| Start of a Bill Watterson quote | 31 |
| Start of a quip about budgeting | 31 |
| "Let ___ where it is" | 31 |
| Start of a tip for speechifiers | 31 |
| Announcement at the track meet? | 31 |
| "I'm glad I came" | 31 |
| "I'd be happy to" | 31 |
| "Bi-i-ig difference!" | 31 |
| "Just part of my job" | 31 |
| Start of an anonymous quotation | 31 |
| "The gloves are off!" | 31 |
| "Challenge accepted!" | 31 |
| "How unfortunate ..." | 31 |
| Stage manager's exhortation | 31 |
| "You had your chance" | 31 |
| Have one's cake and eat ___ | 31 |
| Birth control method, for short | 31 |
| NuvaRing alternative, for short | 31 |
| Birth control device, for short | 31 |
| "Am ___ to the task?" | 31 |
| 1997 French Open titlist Majoli | 31 |
| Half-brother of Peter the Great | 31 |
| Norwegian opera singer Andresen | 31 |
| Insemination alternative: Abbr. | 31 |
| Grant/MacDowell romantic comedy | 31 |
| Sight for Waikiki bird watchers | 31 |
| Setting for two Eastwood movies | 31 |
| Showy flower of the iris family | 31 |
| Liqueur from the Basque country | 31 |
| Turkey's third-largest city | 31 |
| Alternating with the hooks, say | 31 |
| Surprise gift from your tailor? | 31 |
| DJ Wolfman delivering a sermon? | 31 |
| "Hawaii Five-O" actor | 31 |
| Actor Hugh of "X-Men" | 31 |
| Johnny Carson's predecessor | 31 |
| Addressee in many a reggae song | 31 |
| Tool that's a wicker basket | 31 |
| Female warden, condescendingly? | 31 |
| Carrier to Narita International | 31 |
| California-based smoothie chain | 31 |
| Impromptu concert in a doorway? | 31 |
| Character actor who's able? | 31 |
| "Lee's war-horse" | 31 |
| 'Mildred Pierce' author | 31 |
| No longer feeding, as a printer | 31 |
| Crime solver from St. Mary Mead | 31 |
| Agatha Christie's nosy lady | 31 |
| Elite Turkish soldier, formerly | 31 |
| When resolutions go into effect | 31 |
| It may be eaten with chopsticks | 31 |
| Hot air in the conference room? | 31 |
| "Pain Is Love" rapper | 31 |
| 'Always on Time' rapper | 31 |
| Mil. plane's boosted launch | 31 |
| His Twitter handle is @PressSec | 31 |
| Litigator's ed. acquisition | 31 |
| Big name in car-quality surveys | 31 |
| Reclusive best-selling novelist | 31 |
| Stephen Foster's dream girl | 31 |
| Actresses Crain and Tripplehorn | 31 |
| Vehicles in "M*A*S*H" | 31 |
| Like a serving of eels, perhaps | 31 |
| It might be recycled as a glass | 31 |
| Late HBO comedy regular Richard | 31 |
| Beals of "Flashdance" | 31 |
| Start of a Three Dog Night hit? | 31 |
| Assembled in a makeshift manner | 31 |
| Hit MTV series starting in 2009 | 31 |
| Destination of many pilgrimages | 31 |
| Brother outlaw in the Wild West | 31 |
| From the early '50s to date | 31 |
| Giants Stadium spectator, maybe | 31 |
| Traveled by high-speed aircraft | 31 |
| ___ d'esprit (witty remark) | 31 |
| "Moonstruck" director | 31 |
| Orville Redenbacher's rival | 31 |
| Orville Redenbacher alternative | 31 |
| Arabic for "struggle" | 31 |
| Do some prying on a Plains man? | 31 |
| President of the Lunar Society? | 31 |
| Possessed by the heebie-jeebies | 31 |
| Reassuring employment situation | 31 |
| Races horses to gain authority? | 31 |
| Athlete's symbol of winter? | 31 |
| Song pumped into a sports arena | 31 |
| Foster of "Sommersby" | 31 |
| Your typical male campus figure | 31 |
| Al Gore's 2000 running mate | 31 |
| He knocked out Max Baer in 1935 | 31 |
| Ring fighter joins germ fighter | 31 |
| "Mayflower" passenger | 31 |
| Late folk singer, upon landing? | 31 |
| Folk-rock singer from Colorado? | 31 |
| Four-term Massachusetts senator | 31 |
| 1971 role for Donald Sutherland | 31 |
| English poet runs into comedian | 31 |
| Monroe's Secretary of State | 31 |
| 1980s governor of New Hampshire | 31 |
| Invitation from a rogue nation? | 31 |