| __ Friday's: restaurant chain | 33 |
| __ Friday's (Applebee's rival) | 38 |
| __ Field: historic Brooklyn park | 32 |
| __ Field: Brooklyn Dodgers' home | 36 |
| __ Field, Brooklyn Dodgers' home | 36 |
| __ Field (old Brooklyn ballpark) | 32 |
| __ fever: tween "malady" | 34 |
| __ Fáil: Irish coronation stone | 34 |
| __ Fáil: Irish "stone of destiny" | 46 |
| __ favor: señor's "please" | 43 |
| __ fatso: bit of Archie Bunker language-mangling | 48 |
| __ Falls (honeymoon destination) | 32 |
| __ Fagan, Billie Holiday's birth name | 41 |
| __ Evans, Chubby Checker's birth name | 41 |
| __ Estacado: Texas grazing region | 33 |
| __ est percipi: to be is to be perceived | 40 |
| __ Era: old name for Earth's pre-life period | 48 |
| __ ejemplo: Juan's "for example" | 46 |
| __ du Diable: former French penal colony | 40 |
| __ dream: optimist's philosophy | 35 |
| __ dragon: largest living lizard | 32 |
| __ dog: conditioned reflex experiment | 37 |
| __ dixit: assertion without proof | 33 |
| __ disease: tick-transmitted affliction | 39 |
| __ disco ('80s European music genre) | 40 |
| __ Diable: old penal colony site | 32 |
| __ di Lammermoor (opera heroine) | 32 |
| __ Detroit: "Guys and Dolls" role | 43 |
| __ de Timbales: Tito Puente's nickname | 42 |
| __ de leche (Spanish confection) | 32 |
| __ de France: sports venue near Paris | 37 |
| __ de Aneto (highest of the Pyrenees) | 37 |
| __ Day: dietary supplement brand | 32 |
| __ Day (tree-planting celebration) | 34 |
| __ Day (September 19th celebration) | 35 |
| __ Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo | 39 |
| __ d'amour: baroque instrument | 34 |
| __ Cup: Canadian football trophy | 32 |
| __ cum laude (not quite "summa") | 42 |
| __ crossing: white-striped pedestrian area | 42 |
| __ Cristianos (Canary Islands resort) | 37 |
| __ Creed (4th-century statement of faith) | 41 |
| __ Cranston, a.k.a. "The Shadow" | 42 |
| __ Cranston (the Shadow's alter ego) | 40 |
| __ Cove: Disney's Polynesian Resort pavilion | 48 |
| __ cortex: outermost brain tissue | 33 |
| __ cordiale: friendly understanding | 35 |
| __ corda: using the soft pedal, in piano music | 46 |
| __ cord: chiropractor's concern | 35 |
| __ contendere (courtroom phrase) | 32 |
| __ Constitution Hall (DC concert venue) | 39 |
| __ code (telegrapher's tapping) | 35 |
| __ Coast, Hawaiian coffee district | 34 |
| __ cloud: solar system region beyond Pluto | 42 |
| __ cloud: distant solar system region | 37 |
| __ Classé: winemaking category | 33 |
| __ Circus, where St. Peter was crucified | 40 |
| __ Charitable Trusts (PBS patron) | 33 |
| __ chance (pressed one's luck) | 34 |
| __ Center: former N.J. Nets home | 32 |
| __ Center (Anchorage convention venue) | 38 |
| __ Carnival: annual Brazilian state celebration | 47 |
| __ Carinae (massive star system) | 32 |
| __ California (region south of San Diego) | 41 |
| __ butter (moisturizer ingredient) | 34 |
| __ Buena, town that became San Francisco | 40 |
| __ bubble: Internet stock phenomenon | 36 |
| __ Bubble: 18th-century British economic disaster | 49 |
| __ Bruce, '30s-'40s Dr. Watson portrayer | 48 |
| __ Brothers, who sang "Black Water" | 45 |
| __ Bridge: Bronx/Manhattan/Queens span | 38 |
| __ brûlée: custard dessert | 32 |
| __ Brasi, "The Godfather" hatchet man | 47 |
| __ Bourguiba, Tunisian president from 1957-87 | 45 |
| __ Book: 11th-century English land survey | 41 |
| __ bono: "Who stands to gain?" in law | 47 |
| __ board (manicurist's tool) | 32 |
| __ blue: color named for a school | 33 |
| __ Blanc, the Alps' highest peak | 36 |
| __ Blair: George Orwell's birth name | 40 |
| __ Bing!: "The Sopranos" nightclub | 44 |
| __ biloba: claimed memory-enhancing extract | 43 |
| __ Bernardi, who played Tevye on Broadway | 41 |
| __ Bell: Emily Brontë pen name | 33 |
| __ Bear, original name of Winnie-the-Pooh | 41 |
| __ Beach: Southern California resort | 36 |
| __ Bay: inlet bordering Portland, Maine | 39 |
| __ Bay, largest Oregon Coast city | 33 |
| __ Bartlet, "The West Wing" president | 47 |
| __ Barrett's Hollywood: old gossip magazine | 47 |
| __ Barnacle, wife of James Joyce | 32 |
| __ band: school rally performers | 32 |
| __ ball: rubber toy fad of the '80s | 39 |
| __ Bacon: "East of Eden" character | 44 |
| __ Baba ("Arabian Nights" hero) | 41 |
| __ artery, which supplies the kidneys | 37 |
| __ Arena: Kentucky Wildcats home | 32 |
| __ Arena: former Sacramento sports venue | 40 |
| __ Arena (Sacramento Kings' home) | 37 |
| __ Aquariids (annual meteor shower) | 35 |