| Losing one's cool | 21 |
| Suffering writer's block | 28 |
| Ways and Means is one, briefly | 30 |
| Part of FCC: abbr. | 18 |
| Navy rank: Abbr. | 16 |
| D.C. agency | 11 |
| Ad hoc gp. | 10 |
| Ways and Means, e.g.: Abbr. | 27 |
| The "C" in CREEP (abbr.) | 34 |
| Pt. of HUAC | 11 |
| Part of S.E.C.: Abbr. | 21 |
| It may be ad hoc (abbr.) | 24 |
| ICC part: Abbr. | 15 |
| Census Bureau's cabinet dept. | 33 |
| Short stop? | 11 |
| Kind of butterfly | 17 |
| Type of butterfly | 17 |
| Pause cause | 11 |
| Pause indicator | 15 |
| Part of 1,000 | 13 |
| Mark of separation | 18 |
| Cause for a pause | 17 |
| List divider | 12 |
| It causes one to hesitate | 25 |
| Character in "I, Claudius" | 36 |
| Breathtaking part of a sentence? | 32 |
| Use it to prevent running on | 28 |
| Series divider | 14 |
| Pause sign | 10 |
| Pause punctuation | 17 |
| List separator | 14 |
| It should make you pause | 24 |
| It causes one to pause | 22 |
| Clause pause cause | 18 |
| Cause for pause | 15 |
| "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" subject | 45 |
| , | 1 |
| Use it to prevent run-on, perhaps | 33 |
| Sunken apostrophe, so to speak | 30 |
| Slight pause | 12 |
| Signal to pause | 15 |
| Sentence-clauses separator | 26 |
| SemicolonÂ's cousin | 27 |
| Semicolon's undotted cousin | 31 |
| Semicolon cousin | 16 |
| Place to catch one's breath? | 32 |
| Pause when you see this | 23 |
| Pause producer | 14 |
| Pause mark | 10 |
| Pause in a line | 15 |
| Pause after the clause | 22 |
| Part of 1,001 | 13 |
| Part of "I, Claudius" | 31 |
| One should hesitate when seeing this | 36 |
| One might hesitate when seeing this | 35 |
| One might appear many times in a long list | 42 |
| One in 10,000? | 14 |
| One in 1,000? | 13 |
| One commonly follows "said" | 37 |
| Notation to pause | 17 |
| Mid-sentence punctuation | 24 |
| Mark that may cause a pause | 27 |
| Many a European decimal point | 29 |
| M's neighbor on a keyboard | 30 |
| Lower pair of black squares in this grid, typographically | 57 |
| List-separating punctuation | 27 |
| List-dividing punctuation mark | 30 |
| Less-than sign's keymate | 28 |
| It's used to show separation | 32 |
| It may set things off | 21 |
| Half a semicolon | 16 |
| Colon's cousin | 18 |
| Breathtaking punctuation? | 25 |
| Break producer | 14 |
| Bottom half of a semicolon | 26 |
| "Oxford ___" (2008 Vampire Weekend single) | 52 |
| "New York, New York" has one | 38 |
| "I, Claudius" feature | 31 |
| ___ module | 10 |
| What a general takes | 20 |
| Part of S.A.C. | 14 |
| Wish, at times | 14 |
| One of a noted ten | 18 |
| Decalogue element | 17 |
| Speak highly of enclosures? | 27 |
| Applaud property boundaries? | 28 |
| Cabinet department | 18 |
| Social intercourse | 18 |
| Cabinet office | 14 |
| Show stopper? | 13 |
| Show stopper | 12 |
| Sitcom interruption | 19 |
| Show stopper, often | 19 |
| Sales manager's job? | 24 |
| Pull off, as a robbery | 22 |
| Perpetrate | 10 |
| Entrust | 7 |
| Choose a side | 13 |
| Say "Final answer," say | 33 |
| Make a promise | 14 |