| Antique call centers | 20 |
| An operator may help place one | 30 |
| "Relief is just a ___!" | 33 |
| Mealtime annoyances | 19 |
| Alternative to a long-distance plan | 35 |
| Long-distance options | 21 |
| Emulated E.T. | 13 |
| Checked in with loved ones, say | 31 |
| Recalled events shared during a call? | 37 |
| Call forwarding message? | 24 |
| Telemarketing at dinnertime? | 28 |
| What [circled letters] wanted to do | 35 |
| "E.T." follower | 25 |
| Talk radio staple | 17 |
| Talk radio callers | 18 |
| Intricacies of cells | 20 |
| Do a job with minimal effort | 28 |
| Plug-in of a sort | 17 |
| Place to connect | 16 |
| Fax-machine plug | 16 |
| Some modem plug-ins | 19 |
| Kids' game for telemarketers? | 33 |
| Unit of speech | 14 |
| Speech unit | 11 |
| Smallest unit of speech | 23 |
| Smallest phonetic unit | 22 |
| Pronunciation unit | 18 |
| Pronunciation key representation | 32 |
| Letter sound | 12 |
| Basic linguistic unit | 21 |
| "I'd love it if you call" | 39 |
| Units of speech | 15 |
| Small sets of speech sounds | 27 |
| Place to set your cell while you sleep? | 39 |
| It may have an ext. | 19 |
| Cell assignment: Abbr. | 22 |
| Singles bar giveaway?: Abbr. | 28 |
| Info on a bus. card | 19 |
| One initiating a call | 21 |
| Communications problem? | 23 |
| Boiler-room workers | 19 |
| It's all talk and no action | 31 |
| One who thinks women make lousy operators? | 42 |
| Has one's say on a radio talk show | 38 |
| Puts a half-assed effort toward | 31 |
| Makes a call to a radio talk show, e.g. | 39 |
| Half-asses | 10 |
| Delivers with minimal effort, as a performance | 46 |
| Calls, as a radio show | 22 |
| Sci. of speech sounds | 21 |
| Espionage device | 16 |
| People who use tho and thru | 27 |
| Speech study | 12 |
| Study making sound judgments? | 29 |
| Speech study for dialers | 24 |
| Sounds of speech | 16 |
| English class question (Part 2) | 31 |
| Strategy to get the word out fast | 33 |
| Emergency calling plan | 22 |
| Big company hookup | 18 |
| Fake ID? | 8 |
| Party-line eavesdropper | 23 |
| "Galifianakis wants you to call him back"? | 52 |
| Sound: Suffix | 13 |
| Sound teaching method? | 22 |
| Reading method | 14 |
| More full of it | 15 |
| Less believable | 15 |
| Comfy evening wear | 18 |
| Most two-faced | 14 |
| Least sincere | 13 |
| Most fake | 9 |
| In a fake way | 13 |
| Speech-sound character | 22 |
| Thomas Edison's 1877 good idea | 34 |
| Edison's child | 18 |
| CD player's predecessor | 27 |
| It's lowered to hear music | 30 |
| They hold records | 17 |
| Study of speech sounds | 22 |
| Quantum of energy | 17 |
| Loudness units | 14 |
| Faux friend? | 12 |
| Deejay pranks | 13 |
| Fake percussion instrument? | 27 |
| "This tastes horrible!" | 33 |
| Relative of bah | 15 |
| "This tastes terrible!" | 33 |
| Carriers: Suffix | 16 |
| Old cries of contempt | 21 |
| Gas used in making glass and plastics | 37 |
| World War I chemical weapon | 27 |
| Gas used in W. W. I | 19 |
| Luminescent substance | 21 |
| Computer screen coating | 23 |
| Morning Star | 12 |
| Ignis fatuus, e.g. | 18 |
| Pertaining to light | 19 |
| Caused by light | 15 |
| Block a shot? | 13 |