| Ristorante request | 18 |
| Rather firm | 11 |
| Pasta recipe phrase | 19 |
| Pasta cooking instruction | 25 |
| One way to prepare linguine | 27 |
| Offering just the right amount of resistance | 44 |
| Not fully soft, as shells | 25 |
| Like some bow ties | 18 |
| Like noodles, often | 19 |
| Like good spaghetti | 19 |
| Like firm spaghetti | 19 |
| Like firm pasta | 15 |
| Like firm fettuccine | 20 |
| Less cooked, in pasta parlance | 30 |
| Just firm enough | 16 |
| How you might order bow ties | 28 |
| How some prefer their pasta | 27 |
| How some pasta is cooked | 24 |
| How pasta may be prepared | 25 |
| Firm, like pasta | 16 |
| Firm, in a way | 14 |
| Far from mushy | 14 |
| Chewy | 5 |
| Bow tie specification | 21 |
| Bow tie preference | 18 |
| TREE | 4 |
| Hardwood tree | 13 |
| Cabinet wood | 12 |
| Birch relative | 14 |
| Birch kin | 9 |
| Tree with catkins | 17 |
| Type of tree | 12 |
| Tree of the birch family | 24 |
| Birch tree | 10 |
| Birch family tree | 17 |
| Rot-resistant wood | 18 |
| Catkin-bearing tree | 19 |
| Birch family member | 19 |
| Birch | 5 |
| Tree sacred to the Druids | 25 |
| Northern tree | 13 |
| Birch's kin | 15 |
| Catkin bearer | 13 |
| Birch tree relative | 19 |
| Wood used for electric guitars | 30 |
| Wood for bridges | 16 |
| Member of the birch family | 26 |
| Wood used in guitar-making | 26 |
| Wood that wears well in water | 29 |
| Shrub or tree | 13 |
| Deciduous shrub | 15 |
| Catkin producer | 15 |
| Cabinet wood, perhaps | 21 |
| Birch's relative | 20 |
| Birch's cousin | 18 |
| Birch cousin | 12 |
| Wood used in harbor structures | 30 |
| Wood used in charcoal | 21 |
| Wood used for piling | 20 |
| Wood used for bridge pilings | 28 |
| Wood that's especially resistant to water damage | 52 |
| Wood for cabinetwork | 20 |
| Tree with tanning bark | 22 |
| Tree used in cabinet work | 25 |
| Tree resistant to rot | 21 |
| Tree in the birch family | 24 |
| Toothed-leaf tree | 17 |
| Rot-resistant tree | 18 |
| Pacific Coast hardwood | 22 |
| Northern shrub | 14 |
| Nobel chemist Kurt: 1950 | 24 |
| Material used in Fender electric guitars | 40 |
| Material for many electric guitar bodies | 40 |
| Its bark is used in dyes and tanning | 36 |
| Important hardwood | 18 |
| Hazel tree relative | 19 |
| Food source of some moths | 25 |
| Fender guitar wood, notably | 27 |
| Electric guitar wood | 20 |
| Cousin of the birch | 19 |
| Cousin of a birch | 17 |
| Co-Nobelist in Chemistry: 1950 | 30 |
| Charcoal wood | 13 |
| Catkin source | 13 |
| Cabinetwork wood | 16 |
| Cabinet-wood tree | 17 |
| Black ___ (winterberry) | 23 |
| Black ___ (winterberry plant) | 29 |
| Birch''s cousin | 23 |
| Birch-family tree | 17 |
| Birch family tree that's sacred in Wicca | 44 |
| Birch family ember | 18 |
| Betulaceous tree | 16 |
| Bansai candidate | 16 |
| "Red" tree | 20 |
| ''Red'' tree | 28 |
| ___ buckthorn | 13 |
| Trees | 5 |
| Drug-yielding plants | 20 |
| Catkin bearers | 14 |