| Soot-covered | 12 |
| Pale and wan | 12 |
| Not healthy-looking | 19 |
| Needing a tan | 13 |
| Looking frightened | 18 |
| Like volcanic fallout | 21 |
| Like some fireplaces | 20 |
| Like many hearths | 17 |
| Like fireplace grates | 21 |
| Like dirty hearths | 18 |
| Like arson evidence | 19 |
| Like a used fireplace | 21 |
| Like a spent campfire | 21 |
| Like a burnt-out briquet | 24 |
| Like a barbecue pit | 19 |
| Covered with soot | 17 |
| Cinderous | 9 |
| With fireplace residue | 22 |
| Not looking well, in a way | 26 |
| Like Vesuvian terrain | 21 |
| Like many fireplaces | 20 |
| Like an unswept fireplace | 25 |
| Like an abandoned campfire | 26 |
| Like a recently used fireplace | 30 |
| Hardly healthy-looking | 22 |
| Depleted of color | 17 |
| Cinder-covered | 14 |
| Chalky | 6 |
| Sooty | 5 |
| Rubicund's opposite | 23 |
| Quite pale | 10 |
| Pallid looking | 14 |
| Pale in color | 13 |
| Pale as a sheet | 15 |
| Looking gray | 12 |
| Looking a whiter shade of pale? | 31 |
| Like used andirons | 18 |
| Like the ground after a campfire | 32 |
| Like the area around an erupting volcano | 40 |
| Like St. Helens' output | 27 |
| Like some grates | 16 |
| Like some evidence in arson cases | 33 |
| Like Pompeii, once | 18 |
| Like Pompeian relics | 20 |
| Like Mr. Claus's suit | 25 |
| Like many fireplaces in winter | 30 |
| Like many fireplaces in late winter | 35 |
| Like many a hearth | 18 |
| Like fireplaces | 15 |
| Like cinders | 12 |
| Like certain trays | 18 |
| Like burnt briquettes | 21 |
| Like andirons, generally | 24 |
| Like an uncleaned fireplace | 27 |
| Like a used barbecue pit | 24 |
| Like a spent briquette | 22 |
| Like a paleface? | 16 |
| Like a grate | 12 |
| Like a burnt-out briquette | 26 |
| Like a burned-out campfire | 26 |
| Ill-looking, perhaps | 20 |
| Hardly flushed | 14 |
| Gray of face | 12 |
| Fouled by fire | 14 |
| Far from flushed | 16 |
| Dry, as skin | 12 |
| Dirty, as a fireplace | 21 |
| Covered in soot | 15 |
| Covered in fireplace residue | 28 |
| Colorless of cheek | 18 |
| Begrimed with soot | 18 |
| Afflicted with dry skin | 23 |
| Adjective for volcanic fallout | 30 |
| "Fahrenheit 451," for one? | 36 |
| "___ live and breathe!" | 33 |
| "___ was saying ..." | 30 |
| "___ was saying . . . " | 33 |
| "___ was saying" | 26 |
| "___ was saying..." | 29 |
| Do-say connection | 17 |
| "Just ___ thought!" | 29 |
| '-- was saying, ...' | 28 |
| Faulkner's "___ Lay Dying" | 40 |
| Do-say link | 11 |
| Start of a Faulkner title | 25 |
| "Just ___ suspected!" | 31 |
| '-- was saying ...' | 27 |
| "___ Lay Dying": Faulkner | 35 |
| "__ was saying ..." | 29 |
| "__ was saying . . ." | 31 |
| "Just __ thought!" | 28 |
| "___ see it ..." | 26 |
| "___ Lay Dying" | 25 |
| "_____ was saying..." | 31 |
| Thus, in Taxco | 14 |
| Faulkner's "__ Lay Dying" | 39 |
| "Unaccustomed ___ am . . . " | 38 |
| "Do ___ say, not ..." | 31 |
| "_____ live and breathe!" | 35 |
| "___ was saying . . ." | 32 |