| Little Red Hen retort | 24 |
| "Wasn't me" | 25 |
| "Me? Never!" | 22 |
| It's sometimes served | 25 |
| It's served, sometimes | 26 |
| Aren't oblivious to | 23 |
| "__ I can help it!" | 29 |
| "__ you paid me!" | 27 |
| "___ for Sergeants" | 29 |
| 1970 The Guess Who hit | 22 |
| Rusher's dismissal | 22 |
| Hurried person's phrase | 27 |
| "Sorry, too busy" | 27 |
| "Sorry, too busy!" | 28 |
| "I'm late!" | 25 |
| "Gotta fly, sorry!" | 29 |
| "Tell it ___ Gath" | 28 |
| Running an errand, say | 22 |
| '-- a million years!' | 29 |
| Unavailable for appointments | 28 |
| Out for lunch, perhaps | 22 |
| Away from one's desk | 24 |
| Absent from the office | 22 |
| Observer's activity | 23 |
| Result of poor service | 22 |
| Upshot of poor service | 22 |
| Upshot of bad service, maybe | 28 |
| Surly server's penalty | 26 |
| Response to poor service | 24 |
| Response to bad service | 23 |
| Angry diner's decision | 26 |
| Aftermath of service faults | 27 |
| Private club gratuity policy | 28 |
| Policy on some cruises | 22 |
| Policy of many hotel shuttles | 29 |
| Policy at some restaurants | 26 |
| Cruise policy, perhaps | 22 |
| Tag player's declaration | 28 |
| Schoolyard declaration | 22 |
| Pre-game cry, during recess | 27 |
| Like tag players, most often | 28 |
| Hide-and-seek proclamation | 26 |
| Child's cry at play | 23 |
| "I'm innocent!" | 29 |
| Words from one in denial | 24 |
| Self-excluding statement | 24 |
| Phrase of unwillingness | 23 |
| Kid's phrase of denial | 26 |
| "Whodunit?" reply | 27 |
| "Sorry, wrong guy" | 28 |
| "Get somebody else" | 29 |
| Hardly front-page material | 26 |
| "Some other time!" | 28 |
| "I'm busy!" | 25 |
| Procrastinator's plaint | 27 |
| Procrastinator's phrase | 27 |
| "Some other time" | 27 |
| "I have a headache" | 29 |
| "Gimme a sec" | 23 |
| "Come back later!" | 28 |
| Back or south: Comb. form | 25 |
| "Just say __ drugs" | 29 |
| 'Just say -- drugs' | 27 |
| "___ your life!" | 26 |
| '-- your life!' | 23 |
| Preempted, as a sitcom | 22 |
| Off the broadcast schedule | 26 |
| "--- your life!" | 26 |
| "___ my watch!" | 25 |
| "__ your life!" | 25 |
| "__ my watch!" | 24 |
| '-- my watch!' | 22 |
| Dame's introduction? | 24 |
| Dame's introduction | 23 |
| Yvette's "our" | 28 |
| University of ___ Dame | 22 |
| Our, to Père Noël | 23 |
| Our counterpart in France? | 26 |
| ___ Père (Parisian prayer) | 29 |
| __ Dame (Indiana university) | 28 |
| Where Napoleon was crowned | 26 |
| South Bend institution | 22 |
| Game declaration by Ivana? | 26 |
| Bridge bidder's phrase | 26 |
| Have-___ (poor people) | 22 |
| Have-___ (down-and-outers) | 26 |
| Have-__: disadvantaged ones | 27 |
| Have-__: the less fortunate | 27 |
| Have-__: disadvantaged | 22 |
| Forget-me-__ (flowers) | 22 |
| "That's a lie!" | 29 |
| "I beg to differ" | 27 |
| "I beg to differ!" | 28 |
| "On the contrary!" | 28 |
| "You are mistaken!" | 29 |
| "Au contraire" | 24 |
| "Think again!" | 24 |
| "On the contrary" | 27 |
| 'That's false' | 26 |
| A little worse than O.K. | 24 |