| 1. Gabriel, for one, enthralled by gearchange lever (9) | ARCHANGEL |
| 2. Sponge cake--this is you? (4) | BABA |
| 3. Receptacle's tip retracted (3) | BIN |
| 4. Want to follow bishop having no milk or cream (5) | BLACK |
| 5. Steel wool pad cutting the tail off fish (5) | BRILL |
| 6. Group of craftsmen missing leader in search engine construction (8) | BUILDING |
| 7. Am I missing from friendly kind of TV? (5) | CABLE |
| 8. Topical rioting in statehouse (7) | CAPITOL |
| 9. Shrink doesn't have right kind of lens (7) | CONTACT |
| 10. Representative sample of how some people are born (including the brother of 20) (5 7) | CROSS SECTION |
| 11. Returning tournament participant getting poor grades (4) | DEES |
| 12. Chance for song (7) | FORTUNE |
| 13. Hatch the end of a scandal? (4) | GATE |
| 14. Very large soldier ant (5) | GIANT |
| 15. 50th generation is getting old (6) | GOLDEN |
| 16. Henry the First longs for Jonah (4) | HILL |
| 17. TV doctor's abode (5) | HOUSE |
| 18. Sacred wader is embracing bisexual (4) | IBIS |
| 19. Jackson garbled "Lechaim!" (7) | MICHAEL |
| 20. Geller's partial harmonic analysis (6) | MONICA |
| 21. Letters from Athens Helios sent back (3) | NUS |
| 22. Policy changes involving men related to international competitions (7) | OLYMPIC |
| 23. Wild rant with hep cat (7) | PANTHER |
| 24. Navy planes in disorganized state (12) | PENNSYLVANIA |
| 25. Brushing can remove this pressure with equal redistribution (6) | PLAQUE |
| 26. Destroyed La Paz hotel for Eloise (5) | PLAZA |
| 27. Tip: include oxygen in serving of beer (5) | POINT |
| 28. Top-40 music by English singers (chiefly John, Paul, and others) (5) | POPES |
| 29. Flip prosecutor or false witness to force through a conviction (8) | RAILROAD |
| 30. Broadway, essentially! (4) | ROAD |
| 31. Data, for example, is hidden by Sandro Botticelli (5) | ROBOT |
| 32. Dancer's boss is partially artisan tattooist (5) | SANTA |
| 33. Rescues small class of birds (5) | SAVES |
| 34. Initially, sailor enters a large body of water (3) | SEA |
| 35. Sly Stone's number one hit "Kanye" (6) | SNEAKY |
| 36. Birds fight inside boxes (8) | SPARROWS |
| 37. Magician who works in a bank? (6) | TELLER |
| 38. Very short social media post, having no time (3) | WEE |
| 39. Member of the proletariat appearing in Shaw or Kerouac (6) | WORKER |