| Word chain #2 (7 wds., coming full circle) | 42 |
| Word changer | 12 |
| Word chanted at a celebratory party | 35 |
| Word chanted at an awards ceremony | 34 |
| Word chanted in "Animal House" | 40 |
| Word choice | 11 |
| Word chunk | 10 |
| Word class | 10 |
| Word classification | 19 |
| Word Clemens likes to hear | 26 |
| Word coinage | 12 |
| Word coined by Asimov | 21 |
| Word coined by F.B. Burgess | 27 |
| Word coined by Herb Caen in 1958 | 32 |
| Word coined in 1941 | 19 |
| Word coined in PC magazine in 1990 | 34 |
| Word coined in the States? | 26 |
| Word coined to describe an unnamed Hulk Hogan maneuver? | 55 |
| Word coiner? | 12 |
| Word combined with "therapy" | 38 |
| Word combined with while | 24 |
| Word command | 12 |
| Word commanding attention | 25 |
| Word commonly translated into pig Latin | 39 |
| Word companion | 14 |
| Word comprising 60% of itself | 29 |
| Word connector | 14 |
| Word creators | 13 |
| Word defined by the definition | 30 |
| Word denoting Chinese | 21 |
| Word denoting excess | 20 |
| Word denoting one | 17 |
| Word derived from "Caesar" | 36 |
| Word derived from a name | 24 |
| Word derived from Finnish | 25 |
| Word derived from Japanese for "empty orchestra" | 58 |
| Word derived from Malay for "jungle man" | 50 |
| Word derived from the Latin "uncia," meaning "one-twelfth" | 78 |
| Word describing a yellow polka dot bikini | 41 |
| Word describing a yellow polkadot bikini | 40 |
| Word describing Abby? | 21 |
| Word describing Abner | 21 |
| Word describing some instruments | 32 |
| Word dieters may look for | 25 |
| Word differently | 16 |
| Word directly above the eagle's head on a quarter back | 58 |
| Word div. | 9 |
| Word divided in this puzzle's nine longest answers | 54 |
| Word division | 13 |
| Word division: Abbr. | 20 |
| Word divs. | 10 |
| Word dropped by hot dog chain Wienerschnitzel in 1977 | 53 |
| Word each theme entry ends with a synonym for | 45 |
| Word either meaning "adhere" or "split" | 59 |
| Word element denoting ear | 25 |
| Word element for bone | 21 |
| Word element for France | 23 |
| Word element meaning ear | 24 |
| Word element meaning life | 25 |
| Word elisions, as in "forecastle" to "fo'c'sle" | 75 |
| Word ending | 11 |
| Word ending a radio announcement | 32 |
| Word ending a threat | 20 |
| Word ending a threat, sometimes | 31 |
| Word ending in "ing," sometimes | 41 |
| Word ending in "o" in Esperanto | 41 |
| Word ending in "s," usually | 37 |
| Word ending many company names | 30 |
| Word ending many software titles | 32 |
| Word ending meaning "foot" | 36 |
| Word ending today's theme | 29 |
| Word engraved on some bars | 26 |
| Word exclaimed after "no" or "good" | 55 |
| Word expressing disgust | 23 |
| Word expressing pity | 20 |
| Word famously sung by Doris Day | 31 |
| Word fatefully misspelled in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" obituary | 72 |
| Word feminizer | 14 |
| Word fight | 10 |
| Word files and such | 19 |
| Word finder | 11 |
| Word first defined by Darwin | 28 |
| Word first seen in the Bible at Genesis 1:26 | 44 |
| Word fit for a king | 19 |
| Word flashed at the beginning of some video games | 49 |
| Word followed by handed | 23 |
| Word followed by such | 21 |
| Word following ''Hernando's hideaway'' | 58 |
| Word following ''I thee'' | 41 |
| Word following ''push'' or ''cast'' | 67 |
| Word following "dot" | 30 |
| Word following "du" on menus | 38 |
| Word following "riot" or "class" | 52 |
| Word following "theater" or "opera" | 55 |
| Word following "well" or "human" | 52 |
| Word following a sigh | 21 |
| Word following a typo | 21 |
| Word following an omission | 26 |
| Word following ankle or nail | 28 |
| Word following box or car | 25 |