| VIP at the top of a ladder | 26 |
| Veselin Topalov's game | 26 |
| Voice of Grandfather Time? | 26 |
| Valve on a gasoline engine | 26 |
| Valerie Plame scandal org. | 26 |
| Venn diagram sets, usually | 26 |
| Visitor to Rome in 46 B.C. | 26 |
| Victor over Blaine in 1884 | 26 |
| Vending machine selections | 26 |
| Veterinarian's concern | 26 |
| Verbal or nonverbal nudges | 26 |
| Vessel that's vied for | 26 |
| Valentine's Day symbol | 26 |
| Valentine's Day archer | 26 |
| Veep between George and Al | 26 |
| V.P. between George and Al | 26 |
| Villa __: Italian landmark | 26 |
| Voice of Shrek's Fiona | 26 |
| Vietnam's Ngo Dinh ___ | 26 |
| Venetian magistrate of old | 26 |
| Valley denizens of fiction | 26 |
| Venetian blind alternative | 26 |
| Vision that isn't real | 26 |
| Visions you sleep through? | 26 |
| Van Gogh wound up with one | 26 |
| Vowel in the NATO alphabet | 26 |
| Vinegar ___ (certain worm) | 26 |
| Violinist or his actor son | 26 |
| Von Furstenberg of fashion | 26 |
| Vancouver to Kamloops dir. | 26 |
| Vote into the Hall of Fame | 26 |
| Very long Supergrass song? | 26 |
| Victoria's reign, e.g. | 26 |
| Vague time frame indicator | 26 |
| Von Stroheim of the movies | 26 |
| Verb in first-year Spanish | 26 |
| Villa d'___, in Tivoli | 26 |
| Villa d'___, at Tivoli | 26 |
| Visitor's guess: Abbr. | 26 |
| Vowels that look like an H | 26 |
| Virginie-Occidentale, e.g. | 26 |
| Verb with "vous" | 26 |
| Vessel for heating liquids | 26 |
| Visitors from other worlds | 26 |
| Visitors to the Enterprise | 26 |
| Van's place in an army | 26 |
| Verb functioning as a noun | 26 |
| Videographer's problem | 26 |
| Vexes, with "at" | 26 |
| Valedictorian, for example | 26 |
| Viticulturist's morsel | 26 |
| Vast South American region | 26 |
| Virgil Grissom, to friends | 26 |
| Villainous sci-fi computer | 26 |
| Vietnam War bombing target | 26 |
| Victoria's royal house | 26 |
| Varnish or Viagra, perhaps | 26 |
| Vocational identifier: sl. | 26 |
| Verbal tap on the shoulder | 26 |
| Vice-Presidential monogram | 26 |
| Vintage phonograph systems | 26 |
| Venus' flytrap feature | 26 |
| Vicki Baum's was grand | 26 |
| Victor at Brandywine: 1777 | 26 |
| Vade mecum for neologists? | 26 |
| Venous fluid for Aphrodite | 26 |
| Vow-accepting confirmation | 26 |
| Voter's finger stainer | 26 |
| Vernon's dance partner | 26 |
| Verb suffix, British style | 26 |
| Verb after "das" | 26 |
| Victory site of March 1945 | 26 |
| Vertical side of a doorway | 26 |
| Vessel in the pickle aisle | 26 |
| Veggie in a green smoothie | 26 |
| Vehicle for the racing set | 26 |
| Valet for the Green Hornet | 26 |
| Vandalized a car, in a way | 26 |
| Valentine candy invitation | 26 |
| Volleyball protective gear | 26 |
| Vishnu's eighth avatar | 26 |
| View from a cabin, perhaps | 26 |
| Vampirelike female monster | 26 |
| Via ___ (used by Hannibal) | 26 |
| Vanilla or chocolate order | 26 |
| Victor at Chancellorsville | 26 |
| Vampire of Anne Rice books | 26 |
| Varsity member's prize | 26 |
| Virgin gimlet, essentially | 26 |
| Vietnam Wall designer Maya | 26 |
| Vietnam Memorial architect | 26 |
| Vatican City monetary unit | 26 |
| Vallée d'Orléans | 26 |
| Vinyl fan's collection | 26 |
| Violinist Jean _____ Ponty | 26 |
| Vega is its brightest star | 26 |
| Vicki Lawrence sitcom role | 26 |
| V.I.P. in child's life | 26 |
| VIP in China's history | 26 |
| Venetian who visited China | 26 |