| Assesses one's options carefully | 36 |
| Assesses, as a situation, with "up" | 45 |
| Assessment on Almodóvar films? | 33 |
| Assessment on out-of-state purchases | 36 |
| Assessment paid only by those who benefit | 41 |
| Assessments given to computer repairmen? | 40 |
| Assessments given to cosmetologists? | 36 |
| Assessments given to soda jerks? | 32 |
| Asset of a "love goddess" | 35 |
| Asset of successful entrepreneurs | 33 |
| Asset purportedly found among thieves | 37 |
| Asset-assignment arrangement, for short | 39 |
| Assets-and-liabilities statement | 32 |
| Assign a "PG-13" or an "R" | 46 |
| Assign a journalist to a military unit | 38 |
| Assign an "R" or "PG" | 41 |
| Assign journalists to military units | 36 |
| Assigned as the partner of, as in dance class | 45 |
| Assigned prices that are too low | 32 |
| Assigner of G's and R's: Abbr. | 38 |
| Assignment for a contract worker? | 33 |
| Assignment in a chilly art class? | 33 |
| Assignment in a textile design class? | 37 |
| Assigns a new ranking to, for the playoffs | 42 |
| Assigns a new ranking to, in a way | 34 |
| Assimilating with the local culture | 35 |
| Assiniboia area code, to Calpernia | 34 |
| Assist someone on a ladder, perhaps | 35 |
| Assistance for the Queen of the Nile | 36 |
| Assistance from a tall librarian? | 33 |
| Assistance provided while doing your business? | 46 |
| Assistant foreman of a work crew | 32 |
| Assistant held up sober young man | 33 |
| Assistant in "Young Frankenstein" | 43 |
| Assistant in accounts receivable | 32 |
| Assistant in the Roman Catholic church | 38 |
| Assistants at a Kate Spade factory? | 35 |
| Assisting, with "over" | 32 |
| Assists, as with a prison escape | 32 |
| Assists, three-pointers, turnovers, etc. | 40 |
| Assn. including Panama and Paraguay | 35 |
| Assn. most recently joined by Angola | 36 |
| Assn. that includes Iraq and Venezuela | 38 |
| Associate of Breyer and Ginsburg | 32 |
| Associated Telephone Utilities, later | 37 |
| Associated with college and learning | 36 |
| Association of vegetable farmers? | 33 |
| Association on a Miss America sash | 34 |
| Assortment around the surge protector | 37 |
| Assuaged, as one's conscience | 33 |
| Assume blame for selling heroin? | 32 |
| Assume liability for, as another's loan | 43 |
| Assume responsibility in another's absence | 46 |
| Assumed family name in punk rock | 32 |
| Assumed name taken by Prince Dakkar | 35 |
| Assumed responsibility for, as a bill | 37 |
| Assumes responsibility for steering a ship | 42 |
| Assuming everything goes as well as possible | 44 |
| Assuming it'll happen at all | 32 |
| Assumption before "then" | 34 |
| Assumption for the sake of argument | 35 |
| Assumption of the Virgin, ---. 15 | 33 |
| Assurance of a chance of success | 32 |
| Assure payment of a promissory note | 35 |
| Assured something's completion | 34 |
| Assured way to solve a crossword puzzle | 39 |
| Assyrian goddess of love and war | 32 |
| Assyrian place of exile, in I Chronicles | 40 |
| Asta in the book "The Thin Man," e.g. | 47 |
| Astaire's "Daddy Long Legs" co-star | 49 |
| Astaire's "Ninotchka" remake | 42 |
| Astaire-Rogers destination: 1933 | 32 |
| Asteroid between Mars and Jupiter | 33 |
| Asteroid group named for a god of love | 38 |
| Asteroid group named for a love god | 35 |
| Asteroid group that includes Eros | 33 |
| Asteroid named after a Roman agricultural goddess | 49 |
| Asteroid on which a NASA probe landed in 2001 | 45 |
| Asteroid that Galileo flew by closely in 1993 | 45 |
| Asteroid that gets close to the sun | 35 |
| Asteroid viewed by the NEAR spacecraft, 2000 | 44 |
| Asteroid with the closest approach to the sun | 45 |
| Êtes, across the English Channel | 35 |
| Asthmatics' needs, sometimes | 32 |
| Astin of "Lord of the Rings" | 38 |
| Astin of "The Lord of the Rings" | 42 |
| Astin of the "Lord of the Rings" saga | 47 |
| Aston Martin high-performance model | 35 |
| Astonishingly coincidental, maybe | 33 |
| Astounded by how much weight you've gained? | 47 |
| Astral Doors singer Patrik Johansson | 36 |
| Astral saga that has a Darth part | 33 |
| Astrologer to the rich and famous | 33 |
| Astrologically, the thoughtful, diplomatic type | 47 |
| Astronaut Aldrin's real first name | 38 |
| Astronaut Aldrin's real name | 32 |
| Astronaut Fisher, the first mother in space | 43 |
| Astronaut honoree of '62 and '98 | 40 |
| Astronaut in a 1973 David Bowie hit | 35 |
| Astronaut John (or the sender of the message) | 45 |