| 1956 hit song, to a letter writer? | 34 |
| You might gain them during a run: Abbr. | 39 |
| They're lost after a sack: Abbr. | 36 |
| There are 220 in a furlong: Abbr. | 33 |
| RB Chris Johnson ran for 2,006 in 2009 | 38 |
| Meas. of some field losses or gains | 35 |
| Footballers' measures: Abbr. | 32 |
| Emmitt Smith ran for 18,355 in his career: Abbr. | 48 |
| Dressmaker's measures (abbr.) | 33 |
| Chains may measure them in the NFL: Abbr. | 41 |
| "Friday Night Lights" gains, for short | 48 |
| "I support the motion" | 32 |
| Its anagram is a synonym of itself | 34 |
| "___, though I walk . . . " | 37 |
| "I approve the motion!" | 33 |
| "___ though I walk . . ." | 35 |
| Word in a manual size description | 33 |
| Word before "verily" in the Bible | 43 |
| Senate word that only sounds exciting | 37 |
| One on the first side to vote, usually | 38 |
| One of the first to raise a hand, usually | 41 |
| Biblical word before ''verily'' | 47 |
| Affirmative that's an anagram of its synonym | 48 |
| "You've got my vote" | 34 |
| "I approve the motion" | 32 |
| "___, though I walk ..." | 34 |
| Words spoken while holding one's hands apart | 48 |
| Size of the one that got away, perhaps | 38 |
| Size demonstrated with the hands | 32 |
| "'Bout this large" | 32 |
| Chuck who broke the sound barrier | 33 |
| Shepard's role in "The Right Stuff" | 49 |
| Pilot featured in "The Right Stuff" | 45 |
| History maker who flew the Glamorous Glennis | 44 |
| First person to travel faster than sound | 40 |
| "The Right Stuff" aviator | 35 |
| ''She Loves You'' word | 38 |
| When sung three times, part of a Beatles refrain | 48 |
| When repeated, part of a Beatles refrain | 40 |
| Repeated word in "She Loves You" | 42 |
| Part of a Beatles refrain, when tripled | 39 |
| "That's the ticket!" preceder | 43 |
| "She Loves You" refrain word | 38 |
| "I guess that's true" | 35 |
| Word repeated in a Beatles refrain | 34 |
| Word repeated in "She Loves You" | 42 |
| Single from Usher's "Confessions" | 47 |
| Kelly Clarkson "My December" song | 43 |
| First or second word of Karen O's band name | 47 |
| "Whoo-hoo!" alternative | 33 |
| "I heard that one already" | 36 |
| "Awright!" alternative | 32 |
| "___, right!" ("I bet!") | 44 |
| ''You tell 'em!'' | 37 |
| Â Â "You betcha" | 32 |
| Refrain in many early Beatles songs | 35 |
| "Show Your Bones" Yeah Yeah ___ | 41 |
| "She loves you" followers, in song | 44 |
| "She Loves You" affirmatives | 38 |
| "Now tell me another one" | 35 |
| "Like I'm gonna believe that!" | 44 |
| "Okay, okay, I get it" | 32 |
| "I heard ya the first time" | 37 |
| "No ... the other guy, duh!" | 38 |
| Response to "Who, me?" | 32 |
| Bring forth offspring, as a goat | 32 |
| Breed young animals, like a sheep | 33 |
| It's marked by a ring in a trunk | 36 |
| Better Than Ezra "This Time of ___" | 45 |
| Time it takes for our revolution? | 33 |
| The last palindromic one was 2002 | 33 |
| "The ___ of Living Dangerously" | 41 |
| "It Was a Very Good ___" | 34 |
| Yellowcard "One ___, Six Months" | 42 |
| What a cake candle often represents | 35 |
| Strangely, it's shorter than a day on Venus | 47 |
| My Favorite ____: O'Toole film | 37 |
| Light-___ (about six trillion miles) | 36 |
| It won't be 5 digits long for quite some time | 49 |
| In which Christmas comes but once | 33 |
| In Cleveland, I am on dusty infield (7) | 39 |
| "Woman of the ___" (Tracy/Hepburn film) | 49 |
| "Very good" period in songdom | 39 |
| "The --- of Living Dangerously" | 41 |
| "It Was a Very Good ___," Sinatra hit | 47 |
| ''Newsweek'' cover number | 41 |
| Kind of statement an accountant may make? | 41 |
| Traditional December spin around the harbor? | 44 |
| "The ___," Rawlings novel | 35 |
| Like the return of swallows to Capistrano | 41 |
| How the swallows returned to San Juan Capistrano | 48 |
| Really want, with "for" | 33 |
| Deeply desire, with "for" | 35 |
| Craved (with ''for'') | 37 |
| Really hoped to get, with "for" | 41 |
| Deeply desires, with "for" | 36 |
| "The ___ rose is brief": Swinburne | 44 |
| China's 4686 or the USA's 1988 | 38 |
| Reporter's career highlight? | 32 |
| Two- -- ('terrible' tyke) | 33 |