| A country's CEO, often | 26 |
| A counterfeiter said . . . | 26 |
| A cotillion in a pastry shop? | 29 |
| A cop on the beat, e.g. | 23 |
| A convertiplane, for short | 26 |
| A contemporary of The Bard | 26 |
| A contemporary of Shakespeare | 29 |
| A contemporary of Loti | 22 |
| A contemporary of Haydn | 23 |
| A contemporary of Edison | 24 |
| A contemporary of Dashiell | 26 |
| A constitutional guarantee | 26 |
| A Constable painting, e.g. | 26 |
| A conspirator with Brutus | 25 |
| A considerable distance | 23 |
| A conifer, to Fernando | 22 |
| A conductor might pick it up | 28 |
| A conditioning exercise | 23 |
| A condiment in Calabria | 23 |
| A concubine of Solomon | 22 |
| A concert-master holds it | 25 |
| A concern of the chair | 22 |
| A concern of ecologists | 23 |
| A concern of Coleridge | 22 |
| A concern of Cal Peete | 22 |
| A concern of a seamstress | 25 |
| A concern of a Big A bettor | 27 |
| A con artist may go by it | 25 |
| A computer-code acronym | 23 |
| A computer programming lang. | 28 |
| A computer processes it | 23 |
| A computer may be in it | 23 |
| A computer language acronym | 27 |
| A computer instruction | 22 |
| A company picnic could be one | 29 |
| A companion of Porthos | 22 |
| A companion of Meshach | 22 |
| A companion of Falstaff | 23 |
| A companion of D'Artagnan | 29 |
| A community may have one | 24 |
| A committee may reach it | 24 |
| A comic and his former show | 27 |
| A comet, to the superstitious | 29 |
| A colorless hydrocarbon | 23 |
| A colored warning flare | 23 |
| A color in the U.S. flag | 24 |
| A colleague of Sam Adams | 24 |
| A colleague of Reasoner | 23 |
| A colleague of Kennedy's | 28 |
| A cold place, but often baked | 29 |
| A Cockney will often drop one | 29 |
| A cobbler may replace it | 24 |
| A coach might flash one | 23 |
| A co-star of Sylvester | 22 |
| A co-inventor of cordite | 24 |
| A club for Tiger Woods | 22 |
| A closer might get one | 22 |
| A clip may come from it | 23 |
| A Clement Moore opener | 22 |
| A classified advertisement | 26 |
| A classic race at Epsom Downs | 29 |
| A Clanton at the OK Corral | 26 |
| A Clanton at the O.K. Corral | 28 |
| A city in central New York | 26 |
| A cigarette filter filters it | 29 |
| A church could have one | 23 |
| A chromolithograph, for short | 29 |
| A Christmas-shopping mo. | 24 |
| A Christmas connection | 22 |
| A chorus of negativity | 22 |
| A choli is worn under it | 24 |
| A choir may stand on it | 23 |
| A choir may sing in it | 22 |
| A chip or two to start with | 27 |
| A chip off the old flock? | 25 |
| A chip in the pot, perhaps | 26 |
| A chip before the deal | 22 |
| A chimpanzee astronaut | 22 |
| A chemistry Nobelist: 1946 | 26 |
| A check inside? (Abbr.) | 23 |
| A Charlie Chan of old films | 27 |
| A charge at the butcher's | 29 |
| A chaperon is usually one | 25 |
| A Chan of filmdom: 1931 | 23 |
| A chair usually has one | 23 |
| A chain times a furlong | 23 |
| A certain tray may hold it | 26 |
| A certain point underground? | 28 |
| A certain newspaper page | 24 |
| A certain king or queen, e.g. | 29 |
| A certain J.F.K. departure | 26 |
| A certain doctrine or theory | 28 |
| A certain bandit's mouth | 28 |
| A century in Washington | 23 |
| A celebrity might have one | 26 |
| A celebrity may have one | 24 |
| A celebrity carries one | 23 |
| A Cézanne contemporary | 25 |
| A cause of absenteeism | 22 |
| A cause for celebration | 23 |