| Controversial current-carried carp catcher | 42 |
| Controversial courtroom evidence: abbr. | 39 |
| Controversial continental commerce pact | 39 |
| Controversial conflict since 2003 | 33 |
| Controversial cigarette additive | 32 |
| Controversial Bikini Atoll event | 32 |
| Controversial baby food ingredient | 34 |
| Controversial author and W.W. I pacifist | 40 |
| Controversial Arkansas belle oddly spelled | 43 |
| Controversial apple growth regulator | 36 |
| Controversial 70's-80's sitcom | 38 |
| 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 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 1767 act of Parliament | 36 |
| Controversial 1715 measure of Parliament | 40 |
| Controversial "language" of the 1990s | 47 |
| Controls a prison guard like a pop singer? | 42 |
| Controllers notorious for being thrown at TVs | 45 |
| Controller of future generations? | 33 |
| Controller of corp. purse strings | 33 |
| Controlled the situation completely | 35 |
| Controlled substance substitutes | 32 |
| Controlled regimen of food and drink | 36 |
| Controlled exclusively (with "up") | 44 |
| Control-driven people, supposedly | 33 |
| CONTROL's nemesis on "Get Smart" | 46 |
| CONTROL's enemy on "Get Smart" | 44 |
| Control ___ (four-wheel-drive system) | 37 |
| Control tower's guess: Abbr. | 32 |
| Control tower's "A" | 33 |
| Control surface on a plane's wing | 37 |
| CONTROL rival on "Get Smart" | 38 |
| Control of a market by a few firms | 34 |
| Control in a relationship, according to Seinfeld | 48 |
| Control for an out-of-control crowd | 35 |
| Control exclusively, with "up" | 40 |
| Control a race horse's speed | 32 |
| Contrivance for taking people for a ride | 40 |
| Contributors to The Paris Review, e.g. | 38 |
| Contributor to Herculaneum's ruin | 37 |
| Contributions to them are not tax-deductible | 44 |
| Contributions to one are not tax-deductible | 43 |
| Contributing some chips for a hand | 34 |
| Contributes to a football pileup | 32 |
| Contributes some marginal thoughts? | 35 |
| Contributes (or creates this puzzle's theme) | 48 |
| Contributed, with "up" | 32 |
| Contribute, as to the conversation | 34 |
| Contribute to a lengthy résumé | 36 |
| Contribute to a Cricket team, perhaps? | 38 |
| Contrasting music as in a march | 32 |
| Contrast or volume, on an old TV | 32 |
| Contrapuntal musical compositions | 33 |
| Contralto who debuted in Prague: 1936 | 37 |
| Contralto role in "Siegfried" | 39 |
| Contralto in "Siegfried" | 34 |
| Contralto in "Eugene Onegin" | 38 |
| Contraire à la __: illegal, in Lyons | 39 |
| Contracts to use sewing equipment | 33 |
| Contractor's equipment for short | 37 |
| Contractor's detail, for short | 34 |
| Contractor's detail, briefly | 32 |
| Contractor's approximation, briefly | 39 |
| Contractless communication option | 33 |
| Contractional homophone for weave | 33 |
| Contraction with two apostrophes | 32 |
| Contraction with enough or entertainment | 40 |
| Contraction with "number one" | 39 |
| Contraction used by servants and children | 41 |
| Contraction that's an "i" dropper | 47 |
| Contraction that sounds like a conjunction | 42 |
| Contraction that gives trouble to many | 38 |
| Contraction that gives many spellers trouble | 44 |
| Contraction often used by servants | 34 |
| Contraction not in the king's English | 41 |
| Contraction meaning "taboo" | 37 |
| Contraction in Shakespeare title | 32 |
| Contraction in Earth's galaxy? | 34 |
| Contraction in an alibi, perhaps | 32 |
| Contraction in "Jingle Bells" | 39 |
| Contraction for "small" | 33 |
| Contraction between you and bother | 34 |
| Contraction between looks and everything | 40 |
| Contraction before "now" | 34 |
| Contraction after "yes" | 33 |
| Contract's inflation adjustment | 35 |
| Contract's escalator clause, for short | 42 |
| Contract With America first name | 32 |
| Contract with America co-author Dick | 36 |
| Contract term for a 1930's heavyweight champ? | 49 |
| Contract signing by Lucy's pal in Finland? | 46 |