| Text | Length |
| Verdi opera: 1871 | 17 |
| Role for Leontyne | 17 |
| It opened in 1871 | 17 |
| Enslaved princess | 17 |
| A slave to opera? | 17 |
| 2000 Broadway hit | 17 |
| Right-hand person | 17 |
| General assistant | 17 |
| Mayoral assistant | 17 |
| Helpful underling | 17 |
| Girl Friday, e.g. | 17 |
| Ziegler, to Nixon | 17 |
| West Wing staffer | 17 |
| Trusted underling | 17 |
| Senate page, e.g. | 17 |
| Page, for example | 17 |
| Nursing assistant | 17 |
| Capitol underling | 17 |
| Brass subordinate | 17 |
| West Wing adjunct | 17 |
| Officer of a sort | 17 |
| Nurse's _____ | 17 |
| Military adjutant | 17 |
| Man at your side? | 17 |
| Jordan, to Carter | 17 |
| Intern or orderly | 17 |
| Hamilton, to G.W. | 17 |
| Guy or gal Friday | 17 |
| G.W., to Braddock | 17 |
| Friday, to Crusoe | 17 |
| Embassy personnel | 17 |
| Classroom trainee | 17 |
| Was philanthropic | 17 |
| Offered a hand to | 17 |
| To help, to Henri | 17 |
| Legal act of help | 17 |
| West Wing workers | 17 |
| White House group | 17 |
| Senate assistants | 17 |
| Seconds for Tyson | 17 |
| Pages and interns | 17 |
| Classroom workers | 17 |
| Proves beneficial | 17 |
| Feel out of sorts | 17 |
| Be valetudinarian | 17 |
| Suffer ill health | 17 |
| Run a temperature | 17 |
| Homophone for ale | 17 |
| Have the flu, say | 17 |
| Feel like garbage | 17 |
| Cause distress to | 17 |
| Be less than 100% | 17 |
| Be in poor health | 17 |
| Not feel so good. | 17 |
| Need nursing, say | 17 |
| Have the sniffles | 17 |
| Have the miseries | 17 |
| Garlic, to Gaston | 17 |
| Feel queasy, e.g. | 17 |
| Suffered sickness | 17 |
| Had a temperature | 17 |
| Felt out of sorts | 17 |
| Felt far from fit | 17 |
| Became indisposed | 17 |
| Section of a wing | 17 |
| Banking mechanism | 17 |
| Dance's Alvin | 17 |
| Student of Graham | 17 |
| Under the weather | 17 |
| Has the flu, e.g. | 17 |
| Causes trouble to | 17 |
| Stays home, maybe | 17 |
| Isn't healthy | 17 |
| Is in poor health | 17 |
| Is bedridden, say | 17 |
| Archer's need | 17 |
| Get ready to fire | 17 |
| Crest alternative | 17 |
| Target the target | 17 |
| Point at a target | 17 |
| Order after ready | 17 |
| Spearfishing need | 17 |
| Ready-fire linkup | 17 |
| Point, as an M-16 | 17 |
| Gchat alternative | 17 |
| Firing-range word | 17 |
| Cry before firing | 17 |
| Archery requisite | 17 |
| Got ready to fire | 17 |
| Sought the target | 17 |
| Prepared to shoot | 17 |
| Pointed, as a gun | 17 |
| Pointed carefully | 17 |
| Pointed a ray gun | 17 |
| Actress Anouk ___ | 17 |
| McPherson or Mann | 17 |
| Mann or McPherson | 17 |
| Entertainer Anouk | 17 |
| To love, in Paris | 17 |
| One with a sight? | 17 |
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