| Combine against, with ''on'' | 44 |
| Combinatorics expert's major | 32 |
| Combination of three or more tones | 34 |
| Combination of parts to form a whole | 36 |
| Combination like "thundering silence" | 47 |
| Combatants in family court, often | 33 |
| Combatants in a long-standing battle | 36 |
| Combatant in an Antonio Prohias comic strip | 43 |
| Combatant in 1990s "console wars" | 43 |
| Combatant at the Battle of Hastings | 35 |
| Combat-capable ship smaller than a corvette | 43 |
| Combat that forces an opponent off balance | 42 |
| Comb. form with Chinese or Pacific | 34 |
| Comb. form indicating an eye defect | 35 |
| Comb-over-worthy, when fatigued on the outside? | 47 |
| Comb stuck in the back of a certain hairstyle | 45 |
| Columns with notable slants, briefly | 36 |
| Columnist nee Esther Pauline Lederer | 36 |
| Columnist Liz's coloring from the sun? | 42 |
| Columnist Dan who coined "santorum" | 45 |
| Columnist Coulter and rocker Wilson | 35 |
| Columnist brothers Joseph and Stewart | 37 |
| Columnist Barrett or writer Jaffe | 33 |
| Columnist and graphic novelist Jonathan | 39 |
| Columnist and broadcaster, Deirdre | 34 |
| Columnar rocks in Wyoming's Devils Tower | 44 |
| Column to the right of the hundreds | 35 |
| Column to the left of the decimal point | 39 |
| Column on the right in a baseball box score | 43 |
| Column of boxes on a questionnaire | 34 |
| Column next to "Current mo.," perhaps | 47 |
| Column in a pugilist's record | 33 |
| Column begun in 1956 by Pauline Phillips | 40 |
| Columbus-based footwear outlet: Abbr. | 37 |
| Columbus's return-trip ship: 1492–93 | 47 |
| Columbus's pet name for the Santa Clara | 43 |
| Columbus's elusive destination | 34 |
| Columbus's departure city: 1492 | 35 |
| Columbus's birthplace, to René | 37 |
| Columbus's angel, to Spanish | 32 |
| Columbus' reputed birthplace | 32 |
| Columbus' location, Sept. 1492 | 34 |
| Columbus in N.Y.C. or DuPont in D.C. | 36 |
| Columbus gone wild? (Nissan/Ford) | 33 |
| Columbus Day baby's birthstone | 34 |
| Columbus beats Tampa Bay in soccer | 34 |
| Columbus Avenue, vis-a-vis Amsterdam | 36 |
| Columbo's employer, for short | 33 |
| Columbia-associated record label | 32 |
| Columbia, in an old patriotic song | 34 |
| Columbia's Gamecocks, briefly | 33 |
| Columbia Records jazz producer Macero | 37 |
| Columbia Pictures co-founder Harry | 34 |
| Colts' home before Lucas Oil Stadium | 40 |
| Coltrane's instrument, informally | 37 |
| Coltrane ballad named for his wife | 34 |
| Colourful Creek chief who lead in the Creek War | 47 |
| Colossus of ___ (one of the Seven Wonders) | 42 |
| Colossus of Rhodes, Pyramids of Egypt, etc. | 43 |
| Colosseum and Circus Maximus parts | 34 |
| Colors outside an American embassy, briefly | 43 |
| Colorless, odorless gas used as fuel | 36 |
| Colorless, flammable gas used as an anesthetic | 46 |
| Colorless solvent used in paints | 32 |
| Colorless gas with a pungent odor, for short | 44 |
| Colorful, torpedo-shaped swimmer | 32 |
| Colorful wrap belonging to comedian Anderson? | 45 |
| Colorful swimmer with a beaklike jaw | 36 |
| Colorful stage performers since 1987 | 36 |
| Colorful shawls south of the border | 35 |
| Colorful plant of the daisy family | 34 |
| Colorful North American songster | 32 |
| Colorful Mexican cocktails, in slang | 36 |
| Colorful men's shirt from West Africa | 41 |
| Colorful member of the thrush family | 36 |
| Colorful marine fish with spiny, fanlike fins | 45 |
| Colorful introduction to a puzzle | 33 |
| Colorful identifier for some Levi's | 39 |
| Colorful grocery store purchase? | 32 |
| Colorful form of the common carp | 32 |
| Colorful Congresswoman's memoir? | 36 |
| Colorful computers of the '90s | 34 |
| Colorful command to a Shakespeare character? | 44 |
| Colorful collegians in Syracuse, N.Y. | 37 |
| Colorful collegians in New Orleans, La. | 39 |
| Colorful collegians in Lubbock, TX | 34 |
| Colorful collegians in Durham, N.C. | 35 |
| Colorful cold-blooded vertebrate | 32 |
| Colorful candy that sticks to the teeth | 39 |
| Colorful avian indigenous to New Guinea | 39 |
| Colorful 1984 Kelly LeBrock film | 32 |
| Colored letter in a Hawthorne novel | 35 |
| Colore ufficiale of the Italian football team | 45 |
| Coloratura's offering, perhaps | 34 |
| Coloratura's home, with "the" | 43 |
| Coloratura Christiane ___-Pierre | 32 |
| Colorado's __ Verde National Park | 37 |
| Colorado town on the Roaring Fork River | 39 |
| Colorado Springs-to-Santa Fe direction | 38 |
| Colorado Springs's ___ Air Force Base | 41 |