| Controversial orchard spray | 27 |
| Controversial orchard substance | 31 |
| Controversial Oscar recipient of 1999 | 37 |
| Controversial outbursts | 23 |
| Controversial part of the Covenant of the League of Nations | 59 |
| Controversial Pearl Jam video | 29 |
| Controversial performers | 24 |
| Controversial pesticide | 23 |
| Controversial pesticide (Abbr.) | 31 |
| Controversial pesticide: abbr. | 30 |
| Controversial physicist | 23 |
| Controversial plane | 19 |
| Controversial plane, the F-___ | 30 |
| Controversial plane: Abbr. | 26 |
| Controversial planes | 20 |
| Controversial plaything | 23 |
| Controversial post-Katrina housing unit | 39 |
| Controversial power source | 26 |
| Controversial power sources | 27 |
| Controversial premiere of 1879, with "A" | 50 |
| Controversial punishment | 24 |
| Controversial radio host | 24 |
| Controversial radio host Don | 28 |
| Controversial rap producer Gotti | 32 |
| Controversial Reagan adviser | 28 |
| Controversial Reagan appointee | 30 |
| Controversial Reagan Supreme Court nominee | 42 |
| Controversial Red Bull ingredient | 33 |
| Controversial refrigerant | 25 |
| Controversial refrigeration gas | 31 |
| Controversial reproductions | 27 |
| Controversial research focus | 28 |
| Controversial ride-sharing app | 30 |
| Controversial ripener | 21 |
| Controversial rock star known for "Antichrist Superstar" | 66 |
| Controversial rocker Marilyn | 28 |
| Controversial Rose | 18 |
| Controversial ruling of 1857 | 28 |
| Controversial saucers | 21 |
| Controversial school language subject | 37 |
| Controversial school subject | 28 |
| Controversial science project | 29 |
| Controversial sexologist Alfred | 31 |
| Controversial sighting | 22 |
| Controversial Simpson case investigator/witness Mark | 52 |
| Controversial sitcom | 20 |
| Controversial slugger Barry | 27 |
| Controversial spoon-bender Geller | 33 |
| Controversial spray | 19 |
| Controversial Starbucks water brand | 35 |
| Controversial strength builders | 31 |
| Controversial Strip | 19 |
| Controversial Strip in the Middle East | 38 |
| Controversial study | 19 |
| Controversial subject | 21 |
| Controversial substance in baseball news | 40 |
| Controversial talk | 18 |
| Controversial teachings | 23 |
| Controversial teen treatment | 28 |
| Controversial tennis star | 25 |
| Controversial test subject | 26 |
| Controversial testing component | 31 |
| Controversial theory | 20 |
| Controversial thing to play | 27 |
| Controversial tobacco-product pitcher | 37 |
| Controversial topic | 19 |
| Controversial topic in Pretoria | 31 |
| Controversial tree spray | 24 |
| Controversial Vietnam herbicide | 31 |
| Controversial vow word | 22 |
| Controversial weapon | 20 |
| Controversial website run by Julian Assange | 43 |
| Controversial wiretapping gp. | 29 |
| Controversial word for Rhett Butler | 35 |
| Controversial word in a January, 2002 State of the Union address | 64 |
| Controversial wrinkle remover | 29 |
| Controversialist | 16 |
| Controversially, Jane Fonda visited it in 1972 | 46 |
| Controversies | 13 |
| Controversy | 11 |
| Controversy about the coloration of a cooking sauce? | 52 |
| Controvert | 10 |
| Controverted | 12 |
| Controverts | 11 |
| Contumacious | 12 |
| Contumely | 9 |
| Contusion | 9 |
| Conundrum | 9 |
| Conundrum of today's puzzle, part one | 41 |
| Conundrum of today's puzzle, part two | 41 |
| Conundrum question | 18 |
| Conundrums | 10 |
| Conv. attendees | 15 |
| Convalesce | 10 |
| Convalesced | 11 |
| Convalescent | 12 |
| Convalescent home employee | 26 |
| Convalescent sites | 18 |
| Convalescent's setback | 26 |
| Convalescents' topics | 25 |