| A capital N.B.A. legend? | 24 |
| A cappella composition | 22 |
| A cappella group bookings | 25 |
| A cappella group, maybe | 23 |
| A cappella group, often | 23 |
| A cappella singer's need | 28 |
| A captain might keep one | 24 |
| A captain of the Enterprise | 27 |
| A Capulet's question | 24 |
| A car in San Francisco | 22 |
| A car might have one on it | 26 |
| A carbon compound suffix | 24 |
| A card not in a pinochle deck | 29 |
| A cardinal's is red | 23 |
| A carhop brings it out | 22 |
| A carol's first word | 24 |
| A carpenter may drive it | 24 |
| A carpenter, frequently | 23 |
| A carpet may have a deep one | 28 |
| A carrier has one: Abbr. | 24 |
| A cartoonist and cartoon hero | 29 |
| A case for Cicero: Abbr. | 24 |
| A case is often made for it | 27 |
| A case might be made for one | 28 |
| A case of pins and needles | 26 |
| A case of pins and needles? | 27 |
| A Casey who once went to bat | 28 |
| A castaway probably has one | 27 |
| A cat, but rarely a rat | 23 |
| A catboat has just one | 22 |
| A category in a file: Abbr. | 27 |
| A catnap may not provide it | 27 |
| A Caucasian, to Hawaiians | 25 |
| A cause for celebration | 23 |
| A cause of absenteeism | 22 |
| A Cézanne contemporary | 25 |
| A celebrity carries one | 23 |
| A celebrity may have one | 24 |
| A celebrity might have one | 26 |
| A century in Washington | 23 |
| A certain bandit's mouth | 28 |
| A certain doctrine or theory | 28 |
| A certain J.F.K. departure | 26 |
| A certain king or queen, e.g. | 29 |
| A certain newspaper page | 24 |
| A certain point underground? | 28 |
| A certain tray may hold it | 26 |
| A chain times a furlong | 23 |
| A chair usually has one | 23 |
| A Chan of filmdom: 1931 | 23 |
| A chaperon is usually one | 25 |
| A charge at the butcher's | 29 |
| A Charlie Chan of old films | 27 |
| A check inside? (Abbr.) | 23 |
| A chemistry Nobelist: 1946 | 26 |
| A chimpanzee astronaut | 22 |
| A chip before the deal | 22 |
| A chip in the pot, perhaps | 26 |
| A chip off the old flock? | 25 |
| A chip or two to start with | 27 |
| A choir may sing in it | 22 |
| A choir may stand on it | 23 |
| A choli is worn under it | 24 |
| A chorus of negativity | 22 |
| A Christmas connection | 22 |
| A Christmas-shopping mo. | 24 |
| A chromolithograph, for short | 29 |
| A church could have one | 23 |
| A cigarette filter filters it | 29 |
| A city in central New York | 26 |
| A Clanton at the O.K. Corral | 28 |
| A Clanton at the OK Corral | 26 |
| A classic race at Epsom Downs | 29 |
| A classified advertisement | 26 |
| A Clement Moore opener | 22 |
| A clip may come from it | 23 |
| A closer might get one | 22 |
| A club for Tiger Woods | 22 |
| A co-inventor of cordite | 24 |
| A co-star of Sylvester | 22 |
| A coach might flash one | 23 |
| A cobbler may replace it | 24 |
| A Cockney will often drop one | 29 |
| A cold place, but often baked | 29 |
| A colleague of Kennedy's | 28 |
| A colleague of Reasoner | 23 |
| A colleague of Sam Adams | 24 |
| A color in the U.S. flag | 24 |
| A colored warning flare | 23 |
| A colorless hydrocarbon | 23 |
| A comet, to the superstitious | 29 |
| A comic and his former show | 27 |
| A committee may reach it | 24 |
| A community may have one | 24 |
| A companion of D'Artagnan | 29 |
| A companion of Falstaff | 23 |
| A companion of Meshach | 22 |
| A companion of Porthos | 22 |
| A company picnic could be one | 29 |
| A computer instruction | 22 |