| Cause of a limp, maybe | 22 |
| Cause of a lost hr. in spring | 29 |
| Cause of a major downfall? | 26 |
| Cause of a mattress collapse? | 29 |
| Cause of a messy breakup? | 25 |
| Cause of a mutation, maybe | 26 |
| Cause of a nasty gut feeling? | 29 |
| Cause of a non sequitur | 23 |
| Cause of a pain in the neck | 27 |
| Cause of a paradigm shift | 25 |
| Cause of a price increase | 25 |
| Cause of a prickly feeling | 26 |
| Cause of a rash reaction? | 25 |
| Cause of a rash response? | 25 |
| Cause of a restaurant stir? | 27 |
| Cause of a revival?: Abbr. | 26 |
| Cause of a rowdy scene | 22 |
| Cause of a rude awakening? | 26 |
| Cause of a run, perhaps | 23 |
| Cause of a scene, perhaps | 25 |
| Cause of a shot in the dark? | 28 |
| Cause of a slip, perhaps | 24 |
| Cause of a sloppy track | 23 |
| Cause of a smile, maybe | 23 |
| Cause of a split decision? | 26 |
| Cause of a stain, perhaps | 25 |
| Cause of a sticky situation? | 28 |
| Cause of a stinging breakup? | 28 |
| Cause of a stomachache | 22 |
| Cause of a strike, sometimes | 28 |
| Cause of a sudden withdrawal | 28 |
| Cause of a swelled head | 23 |
| Cause of a tan line, perhaps | 28 |
| Cause of a tennis replay | 24 |
| Cause of a traffic delay | 24 |
| Cause of a traffic tie-up | 25 |
| Cause of a turnover: Abbr. | 26 |
| Cause of a W.W. II siren | 24 |
| Cause of a wet spell, perhaps | 29 |
| Cause of a world crisis | 23 |
| Cause of adolescent anxiety | 27 |
| Cause of Alice's pool | 25 |
| Cause of an 1839-42 war | 23 |
| Cause of an accident, maybe | 27 |
| Cause of an act of God | 22 |
| Cause of an artery blockage | 27 |
| Cause of an audio squeal | 24 |
| Cause of an early bump | 22 |
| Cause of an env. bulge | 22 |
| Cause of an immune response | 27 |
| Cause of an olfactory offense | 29 |
| Cause of an S.R.O. sign | 23 |
| Cause of an unexpected fall | 27 |
| Cause of bad luck, perhaps | 26 |
| Cause of bad singing, often | 27 |
| Cause of beach erosion | 22 |
| Cause of boredom, perhaps | 25 |
| Cause of breathlessness | 23 |
| Cause of brittle cigars? | 24 |
| Cause of careless mistakes | 26 |
| Cause of certain blindness | 26 |
| Cause of chaotic weather | 24 |
| Cause of chills and fever | 25 |
| Cause of Cleo's demise | 26 |
| Cause of Cleo's quietus | 27 |
| Cause of colonial unrest | 24 |
| Cause of conflict, maybe | 24 |
| Cause of conflict, often | 24 |
| Cause of coughs and sniffles | 28 |
| Cause of crying in a crib | 25 |
| Cause of deep division | 22 |
| Cause of diamond rhubarbs | 25 |
| Cause of diminishing returns | 28 |
| Cause of disappointment | 23 |
| Cause of discouraging marks | 27 |
| Cause of employee elation | 25 |
| Cause of erosion, maybe | 23 |
| Cause of everything going up? | 29 |
| Cause of extra innings | 22 |
| Cause of eyelid redness | 23 |
| Cause of feline friskiness | 26 |
| Cause of forgotten lines? | 25 |
| Cause of freezing, perhaps | 26 |
| Cause of frostbite or sunburn | 29 |
| Cause of frostbite or suntan | 28 |
| Cause of getting stuck | 22 |
| Cause of global panic in 1957 | 29 |
| Cause of global warming | 23 |
| Cause of goose bumps, perhaps | 29 |
| Cause of great affliction | 25 |
| Cause of hearing loss? | 22 |
| Cause of hereditary variation | 29 |
| Cause of kitchen tears | 22 |
| Cause of knight sweats? | 23 |
| Cause of laughter or tears | 26 |
| Cause of lightheadedness? | 25 |
| Cause of losing by oozing | 25 |
| Cause of low visibility | 23 |
| Cause of many a bad decision | 28 |
| Cause of many a blowup | 22 |