| Adjective or verb, e.g. | 23 |
| Adjective or adverb, e.g. | 25 |
| A proper one is capitalized | 27 |
| "Common" word | 23 |
| Grammar class subjects | 22 |
| Bread and butter, e.g. | 22 |
| Proper words, sometimes | 23 |
| Pride and prejudice, e.g. | 25 |
| Objects of prepositions | 23 |
| Grammar class subjects? | 23 |
| Animal, vegetable and mineral | 29 |
| These are proper or common | 26 |
| These are often subjects | 24 |
| Proper and common words | 23 |
| Persons, places or things | 25 |
| Persons, places and things | 26 |
| Persons or places, e.g. | 23 |
| Person, place, and thing | 24 |
| Person, place and thing, e.g. | 29 |
| People, places or things? | 25 |
| Many are proper subjects | 24 |
| Direct objects, usually | 23 |
| Common or proper words | 22 |
| Common and proper words | 23 |
| Board and walk and boardwalk | 28 |
| Bell, book, and candle, e.g. | 28 |
| Adjectives modify them | 22 |
| "Proper" words | 24 |
| Iraqi P.M. ___ al-Maliki | 24 |
| Iraqi leader ___ al-Maliki | 26 |
| Provide with sustenance | 23 |
| Offer water and light, say | 26 |
| Entre ___ (confidentially) | 26 |
| Entre ___ (between us) | 22 |
| Entre ___ (between ourselves) | 29 |
| What we may be overseas? | 24 |
| Mind, to a philosopher | 22 |
| Entre --- (between ourselves) | 29 |
| Entre ____: in confidence | 25 |
| ''Entre __'' | 28 |
| Of ___ (a waste of time) | 24 |
| All Saints' Day mo. | 23 |
| Presidential election mo. | 25 |
| Thanksgiving time: Abbr. | 24 |
| Peanut Butter Lovers Mo. | 24 |
| Last mo. with just 30 days | 26 |
| Armistice Day's mo. | 23 |
| Thanksgiving's mo. | 22 |
| Thanksgiving time (Abbr.) | 25 |
| Scorpio-Sagittarius mo. | 23 |
| Natl. Novel Writing mo. | 23 |
| National Impotency mo. | 22 |
| Mo. for a Scorpio, mostly | 25 |
| Mo. containing Guy Fawkes Day | 29 |
| Last mo. with exactly 30 days | 29 |
| Its fourth Thu. is a holiday | 28 |
| International Drum mo. | 22 |
| Election Day month: Abbr. | 25 |
| All Souls' Day mo. | 22 |
| A Christmas-shopping mo. | 24 |
| Star of changing brightness | 27 |
| Long-running PBS science show | 29 |
| Ephemeral heavenly blaze | 24 |
| Variety of smoked salmon | 24 |
| Observatory observation | 23 |
| It's super when exploding | 29 |
| Astronomer's study | 22 |
| "Super" star | 22 |
| Sudden light in the night sky | 29 |
| Star that brightens suddenly | 28 |
| Star that brightens and fades | 29 |
| Star of inconstant brightness | 29 |
| Source of a stellar explosion | 29 |
| Source for an outburst | 22 |
| Science series since 1974 | 25 |
| Science program on PBS | 22 |
| Result of runaway fusion | 24 |
| Rapidly brightening star | 24 |
| Popular PBS science series | 26 |
| Loser to Joe Louis: 1941 | 24 |
| Everything bagel topper | 23 |
| Cured and smoked salmon | 23 |
| Cataclysmic nuclear explosion | 29 |
| Brilliant star, at times | 24 |
| Bright spot in the sky | 22 |
| Bossa ___ (Brazilian dance) | 27 |
| Award-winning science show | 26 |
| A loser to Joe Louis: 1941 | 26 |
| "Super" sight | 23 |
| "A Star Is Born" | 26 |
| Astronomical phenomena | 22 |
| Astronomical flare-ups | 22 |
| Stars that brighten then fade | 29 |
| Stars that brighten and fade | 28 |
| These blaze, then grow dimmer | 29 |
| Stars bursting in air? | 22 |
| Milky Way phenomena (Var.) | 26 |
| Exceptionally bright stars | 26 |
| Ephemerally brilliant stars | 27 |
| Dazzling celestial events | 25 |