| Text | Length |
| Wilt, as from work | 18 |
| Temporary downturn | 18 |
| Go south, as sales | 18 |
| Give in the middle | 18 |
| Get old, as a roof | 18 |
| Overdrawn account? | 18 |
| Era-spanning story | 18 |
| Trilogy, typically | 18 |
| Long-running show? | 18 |
| It's drawn out | 18 |
| Forsyte tale, e.g. | 18 |
| Extended narrative | 18 |
| Detailed narrative | 18 |
| Scientist Carl ___ | 18 |
| Popular astronomer | 18 |
| Novelist Francoise | 18 |
| Exobiology pioneer | 18 |
| Tome-filling tales | 18 |
| Lengthy narratives | 18 |
| Drawn-out accounts | 18 |
| Continuing stories | 18 |
| Stuffing seasoning | 18 |
| White-bearded type | 18 |
| Prudent, as advice | 18 |
| Leaves for cooking | 18 |
| Hip-hopper Francis | 18 |
| Grayish-green herb | 18 |
| Emerson at Concord | 18 |
| Dressing seasoning | 18 |
| Basil's cousin | 18 |
| More perspicacious | 18 |
| More knowledgeable | 18 |
| More like the Magi | 18 |
| White-haired types | 18 |
| Venerable advisors | 18 |
| Emersonian plants? | 18 |
| Most perspicacious | 18 |
| Superlatively wise | 18 |
| Full House actor | 18 |
| Gave in to gravity | 18 |
| Sank in the middle | 18 |
| Starch from a palm | 18 |
| Papuan food staple | 18 |
| Bends under stress | 18 |
| Submits to gravity | 18 |
| Yields to weakness | 18 |
| Gives under a load | 18 |
| Vast sandy expanse | 18 |
| Much of Mauritania | 18 |
| Egypt's desert | 18 |
| Bedouins' home | 18 |
| Like Tuareg tribes | 18 |
| Like some climates | 18 |
| Like much of Niger | 18 |
| Like many Bedouins | 18 |
| "Master" | 18 |
| Title in old India | 18 |
| Master, to a Hindu | 18 |
| Master, in Kolkata | 18 |
| Kipling, in Lahore | 18 |
| Indian head, once? | 18 |
| Honorific in India | 18 |
| Political satirist | 18 |
| Mort from Montreal | 18 |
| Wit of the JFK era | 18 |
| Satirical comedian | 18 |
| Nightclub satirist | 18 |
| Mort, the comedian | 18 |
| Mort the comedian | 18 |
| Bruce contemporary | 18 |
| Greeted informally | 18 |
| Introduced oneself | 18 |
| Took an altar oath | 18 |
| Made a declaration | 18 |
| Granted permission | 18 |
| Gollywobbler, e.g. | 18 |
| Spinnaker, for one | 18 |
| Take the junk out? | 18 |
| Skipper a skipjack | 18 |
| Set out (nautical) | 18 |
| Moonraker, for one | 18 |
| Mizzen royal, e.g. | 18 |
| Jamie Green is one | 18 |
| Catamaran, for one | 18 |
| In a race, perhaps | 18 |
| Siren's victim | 18 |
| Salts on the ocean | 18 |
| Rides on the briny | 18 |
| Lateens and Genoas | 18 |
| New Orleans player | 18 |
| Valentine, for one | 18 |
| November 1 honoree | 18 |
| Hayward or Sanders | 18 |
| Exemplar of virtue | 18 |
| Sault-Marie filler | 18 |
| Femme canonisée | 18 |
| Buffy ______ Marie | 18 |
| New Orleans eleven | 18 |
| The New Orleans 11 | 18 |
| Superdome athletes | 18 |
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