| Promising, as one's future | 30 |
| Promising, as a future | 22 |
| Promising youngsters | 20 |
| Promising young poet? | 21 |
| Promising words? | 16 |
| Promising words (and what's hidden in this puzzle's four longest entries) | 81 |
| Promising words | 15 |
| Promising whiz | 14 |
| Promising time | 14 |
| Promising success | 17 |
| Promising start? | 16 |
| Promising start to a marriage? | 30 |
| Promising site | 14 |
| Promising rookies' doses of reality | 39 |
| Promising rookie | 16 |
| Promising rock | 14 |
| Promising reply | 15 |
| Promising places | 16 |
| Promising picnic forecast | 25 |
| Promising person's diary note? | 34 |
| Promising person | 16 |
| Promising performer | 19 |
| Promising paper | 15 |
| Promising pair | 14 |
| Promising ones | 14 |
| Promising one | 13 |
| Promising note? | 15 |
| Promising new arrival | 21 |
| Promising location? | 19 |
| Promising location | 18 |
| Promising letters? | 18 |
| Promising letters | 17 |
| Promising Kiss song off "The Elder," with "The"? | 68 |
| Promising investments | 21 |
| Promising good things | 21 |
| Promising exchanges | 19 |
| Promising clue, to a detective | 30 |
| Promising clue | 14 |
| Promising beginning? | 20 |
| Promising activity | 18 |
| Promising | 9 |
| Promises too much | 17 |
| Promises to pay | 15 |
| Promises the moon, say | 22 |
| Promises on paper | 17 |
| Promises of payment: Abbr. | 26 |
| Promises of allegiance | 22 |
| Promises of a sort | 18 |
| Promises crop around height (5) | 31 |
| Promises | 8 |
| Promiser's condition | 24 |
| Promised to tell the truth | 26 |
| Promised to give up | 19 |
| Promised the moon | 17 |
| Promised solemnly | 17 |
| Promised reward | 15 |
| Promised one | 12 |
| Promised Land, to Rastafarians | 30 |
| Promised Land promisee | 22 |
| Promised Land of the Bible | 26 |
| Promised land | 13 |
| Promised emphatically | 21 |
| Promised | 8 |
| Promise-to-pay letters | 22 |
| Promise, for one | 16 |
| Promise, e.g. | 13 |
| Promise, as in marriage | 23 |
| Promise, and the like, in brief | 31 |
| Promise's partner | 21 |
| Promise word | 12 |
| Promise under a chuppah | 23 |
| Promise too much | 16 |
| Promise to wed | 14 |
| Promise to repay | 16 |
| Promise to PBS | 14 |
| Promise to pay: abbr. | 21 |
| Promise to pay, for short | 25 |
| Promise to pay, briefly | 23 |
| Promise to pay | 14 |
| Promise to marry | 16 |
| Promise to kick a habit | 23 |
| Promise to a rhinoplasty patient with a droopy nose? | 52 |
| Promise to a hounded postman | 28 |
| Promise to a cook? | 18 |
| Promise to a contact upon arriving at the rendezvous point with the suitcase | 76 |
| Promise to a chef? | 18 |
| Promise that doesn't always work out | 40 |
| Promise solemnly | 16 |
| Promise recipient | 17 |
| Promise punishment, e.g. | 24 |
| Promise product | 15 |
| Promise preceding a pronouncement | 33 |
| Promise output | 14 |
| Promise one will | 16 |
| Promise one can't count on | 30 |
| Promise on some salty foods | 27 |
| Promise on many a Chinese restaurant menu | 41 |
| Promise on a patient prosecutor's answering machine message? | 64 |
| Promise of some cosmetics | 25 |
| Promise of repayment | 20 |