| Recent Annapolis graduate | 25 |
| Recent arrival | 14 |
| Recent arrivals | 15 |
| Recent arrivals in the world | 28 |
| Recent Bar Mitzvah, e.g. | 24 |
| Recent beginning | 16 |
| Recent blackmail victim | 23 |
| Recent block arrival | 20 |
| Recent Broadway hit | 19 |
| Recent Broadway musical | 23 |
| Recent change in change | 23 |
| Recent Chapter 11 filer | 23 |
| Recent Chevrolet hatchback | 26 |
| Recent college man | 18 |
| Recent commodity index booster | 30 |
| Recent decade | 13 |
| Recent delivery | 15 |
| Recent developments | 19 |
| Recent election winners | 23 |
| Recent Emmy-winner | 18 |
| Recent ex-con, maybe | 20 |
| Recent Facebook event | 21 |
| Recent fad | 10 |
| Recent fad requiring one to lie stiff | 37 |
| Recent fashion | 14 |
| Recent fighter | 14 |
| Recent film, whether a numeral or a word | 40 |
| Recent grad, often | 18 |
| Recent grads' activity | 26 |
| Recent guest on "Between Two Ferns" | 45 |
| Recent hire | 11 |
| Recent hires | 12 |
| Recent history | 14 |
| Recent horror film franchise | 28 |
| Recent host | 11 |
| Recent immigrant's class: Abbr. | 35 |
| Recent intelligence | 19 |
| Recent Lincoln biographer | 25 |
| Recent med school graduate | 26 |
| Recent Met manager | 18 |
| Recent Microsoft retiree | 24 |
| Recent NASA target | 18 |
| Recent Nav. Academy grad | 24 |
| Recent naval acad. grad | 23 |
| Recent neighborhood arrival | 27 |
| Recent notable Couric get | 25 |
| Recent NSA suer | 15 |
| Recent Olds | 11 |
| Recent Olympic locale | 21 |
| Recent Olympics site | 20 |
| Recent Oscar role | 17 |
| Recent Oscar winner | 19 |
| Recent Oscar winners, e.g. | 26 |
| Recent past, colloquially | 25 |
| Recent past, tomorrow | 21 |
| Recent Peace Nobelist | 21 |
| Recent Pelosi host | 18 |
| Recent political quip, part 1 | 29 |
| Recent prefix | 13 |
| Recent prison scandal locale | 28 |
| Recent puzzle page addition | 27 |
| Recent recruit | 14 |
| Recent release? | 15 |
| Recent reputed spy organization scandal | 39 |
| Recent rightist | 15 |
| Recent rightist who's not very serious about it? | 52 |
| Recent rightist, familiarly | 27 |
| Recent rightists | 16 |
| Recent ring retiree | 19 |
| Recent start? | 13 |
| Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
| Recent Tea Party targeter | 25 |
| Recent teammate of Magic | 24 |
| Recent Texas Governor's mansion attack | 42 |
| Recent time | 11 |
| Recent times | 12 |
| Recent TV sitcom | 16 |
| Recent U.S.N.A. grad | 20 |
| Recent U.S.N.A. graduate: Abbr. | 31 |
| Recent USMA grads | 17 |
| Recent USNA grad | 16 |
| Recent USNA grad. | 17 |
| Recent virus from Asia | 22 |
| Recent walkers | 14 |
| Recent West Point grad | 22 |
| Recent workout trend | 20 |
| Recent Yankee star named for Jackie Robinson | 44 |
| Recent Zippo acquisition | 24 |
| Recent Zorro | 12 |
| Recent, as an escapee's trail | 33 |
| Recent, in Bonn | 15 |
| Recent, in geological terms | 27 |
| Recent, in Germany | 18 |
| Recent, in Recklinghausen | 25 |
| Recent, in Rostock | 18 |
| Recent, to a geologist | 22 |
| Recent: Comb. form | 18 |
| Recent: Pref. | 13 |
| Recent: Prefix | 14 |
| Recent: Suffix | 14 |