| ___ the Great, German king | 26 |
| ___ the Great, first Holy Roman Emperor | 39 |
| ___ the Great of Europe | 23 |
| ___ the Great of children's literature | 42 |
| ___ the Great of children's books | 37 |
| ___ the Great (juvenile detective) | 34 |
| ___ the Great (detective of kids' books) | 44 |
| ___ the Great (boy detective) | 29 |
| ___ the Great (10th-century king) | 33 |
| ___ the Great | 13 |
| ___ the grass | 13 |
| ___ the grade | 13 |
| ___ the good: so much the better | 32 |
| ___ the good | 12 |
| ___ the Giant of wrestling | 26 |
| ___ the Giant | 13 |
| ___ the gas | 11 |
| ___ the gallery (grandstands) | 29 |
| ___ the gallery | 15 |
| ___ the Funky Homosapien | 24 |
| ___ the floors | 14 |
| ___ the flag (kids' game) | 29 |
| ___ the fire (enterprise) | 25 |
| ___ the finish | 14 |
| ___ The Fifth (1910's auto) | 31 |
| ___ the feet of (received training from) | 40 |
| ___ the Fat, Norway's patron saint | 38 |
| ___ the fat (gabs) | 18 |
| ___ the fat (gabbed) | 20 |
| ___ the fat | 11 |
| ___ the fact | 12 |
| ___ the face of | 15 |
| ___ the face (rebuke) | 21 |
| ___ the eye can see | 19 |
| ___ the Explorer | 16 |
| ___ the Entertainer | 19 |
| ___ the engine | 14 |
| ___ the Elder (Roman statesman) | 31 |
| ___ the elbows (poor) | 21 |
| ___ the elbows | 14 |
| ___ the ears | 12 |
| ___ the Eagle (a Muppet) | 24 |
| ___ the dust | 12 |
| ___ the Dragon, ruler of old Wallachia | 38 |
| ___ the door (knocks) | 21 |
| ___ the dogs | 12 |
| ___ the Disco | 13 |
| ___ the dinosaur (extinction) | 29 |
| ___ the Destroyer (rabble-rouser in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man") | 82 |
| ___ the deck | 12 |
| ___ the day (was sorry) | 23 |
| ___ the day (regret) | 20 |
| ___ the day | 11 |
| ___ the Damned (Turkish sultan) | 31 |
| ___ the custom (traditionally) | 30 |
| ___ the cup (misses a putt) | 27 |
| ___ the cup (miss a putt) | 25 |
| ___ the cup (just misses) | 25 |
| ___ the cup (just missed) | 25 |
| ___ the cuff | 12 |
| ___ the crowd (ham it up) | 25 |
| ___ the cradle | 14 |
| ___ the crack of dawn | 21 |
| ___ the cows come home | 22 |
| ___ the Cow (mascot) | 20 |
| ___ the Cow (Borden symbol) | 27 |
| ___ the Cow | 11 |
| ___ the covenant | 16 |
| ___ the course (perseveres) | 27 |
| ___ the course | 14 |
| ___ the cost | 12 |
| ___ the coop | 12 |
| ___ the collar | 14 |
| ___ the cold (stranded) | 23 |
| ___ the cob | 11 |
| ___ the closet | 14 |
| ___ the climax | 14 |
| ___ the city | 12 |
| ___ the chase | 13 |
| ___ the charts (No. 1) | 22 |
| ___ the chance | 14 |
| ___ the Censor | 14 |
| ___ the cat (dared) | 19 |
| ___ the cat (be daring) | 23 |
| ___ the cat | 11 |
| ___ the candle at both ends | 27 |
| ___ the cake | 12 |
| ___ the buzzer | 14 |
| ___ the butt-crack of dawn | 26 |
| ___ the bush (be deliberately ambiguous) | 40 |
| ___ the bush | 12 |
| ___ the bus | 11 |
| ___ the bullet | 14 |
| ___ the bud (abort) | 19 |
| ___ the bud | 11 |
| ___ the bridge (past events) | 28 |
| ___ the breeze | 14 |
| ___ the boys | 12 |
| ___ the bottle | 14 |
| ___ the boards (acts) | 21 |