| Run the gamut from --- Z | 24 |
| Give an ___ (mark high) | 23 |
| From point --- point B | 22 |
| From point ___ point B | 22 |
| From -- Z (thoroughly) | 22 |
| From -- Z (completely) | 22 |
| From ___ Z (completely) | 23 |
| First volume heading starter | 28 |
| Bontok political division | 25 |
| "Z" preceder? | 23 |
| ___ Z (the whole nine yards) | 28 |
| Glass raiser's words | 24 |
| Glass raiser's cry | 22 |
| Beginning of some tributes | 26 |
| From __: slight progress | 24 |
| Travel route: from ___ | 22 |
| Get from __: advance slightly | 29 |
| Get from ___ (progress) | 23 |
| First step in a progression | 27 |
| Volume 1 contents, maybe | 24 |
| The first of many steps | 23 |
| Metaphorical small distance | 27 |
| Initial step, metaphorically | 28 |
| Get from --- (make progress) | 28 |
| Get from ___ (make progress) | 28 |
| Get from __ (progress slowly) | 29 |
| From ___ (opening bit) | 22 |
| First step in a series | 22 |
| Not on the best of terms | 24 |
| Like members of a hung jury | 27 |
| Disagreeing like bookies? | 25 |
| Stick ___ in the water | 22 |
| Put ___ in (test bath water) | 28 |
| Dip __ in: test the water | 25 |
| Point ___ (equine term) | 23 |
| Dip -- in (try tentatively) | 27 |
| Thine, to Thérèse | 23 |
| About a third of the alphabet | 29 |
| Tours "yours" | 23 |
| Thine, to Hélène | 22 |
| Thine, in Noisy-le-Sec | 22 |
| Thine on the Left Bank | 23 |
| First nine in a series | 22 |
| "Yours" to Yvette | 27 |
| Christmas Island, for one | 25 |
| Circular coral reef island | 26 |
| It has a certain ring to it | 27 |
| Island surrounding a lagoon | 27 |
| Any of the Marshall Islands | 27 |
| Ring-shaped coral reef | 22 |
| Island-hopper's stop | 24 |
| Bikini in the Central Pacific | 29 |
| String of coral islands | 23 |
| Reef surrounding a lagoon | 25 |
| Great Barrier Reef sight | 24 |
| Christmas Island, e.g. | 22 |
| Word first defined by Darwin | 28 |
| Transpacific landing site | 25 |
| Takes _____ on (wears) | 22 |
| Ring-shaped coral island | 24 |
| Marshall Islands island | 23 |
| Many a South Seas island | 24 |
| Island with a reef and lagoon | 29 |
| Former nuclear test site | 24 |
| Christmas Island e.g. | 22 |
| Castaway's site, perhaps | 28 |
| Castaway's locale, maybe | 28 |
| Caroline Islands sight | 22 |
| Bikini or Johnson, e.g. | 23 |
| Atomic test site, perhaps | 25 |
| The Marshall Islands, e.g. | 26 |
| Ring-shaped coral reefs | 23 |
| Many of the Marshall Islands | 28 |
| Marshall Islands, e.g. | 22 |
| Ring-shaped coral islands | 25 |
| Part of the Ralik Chain | 23 |
| Lagoons' surroundings | 25 |
| Enewetak and Kwajalein | 22 |
| Coral-island groupings | 22 |
| Components of the Maldives | 26 |
| Bit of nuclear physics | 22 |
| Basic unit for the elements | 27 |
| It's just a little bit | 26 |
| Elemental building block | 24 |
| A little bundle of energy | 25 |
| What the Bohr model models | 26 |
| Source of nuclear energy | 24 |
| Item discussed by Lucretius | 27 |
| First half of the alphabet | 26 |
| Building block of nature | 24 |
| Building block of matter | 24 |
| Physicist's subject | 23 |
| Microscopic building block | 26 |
| Chemical building block | 23 |
| Supercollider collider | 22 |
| Subject for John Dalton | 23 |
| Quantum theory subject | 22 |
| Physicist's concern | 23 |
| Nuclear fission target | 22 |
| Nature's building block | 27 |