| Text | Length |
| "Land o' _____!" | 30 |
| Try to make it on one's own | 31 |
| Fly alone | 9 |
| Leave the band, perhaps | 23 |
| Strike out on one's own | 27 |
| Split with the band | 19 |
| Split off from the band | 23 |
| Quit the group, maybe | 21 |
| Opt for a career without the band | 33 |
| Leave the group, but keep playing | 33 |
| Leave the band, in a way | 24 |
| Leave the band and strike out on one's own | 46 |
| Leave the band | 14 |
| Fly a plane alone, say | 22 |
| Eschew partners | 15 |
| Break off from the band | 23 |
| Break from the band | 19 |
| Turn bad | 8 |
| Take a turn for the worse | 25 |
| Turn bad, slangily | 18 |
| Start to tank | 13 |
| Migrate, maybe | 14 |
| Leave for the winter, say | 25 |
| Deteriorate, slangily | 21 |
| Evangel | 7 |
| The Word | 8 |
| Glad tidings | 12 |
| God's honest truth | 22 |
| Aretha's forte | 18 |
| Absolute truth | 14 |
| Unquestionable truth | 20 |
| Staple Singers genre | 20 |
| Spiritual music LP goes awry (6) | 32 |
| Sacred music genre | 18 |
| Preacher's preaching | 24 |
| Music of Kirk Franklin's God's Property choir, e.g. | 59 |
| Mass-marketed book? | 19 |
| Mass reading | 12 |
| Mary Mary musical genre | 23 |
| Mark, e.g. | 10 |
| Mahalia's milieu | 20 |
| Mahalia Jackson's genre | 27 |
| Key doctrine | 12 |
| Infallible truth | 16 |
| First four N.T. books | 21 |
| Another music genre | 19 |
| Tenet's CIA successor | 25 |
| Tenet follower in the CIA | 25 |
| Porter who headed the CIA until May 2006 | 40 |
| Porter ___, former C.I.A. director | 34 |
| Former CIA director Porter __ | 29 |
| Former C.I.A. chief Porter ___ | 30 |
| Hearsay | 7 |
| Dish | 4 |
| Yenta | 5 |
| Rumors | 6 |
| Grapevine news | 14 |
| Dish dirt | 9 |
| Scuttlebut | 10 |
| Grapevine talk | 14 |
| Dirt, so to speak | 17 |
| Contents of some columns | 24 |
| Whispered talk | 14 |
| Trade secrets? | 14 |
| TMZ fodder | 10 |
| Talk around the water cooler | 28 |
| Talk about others | 17 |
| Tabloid dirt | 12 |
| Spread stories | 14 |
| Rumors and such | 15 |
| Rumors often | 13 |
| Rumormonger's delight | 25 |
| Juicy items | 11 |
| It may be full of dirt | 22 |
| Industry rumor | 14 |
| Grapevine produce? | 18 |
| Grapevine contents | 18 |
| Gabfest staple | 14 |
| Dish's main ingredient? | 27 |
| Dirt on a person | 16 |
| Automatic teller? | 17 |
| Winchell, for one | 17 |
| One spreading dirt | 18 |
| Hopper was one | 14 |
| Busybodies | 10 |
| Spreads rumors | 14 |
| Tongue waggers | 14 |
| Dishes the dirt | 15 |
| Dishes dirt | 11 |
| Yentas | 6 |
| Newsmongers | 11 |
| Attend sans date | 16 |
| Attend without a date | 21 |
| Lack a date | 11 |
| Attend alone, perhaps | 21 |
| Attend alone | 12 |
| Nabbed | 6 |
| Laid hold of | 12 |
| Earned | 6 |
| Grasped | 7 |
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