| Toy Slinky, essentially | 23 |
| Thread of a screw, e.g. | 23 |
| Spring, perhaps | 15 |
| Spring form | 11 |
| Spiraling shape | 15 |
| Spiral staircase, essentially | 29 |
| Genetic structure | 17 |
| Double ___ (DNA structure) | 26 |
| DNA's double ___ | 20 |
| DNA strand's shape | 22 |
| DNA curve | 9 |
| DNA configuration | 17 |
| Curve in math class | 19 |
| A spiral | 8 |
| DNA shapes | 10 |
| Slinkys, e.g. | 13 |
| Genetic shapes | 14 |
| DNA structures | 14 |
| DNA strands | 11 |
| Perdition | 9 |
| War, to Sherman | 15 |
| Alternative to high water | 25 |
| Satan's domain | 18 |
| Living ___ | 10 |
| War, to Gen. Sherman | 20 |
| Inferno | 7 |
| "___ hath no fury . . . " | 35 |
| The devil's playground | 26 |
| Something to catch or raise | 27 |
| Sherman's word for war | 26 |
| Handbasket rider's destination? | 35 |
| Fiery fate | 10 |
| Dante locale | 12 |
| "War is ___" | 22 |
| "The Divine Comedy" locale | 36 |
| "Paradise Lost" locale | 32 |
| "Crap!" | 17 |
| "___ no, we won't go" | 35 |
| "___ hath no fury ..." | 32 |
| ___ on wheels | 13 |
| Word with bent or diver | 23 |
| Word after raise or catch | 25 |
| What war is | 11 |
| What partyers raise | 19 |
| What may be raised at celebrations | 34 |
| War, it's said | 18 |
| War, in a quote | 15 |
| Unbearable experience | 21 |
| Tophet or Gehenna | 17 |
| Thing sometimes given or caught | 31 |
| The pit | 7 |
| Terrible rigor | 14 |
| Subject of Dante's "Inferno" | 42 |
| Subject for Dante | 17 |
| State of misery | 15 |
| Something to pay? | 17 |
| Something to catch from scolding parents | 40 |
| Site of Milton's Pandemonium | 32 |
| Sinner's fate | 17 |
| Sherman's equivalent of war | 31 |
| Scratch pad? | 12 |
| Lucifer's realm | 19 |
| It's for children, in a Pat Benetar song | 44 |
| It's for children, in a Pat Benatar song | 44 |
| It might be raised | 18 |
| It has a fire down below? | 25 |
| High water's partner | 24 |
| High water's alternative | 28 |
| High water alternative | 22 |
| Heaven's opposite | 21 |
| Heaven it's not | 19 |
| Gehenna | 7 |
| Frequent locale in "The Far Side" | 43 |
| Fire station? | 13 |
| Fire place? | 11 |
| Fire down below? (and the end of the word ladder) | 49 |
| Fiery place | 11 |
| Extreme torment | 15 |
| Dante's inferno | 19 |
| Dante setting | 13 |
| All-American Rejects "Gives You ___" | 46 |
| "War is ___": Sherman | 31 |
| "Other people," to Sartre | 35 |
| "Like a bat out of ___" | 33 |
| "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" setting | 52 |
| "A place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself": Shaw | 73 |
| 'Paradise Lost' locale | 30 |
| ___ diver (grebe) | 17 |
| __ week: frat initiation period | 31 |
| Ill-tempered woman | 18 |
| Wild woman | 10 |
| VIXEN | 5 |
| WWII aircraft carrier plane | 27 |
| Cantankerous woman | 18 |
| Sinner's punishment, in the Bible | 37 |
| Eternal punishment | 18 |
| Threat in some sermons | 22 |
| Serious punishment | 18 |
| "The guy's going to shoot" | 40 |
| "The boss is gonna axe you!"? | 39 |