| 1995 comet spotter Thomas | 25 |
| Strikes | 7 |
| Conks on the head | 17 |
| Conks | 5 |
| Blows | 5 |
| Knocks on the noggin | 20 |
| Hits on the head | 16 |
| Hits on the noggin | 18 |
| Hard knocks | 11 |
| Conks on the noggin | 19 |
| Knocks on the head | 18 |
| Hard hits | 9 |
| What some jazz does | 19 |
| Runs (around), informally | 25 |
| Moves energetically | 19 |
| Light punches | 13 |
| Jazzy tunes | 11 |
| Jazz forms | 10 |
| Hits, slangily | 14 |
| Hits, in slang | 14 |
| Hits with one's fist | 24 |
| Dances jazzily | 14 |
| Dances from way-back-when | 25 |
| Comic-strip blows | 17 |
| Bits of Three Stooges violence | 30 |
| Part of NYC | 11 |
| Part of N.Y.C. | 14 |
| Manhattan, for one: Abbr. | 25 |
| N.Y.C. division | 15 |
| Bklyn., e.g. | 12 |
| N.Y.C. unit: Abbr. | 18 |
| N.Y.C. div. | 11 |
| Municipal div. | 14 |
| Staten Isl., for one | 20 |
| Staten Isl. forms one | 21 |
| Staten Is., e.g. | 16 |
| S.I., for one | 13 |
| Queens or Bronx: abbr. | 22 |
| Pt. of NYC | 10 |
| Part of New York City (abbr.) | 29 |
| Part of N.Y.C.: Abbr. | 21 |
| One of five in NYC | 18 |
| NYC's Bronx, e.g. | 21 |
| Man. or Bklyn. | 14 |
| City division: Abbr. | 20 |
| Bx. or Bklyn. | 13 |
| Bronx, for one: Abbr. | 21 |
| Adriatic wind | 13 |
| Cold Adriatic wind | 18 |
| North wind | 10 |
| Dry, cold wind | 14 |
| When doubled, island near Tahiti | 32 |
| When doubled, a Polynesian island | 33 |
| When doubled, a Pacific island | 30 |
| Tora ___, Afghanistan | 21 |
| Half of a Pacific island | 24 |
| Half a Polynesian island | 24 |
| Cold wind | 9 |
| Cold north wind | 15 |
| Afghanistan's Tora __ region | 32 |
| When repeated, one of the Society Islands | 41 |
| When repeated, island near Tahiti | 33 |
| When repeated, a Polynesian island | 34 |
| When doubled, one of the Society Islands | 40 |
| When doubled, an island in the South Pacific | 44 |
| Violent, dry wind | 17 |
| Tora ___ (region of Afghanistan) | 32 |
| Half an island in French Polynesia | 34 |
| When repeated, part of French Polynesia | 39 |
| When repeated, an island NW of Tahiti | 37 |
| When repeated, an island near Tahiti | 36 |
| When repeated, an idyllic place | 31 |
| When repeated, a South Seas getaway | 35 |
| When repeated it's an island near Tahiti | 44 |
| When doubled, a South Pacific island | 36 |
| When doubled, a Society Island | 30 |
| Violent Adriatic wind | 21 |
| Tora ___ (Afghan area) | 22 |
| Tora ___ (2001 battle site) | 27 |
| Repeated, one of the Society Islands | 36 |
| Repeated, it's one of the Society Islands | 45 |
| Pacific island half? | 20 |
| Northeast wind | 14 |
| Half of a tropical resort's name | 36 |
| Half of a South Sea island | 26 |
| Half a Pacific isle | 19 |
| Frigid Adriatic wind | 20 |
| Fierce Adriatic wind | 20 |
| Doubled, a Pacific island | 25 |
| Cold, dry wind | 14 |
| Cold wind of the Adriatic | 25 |
| Cold northerly wind | 19 |
| Chief Justice Laskin, for one | 29 |
| Australian aborigines' rite | 31 |
| Afghanistan's Tora -- | 25 |
| Afghanistan's Tora ___ region | 33 |
| A cold, violent wind | 20 |
| ____ Bora, south sea island | 27 |
| Noted Idaho US Senator | 22 |
| Mount ___, Idaho | 16 |