| "The ___ Sanction": Trevanian | 39 |
| "The ___ Sanction," 1975 film | 39 |
| Skater's ''figure'' | 39 |
| Brennan of "Private Benjamin" | 39 |
| ''Der Spiegel'' article | 39 |
| "___ Heldenleben": R. Strauss | 39 |
| Cork can be found near the bottom of it | 39 |
| Grafton's '-- for Evidence' | 39 |
| Surface for the Olympische Winterspiele | 39 |
| Unique button in 007's Aston Martin | 39 |
| Meagerly maintain, with "out" | 39 |
| Earn laboriously (with "out") | 39 |
| Barely squeeze by, with "out" | 39 |
| Just barely made (with "out") | 39 |
| Only just managed, with "out" | 39 |
| Barely achieved (with "out") | 39 |
| Scrapes together (with "out") | 39 |
| Meagerly manages (with "out") | 39 |
| Marginally makes (with "out") | 39 |
| Makes do (with ''out'') | 39 |
| Struggles to make, with "out" | 39 |
| Scarcely makes do, with "out" | 39 |
| Laboriously earns, with "out" | 39 |
| Barely makes do ( with "out") | 39 |
| Barely getting by, with "out" | 39 |
| Barely making it (with "out") | 39 |
| "___ Loves Cole" (1972 album) | 39 |
| Jerry's ex, on "Seinfeld" | 39 |
| "A New Leaf" actress/director | 39 |
| Its safety videos have Arabic subtitles | 39 |
| Actor Idris ___ of "The Wire" | 39 |
| Part of a shirt that may develop a hole | 39 |
| Meg, among the "Little Women" | 39 |
| He wrote "The Book of Daniel" | 39 |
| Greek colony associated with philosophy | 39 |
| Queen in "The Lion in Winter" | 39 |
| ___ of Aquitaine (Henry II's queen) | 39 |
| The "E" in P.G.&E.: Abbr. | 39 |
| "Waiting for the Robert ___ " | 39 |
| Shelley's "Adonais," e.g. | 39 |
| John Paul's Supreme Court successor | 39 |
| "The Vampire Diaries" heroine | 39 |
| Verdugo of "Marcus Welby, MD" | 39 |
| Verdugo of "The Big Sombrero" | 39 |
| Kagan who clerked for Thurgood Marshall | 39 |
| 1941 chart-topper "Maria ___" | 39 |
| "Paride ed ___" (Gluck opera) | 39 |
| "Maria ___" (1941 Dorsey hit) | 39 |
| "Maria ___," 40's pop hit | 39 |
| "Maria _____" ('40s song) | 39 |
| ''Mefistofele'' soprano | 39 |
| Girls name that means "torch" | 39 |
| Shoemaker's helper, in a fairy tale | 39 |
| Character in a Christmas special, often | 39 |
| Will Ferrell's shortest movie title | 39 |
| Species of Tolkien's Arwen Evenstar | 39 |
| Rice Krispies' Snap, Crackle or Pop | 39 |
| Rembrandt's "Leprechaun"? | 39 |
| Narrator of "The Fantasticks" | 39 |
| "Dream of Gerontius" composer | 39 |
| "Cockaigne Overture" composer | 39 |
| "The Whiffenpoof Song" singer | 39 |
| "The Book of ___" (2010 film) | 39 |
| Whitney who went to Yale, appropriately | 39 |
| Thornton Wilder, while earning his B.A. | 39 |
| "East of Eden" director Kazan | 39 |
| "Viva Zapata!" director Kazan | 39 |
| Pen name of Coleridge's good friend | 39 |
| "Essays of ___" (1823 volume) | 39 |
| "Dream-Children" author, 1822 | 39 |
| Mount Saint ___ (Alaskan/Canadian peak) | 39 |
| Say "I'm goin'," e.g. | 39 |
| Sings "'S Wonderful," say | 39 |
| ''Night'' author Wiesel | 39 |
| ''Night'' writer Wiesel | 39 |
| Root who won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize | 39 |
| "The Little Clock" poet Wylie | 39 |
| He wrote "The Cocktail Party" | 39 |
| ''The Hollow Men'' poet | 39 |
| ''Silas Marner'' writer | 39 |
| ''Silas Marner'' author | 39 |
| "Eight Men Out" author Asinof | 39 |
| Participants in the annual Safety Dance | 39 |
| Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, for two | 39 |
| Alito and Thomas, in the early '70s | 39 |
| "_____ Coming" (1969 pop hit) | 39 |
| Actress Donovan of "Clueless" | 39 |
| "Für ___," Beethoven piece | 39 |
| Für whom Beethoven wrote a bagatelle | 39 |
| Beethoven's "Für ___ " | 39 |
| Beethoven's "Für ___" | 39 |
| "Für __" (Beethoven piece) | 39 |
| ''Fur ___'' (Beethoven) | 39 |
| Omission of a syllable in pronunciation | 39 |
| "Uncle Tom's Cabin" woman | 39 |
| 'Enry's Broadway protégée | 39 |
| Beast seen in Yellowstone National Park | 39 |
| "Benevolent" fraternal member | 39 |
| Paul's "The Prize" costar | 39 |
| Sommer of ''The Prize'' | 39 |