| Wood for bats or skis | 21 |
| Wood for baseball bats | 22 |
| Wood for a bat | 14 |
| Wiggle, as a butt? | 18 |
| What a butt leaves behind | 25 |
| Wednesday smudge | 16 |
| Wednesday preceder once a year | 30 |
| Wednesday or can | 16 |
| Volcano stuff | 13 |
| Volcano spray | 13 |
| Volcano emission | 16 |
| Volcanic stuff that's slowed air traffic of late | 52 |
| Volcanic outpouring | 19 |
| Volcanic leaving | 16 |
| Volcanic ___ | 12 |
| Type of blonde | 14 |
| True waste | 10 |
| Tree with silver-gray bark | 26 |
| Tree with purple flower clusters | 32 |
| Tree whose winged seeds look like tiny canoe paddles | 52 |
| Tree or residue | 15 |
| Tree of the genus Fraxinus | 26 |
| Tree of life, in Norse myth | 27 |
| Tree before or after a fire | 27 |
| Tray residue | 12 |
| Tray or can predecessor | 23 |
| Tray contents? | 14 |
| Tray content | 12 |
| Tough, elastic wood | 19 |
| Tough tree | 10 |
| Tough timber tree | 17 |
| Tiparillo tip | 13 |
| Tip of a Tiparillo, e.g. | 24 |
| Tip for smokers | 15 |
| Tip for a smoker? | 17 |
| The mythical tree Yggdrasil, for one | 36 |
| Tapped-off part | 15 |
| Tap a butt | 10 |
| Sweep's heap | 16 |
| Stuff of bats | 13 |
| Stuff in a volcanic plume | 25 |
| Stuff gathered by a chimney sweep | 33 |
| Stuff at the end of a cigarette | 31 |
| Stomped-out cig leftovers | 25 |
| St. Helens' product | 23 |
| Speck on a hearth | 17 |
| Sometimes-spewed stuff | 22 |
| Something to flick | 18 |
| Some baseball bats | 18 |
| Soda or mountain | 16 |
| Smudge on Santa's suit | 26 |
| Smudge on Santa? | 16 |
| Smoking remains? | 16 |
| Silverish gray | 14 |
| Silver-gray | 11 |
| Silent butler contents | 22 |
| Sign of burnout hidden in eight puzzle answers | 46 |
| Seattle sidewalk stuff, in mid-1980 | 35 |
| Scuttle dust | 12 |
| Salem outcast? | 14 |
| Salem castoff | 13 |
| Rocker's cigarette residue | 30 |
| Result of a fire | 16 |
| Residue in a smoker's tray | 30 |
| Residue from Eyjafjallajökull | 32 |
| Residue for a tray | 18 |
| Residue at a smoker | 19 |
| Remnant in a tray | 17 |
| Reminder of an old flame? | 25 |
| Reminder of an old flame | 24 |
| Remains after an arson attack, say | 34 |
| Quiet color | 11 |
| Pulverized lava | 15 |
| Product of Pompeii | 18 |
| Prickly ___ (citrus shrub) | 26 |
| Powdery evidence | 16 |
| Post-barbecue briquette coating | 31 |
| Post-barbecue briquet coating | 29 |
| Popular wood for wood chips | 27 |
| Pool-cue wood | 13 |
| Pompeii's downfall? | 23 |
| Pompeii's covering | 22 |
| Pompeii fallout | 15 |
| Pompeii coverer | 15 |
| Pompeii cover | 13 |
| Pokémon protagonist | 22 |
| Pinatubo product | 16 |
| Pile at a campground | 20 |
| Penitential symbol | 18 |
| Part of a burning cigar | 23 |
| Parliament's end? | 21 |
| Parliament residue | 18 |
| Parliament output? | 18 |
| Panatela residue | 16 |
| Pale hardwood | 13 |
| Pale blond | 10 |
| One Wednesday each year | 23 |
| One Wednesday | 13 |
| One from the hearth | 19 |
| Olive's cousin | 18 |