| #1 hit | 6 |
| #1 Helen Reddy hit | 18 |
| #1 Heart hit of 1987 | 20 |
| #1 Green Mountain Boy | 21 |
| #1 grasslands tour leader? | 26 |
| #1 foreign-language song of 1958 | 32 |
| #1 fans | 7 |
| #1 Ethel Waters hit | 19 |
| #1 Dolly Parton country hit with the lyric "I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man" | 111 |
| #1 Dire Straits hit | 19 |
| #1 Danny & the Juniors hit | 30 |
| #1 country hit for Ferlin Husky | 31 |
| #1 country hit for Dolly Parton | 31 |
| #1 choice | 9 |
| #1 Carole King song | 19 |
| #1 Bobby Vinton hit | 19 |
| #1 Bette Midler hit from 'Beaches' | 42 |
| #1 best-selling book of all time | 32 |
| #1 best sellers | 15 |
| #1 Beatles tune of 1970 | 23 |
| #1 Beatles hit with the only known vocal contribution by Linda McCartney | 72 |
| #1 Beatles hit of 1970 | 22 |
| #1 Beatles hit of 1965 | 22 |
| #1 Beatles hit "___ Fine" | 35 |
| #1 Beach Boys hit | 17 |
| #1 baby boy's name, 1999-2012 | 33 |
| #1 Alicia Keys hit of 2007 | 26 |
| #1 album, for four weeks, before "Woodstock" | 54 |
| #1 album for 13 weeks in 1966-67, with "The" | 54 |
| #1 | 2 |
| #, to a typesetter | 18 |
| #, to a proofreader | 19 |
| #, on scores | 12 |
| #, in sheet music | 17 |
| #, & or % | 13 |
| #>!$!%(@^%# cause, perhaps | 29 |
| ###, to a proofreader | 21 |
| #### | 4 |
| ### | 3 |
| # on a galley page | 18 |
| # neighbor, on old phones | 25 |
| # neighbor | 10 |
| # key | 5 |
| # in a tweet | 12 |
| # 6 ("Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.") | 38 |
| # 5 (Beatles album) | 19 |
| # 4 ("F Troop") | 25 |
| # 3 ("Sands of Iwo Jima") | 35 |
| # 20/20 | 7 |
| # 2 (old radio/TV serials) | 26 |
| # 1 ("Hogan's Heroes") | 36 |
| # # #: Abbr. | 12 |
| # # # | 5 |
| # | 1 |
| !PU SMOTTOB | 11 |
| !@&%$#! e.g. | 17 |
| !995 Canadian peace keeping locale | 34 |
| !2th alphabet letter | 20 |
| !, to a printer | 15 |
| !!!!!!!! | 8 |
| ___ stone | 10 |
| ___ Royale in Lake Superior | 28 |
| ___ Pahlavi (former Shah of Iran) | 34 |
| ___ Jima | 9 |
| __-TASS (Russian news agency) | 30 |
| Turn on the gamesmanship | 25 |
| Track-and-field item | 21 |
| Thompson in "Junior" | 31 |
| Someone had ___! (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) | 40 |
| Socialite Maxwell | 18 |
| Small vol. measurement | 23 |
| Shoe piece | 11 |
| review, e.g. | 13 |
| review | 7 |
| Reagan advisor Nofziger | 24 |
| Queensbridge rapper | 20 |
| Printers' supplies | 23 |
| Odin, Thor and company | 23 |
| Noted candymaker | 17 |
| Navy VIP | 9 |
| Moliere's ''L'ecole ___ femmes'' | 57 |
| Lukas who portrayed an Amish boy in "Witness" | 56 |
| Library coll. | 14 |
| Let's call them ___ ... | 28 |
| Leo Sayers's hit "When ___ You" | 46 |
| John, Joseph, and Jude (abbr.) | 31 |
| I narrowed it down to two suspects. Naturally, they both ___ ... | 65 |
| I laid out the evidence; they could see that I'd done ___ ... | 66 |
| I could tell right away that she was ___ ... | 45 |
| I arrived at the crime scene at 9 a.m. The kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Ladey, ___ ... | 85 |
| Goalpost part | 14 |
| Dixieland band instrument | 26 |
| Dinner's often on him | 26 |
| Craps shooter's action | 27 |
| Canadian figure skating champion Brian | 39 |
| But neither would talk. So I said, "I'm going to ___" ... | 72 |
| Bodybuilder Charles | 20 |
| Becomes | 8 |
| B for a genie? | 15 |
| And that did it--they immediately started crying. I said, "Well, I hope you've ___" ... | 102 |