| "__ corny ...": song lyric | 36 |
| "__ corny as Kansas . . ." | 36 |
| "__ cost you!" | 24 |
| "__ Cousins": 1964 Presley film | 41 |
| "__ Coy Mistress": Andrew Marvell poem | 48 |
| "__ crammed with heaven": E.B. Browning | 49 |
| "__ Crazy": Paul Davis hit | 36 |
| "__ creature was ..." | 31 |
| "__ creature was stirring . . ." | 42 |
| "__ creature was stirring ..." | 40 |
| "__ creature was..." | 30 |
| "__ Creek," TV series that launched Katie Holmes's career | 71 |
| "__ Cried": 1962 hit | 30 |
| "__ Cried": 1962 hit for Jay and the Americans | 56 |
| "__ Cross": 1949 Lancaster film | 41 |
| "__ Cruise": 1959 hit | 31 |
| "__ culpa" | 20 |
| "__ d'art" (curio) | 32 |
| "__ d'âne": "Donkey Skin" (1970 film) | 64 |
| "__ Dalloway" (Woolf novel) | 37 |
| "__ Darko": 2001 sci-fi film | 38 |
| "__ darned!" | 22 |
| "__ dash of ...": recipe words | 40 |
| "__ Day in Paradise": Phil Collins #1 hit | 51 |
| "__ Day Will Come" | 28 |
| "__ Day Will Come": 1963 #1 hit | 41 |
| "__ Day's Night" | 30 |
| "__ de mots" (pun) | 28 |
| "__ de service" (service record: Fr.) | 47 |
| "__ de vivre" | 23 |
| "__ Dead?": Mark Twain play | 37 |
| "__ Death": "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1" movement | 64 |
| "__ Death": Grieg work | 32 |
| "__ Decor" (home-design magazine) | 43 |
| "__ Dei" (Latin prayer) | 33 |
| "__ delighted!" ("Sure!") | 45 |
| "__ Diary" (Twain book) | 33 |
| "__ Diary" (Twain short story) | 40 |
| "__ Dick" | 19 |
| "__ didn't!" | 26 |
| "__ die for!" | 23 |
| "__ diem" (seize the day: Lat.) | 41 |
| "__ Dieu!" | 20 |
| "__ difference" | 25 |
| "__ Dinah": 1958 Frankie Avalon hit | 45 |
| "__ Dinah": Frankie Avalon hit | 40 |
| "__ Dinka Doo" | 24 |
| "__ dinner?" | 22 |
| "__ directed" | 23 |
| "__ directed" (medicine warning) | 42 |
| "__ directed": medication warning | 43 |
| "__ disturb" | 22 |
| "__ do anything for me" | 33 |
| "__ do fear thy nature": Lady Macbeth | 47 |
| "__ Do It Every Time," longtime comic strip | 53 |
| "__ do not!" | 22 |
| "__ do you good" | 26 |
| "__ Do You Love?": Bo Diddley classic | 47 |
| "__ do" | 17 |
| "__ doctor, not a bricklayer!": "Star Trek" line | 68 |
| "__ does it!" | 23 |
| "__ Doggfather": 1990s rap album | 42 |
| "__ don't": terse denial | 38 |
| "__ Done Him Wrong" | 29 |
| "__ done it!" | 23 |
| "__ dos" (Bernardo's "both") | 52 |
| "__ Doubtfire" | 24 |
| "__ down to the seas again": Masefield | 48 |
| "__ Dragon" (Disney film) | 35 |
| "__ Dragon": 1977 Disney film | 39 |
| "__ Dream" ("Lohengrin" aria) | 49 |
| "__ Dream": "Lohengrin" aria | 48 |
| "__ Dream": Wagner aria | 33 |
| "__ dreaming?" | 24 |
| "__ Dreams": 1986 #1 hit | 34 |
| "__ du lieber!" | 25 |
| "__ Duets" (2007 country album) | 41 |
| "__ dunno,..." | 24 |
| "__ durn tootin'!" | 32 |
| "__ e Leandro" (Handel cantata) | 41 |
| "__ Easy" (Ronstadt song) | 35 |
| "__ Easy": Buddy Holly classic | 40 |
| "__ Easy": Guns N' Roses song | 43 |
| "__ Easy": Ronstadt hit | 33 |
| "__ Eat Cake" (Gershwin musical) | 42 |
| "__ ed Euridice" (Gluck opera) | 40 |
| "__ ed Eurydice" (Gluck opera) | 40 |
| "__ elaborate?" | 25 |
| "__ else fails . . ." | 31 |
| "__ else?" | 20 |
| "__ Enchanted" (2004 fantasy) | 39 |
| "__ Enchanted" (2004 film) | 36 |
| "__ Enchanted": 2004 fantasy | 38 |
| "__ Enchanted": 2004 film | 35 |
| "__ Esau": kids' rhyme book | 41 |
| "__ España" (Mexico's former name) | 51 |
| "__ essential" (key line in "Schindler's List") | 71 |
| "__ est percipi": to be is to be perceived | 52 |
| "__ et Ballades" (Hugo book) | 38 |
| "__ et mon droit" (motto of the British royalty) | 58 |