| Examine, with ''out'' | 37 |
| Examine, with ''over'' | 38 |
| Examined thoroughly, with "through" | 45 |
| Examined, as another's affairs | 34 |
| Examiner of heart and life lines | 32 |
| Examiner of sunken ships, perhaps | 33 |
| Examining closely, with "over" | 40 |
| Exams before some postgrad. studies | 35 |
| Exams conducted in a twenty foot space | 38 |
| Exams during which students can talk | 36 |
| Exams for advanced study, briefly | 33 |
| Exams for aspiring attorneys: Abbr. | 35 |
| Exams for attorney-wannabes (abbr.) | 35 |
| Exams for feudal "underclassmen"? | 43 |
| Exams for future litigators, briefly | 36 |
| Exams for many junior biology majors | 36 |
| Exams for wannabe constitutional scholars: Abbr. | 48 |
| Exams for would-be Natl. Merit Scholars | 39 |
| Exams on which many score over 100 | 34 |
| Exams required by ABA-approved schools | 38 |
| Exams taken by both Romney and Obama: Abbr. | 43 |
| Exams that require quick thinking | 33 |
| Exams used for National Merit Scholarships: Abbr. | 49 |
| Exams with 37 quantitative questions | 36 |
| Exams with a perfect score of 180 (abbr.) | 41 |
| Exams with a reading comprehension section | 42 |
| Exams with analytical reasoning parts: Abbr. | 44 |
| Exams with five 35-minute sections | 34 |
| Exasperated cry in a 1950's sitcom | 38 |
| Exasperated response while starting chores | 42 |
| Excavated (with "out") | 32 |
| Excavation locale of an ancient Egyptian capital | 48 |
| Excavation site of Ikhnaton's capital | 41 |
| Excavator overlooked secondary weather phenomenon | 49 |
| Exceed an infraction limit, in basketball | 41 |
| Exceedingly strange director David | 34 |
| Exceedingly, with "so" | 32 |
| Exceeds a reasonable speed limit? | 33 |
| Excel at "Guitar Hero" | 32 |
| Excel's opposite, colloquially | 34 |
| Excellence as a virtue, to ancient Greeks | 41 |
| Excellent drivers often break it | 32 |
| Excellent material for furniture | 32 |
| Excellent novel title character! | 32 |
| Excellent portrayal of a Gary Cooper role? | 42 |
| Excellent rating (unless it's out of 100) | 45 |
| Excellent, in 80's-90's slang | 37 |
| Excellently done bit of homework | 32 |
| Except having Republican passage from a book | 44 |
| Exceptional soldier on his only tour? | 37 |
| Exceptional, as a restaurant or hotel | 37 |
| Exceptionally intelligent parrot who died in 2007 | 49 |
| Excess media reports after leader quits (7) | 43 |
| Excessive attachment to English customs | 39 |
| Excessive constriction of the pupils | 36 |
| Excessive contraction of the pupil | 34 |
| Excessive desire for Athenian moola? | 36 |
| Excessive pride in one's china? | 35 |
| Excessive use of letter "I" | 37 |
| Excessively polite and restrained | 33 |
| Excessively sentimental expressions | 35 |
| Exchange (as A and R in this puzzle) | 36 |
| Exchange for "my kingdom" | 35 |
| Exchange for something very valuable | 36 |
| Exchange for something you really want? | 39 |
| Exchange in front of weeping families, often | 44 |
| Exchange of letters by stool pigeons? | 37 |
| Exchange of vows again for the Grim Reaper? | 43 |
| Exchange words? / New beginning [merger] | 40 |
| Exchange, as computer peripherals | 33 |
| Exchanged one's services for payment | 40 |
| Exchanges for something of equal value, casually | 48 |
| Exchanges of side dishes at a sushi restaurant? | 47 |
| Exchanges one's tiles in Scrabble, e.g. | 43 |
| Exchanges that may come with emoticons, briefly | 47 |
| Exchanging a fictional educator for goods? | 42 |
| Excise on some out-of-state purchases | 37 |
| Excitable dinosaur in "Toy Story" | 43 |
| Excite, as interest or curiosity | 32 |
| Excited answer to "Who wants ...?" | 44 |
| Excited answer to "Who wants dessert?" | 48 |
| Excited, slangily (with "up") | 39 |
| Excited, slangily, with "up" | 38 |
| Excited, with "up'" | 33 |
| Excitement about boxing practice? | 33 |
| Excitement on viewing a Gothic home? | 36 |
| Excitement over a certain dwarf? | 32 |
| Excitement over a national park? | 32 |
| Excitement over some presidential selections? | 45 |
| Exciting moment on New Year's Eve | 37 |
| Exciting thing circled on a calendar | 36 |
| Exclaims suddenly, with "out" | 39 |
| Exclamation accompanying a drumroll | 35 |
| Exclamation accompanying chattering teeth | 41 |
| Exclamation added to the O.E.D. in 2001 | 39 |
| Exclamation after a long commute | 32 |
| Exclamation after an explanation | 32 |
| Exclamation after completing an explanation | 43 |
| Exclamation after plopping down on the sofa | 43 |
| Exclamation after trying on old clothes, maybe | 46 |