| Text | Length |
| First bidder, at bridge | 23 |
| Firm engaged in trading | 23 |
| Future Kerry/Bush event | 23 |
| First public appearance | 23 |
| Far beneath the surface | 23 |
| Farm implement inventor | 23 |
| Faith of many a Founder | 23 |
| Fakes, in a hockey game | 23 |
| Fakes, at a hockey game | 23 |
| Fast-food chain __ Taco | 23 |
| Former capital of India | 23 |
| FDR or JFK, politically | 23 |
| F.D.R. or L.B.J.: Abbr. | 23 |
| F.D.R. or J.F.K.: Abbr. | 23 |
| F.D.R. and L.B.J., e.g. | 23 |
| Fender bender reminders | 23 |
| Fragrant Himalayan tree | 23 |
| Fire or Police, in L.A. | 23 |
| First name in TV comedy | 23 |
| Former Hollywood studio | 23 |
| Famous runner-up Thomas | 23 |
| Former title in Tripoli | 23 |
| Former Ottoman official | 23 |
| Former N African rulers | 23 |
| Fashion editor Vreeland | 23 |
| Frasier's lost love | 23 |
| Feinstein of the Senate | 23 |
| First claim, informally | 23 |
| Flops at the box office | 23 |
| Followed a lessen plan? | 23 |
| Flood-control structure | 23 |
| Filmmaker De Laurentiis | 23 |
| Flow restricting device | 23 |
| Fashion's Christian | 23 |
| Fever John Travolta had | 23 |
| Former Bears coach Mike | 23 |
| Focus of a genome study | 23 |
| Fatherhood-testing info | 23 |
| Flightless bird of yore | 23 |
| Francesco Foscari, e.g. | 23 |
| Folded-over page corner | 23 |
| Former Venetian bigwigs | 23 |
| Frustrated exclamations | 23 |
| Ford's running mate | 23 |
| Familiar name in Hawaii | 23 |
| First name in toasting? | 23 |
| Fowl with three nephews | 23 |
| Filmdom's Mr. Chips | 23 |
| First metaphysical poet | 23 |
| Famed metaphysical poet | 23 |
| Friend of the Red Cross | 23 |
| Fund-drive V.I.P.'s | 23 |
| Figured (out), slangily | 23 |
| Figured (out), in slang | 23 |
| Figures (out), in slang | 23 |
| Feature of Swiss muslin | 23 |
| Feature of ninth letter | 23 |
| Fruity candy since 1945 | 23 |
| Fitted together tightly | 23 |
| Forced emigrants: Abbr. | 23 |
| Feature of LBJ speeches | 23 |
| French or Italian, e.g. | 23 |
| Final practice sessions | 23 |
| First 007 flick (abbr.) | 23 |
| Flashlight power source | 23 |
| Fungus affecting timber | 23 |
| Flopping, as a business | 23 |
| Functional introduction | 23 |
| Feature of old quarters | 23 |
| Famed literary initials | 23 |
| Football helmet feature | 23 |
| Football helmet opening | 23 |
| Freedom from difficulty | 23 |
| Freedom from constraint | 23 |
| Fit by careful shifting | 23 |
| Fall back, as the ocean | 23 |
| Flood's counterpart | 23 |
| Flows back, as the tide | 23 |
| French cousin of euchre | 23 |
| French seat of learning | 23 |
| Food-poisoning bacteria | 23 |
| Future MBA's course | 23 |
| Forerunners of the euro | 23 |
| First family's home | 23 |
| First lady's garden | 23 |
| First couple's home | 23 |
| Former Downing St. name | 23 |
| Falco of "Oz" | 23 |
| Falco who plays Carmela | 23 |
| First lady of the 1910s | 23 |
| Former capital of Japan | 23 |
| Famous dud from Detroit | 23 |
| Fish with no pelvic fin | 23 |
| Foot part, in Leicester | 23 |
| Fish served in kabayaki | 23 |
| Fished for morays, e.g. | 23 |
| Frighteningly unnatural | 23 |
| Forty percent of fifty? | 23 |
| Former Alaskan governor | 23 |
| French toast ingredient | 23 |
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