| "The best-___ plans..." | 33 |
| "The best ___ schemes of mice and men ..." | 52 |
| "The best ___ schemes o' mice an' men . . ." | 62 |
| ". . . best-___ plans . . ." | 38 |
| ''The best-___ plans of mice . . . '' | 53 |
| ''. . . best ___ plans . . .'' | 46 |
| __-back: relaxed | 16 |
| __-back (relaxed) | 17 |
| ___-back (easygoing) | 20 |
| ___-back (easy-going) | 21 |
| ___ back (relaxed) | 18 |
| ___ away (saved) | 16 |
| ___ an egg (failed) | 19 |
| What the hen did | 16 |
| What frat boys try to get | 25 |
| Spacehog "At Least I Got ___" | 39 |
| Sort of stationery | 18 |
| Set, as a stone wall | 20 |
| Set in place | 12 |
| Satisfying thing to get | 23 |
| Put down, as linoleum | 21 |
| Put down, as floor tile | 23 |
| Produced, as eggs | 17 |
| Produced and deposited, as an egg | 33 |
| Produced an egg | 15 |
| Placed, as a wager | 18 |
| Placed (with ''down'') | 38 |
| New Medicine "I've been ___ out" | 46 |
| Made, as a wager | 16 |
| Made eggs | 9 |
| Made a wager | 12 |
| Like cornerstones | 17 |
| Left eggs | 9 |
| Kind of fabric or wire | 22 |
| Installed, as track | 19 |
| Installed, as tile | 18 |
| Installed, as a cornerstone | 27 |
| Installed carpeting | 19 |
| Homophone for lade | 18 |
| Good thing to get | 17 |
| Fired, with "off" | 27 |
| Did a hen's job | 19 |
| Dial backwards | 14 |
| Dial backward | 13 |
| Contributed to a clutch | 23 |
| Better Than Ezra's James cover | 34 |
| Ascribed, as blame | 18 |
| Added to a clutch | 17 |
| (Got) lucky | 11 |
| "The Goose That ___ the Golden Eggs" | 46 |
| "The best-___ schemes of mice and men ..." | 52 |
| "The best-___ schemes ..." | 36 |
| "The best ___ schemes . . . ": Burns | 46 |
| "The best ___ plans ..." | 34 |
| "The best ___ plans . . ." | 36 |
| "Dial" backwards | 26 |
| "And I ___ me down with a will": R.L.S. | 49 |
| "And I ___ me down . . . ": R.L.S. | 44 |
| '93 James classic | 21 |
| ''The best ___ plans'' | 38 |
| --- an egg (bombed on stage) | 28 |
| __-back | 7 |
| ___-back (easy going) | 21 |
| ____ an egg: failed | 19 |
| ___ up (sick in bed) | 20 |
| ___ out (arranged) | 18 |
| ___ end to end | 14 |
| ___ an egg (flopped on Broadway) | 32 |
| ___ an egg (bombed) | 19 |
| ___ a bet (wagered) | 19 |
| Saved for the future | 20 |
| Put in abeyance | 15 |
| Authoritatively stated | 22 |
| Asserted firmly | 15 |
| Knocked down | 12 |
| Didn't attract attention | 28 |
| Hid oneself, ungrammatically | 28 |
| Flew under the radar, colloquially | 34 |
| Didn't surface for a while | 30 |
| Designed | 8 |
| Knocked hard to the ground, in football | 39 |
| Displayed as merchandise | 25 |
| Described, as plans | 19 |
| Beaten but good | 15 |
| Arranged, as articles for display | 33 |
| Sick in bed | 11 |
| Sidelined | 9 |
| Down (with), as a bad illness | 29 |
| Sick abed | 9 |
| In the hospital | 15 |
| Home in bed, perhaps | 20 |
| Home in bed, ill | 16 |
| Down with the flu, e.g. | 23 |
| U.K. indie band named for a Soviet space dog | 44 |
| First dog to orbit Earth | 24 |
| First dog in space | 18 |
| Tail-wagging cosmonaut | 22 |
| Sputnik's dog | 17 |
| Sputnik rider | 13 |
| Sputnik 2's passenger | 25 |