| __ vu: familiar feeling | 23 |
| __ Wafers | 9 |
| __ wait (prepares an ambush) | 28 |
| __ Waldo Emerson | 16 |
| __ war | 6 |
| __ War: 1850s conflict | 22 |
| __ Warbucks | 11 |
| __ warmer | 9 |
| __ warning | 10 |
| __ Wars (Rome/Carthage conflict) | 32 |
| __ Wars: Rome vs. Carthage | 26 |
| __ water | 8 |
| __ water (facing trouble) | 25 |
| __ wave | 7 |
| __ wave (dangerous water) | 25 |
| __ Way (ancient Roman road) | 27 |
| __ way (not at all) | 19 |
| __ Way galaxy | 13 |
| __ Wayne | 8 |
| __ Wayne (Batman alter ego) | 27 |
| __ we forget | 12 |
| __ weaver: spider | 17 |
| __ Wednesday | 12 |
| __ week: frat initiation period | 31 |
| __ weevil | 9 |
| __ weevil (cotton pest) | 23 |
| __ weight: precious metal measurement | 37 |
| __ welder (construction worker) | 31 |
| __ Wellington | 13 |
| __ were | 7 |
| __ were (so to speak) | 21 |
| __ whale | 8 |
| __ wheels | 9 |
| __ when (supposing) | 19 |
| __ which way | 12 |
| __ which way: carelessly | 24 |
| __ whim | 7 |
| __ whim (for no real reason) | 28 |
| __ whim: capriciously | 21 |
| __ White | 8 |
| __ Who | 6 |
| __ Wicked Ale | 13 |
| __ Wiedersehen | 14 |
| __ wig: '60s fad item | 25 |
| __ will | 7 |
| __ willow | 9 |
| __ win: go all out | 18 |
| __ with (consider) | 18 |
| __ with (handled) | 17 |
| __ with faint praise | 20 |
| __ wolf | 7 |
| __ Wolf: Big Bad's son, in Disney comics | 44 |
| __ Wolf: Disney comics kid | 26 |
| __ wool | 7 |
| __ world | 8 |
| __ World Cup: intl. bowling tournament | 38 |
| __ worlde: quaintly fashionable | 31 |
| __ worse than death | 19 |
| __ wrench (workshop tool) | 25 |
| __ X | 4 |
| __ X'er | 11 |
| __ Xiaoping | 11 |
| __ Xiaoping (Chinese statesman) | 31 |
| __ XII, WWII pope | 17 |
| __ XING | 7 |
| __ XING (road sign) | 19 |
| __ Xing: crosswalk sign | 23 |
| __ y Plata: Montana motto | 25 |
| __ yard | 7 |
| __ year | 7 |
| __ year (2008 or 2012) | 22 |
| __ years | 8 |
| __ yesterday (gullible) | 23 |
| __ yet (so far) | 15 |
| __ yoga | 7 |
| __ Yosemite International Airport | 33 |
| __ Ysidro, busy U.S./Mexico border site | 39 |
| __ Z | 4 |
| __ Z (completely) | 17 |
| __ Zedong | 9 |
| __ Zee Bridge | 13 |
| __ Zee, former Netherlands inlet | 32 |
| __ Zee: area where the Hudson River widens | 42 |
| __ Zion Church | 14 |
| __ zone: restricted air space | 29 |
| __ Zoo | 6 |
| __ __ mode | 10 |
| __' Pea | 11 |
| __' War (legendary racehorse) | 33 |
| __'acte | 11 |
| __'acte (intermission) | 26 |
| __'acte: intermission | 25 |
| __'clock (coffee-break time) | 32 |
| __'clock (hour after noon) | 30 |
| __'clock scholar | 20 |
| __'easter | 13 |
| __'Lakes: dairy company | 27 |
| __'pea | 10 |
| __'Pea (''Popeye'' kid) | 43 |
| __'Pea ("Popeye" kid) | 35 |