| Avoid arguments, literally | 26 |
| Avoid being a witness? | 22 |
| Avoid being overdue, in a way | 29 |
| Avoid burning, perhaps | 22 |
| Avoid cooking, in a way | 23 |
| Avoid detection, in a way | 25 |
| Avoid dishes, in a way | 22 |
| Avoid finishing a sentence? | 27 |
| Avoid getting hit in the ring | 29 |
| Avoid paying for, as an event | 29 |
| Avoid paying overdue fees | 25 |
| Avoid President Clinton? | 24 |
| Avoid responsibilities | 22 |
| Avoid responsibility for | 24 |
| Avoid simply throwing away | 26 |
| Avoid some wedding hoopla | 25 |
| Avoid speaking bluntly | 22 |
| Avoid that sinking feeling? | 27 |
| Avoid the shoes and rice | 24 |
| Avoid this if it's wet! | 27 |
| Avoid wedding expenses | 22 |
| Avoid work, in Britain | 22 |
| Avoid, as responsibility | 24 |
| Avoid, with "from" | 28 |
| Avoid, with "off" | 27 |
| Avoid, with "out" | 27 |
| Avoid/shun/skirt/eschew | 23 |
| Avoidance by subterfuge | 23 |
| Avoidance of chewy candy? | 25 |
| Avoided a controversial topic | 29 |
| Avoided a hunger strike | 23 |
| Avoided a pothole, perhaps | 26 |
| Avoided an accident, in a way | 29 |
| Avoided an accident, maybe | 26 |
| Avoided bloodshed, in a way | 27 |
| Avoided extinction, perhaps | 27 |
| Avoided serious injury | 22 |
| Avoided wallflower status | 25 |
| Avoided wet hair in a pool | 26 |
| Avoider of animal products | 26 |
| Avoider of meat products | 24 |
| Avoiding deployment, perhaps | 28 |
| Avoiding guard duty, in a way | 29 |
| Avoiding interest charges | 25 |
| Avoiding spitballs, say | 23 |
| Avoiding the risk that | 22 |
| Avoiding the rush, say | 22 |
| Avoids a blow, in a way | 23 |
| Avoids a confrontation | 22 |
| Avoids a service interruption | 29 |
| Avoids direct opinions | 22 |
| Avoids like the plague | 22 |
| Avoids making any changes | 25 |
| Avoids, as responsibility | 25 |
| Avoids, with 'of' | 25 |
| Avoids, with "of" | 27 |
| Avoirdupois alternative | 23 |
| Avoirdupois weight unit | 23 |
| Avon peddlers, traditionally | 28 |
| Avon's bard: Abbr. | 22 |
| Avon's calling, in part? | 28 |
| Avuncular early-TV host | 23 |
| Avuncular top hat wearer | 24 |
| Await delivery anxiously | 24 |
| Await the result anxiously | 26 |
| Await with trepidation | 22 |
| Awaited a kiss, in a way | 24 |
| Awaiting a later decision | 25 |
| Awaiting delivery, in a way | 27 |
| Awaiting punishment, say | 24 |
| Awaiting scheduling, in brief | 29 |
| Awaiting scheduling: Abbr. | 26 |
| Awaiting service, maybe | 23 |
| Awaits a verdict, perhaps | 25 |
| Awaits carving, as a turkey | 27 |
| Awaits developments patiently | 29 |
| Awaits, with "for" | 28 |
| Awake : awoken :: lie : __ | 26 |
| Awake and moving about | 22 |
| Awake and Sing dramatist | 27 |
| Awake before the alarm | 22 |
| Awake far past midnight | 23 |
| Awake into the wee hours | 24 |
| Awakens from anesthesia | 23 |
| Awakens, with "to" | 28 |
| Award bestowed by Queen Eliz. | 29 |
| Award candidacy, for short | 26 |
| Award estab. by King George V | 29 |
| Award established 1901 | 22 |
| Award first given in 1993 | 25 |
| Award for NYPD Blue | 22 |
| Award for "Amour" | 27 |
| Award for "Damages" | 29 |
| Award for "Rent" | 26 |
| Award for "Wings" | 27 |
| Award for a 30-second spot | 26 |
| Award for a bachelor: Abbr. | 27 |
| Award for a Brit. officer | 25 |
| Award for a good student | 24 |
| Award for a knight: Abbr. | 25 |