| Possible source of petroleum | 28 |
| Fuel-yielding rock | 18 |
| Fossil-yielding rock | 20 |
| Compressed clay | 15 |
| Thin-layered rock | 17 |
| Synfuel source | 14 |
| Stratified rock | 15 |
| Rock that splits easily | 23 |
| Rock made from layered mud | 26 |
| Product of mud compaction | 25 |
| Oil-producing rock | 18 |
| Not exactly hard rock? | 22 |
| Mud, after centuries | 20 |
| Fossil source | 13 |
| Clayey rock | 11 |
| Thin layered rock | 17 |
| Source of kerosene | 18 |
| Slate, originally | 17 |
| Slate source | 12 |
| Rock used in fracking | 21 |
| Rock used for flagstones | 24 |
| Rock that splits into bits | 26 |
| Rock that may yield oil | 23 |
| Rock that may hold fossils | 26 |
| Rock often containing quartz | 28 |
| River-delta material | 20 |
| Potential oil source | 20 |
| Oily stone | 10 |
| Oil-rich mineral | 16 |
| Oil yielder | 11 |
| Oil rock | 8 |
| Mudstone, e.g. | 14 |
| Mudstone | 8 |
| Most common sedimentary rock | 28 |
| Layered fissile rock | 20 |
| Kerosene source | 15 |
| It's formed by clay hardening | 33 |
| Fragile layered rock | 20 |
| Fracking target | 15 |
| Fracking rock | 13 |
| Fossil medium | 13 |
| Fossil holder | 13 |
| Emergency oil source | 20 |
| Compressed clays | 16 |
| Cleavable rock | 14 |
| Clay product | 12 |
| Brick ingredient | 16 |
| Argillaceous rock | 17 |
| Crushed rocks used for bricks | 29 |
| Type of petroleum | 17 |
| Rock-derived fuel | 17 |
| Fissile rocks | 13 |
| TV critic Tom | 13 |
| Terrigenous rocks | 17 |
| Synthetic fuel sources | 22 |
| Some are bituminous | 19 |
| Sedimentary rocks | 17 |
| Oil-producing rocks | 19 |
| Layered rocks | 13 |
| Fuel-yielding rocks | 19 |
| Fossil-yielding rocks | 21 |
| Fossil rocks | 12 |
| Ill effect of some rock? | 24 |
| More like pelite | 16 |
| Critic Gene | 11 |
| Critic with a handlebar | 23 |
| Sideburned film critic | 22 |
| Retired, mustachioed film critic | 32 |
| Mustachioed movie maven Gene | 28 |
| Movie critic Gene | 17 |
| Longtime "Today" figure | 33 |
| Goofy critic Gene | 17 |
| Gene who compiled the quote anthology "Great Hollywood Wit" | 69 |
| Film critic with a handlebar mustache | 37 |
| Critic with big sideburns | 25 |
| Critic with a bowtie and a handlebar | 36 |
| Critic on "The Today Show" | 36 |
| ''Today'' critic | 32 |
| WILL | 4 |
| "___ We Dance?" | 25 |
| Intend to | 9 |
| "I ___ return" | 24 |
| Traditional will? | 17 |
| "We ___ Overcome" | 27 |
| ''We ___ Overcome'' | 35 |
| Will definitely | 15 |
| "... and the truth ___ set you free" | 46 |
| We ____ Overcome | 16 |
| Fully intends to | 16 |
| Are going to | 12 |
| "___ We Dance" | 24 |
| Will surely | 11 |
| Verb of the future | 18 |
| The Band "I ___ Be Released" | 38 |
| Strong will? | 12 |
| Sheryl Crow: "I ___ Believe" | 38 |
| Sheryl Crow "I ___ Believe" | 37 |
| Sherwood's "There ___ Be No Night" | 48 |
| Repeated word of the Beatitudes | 31 |
| OK Go "This Too ___ Pass" | 35 |