| Controversial fruit spray | 25 |
| Controversial former Detroit Piston Thomas | 42 |
| Controversial food additive | 27 |
| Controversial flavoring | 23 |
| Controversial flavor enhancer | 29 |
| Controversial financial rescues | 31 |
| Controversial explosions | 24 |
| Controversial explosion | 23 |
| Controversial execution of 1927 | 31 |
| Controversial excavation site | 29 |
| Controversial excavation method | 31 |
| Controversial event | 19 |
| Controversial engineering | 25 |
| Controversial energy source | 27 |
| Controversial education subject | 31 |
| Controversial drug | 18 |
| Controversial driving video game, briefly | 41 |
| Controversial documentarian | 27 |
| Controversial discussion | 24 |
| Controversial director Riefenstahl | 34 |
| Controversial danglers | 22 |
| Controversial D.W. Griffith film (with "The") | 55 |
| Controversial current-carried carp catcher | 42 |
| Controversial coverings | 23 |
| Controversial courtroom evidence: abbr. | 39 |
| Controversial court call? | 25 |
| Controversial contraction | 25 |
| Controversial continental commerce pact | 39 |
| Controversial conflict since 2003 | 33 |
| Controversial compounds | 23 |
| Controversial comedy legend | 27 |
| Controversial comedian Bruce | 28 |
| Controversial color enhancer | 28 |
| Controversial Cold War prog. | 28 |
| Controversial coat material | 27 |
| Controversial cigarette additive | 32 |
| Controversial chemical | 22 |
| Controversial canine | 20 |
| Controversial campus org. | 25 |
| Controversial budget enhancers | 30 |
| Controversial Bruce | 19 |
| Controversial body builder | 26 |
| Controversial blowups | 21 |
| Controversial blasts | 20 |
| Controversial Bikini Atoll event | 32 |
| Controversial baseball owner | 28 |
| Controversial baby food ingredient | 34 |
| Controversial author and W.W. I pacifist | 40 |
| Controversial Athenian general | 30 |
| Controversial Arkansas belle oddly spelled | 43 |
| Controversial argument | 22 |
| Controversial apple treatment | 29 |
| Controversial apple spray | 25 |
| Controversial apple growth regulator | 36 |
| Controversial ANWR presence | 27 |
| Controversial anarchist | 23 |
| Controversial amendment | 23 |
| Controversial aircraft | 22 |
| Controversial agcy. since 1862 | 30 |
| Controversial ability | 21 |
| Controversial 70's-80's sitcom | 38 |
| Controversial 70's sitcom | 29 |
| Controversial 50's event | 28 |
| Controversial 2009 Nobelist | 27 |
| Controversial 2007 documentary about the American health care system | 68 |
| Controversial 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd | 46 |
| Controversial 2006 Miss USA winner Conner | 41 |
| Controversial 2000 election issue | 33 |
| Controversial 2000 debate sounds from Al Gore | 45 |
| Controversial 1990s treaty acronym | 34 |
| Controversial 1990s sitcom | 26 |
| Controversial 1987 exposé by ex-MI5 agent Peter Wright | 57 |
| Controversial 1984 Penthouse model | 34 |
| Controversial 1980s-'90s baseball team owner | 48 |
| Controversial 1980's proposal: Abbr. | 40 |
| Controversial 1980's plan: Abbr. | 36 |
| Controversial 1970 Jim Bouton book | 34 |
| Controversial 1960's magazine | 33 |
| Controversial 1950's novel | 30 |
| Controversial 1933 govt. agency | 31 |
| Controversial 1922 novel | 24 |
| Controversial 1767 act of Parliament | 36 |
| Controversial 1715 measure of Parliament | 40 |
| Controversial "Mad Monk" of Russian history | 53 |
| Controversial "language" of the 1990s | 47 |
| Controversial "gift" | 30 |
| Controversial '60s musical | 30 |
| Controversial | 13 |
| Controls, with "up" | 29 |
| Controls, as an Indy 500 car | 28 |
| Controls, as a helm | 19 |
| Controls the yacht, say | 23 |
| Controls the wheel | 18 |
| Controls something carefully | 28 |
| Controls one's emotions | 27 |
| Controls from behind the scenes | 31 |
| Controls for colts | 18 |
| Controls dishonestly | 20 |
| Controls completely | 19 |
| Controls a prison guard like a pop singer? | 42 |