| "Ain't Misbehavin'" actress Carter | 52 |
| "Ain't It ___?" (Fats Domino's query) | 55 |
| "Ain't I a Woman?" deliverer Sojourner | 52 |
| "Ain't Helena the capital of Idaho?" reply? | 57 |
| "Ain't happening, and that's final!" | 54 |
| "Ain't Got ___ to My Name" (Bing Crosby song) | 59 |
| "Ahhh" and "Whew, that was close!" | 54 |
| "Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears" poet | 57 |
| "Ah, I didn't know what you were referring to" | 60 |
| "Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful" novelist, 1981 | 57 |
| "Ah like to ___ with diffr'nt huntin' spots" | 62 |
| "Agriculture and commerce" is its motto: Abbr. | 56 |
| "Ages Beyond Myst" online and computer game | 53 |
| "After __" (2005 "Economist" article on the Fed) | 68 |
| "Afraid you can't have your money back" | 53 |
| "Aerie Faerie Nonsense" band, with "The" | 60 |
| "Advise none to marry ___ to war": Herbert | 52 |
| "Adventure most ___ itself": Emily Dickinson | 54 |
| "Adoration" subjects in a Leonardo painting | 53 |
| "Adelaide's ___" ("Guys and Dolls" song) | 64 |
| "Adam/ ___" (short poem entitled "Fleas") | 61 |
| "Adam's Rib" co-playwright _____ Kanin | 52 |
| "Actual" first word of a 1943 novelty song | 52 |
| "Actresses" in Shakespeare's Globe productions | 60 |
| "Acoustic guitar" or "push lawn mower," e.g. | 64 |
| "Achilles and the Tortoise" paradox writer | 52 |
| "Ace ___ and Rodger of the Skies" (1973 film) | 55 |
| "Ace of __": 2000s Food Network bakery show | 53 |
| "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" composer Harold | 57 |
| "Absolutely Fabulous" or "Father Ted" | 57 |
| "Abra was ready __ called her name": Prior | 52 |
| "Abra was ready __ call'd her name": Prior | 56 |
| "About a ___" (2007 movie about Kurt Cobain) | 54 |
| "Able was ___ . . ." (part of a palindrome) | 53 |
| "Able was __ ...": start of a famous palindrome | 57 |
| "Able was I ___ saw Elba" (popular palindrome) | 56 |
| "Able was I ___ I saw Elba" (notable palindrome) | 58 |
| "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" actor | 55 |
| "A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H, I've got ___ . . . " | 52 |
| "A ___, petal and a thorn" (Emily Dickinson poem) | 59 |
| "A ___ You Can't Sweat Out" (Panic! At the Disco) | 63 |
| "A ___ to every purpose . . . ": Eccles. 3:1 | 54 |
| "A ___ tardi" ("See you later," in Italy) | 61 |
| "A ___ should not mean / But be": MacLeish | 52 |
| "A ___ should have a good memory": Quintilian | 55 |
| "A ___ Pigs Would Die," Robert N. Peck novel | 54 |
| "A ___ must be always talking . . . ": S. Johnson | 59 |
| "A ___ cannot live": Martin Luther King Jr. | 53 |
| "A ___ and Crazy Guy" (1978 Steve Martin album) | 57 |
| "A __ this gout!": "Henry IV, Part 2" | 57 |
| "A __ of this gout!": "King Henry IV, Part 2" | 65 |
| "A __ Fury": "Star Wars" DVD segment | 56 |
| "A Writer's Life" autobiographer, 2006 | 52 |
| "A Wrinkle in Time" author Madeleine L'___ | 56 |
| "A Woman Called ___" (Ingrid Bergman's final film) | 64 |
| "A Woman Called ___" (Emmy-winning TV movie) | 54 |
| "A wise son maketh ___ father": Proverbs (5) | 54 |
| "A Winter ___ the Ice" (Jules Verne story collection) | 63 |
| "A whole new world of baking ... in a box!" sloganeer, once | 69 |
| "A Whiter Shade of ___" (Procol Harum hit) | 52 |
| "A voice flowed ___ my troubled mind": Shelley | 56 |
| "A Visit from St. Nicholas" poet Clement Clarke ___ | 61 |
| "A Vindication of Natural Society" writer, 1756 | 57 |
| "A very high price to pay for maturity," per Tom Stoppard | 67 |
| "A veil, rather than a mirror," per Oscar Wilde | 57 |
| "A truer measure of man's ability" sloganeer, once | 64 |
| "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" woman ___ Nolan | 52 |
| "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" screenwriter Slessinger | 60 |
| "A to Z Mysteries" kids' books author __ Roy | 58 |
| "A time ___ away stones . . . ": Eccl. 3:5 | 52 |
| "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" poet | 52 |
| "A temporary insanity," per Ambrose Bierce | 52 |
| "A Tale of Two Cities" or "War and Peace," e.g. | 67 |
| "A Tale of Love and Darkness" author, 2003 | 52 |
| "A Streetcar Named Desire" producer ___ Mayer Selznick | 64 |
| "A staff is quickly found to ___ dog": Shak. | 54 |
| "A spectre is haunting ___" (Marx and Engels) | 55 |
| "A Song of Old Hawaii" instrument, briefly | 52 |
| "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" author | 56 |
| "A ship is always referred to ___ . . . ": Nimitz | 59 |
| "A Series of Unfortunate Events" villainess ___ Squalor | 65 |
| "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" author | 65 |
| "A secret is ___" (start of a Howell quote) | 53 |
| "A Sand County Almanac" ecologist/author __ Leopold | 61 |
| "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" author | 55 |
| "A Room of One's ___" (Virginia Woolf work) | 57 |
| "A Room of One's Own" writer wearing a wool sweater? | 66 |
| "A right delayed is a right denied" speaker | 53 |
| "A revolution is not a dinner party" writer | 53 |
| "A revolution is not a dinner party" statesman | 56 |
| "A revolution is not a dinner party" leader | 53 |
| "A revolution is not a bed of roses" speaker | 54 |
| "A revolt against fate" per André Malraux | 54 |
| "A rabbi, a priest, and a minister walk into ___... " | 63 |
| "A rabbi, a priest and a duck walk into ___ ..." | 58 |
| "A Prayer for Owen ___" (John Irving novel) | 53 |
| "A Prairie Home Companion" director Robert | 52 |
| "A Prairie Home Companion" (2006) director | 52 |
| "A plague o' ___ your houses!": Mercutio | 54 |
| "A Pirate Looks at ___" (Jimmy Buffett memoir) | 56 |