| ___ Club (Wal-Mart offshoot) | 28 |
| ___ Club (warehouse store) | 26 |
| ___ coat (colorful annual) | 26 |
| ___ coat (Japanese jacket) | 26 |
| ___ coat (sailor's wear) | 28 |
| ___ code (long-distance need) | 29 |
| ___ code (number on a letter) | 29 |
| ___ code (three-digit number) | 29 |
| ___ Code, in military usage | 27 |
| ___ codicil (bequeath) | 22 |
| ___ Coeur (Paris cathedral) | 27 |
| ___ Coeur (Paris landmark) | 26 |
| ___ Coeur, Paris landmark | 25 |
| ___ Coeur, Parisian landmark | 28 |
| ___ coil (1891 invention) | 25 |
| ___ coil (electrical device) | 28 |
| ___ colada (rum cocktail) | 25 |
| ___ colada (tropical drink) | 27 |
| ___ Collins (gin drink) | 23 |
| ___ column (building support) | 29 |
| ___ Comeau, Quebec town | 23 |
| ___ comes (artery companion) | 28 |
| ___ Comment (blog link) | 23 |
| ___ common denominator | 22 |
| ___ Como, Italian resort | 24 |
| ___ compliment (praises) | 24 |
| ___ compos (out of touch) | 25 |
| ___ computet (legal judgment) | 29 |
| ___ con pollo (Spanish dish) | 28 |
| ___ concern (unimportant) | 25 |
| ___ concours (not competing) | 28 |
| ___ concours (unrivaled: Fr.) | 29 |
| ___ confusion: 46 B.C. | 22 |
| ___ consequence (trivial) | 25 |
| ___ consequence (unimportant) | 29 |
| ___ constrictor (snake) | 23 |
| ___ contendere (court plea) | 27 |
| ___ contendere (legal plea) | 27 |
| ___ converter (car part) | 24 |
| ___ Cool (Green Day drummer) | 28 |
| ___ Cooper (popular car) | 24 |
| ___ corda (music marking) | 25 |
| ___ corda (musical direction) | 29 |
| ___ corda (piano direction) | 27 |
| ___ corda: Dir. to a pianist | 28 |
| ___ corde (music direction) | 27 |
| ___ corde (piano direction) | 27 |
| ___ Cordova, California | 23 |
| ___ corn (picnic side) | 22 |
| ___ corner (church area) | 24 |
| ___ Corner (D.C. suburb) | 24 |
| ___ Corner (London area) | 24 |
| ___ corner (make progress) | 26 |
| ___ Corning, fiberglass maker | 29 |
| ___ corpus (legal principle) | 28 |
| ___ cosa (something else) | 25 |
| ___ cost (no matter how) | 24 |
| ___ costs (by any means) | 24 |
| ___ costs (no matter what) | 26 |
| ___ cotton (fine fabric) | 24 |
| ___ Count, 1928 Derby winner | 28 |
| ___ country (rustic locale) | 27 |
| ___ coup (too late): Fr. | 24 |
| ___ Court (London district) | 27 |
| ___ couture (high fashion) | 26 |
| ___ covert (married woman) | 26 |
| ___ Coyote of cartoons | 22 |
| ___ Cranston (The Shadow) | 25 |
| ___ cream (fizzy drink) | 23 |
| ___ Creed (church recital) | 26 |
| ___ creek (in trouble) | 22 |
| ___ creek without a paddle | 26 |
| ___ Creek, district in Belize | 29 |
| ___ crest (pelvis part) | 23 |
| ___ Crocetti, a k a Martin | 26 |
| ___ Croft, comic book heroine | 29 |
| ___ cropper (have a fall) | 25 |
| ___ crow (take it all back) | 27 |
| ___ Cruces (Andean peak) | 24 |
| ___ Cruces, New Mexico | 22 |
| ___ Crunch (cereal mascot) | 26 |
| ___ Crunch (Quaker cereal) | 26 |
| ___ Cruz, city in Argentina | 27 |
| ___ Cucamonga, California | 25 |
| ___ Cup (classic candy brand) | 29 |
| ___ Cup (tennis event) | 22 |
| ___ Cup (yachting prize) | 24 |
| ___ Cup (yachting trophy) | 25 |
| ___ Cup, yacht-racing prize | 27 |
| ___ curiam (by the court) | 25 |
| ___ Curie, daughter of Marie | 28 |
| ___ curls (gym exercise) | 24 |
| ___ Current (Black Stream) | 26 |
| ___ Curtis (hair care brand) | 28 |
| ___ Curtis of cosmetics | 23 |
| ___ cuts (deli offerings) | 25 |
| ___ d' (headwaiter) | 23 |
| ___ d'agneau (lamb dish) | 28 |
| ___ d'Alene, Idaho | 22 |
| ___ d'amore (instrument) | 28 |