| Topic of gossip, sometimes | 26 |
| Topic of gossip | 15 |
| Topic of dispute | 16 |
| Topic of discussion | 19 |
| Topic of discourse (var.) | 25 |
| Topic of discourse | 18 |
| Topic of debate | 15 |
| Topic of corn-versation? | 24 |
| Topic of bargaining | 19 |
| Topic of an Emerson essay | 25 |
| Topic of a St. Augustine treatise, with "the" | 55 |
| Topic of a Dean Martin hit | 26 |
| Topic of a classic 1940s comedy routine, and the inspiration of this puzzle | 75 |
| Topic of "The Hite Report" | 36 |
| Topic lead-in | 13 |
| Topic in transcendentalism | 26 |
| Topic in the tropics | 20 |
| Topic in the hot stove league | 29 |
| Topic in tax law | 16 |
| Topic in speech therapy | 23 |
| Topic in Seymour Hersh's "Chain of Command" | 57 |
| Topic in question | 17 |
| Topic in psych 101 | 18 |
| Topic in oil exploration | 24 |
| Topic in grammar class | 22 |
| Topic in first-aid training | 27 |
| Topic in couples therapy | 24 |
| Topic in basic life-support training | 36 |
| Topic in artificial intelligence | 32 |
| Topic in an introductory psychology class | 41 |
| Topic in a world religions course | 33 |
| Topic in a Platonic symposium | 29 |
| Topic in a golf lesson | 22 |
| Topic in a dorm | 15 |
| Topic in a confessional | 23 |
| Topic in "The Underground Empire . . . " | 50 |
| Topic in "Inherit the Wind" | 37 |
| Topic for Vogue | 15 |
| Topic for the marriage counselor | 32 |
| Topic for the agenda | 20 |
| Topic for Susan Sontag, notably | 31 |
| Topic for Strunk and White | 26 |
| Topic for Portia | 16 |
| Topic for Peter Jennings | 24 |
| Topic for Ovid | 14 |
| Topic for Maeterlinck | 21 |
| Topic for Madame de Pompadour and Louis XV | 42 |
| Topic for Latin lovers | 22 |
| Topic for Freud | 15 |
| Topic for Dr. Ruth | 18 |
| Topic for discussion | 20 |
| Topic for debate: Abbr. | 23 |
| Topic for debate | 16 |
| Topic for Dean Martin | 21 |
| Topic for Constitutional scholars | 33 |
| Topic for Catullus | 18 |
| Topic for Carrie Bradshaw | 25 |
| Topic for Alan Turing | 21 |
| Topic for advice columnists | 27 |
| Topic for Abélard and Héloïse | 38 |
| Topic for a señorita | 23 |
| Topic for a marriage counselor | 30 |
| Topic for a doomsayer | 21 |
| Topic de Freud | 14 |
| Topic at Texas A & M | 24 |
| Topic at an owners/players meeting | 34 |
| Topic at a family planning center | 33 |
| Topic | 5 |
| Topiary trees | 13 |
| Topiary tree | 12 |
| Topiary tool | 12 |
| Topiary pro | 11 |
| Topiary item | 12 |
| Topiary figures | 15 |
| Topiary caretaker, at times | 27 |
| Topiary canvas, maybe | 21 |
| Topiarists do it | 16 |
| Topiarists | 10 |
| Topiarist's tools | 21 |
| Topiarist's canvas | 22 |
| Topi's relative | 19 |
| Tophet or Gehenna | 17 |
| Tophet and Gehenna | 18 |
| Topher of "That '70s Show" has lit up? | 52 |
| Topgallants | 11 |
| Topgallant, e.g. | 16 |
| Topgallant's topper | 23 |
| Topgallant | 10 |
| Topflight | 9 |
| Topers | 6 |
| Toper, slangily | 15 |
| Toper's woe | 15 |
| Toper's trouble | 19 |
| Toper's total | 17 |
| Toper's sound | 17 |
| Toper's malady | 18 |
| Toper's interruption | 24 |
| Toper's interrupter | 23 |
| Toper's expense | 19 |
| Toper's container | 21 |