| Like Brando's Don Corleone | 30 |
| Like a rough, harsh voice | 25 |
| Like a filibusterer's voice | 31 |
| Like a crow's cry | 21 |
| Like a cheerleader after a big game, maybe | 42 |
| Laryngitic | 10 |
| Croaky | 6 |
| Croaking | 8 |
| Barely able to speak | 20 |
| More raucous | 12 |
| More throaty | 12 |
| More speechless, in a way | 25 |
| More raspy | 10 |
| More rasping, as a voice | 24 |
| More laryngitic | 15 |
| More husky-voiced | 17 |
| More husky | 10 |
| Having worse laryngitis | 23 |
| Comparatively scratchy | 22 |
| All the worse for shouting | 26 |
| Frost-covered | 13 |
| White-haired with age | 21 |
| Showing age | 11 |
| Gray-haired | 11 |
| Wintry white | 12 |
| Too familiar | 12 |
| Stale, as a joke | 16 |
| Far from innovative | 19 |
| Spoof | 5 |
| Canard | 6 |
| Piltdown man, e.g. | 18 |
| Snow job | 8 |
| Piltdown man, for one | 21 |
| Mare's-nest | 15 |
| Major prank | 11 |
| False claim | 11 |
| Elaborate fraud | 15 |
| The Piltdown Man, e.g. | 22 |
| Martian invasion report, e.g. | 29 |
| Deceitful device | 16 |
| Welles' Martian invasion broadcast, e.g. | 44 |
| UFO photo, perhaps | 18 |
| The Piltdown Man, notably | 25 |
| Spam content, often | 19 |
| Something intended to deceive | 29 |
| Mare's nest | 15 |
| Like a famous Welles radio broadcast | 36 |
| It's a trick | 16 |
| Good thing to check Snopes.com for | 34 |
| Fraudulent event | 16 |
| Elaborate ruse | 14 |
| Elaborate lie | 13 |
| Debunker's target | 21 |
| Bamboozlement | 13 |
| April 1 event | 13 |
| Welles' 'War of the Worlds,' e.g. | 45 |
| Trickster's deception | 25 |
| The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, e.g. | 41 |
| The performances of Milli Vanilli, essentially | 46 |
| The Hitler Diaries, e.g. | 24 |
| The finding of a Virgin Mary-shaped gummy candy, e.g. | 53 |
| The Cardiff Giant, for one | 26 |
| The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" was one | 63 |
| Subject of a forwarded e-mail, often | 36 |
| Sting, for instance | 19 |
| Snopes.com subject | 18 |
| Snopes subject | 14 |
| Sham or scam | 12 |
| Scam or sham | 12 |
| Robin Davey band The ___ | 24 |
| Practical joke, e.g. | 20 |
| Piltdown man, notably | 21 |
| Phony discovery, perhaps | 24 |
| No mere prank | 13 |
| Milli Vanilli, famously | 23 |
| Many an urban legend | 20 |
| Many a P.T. Barnum exhibit | 26 |
| Manti Te'o's girlfriend, for one | 40 |
| Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g. | 58 |
| It's perpetrated by a prankster | 35 |
| Hitler's diaries, e.g. | 26 |
| Global warming, some say | 24 |
| Fraudulence | 11 |
| Elaborate falsehood | 19 |
| Elaborate fake | 14 |
| Elaborate April fool | 20 |
| Deceptive act | 13 |
| Debunked thing | 14 |
| Cottingley Fairies, for one | 27 |
| Chain letters, usually | 22 |
| Bigfoot photo, e.g. | 19 |
| Barnum's Fiji mermaid, for one | 34 |
| Attempted deception | 19 |
| April 1st event | 15 |
| April 1st antic | 15 |
| April 1 trick | 13 |
| April 1 news story, maybe | 25 |
| 1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, for one | 57 |
| "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, notably | 52 |
| "Balloon Boy," for one | 32 |