| Text | Length |
| Like higher-priced beef | 23 |
| Jack Sprat's choice | 23 |
| Hardly prosperous | 17 |
| Far from fatty | 14 |
| Emulate Pisa's tower | 24 |
| Director David | 14 |
| Desirable to a dieter | 21 |
| Containing little fat | 21 |
| Be biased | 9 |
| "A Passage to India" director | 39 |
| Word on a meat label, perhaps | 29 |
| What Mrs. Sprat couldn't eat | 32 |
| Tilt to one side | 16 |
| Supermarket meat label | 22 |
| Sprat's choice | 18 |
| Specification to a butcher, perhaps | 35 |
| Show favoritism | 15 |
| Request to a butcher | 20 |
| Put your shoulder into it | 25 |
| Put pressure (on) | 17 |
| Propped | 7 |
| Pastrami preference | 19 |
| Not prosperous | 14 |
| Not having much fat | 19 |
| Not fat | 7 |
| Mrs. Sprat's no-no | 22 |
| Meat order specification | 24 |
| Like Sprat's diet | 21 |
| Like some ground beef | 21 |
| Like Mr. Sprat's diet | 25 |
| Like Miniver Cheevy | 19 |
| Like Jack Sprat's fare | 26 |
| Lank | 4 |
| Kind of meat | 12 |
| Have a bias | 11 |
| Hardly corpulent | 16 |
| Free of fat | 11 |
| Fatless | 7 |
| Far from fat | 12 |
| Ectomorphic | 11 |
| Dietary no-no for Jack's wife | 33 |
| Desirable for diets | 19 |
| Criticize, with "on" | 30 |
| Corned beef order | 17 |
| Brand of cuisine | 16 |
| Begin to list | 13 |
| "... his wife could eat no ___" | 41 |
| ". . . his wife could eat no ___" | 43 |
| ___, mean fighting machine | 26 |
| Word for Cassius | 16 |
| Without fat | 11 |
| What you do on Bill Withers? | 28 |
| What Mrs. Sprat avoided | 23 |
| Very efficient | 14 |
| Unlike a typical hot dog | 24 |
| Trimmed of fat | 14 |
| Tilt a bit | 10 |
| Thin, like Cassius | 18 |
| Thin movie director? | 20 |
| Tend (towards) | 14 |
| Taboo for Mrs. Sprat | 20 |
| Supermarket-meat label | 22 |
| Stand off? | 10 |
| Spratt's preference | 23 |
| Sprat's order | 17 |
| Show preference | 15 |
| Show political bias | 19 |
| Show a bias | 11 |
| Rest against the wall | 21 |
| Raw-boned | 9 |
| Put your shoulder into | 22 |
| Pose for a cover | 16 |
| Partner of mean | 15 |
| Option at a butcher's, maybe | 32 |
| Not well-padded | 15 |
| Not very profitable | 19 |
| Not very marbled | 16 |
| Not too fatty | 13 |
| Not plump | 9 |
| Not pinguid | 11 |
| Not marbled, say | 16 |
| Not marbled, in a way | 21 |
| Not fat, as meat | 16 |
| Mrs. Sprat's taboo | 22 |
| Mrs. Sprat's restriction | 28 |
| Mrs. Sprat's eschewal | 25 |
| Mrs. Sprat's anathema | 25 |
| Mr. Sprat's fare | 20 |
| Mr. Big "___ Into It" | 31 |
| Meat request | 12 |
| Mean's partner | 18 |
| Mean partner? | 13 |
| Mean mate? | 10 |
| Low-fat, as meat | 16 |
| Low-fat, as beef | 16 |
| Low in body fat | 15 |
| Looking like Cassius | 20 |
| Like times of famine | 20 |
| Like the food Jack Sprat eats | 29 |
| Like superior pastrami | 22 |
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