best buds, 7 letters
Autobiography of a soused romantic?, 16 letters
Speaking very little, 11 letters
Fittingly, the stewbums wore..., 12 letters
In a constricting way, 7 letters
Hospital staffer who's been tippling?, 10 letters
What deep knee bends will give you?, 10 letters
Down-to-the-wire campaigns, 10 letters
Wrap at the circus?, 9 letters
Hazardous situation, 9 letters
Tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground, 9 letters
Circus performer #4, 15 letters
First-ring performer, 15 letters
Mine-field inspector, maybe, 15 letters
Well-balanced individual, 15 letters
Things that are hard to walk on, and this puzzle's theme, 7 letters
Attire under a tutu, 6 letters
Ballerina's garment, 6 letters
Cirque du Soleil garb, 6 letters
Garment worn by dancers under leg warmers, 6 letters
Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries, 6 letters
Worn with a doublet, 6 letters
They may be broken in, 10 letters
Clothing contradiction, 11 letters
Popular pants in the '70s, 11 letters
Not a good place for a pol, 9 letters
Finishing by the deadline, sometimes, 12 letters
Four in a typical back seat, say, 12 letters
PaSSageway, at times, 11 letters
Hirer's concise posting?, 11 letters
Become tight or tighter, 10 letters
The act of making something tighter, 10 letters
Make tight or tighter, 10 letters
Extreme stinginess, 15 letters
A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit, 9 letters