| World's fifth largest country | 33 |
| World's busiest airport: Abbr. | 34 |
| World's busiest airport until 1998 | 38 |
| World's biggest private employer | 36 |
| World's Biggest Bookstore site | 34 |
| World's best-selling sports car | 35 |
| World's best-selling fashion mag | 36 |
| World ___ (October sporting event) | 34 |
| World Wildlife Fund's symbol | 32 |
| World Wide Web inventor Berners-Lee | 35 |
| World War II's Battle of the ___ | 36 |
| World War II weapon with an acronymic name | 42 |
| World War II memoir, "God ___ Co-Pilot" | 49 |
| World War II film, part 1, 2 or 3 | 33 |
| World War II Air Force commander ___ Arnold | 43 |
| World travelers and wine connoisseurs? | 38 |
| World traveler's destinations | 33 |
| World Series-winning manager, 1981 and 1988 | 43 |
| World Series-winning manager of 1981 and 1988 | 45 |
| World Series-winning cap letters | 32 |
| World Series winners: 1975–76 | 36 |
| World Series winners: 1975 and 1976 | 35 |
| World Series winners of 1908 and not since | 42 |
| World Series qualifying matchup, briefly | 40 |
| World Series precursor, for short | 33 |
| World Series of Poker regular Phil | 34 |
| World Series of Poker Main Event game | 37 |
| World Series of Poker champion ___ Ungar | 40 |
| World Series MVP a decade after Bucky | 37 |
| World Series manager of 1981 and '88 | 40 |
| World Series game-one starter, usually | 38 |
| World Series champs of 1975-1976 | 32 |
| World Series and the Super Bowl, e.g. | 37 |
| World record holder of Venezuela | 32 |
| World powerhouse in table tennis | 32 |
| World Poker Tour champion Lindgren | 34 |
| World Party: "___ Down Now" | 37 |
| World Party "All I ___" | 33 |
| World org. based in Lausanne, Switzerland | 41 |
| World of Warcraft personification | 33 |
| World of Warcraft participant, e.g. | 35 |
| World leader with an eponymous "mobile" | 49 |
| World leader whose full name included Abdel twice | 49 |
| World leader who resigned in 1974 | 33 |
| World leader who resigned 5/6/74 | 32 |
| World leader who is a judo master | 33 |
| World leader who gave his name to a jacket | 42 |
| World leader dubious on free speech rights | 42 |
| World leader beginning December 2011 | 36 |
| World Heavyweight Champion, once | 32 |
| World Health Organization headquarters | 38 |
| World Health Organization concern | 33 |
| World headquarters of LG Electronics | 36 |
| World Golf Hall of Famer ___ Aoki | 33 |
| World Golf Hall of Fame member Isao | 35 |
| World filled with parking places? | 33 |
| World Factbook publisher, in brief | 34 |
| World Eskimo-Indian Olympics host | 33 |
| World currency proposed by a Belgian economist | 46 |
| World Cup teammate of Akers and Foudy | 37 |
| World Court site, with "The" | 38 |
| World Court city, with "The" | 38 |
| World Class Wreckin' Cru member, familiarly | 47 |
| World Chess Champion Viswanathan ___ | 36 |
| World Chess Champion after Botvinnik | 36 |
| World champion of 1964-67, 1974-78 and 1978-79 | 46 |
| World capital within the Distrito Federal | 41 |
| World capital where Monopoly is banned | 38 |
| World capital that's home to Zog I Boulevard | 48 |
| World capital that's also a girl's name | 47 |
| World capital once under French rule | 36 |
| World capital once occupied by France | 37 |
| World capital once called Philadelphia | 38 |
| World capital on the slope of an active volcano | 47 |
| World capital on a river of the same name | 41 |
| World capital on a gulf of the same name | 40 |
| World capital long beset by civil unrest | 40 |
| World capital laid out in the late 1950s | 40 |
| World capital founded as a 12th-century fortress | 48 |
| World capital formerly a pirate stronghold | 42 |
| World capital due west of St. Petersburg | 40 |
| World capital built in the 1960s | 32 |
| World capital at the foot of Mount Vitosha | 42 |
| World capital at 7,200+ feet elevation | 38 |
| World capital almost 1 1/2 miles above sea level | 48 |
| Workweek with overtime, for many | 32 |
| Workweek ender, for most (abbr.) | 32 |
| Works ___ many levels (succeeds) | 32 |
| Works stocked by a bookstore with a rainbow flag | 48 |
| Works often blown away upon completion | 38 |
| Works off and on as a hospital resident? | 40 |
| Works of a 19th-century French painter | 38 |
| Works like Butler's "Erewhon" | 43 |
| Works like "Cosi fan tutte" | 37 |
| Works inspired by Calliope, e.g. | 32 |
| Works in the aisles of a movie theater, slangily | 48 |
| Works in an art museum, possibly | 32 |
| Works by Raphael and Michelangelo, e.g. | 39 |
| Works by Mendelssohn and Schubert | 33 |
| Works by Beethoven and Bobbie Gentry | 36 |