| ___ wafer | 9 |
| ___ Wafers | 10 |
| ___ Wafers (cookie brand) | 25 |
| ___ Wafers (Nabisco brand) | 26 |
| ___ Wafers (Nabisco cookies) | 28 |
| ___ wage | 8 |
| ___ Wagner of baseball fame | 27 |
| ___ Wagner, player on an ultrarare baseball card | 48 |
| ___ wagon | 9 |
| ___ wagon (ambulance, in slang) | 31 |
| ___ wahr? | 9 |
| ___ waist | 9 |
| ___ wait | 8 |
| ___ wait (lurks) | 16 |
| ___ wait (prepare to ambush) | 28 |
| ___ wait (prepares to ambush) | 29 |
| ___ Waitz, nine-time New York City Marathon winner | 50 |
| ___ Walcott, 1992 Literature Nobelist | 37 |
| ___ Waldorf (famed maître) | 29 |
| ___ Walesa, Polish hero | 23 |
| ___ walk (controversial police practice) | 40 |
| ___ walk (old house feature) | 28 |
| ___ walk (police procedure) | 27 |
| ___ Walker, Boston anchorwoman | 30 |
| ___ Wall | 8 |
| ___ wall game (football/rugby mashup played at an all-boys school) | 66 |
| ___ Wallach, actor from Brooklyn | 32 |
| ___ wallop | 10 |
| ___ Walsh, N.B.A. executive | 27 |
| ___ Walsh, three-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist | 60 |
| ___ Walton League (conservation group) | 38 |
| ___ Walton, author of "The Compleat Angler" | 53 |
| ___ Wan Kenobi | 14 |
| ___ Wang, emperor of China who established the first zoo | 56 |
| ___ Wantanabe, Japanese figure skater | 37 |
| ___ War | 7 |
| ___ War ("Charge of the Light Brigade" conflict) | 58 |
| ___ War (1899-1902) | 19 |
| ___ War (Churchill's first) | 31 |
| ___ War (famed race horse) | 26 |
| ___ War (famous racehorse) | 26 |
| ___ war (fought) | 16 |
| ___ War (great race horse) | 26 |
| ___ War (race horse) | 20 |
| ___ War (Rome vs. Carthage) | 27 |
| ___ War in Colorado, 1879 | 25 |
| ___ War of 1853-56 | 18 |
| ___ War of 1899 | 15 |
| ___ war syndrome | 16 |
| ___ War, 1899-1902 | 18 |
| ___ War, 1920 Belmont winner | 28 |
| ___ War, famed horse | 20 |
| ___ War, famed race horse | 25 |
| ___ War, great race horse | 25 |
| ___ War: 1839–42 | 23 |
| ___ War: 1853-56 | 16 |
| ___ War: 1899-1902 | 18 |
| ___ War: 1899–1902 | 25 |
| ___ Warbucks | 12 |
| ___ Ward, who played Robin in TV's "Batman" | 57 |
| ___ Warders (Tower of London figures) | 37 |
| ___ ware (Japanese porcelain) | 29 |
| ___ Warier (Ron Artest's terrible record label) | 51 |
| ___ warmer | 10 |
| ___ Wars | 8 |
| ___ Wars (Caesarean campaigns) | 30 |
| ___ Wars (conflicts of the 19th century) | 40 |
| ___ Wars (conflicts of the second and third centuries B.C.) | 59 |
| ___ Wars (Rome vs. Carthage) | 28 |
| ___ Wars (Rome-Carthage conflicts) | 34 |
| ___ Wars (Rome/Carthage conflicts) | 34 |
| ___ Wars (U.K.-Iceland conflict) | 32 |
| ___ Wars of ancient times | 25 |
| ___ wash jeans | 14 |
| ___ Washington, who wrote "When You Wish Upon a Star" | 63 |
| ___ waste (was expended uselessly) | 34 |
| ___ Wat (Cambodian temple) | 26 |
| ___ Watanabe, Olympics figure skater | 36 |
| ___ water | 9 |
| ___ water (badly circumstanced) | 31 |
| ___ water (bleach) | 18 |
| ___ water (cologne kin) | 23 |
| ___ water (cologne) | 19 |
| ___ water (facing trouble) | 26 |
| ___ water (hard put) | 20 |
| ___ water (on the carpet) | 25 |
| ___ water (on the ropes) | 24 |
| ___ water (prove true) | 22 |
| ___ water (under fire) | 22 |
| ___ water (up the creek) | 24 |
| ___ Watts, English hymnist who wrote "Joy to the World" | 65 |
| ___ wave | 8 |
| ___ wave (powerful ocean movement) | 34 |
| ___ Wawa (role for Gilda Radner) | 32 |
| ___ Wawa, Radner role | 21 |
| ___ Wawa, role for Gilda Radner | 31 |
| ___ wax | 7 |
| ___ way | 7 |
| ___ way (advanced) | 18 |
| ___ Way (Block on Ninth Avenue in New York between 15th and 16th named after a sweet) | 85 |