| " . . . what ___ do I raise": Bacon | 45 |
| TV spot | 7 |
| Adj. modifier | 13 |
| Speech part: Abbr. | 18 |
| Tom Swifty wd. | 14 |
| Thesaurus abbr. | 15 |
| Now or never: Abbr. | 19 |
| Madison Ave. product | 20 |
| Kind of word: Abbr. | 19 |
| Hardly or softly, briefly | 25 |
| Fully or partially: Abbr. | 25 |
| Where or when: abbr. | 20 |
| Wd. like "where" or "when" | 46 |
| Wd. like "now" or "never" | 45 |
| Wd. ending in '-ly,' often | 34 |
| V. modifier | 11 |
| Truly, madly or deeply: Abbr. | 29 |
| Sooner or later (abbr.) | 23 |
| Slowly or quickly: Abbr. | 24 |
| Slowly or quickly (abbr.) | 25 |
| Really or truly, e.g.: Abbr. | 28 |
| Purely or simply: Abbr. | 23 |
| Now or never, in Eng. class | 27 |
| Natl. Dog Show promoter | 23 |
| Kind of phr. | 12 |
| It modifies a v. | 16 |
| H.S. mentor | 11 |
| Gram. term | 10 |
| Gram. form | 10 |
| Daily or weekly: Abbr. | 22 |
| Daily or weekly, e.g.: Abbr. | 28 |
| Cousin of an adj. | 17 |
| Always, rarely or never: Abbr. | 30 |
| Adj. modifer | 12 |
| A pt. of speech | 15 |
| "Now" or "never": Abbr. | 43 |
| "Basically," basically: abbr. | 39 |
| -ly word, usually: Abbr. | 24 |
| -ly word, e.g.: Abbr. | 21 |
| Come-on | 7 |
| Make progress | 13 |
| Move forward | 12 |
| Go ahead | 8 |
| Forward motion | 14 |
| Loan | 4 |
| Early money? | 12 |
| Anticipatory payment | 20 |
| Romeo's move | 16 |
| Pay before payday | 17 |
| Melville _____ | 14 |
| Check for a writer | 18 |
| Be promoted | 11 |
| Progress | 8 |
| Prepayments to authors | 22 |
| Moves forward | 13 |
| LotharioÂ’s comments | 23 |
| Lothario's comments | 23 |
| Beginning | 9 |
| Start | 5 |
| Onset | 5 |
| Coming | 6 |
| Arrival | 7 |
| Pre-Christmas period | 20 |
| Pre-Christmas season | 20 |
| Period beginning four Sundays before Christmas | 46 |
| Christian observance | 20 |
| Time before Christmas | 21 |
| Pre-Christmas time | 18 |
| Period before Christmas | 23 |
| A coming | 8 |
| Starts | 6 |
| Onsets | 6 |
| Part of speech | 14 |
| Sooner or later | 15 |
| Adjective modifier | 18 |
| Quickly, to a grammarian? | 25 |
| Equally, say | 12 |
| Type of modifier | 16 |
| Now or never | 12 |
| Modifying word | 14 |
| Grammatically, grammatically | 28 |
| Well, e.g. | 10 |
| Very, often | 11 |
| Truly, madly, or deeply | 23 |
| Truly, madly or deeply, e.g. | 28 |
| Tom Swifty word | 15 |
| Slowly or surely, for example | 29 |
| Quickly, to a grammarian | 24 |
| Now or never? | 13 |
| It often ends in '-ly' | 30 |
| Daily or weekly | 15 |
| Always, always | 14 |
| Always or never | 15 |
| Always or forever | 17 |
| Again or anew | 13 |
| "Now" or "never" | 36 |
| "How" word | 20 |
| "-ly" word, usually | 29 |
| Opposed | 7 |
| Hostile | 7 |