| Text | Length |
| Threat to Catania | 17 |
| Taormina backdrop | 17 |
| Sicily's peak | 17 |
| Sicilian scorcher | 17 |
| Sicilian backdrop | 17 |
| Overlooks Catania | 17 |
| Noted island peak | 17 |
| Laboratory heater | 17 |
| July, 2001 spewer | 17 |
| Erupter in Sicily | 17 |
| Old lab equipment | 17 |
| Old flask heaters | 17 |
| Bunsen burner kin | 17 |
| Alcoholic heaters | 17 |
| DDE's command | 17 |
| Ike's command | 17 |
| W. W. II initials | 17 |
| WWII battleground | 17 |
| WWII command area | 17 |
| WWII arena: abbr. | 17 |
| Region led by DDE | 17 |
| Mil. arena abroad | 17 |
| Ike's theater | 17 |
| Ballet attraction | 17 |
| Polaris, in Paris | 17 |
| Object in le ciel | 17 |
| Jacque's star | 17 |
| Ballet headliners | 17 |
| School since 1440 | 17 |
| Collar or college | 17 |
| College or collar | 17 |
| Harrow competitor | 17 |
| Bond's school | 17 |
| School in Britain | 17 |
| Thames River town | 17 |
| School in England | 17 |
| Gordonstoun rival | 17 |
| Elite prep school | 17 |
| College or jacket | 17 |
| Collarless jacket | 17 |
| Bond studied here | 17 |
| Berkshire college | 17 |
| Ian Fleming, e.g. | 17 |
| English schoolboy | 17 |
| British schoolboy | 17 |
| Schoolboy collars | 17 |
| Berkshire jackets | 17 |
| Some collar types | 17 |
| Schoolboy jackets | 17 |
| Jacket and collar | 17 |
| Collars of a sort | 17 |
| Collar and jacket | 17 |
| Schwab competitor | 17 |
| Online stock site | 17 |
| On-line brokerage | 17 |
| Computer commerce | 17 |
| Basic French verb | 17 |
| Intro French verb | 17 |
| French infinitive | 17 |
| Being, to Berlioz | 17 |
| To be, to Jacques | 17 |
| To be, to René | 17 |
| Raison d' ___ | 17 |
| French verb to be | 17 |
| To be, to Sarkozy | 17 |
| To be, to Debussy | 17 |
| To be, to Binoche | 17 |
| To be, to Berlioz | 17 |
| To be, to Babette | 17 |
| To be over there? | 17 |
| Raison d'____ | 17 |
| Gallic infinitive | 17 |
| French-class word | 17 |
| Being in Brittany | 17 |
| Aliens, for short | 17 |
| Tabloid abductors | 17 |
| Little green men? | 17 |
| Orly connections? | 17 |
| French connectors | 17 |
| Foreign visitors? | 17 |
| UFU pilots, maybe | 17 |
| UFO pilots, maybe | 17 |
| U.F.O.'s crew | 17 |
| Latin connectives | 17 |
| Latin connections | 17 |
| Bug-eyed monsters | 17 |
| Jazz singer James | 17 |
| Soul singer James | 17 |
| Jazz legend James | 17 |
| Jazz singer Jones | 17 |
| Ms. James or Kett | 17 |
| Suffix with oper- | 17 |
| Feminine nickname | 17 |
| Ending with Henri | 17 |
| Comical Miss Kett | 17 |
| Blues great James | 17 |
| Suffix with major | 17 |
| Suffix with super | 17 |
| Suffix with cigar | 17 |
| Novel conclusion? | 17 |
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