| “The Naked ___” (Desmond Morris title) | 46 |
| “The Mystery of Marie Roget” author | 43 |
| “The Motorcycle Diaries” writer | 39 |
| “The Maltese Falcon” actress | 36 |
| “The Maltese Falcon” actor, informally | 46 |
| “The Lord of the Rings” actress | 39 |
| “The Lake ___ of Innisfree” (Yeats poem) | 48 |
| “The Joy Luck Club” author | 34 |
| “The Green Berets” actor Ray | 36 |
| “The GOP Has a Koch Problem,” e.g. | 42 |
| “The Golden ___” (Drake’s ship) | 43 |
| “The Giving Tree” author Silverstein | 44 |
| “The Federalist Papers” piece | 37 |
| “The Family Circus” cartoonist | 38 |
| “The Faerie Queene” author Spenser | 42 |
| “The Daily Beast” founder Brown | 39 |
| “The Country Girl” playwright | 37 |
| “The Compleat Angler” author Walton | 43 |
| “The City in the Sea” poet | 34 |
| “The Citadel” author A.J. ___ | 37 |
| “The Bridges of Madison County” setting | 47 |
| “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” setting | 44 |
| “The Bonnie Banks o’ ___ Lomond” | 44 |
| “The Blackboard Jungle” novelist Hunter | 47 |
| “The Blackboard Jungle” author Hunter | 45 |
| “The Bad ___” (William March novel) | 43 |
| “That’s ___!” (angry denial) | 40 |
| “That’s MY chew toy!” | 33 |
| “That’s hardly proper” | 34 |
| “That’s an interesting thought ...” | 47 |
| “That's __ can say" | 32 |
| “That doesn’t surprise me!” | 39 |
| “Talk of the Nation” broadcaster | 40 |
| “Take Me Home, Country Roads” subj. | 43 |
| “Star Trek” phaser setting | 34 |
| “Song of Hiawatha” tribe | 32 |
| “Some Words With a Mummy” writer | 40 |
| “So ___” (Jimmy Dorsey hit) | 35 |
| “So that’s what it means!” | 38 |
| “Smarter Planet” company | 32 |
| “Sk8er ___” (2002 Avril Lavigne hit) | 44 |
| “Singer Avalon’s tongue,” in Latin? | 47 |
| “Sic et ___” (Abélard work) | 38 |
| “Shame, shame, I know your name!” | 41 |
| “Semper Fidelis” composer | 33 |
| “Schindler’s List” star Neeson | 42 |
| “Scarface” director Brian | 33 |
| “Saving Fish From Drowning” author | 42 |
| “Saturday Night Fever” setting | 38 |
| “Run away,” in old gangster slang | 41 |
| “Rule, Britannia” composer Thomas | 41 |
| “Rule, Britannia” composer | 34 |
| “Rosemary’s Baby” author | 36 |
| “Return of the Jedi” critter | 36 |
| “Rescue Dawn” director Werner | 37 |
| “Red sky at night, sailor’s ___” | 44 |
| “Queen for ___” (old TV show) | 37 |
| “Putting it one way . . .” | 34 |
| “Psst! Smarty Jones in the fifth!” | 42 |
| “Proud Mary” band, for short | 36 |
| “Over-___ Sensation” (Frank Zappa album) | 48 |
| “Out of Africa” author Dinesen | 38 |
| “Only Sixteen” singer Cooke | 35 |
| “One ___” (Tennessee Williams story) | 44 |
| “Once more ___ the breach ...” | 38 |
| “Old ___” (1957 Disney film) | 36 |
| “old ___ sticks” (e.e. cummings poem) | 45 |
| “Oh, Wilderness were Paradise ___!” | 43 |
| “Oh, Lady Be Good” singer Fitzgerald | 44 |
| “Odyssey” potion-wielder | 32 |
| “O” in old radio alphabets | 34 |
| “O patria ___” (song from “Aida”) | 49 |
| “O patria ___” (“Aida” aria) | 44 |
| “Now that’s awesome!” | 33 |
| “Noah’s Compass” author Tyler | 41 |
| “Must’ve been something ___” | 40 |
| “Moulin Rouge!” courtesan | 33 |
| “Mornings at Seven” playwright Paul | 43 |
| “Moneymaking opportunity” that isn’t | 48 |
| “Meet the Press” network | 32 |
| “Masterpiece Theatre” it ain’t | 42 |
| “Maria ___” (Jimmy Dorsey single) | 41 |
| “Mambo ___” (Rosemary Clooney song) | 43 |
| “Lust, Caution” director | 32 |
| “Love Me or Leave Me” singer Ruth | 41 |
| “Lord, what fools ___ mortals be!” | 42 |
| “Livin’ Thing” band, for short | 42 |
| “Li’l Abner” creature | 33 |
| “Let me finish by saying ...” | 37 |
| “Leading With My Chin” autobiographer | 45 |
| “L’Âge ___” (classic 1930 film) | 47 |
| “La donna è mobile” composer | 39 |
| “Journey Into Fear” novelist | 36 |
| “John Donne, ___ Donne, Undone” | 39 |
| “Jesus Christ Superstar” lyricist | 41 |
| “Jersey Shore” term of endearment | 41 |
| “Is this really my fault?” | 34 |
| “Interpreter of Maladies” author Jhumpa | 47 |
| “If I Were a Rich Man” singer | 37 |
| “Idylls of the King” lady | 33 |