| Directionally challenged pilot of 1938 | 38 |
| Dropped a line | 14 |
| Kept in touch, in a way | 23 |
| Put down on paper | 17 |
| Composed, as a letter | 21 |
| Practiced penmanship | 20 |
| Indited | 7 |
| Expressed with a pen | 20 |
| Created, in a way | 17 |
| "That's all she ___" | 34 |
| What Trollope did | 17 |
| What Petty did about L.A. riots | 31 |
| Used a pencil | 13 |
| Took pen in hand | 16 |
| That's all she ____ | 23 |
| Shed ink | 8 |
| Scribbled, say | 14 |
| Scribbled on paper | 18 |
| Sand did this | 13 |
| Practiced calligraphy | 21 |
| Made up a story, say | 20 |
| Kept in touch | 13 |
| Expressed in writing | 20 |
| Emulated Rice or Oates | 22 |
| Emulated Anne Rice | 18 |
| Emulated a novelist | 19 |
| Dropped a line to | 17 |
| Did literary work | 17 |
| Decided on a sentence, perhaps | 30 |
| Dashed off, as a note | 21 |
| Dashed off (h,h) | 16 |
| Created, as a play | 18 |
| Composed, as an email | 21 |
| Composed prose | 14 |
| Composed an email | 17 |
| Composed a letter | 17 |
| Composed a billet-doux | 22 |
| Communicated with | 17 |
| Acted the author | 16 |
| Sales log, part 1 | 17 |
| Calvin Coolidge lived up to his reputation as a man of few words when he ... | 76 |
| Entered a candidate not on the ballot | 37 |
| After a single hearing of a sacred piece in the Sistine Chapel, Mystery Person ... | 82 |
| Texted, say | 11 |
| Canceled a debt | 15 |
| Marked up, say | 14 |
| Defaced, perhaps | 16 |
| Made a full report | 18 |
| Sent letters to a country's citizens? | 41 |
| Sent a line, say | 16 |
| Corresponded with | 17 |
| Communicated with in a way | 27 |
| Penned a review of | 18 |
| Did a profile on | 16 |
| Completed, as a customer's order | 36 |
| Angry, archaically | 18 |
| It's at the entrance of some estates | 40 |
| Emulated O. Henry? | 18 |
| Targets for QBs | 15 |
| Targets for N.F.L. QB's | 27 |
| Concerning, when texting | 24 |
| Twisted, as hands | 17 |
| Twisted dry | 11 |
| Squeezed water out of | 21 |
| Twisted to dry | 14 |
| Twisted tightly | 15 |
| Twisted forcibly (with "out") | 39 |
| Twisted forcibly | 16 |
| Squeezed a wet rag | 18 |
| Squeezed (out), as wet towels | 29 |
| Second-largest city of Rhode Island | 35 |
| Dryly humorous | 14 |
| Ironically funny | 16 |
| Like some senses of humor | 25 |
| Humorously sarcastic | 20 |
| Twisted, like a smile | 21 |
| Twisted, as humor | 17 |
| Ironically humorous | 19 |
| Humorously ironic | 17 |
| Seinfeldesque | 13 |
| Satiric | 7 |
| Lopsided, as a grin | 19 |
| Ironical | 8 |
| Tinged with sarcasm | 19 |
| Smacking of irony | 17 |
| Like Thurber's humor | 24 |
| Like a crooked smile | 20 |
| Ironically funny, perhaps | 25 |
| Cleverly ironic | 15 |
| Bitterly ironic | 15 |
| Amusingly ironic | 16 |
| Twisted, as a grin | 18 |
| Subtly humorous | 15 |
| Sort of funny | 13 |
| Sarcastically humorous | 22 |
| Rather sarcastic, perhaps | 25 |
| Like Will Rogers commentary | 27 |
| Like some one-liners | 20 |
| Like Oscar Wilde's humor | 28 |
| Like Letterman lines | 20 |