| Text | Length |
| Eater: Comb. form | 17 |
| Part of a process | 17 |
| Development stage | 17 |
| Stage of progress | 17 |
| Kirk's weapon | 17 |
| Enterprise weapon | 17 |
| Lunar observances | 17 |
| Transitory states | 17 |
| Lunar dichotomies | 17 |
| Gradually reduces | 17 |
| Good, to a rapper | 17 |
| Cool, in rapspeak | 17 |
| Prof's degree | 17 |
| The third degree? | 17 |
| Doctor's deg. | 17 |
| Wilson's deg. | 17 |
| The Prof, usually | 17 |
| Post grad. degree | 17 |
| Degree of success | 17 |
| Hard-earned degs. | 17 |
| Doctorate degrees | 17 |
| Treat under glass | 17 |
| Gallinaceous bird | 17 |
| Cleaning chemical | 17 |
| [That was close!] | 17 |
| 21st Greek letter | 17 |
| Letter before chi | 17 |
| Homophone for fie | 17 |
| Silvers or Harris | 17 |
| Rizzuto or Foster | 17 |
| NBA coach Jackson | 17 |
| Harris or Silvers | 17 |
| Silver or Collins | 17 |
| Rizzuto or Harris | 17 |
| Punxsutawney name | 17 |
| Jackson of Knicks | 17 |
| Harris or Donahue | 17 |
| Donahue or Harris | 17 |
| Bandleader Harris | 17 |
| Lover: Comb. form | 17 |
| Audio attachment? | 17 |
| Duke of Edinburgh | 17 |
| Charles's dad | 17 |
| Maker of Marlboro | 17 |
| Plato's field | 17 |
| Basic measurement | 17 |
| Soil test measure | 17 |
| Suffix with xeno- | 17 |
| Suffix for techno | 17 |
| Small flycatchers | 17 |
| Sound: Comb. form | 17 |
| It may be cradled | 17 |
| Patronize Ma Bell | 17 |
| Mail from Ma Bell | 17 |
| Checked in, maybe | 17 |
| They may be cells | 17 |
| Some are cellular | 17 |
| String of misses? | 17 |
| Ending for stereo | 17 |
| Word before graph | 17 |
| Opening for graph | 17 |
| Something to snap | 17 |
| Very close ending | 17 |
| Booze-buying need | 17 |
| Red carpet moment | 17 |
| Moment of mugging | 17 |
| Vacation mementos | 17 |
| Something to coin | 17 |
| Sequence of notes | 17 |
| One may be turned | 17 |
| Sentence sections | 17 |
| Fermi's field | 17 |
| Science of matter | 17 |
| Songstress Zadora | 17 |
| Psychologist Jean | 17 |
| Glenn Gould, e.g. | 17 |
| Hess and Horowitz | 17 |
| Softly, musically | 17 |
| Parlor instrument | 17 |
| Opposite of forte | 17 |
| It might be grand | 17 |
| Softly, on scores | 17 |
| It could be grand | 17 |
| Honky-tonk player | 17 |
| A player, perhaps | 17 |
| Upright or player | 17 |
| Steinway creation | 17 |
| Softly, in scores | 17 |
| Saloon instrument | 17 |
| Liszt's forte | 17 |
| Holder of 88 keys | 17 |
| Grand instrument? | 17 |
| Borge's forte | 17 |
| Alicia's keys | 17 |
| 88-key instrument | 17 |
| Pub with requests | 17 |
| Grand instruments | 17 |
| Baby grands, e.g. | 17 |
| Upright and grand | 17 |
| Steinway products | 17 |
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