| The contiguous 48 | 17 |
| The Continent | 13 |
| The Continent: Abbr. | 20 |
| The continents, e.g. | 20 |
| The cook will be with you in . . . | 34 |
| The Cookie Never Crumbles author | 32 |
| The cool place to be | 20 |
| The cooler | 10 |
| The Copa, e.g. | 14 |
| The coping limit | 16 |
| The coppers, slangily | 21 |
| The cops, in slang | 18 |
| The cops, in street slang | 25 |
| The cops, to hoods | 18 |
| The Copts of Egypt | 18 |
| The copy-room worker brought ... | 32 |
| The core of rapport | 19 |
| The cornea covers it | 20 |
| The corner squares, clockwise from the lower left | 49 |
| The corner squares, clockwise from the lower right | 50 |
| The corner squares, clockwise from the upper left | 49 |
| The corner squares, clockwise from the upper right | 50 |
| The Cornhusker st. | 18 |
| The Cornhuskers | 15 |
| The Cornish Wonder | 18 |
| The Cornish Wonder: 1761-1807 | 29 |
| The Corsican | 12 |
| The cosine of zero | 18 |
| The cosmos prior to the Big Bang? | 33 |
| The Cosmos' game | 20 |
| The Cosmos, e.g. | 16 |
| The cost of leaving, perhaps | 28 |
| The costs of smoking and drinking? | 34 |
| The Cottians, e.g. | 18 |
| The cotton shirt in the washer got ___ | 38 |
| The cotton state | 16 |
| The Cotton State: Abbr. | 23 |
| The Cougars from Pullman | 24 |
| The Council of ___, 1545-63 | 27 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | 25 |
| The Countess of Grantham on "Downton Abbey" | 53 |
| The Countess of Lovelace and others | 35 |
| The Country Girl author | 26 |
| The Country Girl playwright | 30 |
| The country: Fr. | 16 |
| The Courageous, e.g. | 20 |
| The court's Bucharest Buffoon | 33 |
| The cover photo of him from the 1992 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue was used in 2005 as a postage stamp | 119 |
| The Cow Palace, for one | 23 |
| The Cowardly Lion | 17 |
| The Cowardly Lion actor | 23 |
| The Cowardly Lion portrayer | 27 |
| The Cowardly Lion's alter ego | 33 |
| The Cowardly Lion's Kansas counterpart | 42 |
| The Cowardly Lion's sandwich? | 33 |
| The Cowardly Lion, back in Kansas | 33 |
| The Cowardly Lion, e.g., among Dorothy's companions? | 56 |
| The Cowardly ___ | 16 |
| The Cowboys of the Big 12 Conf. | 31 |
| The Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference | 36 |
| The Cowboys of the Big Twelve Conf. | 35 |
| The Cowboys of the N.C.A.A. | 27 |
| The Cowboys' city, familiarly | 33 |
| The Cowboys, on a scoreboard | 28 |
| The Cowboys, on scoreboards | 27 |
| The Cowper museum is here | 25 |
| The crack of dawn | 17 |
| The Cradle of Texas Liberty | 27 |
| The Cramps' ___ Interior | 28 |
| The Cranberries' "___ My Family" | 46 |
| The Cranberries: "Loud & ___" | 43 |
| The Cratchit boy | 16 |
| The Cratchit lad | 16 |
| The Cratchits' Christmas dinner | 35 |
| The cream | 9 |
| The Creator | 11 |
| The Creator, in Hinduism | 24 |
| The Creator, in the Koran | 25 |
| The Creator, to Hindus | 22 |
| The creme de la creme | 21 |
| The Cribs "___ Needs" | 31 |
| The Crimea, e.g. | 16 |
| The Crimean Peninsula is on it | 30 |
| The Crimean ___ | 15 |
| The Crimson Tide | 16 |
| The Crimson Tide for short | 27 |
| The Crimson Tide's school, for short | 40 |
| The Crimson Tide, dialectically | 31 |
| The Crimson Tide, familiarly | 28 |
| The Crimson Tide, for short | 27 |
| The Crimson Tide, informally | 28 |
| The Crimson Tide, to fans | 25 |
| The Cronyns' game | 21 |
| The crooked realty agent tried to sell some sucker the Golden Gate by offering a... | 83 |
| The cross aromatherapy patient was ... | 38 |
| The cross baby was ... | 22 |
| The cross bearer | 16 |
| The cross man who'd been cloned was ... | 43 |
| The cross motorist stuck at a stoplight was ... | 47 |
| The cross woman taking her bubble bath was ... | 46 |