| Text | Length |
| Market fluctuations | 19 |
| Stock market turns | 18 |
| Party purchases | 15 |
| Party platter items | 19 |
| Party offerings | 15 |
| Party concoctions | 17 |
| Market corrections | 18 |
| Guacamole and salsa | 19 |
| Business slumps | 15 |
| Veggie enhancers | 16 |
| Takes a downturn | 16 |
| Some tango moves | 16 |
| Snack-tray mixtures | 19 |
| Road depressions | 16 |
| Preprandial tidbits | 19 |
| Pool quickies | 13 |
| Plunges briefly | 15 |
| Pickpockets: Slang | 18 |
| Party dishfuls | 14 |
| Minor declines | 14 |
| Ice-cream measures | 18 |
| Ice cream scoops | 16 |
| Fluctuations | 12 |
| Decreases slightly | 18 |
| Dance floor moves | 17 |
| Crankcase item | 14 |
| Companions of chips | 19 |
| Clam and onion | 14 |
| Chip enhancers | 14 |
| Way to go: Abbr. | 16 |
| Short way to go? | 16 |
| Corp. board member | 18 |
| Board member: Abbr. | 19 |
| N, S, E or W | 12 |
| Movie V.I.P. | 12 |
| Movie set VIP | 13 |
| Foundation exec. | 16 |
| WSW, for one | 12 |
| Title akin to Pres. | 19 |
| Theater head: Abbr. | 19 |
| SSE, for one | 12 |
| S, E, or SE, e.g. | 17 |
| S or E: Abbr. | 13 |
| R. Howard, e.g. | 15 |
| NNW, for one | 12 |
| N, E, W or S | 12 |
| N, E, S or W | 12 |
| Movie V.I.P.: Abbr. | 19 |
| Mgmt. member | 12 |
| Leader: Abbr. | 13 |
| Heading: Abbr. | 14 |
| Film studio VIP | 15 |
| Film honcho: Abbr. | 18 |
| Federal agcy. boss | 18 |
| D.W. Griffith, e.g. | 19 |
| Compass abbr. | 13 |
| Capra's prof. | 17 |
| Board mem., maybe | 17 |
| Agency head: Abbr. | 18 |
| Acct. manager | 13 |
| Catastrophic | 12 |
| In ___ straits | 14 |
| Kind of straits | 15 |
| Life-or-death | 13 |
| Extremely serious | 17 |
| Like some straits | 17 |
| Fraught with peril | 18 |
| Extremely worrisome | 19 |
| Desperately urgent | 18 |
| Really dreadful | 15 |
| Portending disaster | 19 |
| Nearly hopeless | 15 |
| Like some straits? | 18 |
| Kind of emergency | 17 |
| In __ straits | 13 |
| Hardly looking good | 19 |
| Word with peril | 15 |
| Urgently desperate | 18 |
| Terribly urgent | 15 |
| Straits modifier | 16 |
| Some predictions | 16 |
| Seemingly hopeless | 18 |
| Presaging disaster | 18 |
| Potentially ruinous | 19 |
| Not looking good | 16 |
| Not just serious | 16 |
| Looking grim | 12 |
| Kind of need | 12 |
| Foreboding trouble | 18 |
| Extremely urgent | 16 |
| Emergency-related | 17 |
| C'est à ___ | 18 |
| ___ Straits of rock | 19 |
| Show the way | 12 |
| Like some currents | 18 |
| Kind of current | 15 |
| Person-to-person | 16 |
| Not roundabout | 14 |
| Emulate Spielberg | 17 |
| Call the shots? | 15 |
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