| “The Maltese Falcon” actress | 36 |
| “The Motorcycle Diaries” writer | 39 |
| “The Mystery of Marie Roget” author | 43 |
| “The Naked ___” (Desmond Morris title) | 46 |
| “The Night ___ a Thousand Eyes” | 39 |
| “The Open Window” author | 32 |
| “The Original Amateur Hour” host | 40 |
| “The Playboy of the Western World” author | 49 |
| “The possession of fools”: Herodotus | 44 |
| “The Pregnant Widow” author | 35 |
| “The Professor and the Madman” subj. | 44 |
| “The Rachel Maddow Show” network | 40 |
| “The Real Thing” Tony winner Jennifer | 45 |
| “The River Wild” star, 1994 | 35 |
| “The Scarlet Letter” subject | 36 |
| “The Schartz-Metterklume Method” author | 47 |
| “The Second Coming” poet | 32 |
| “The Simpsons” exclamation | 34 |
| “The Social Network” screenwriter Aaron | 47 |
| “The Spanish Tragedie” dramatist Thomas | 47 |
| “The Star-Spangled Banner” preposition | 46 |
| “The Sweet Hereafter” director Egoyan | 45 |
| “The Syncopated Clock” composer Anderson | 48 |
| “The Terminator” actor Michael | 38 |
| “The Twelve Days of Christmas” gift | 43 |
| “The Unity of India” writer | 35 |
| “The Voyage Out” novelist | 33 |
| “The White Cliffs of Dover” singer Lynn | 47 |
| “The ___ Archipelago” (Solzhenitsyn work) | 49 |
| “The ___ Club” (old TV show) | 36 |
| “The ___ Erwin Show” (1950s sitcom) | 43 |
| “The ___ is a ass”: Dickens | 35 |
| “The ___ of Pooh” (Benjamin Hoff book) | 46 |
| “The ___ of sin is death”: Romans | 41 |
| “There’s no reason to get angry” | 44 |
| “Three Coins in the Fountain” composer | 46 |
| “Three Places in New England” composer | 46 |
| “Three-Ten to ___” (Elmore Leonard story) | 49 |
| “Time in a Bottle” singer | 33 |
| “Time’s Arrow” novelist | 35 |
| “To Hell and Back” star Murphy | 38 |
| “To His ___ Mistress” (17th-century poem) | 49 |
| “To Live and Die ___” (1985 film) | 41 |
| “Treasure Island” islander | 34 |
| “Truth in Engineering” sloganeer | 40 |
| “Two roads diverged ___ yellow wood ...” | 48 |
| “Under a Glass Bell” author | 35 |
| “Under ___” (1992 Steven Seagal movie) | 46 |
| “Up, up and away” carrier of old | 40 |
| “Venus Envy” author Rita ___ Brown | 42 |
| “Volpone” playwright Jonson | 35 |
| “War on drugs” participant | 34 |
| “Well, You ___” (Thelonious Monk song) | 46 |
| “Whad’Ya ___?” (radio show) | 39 |
| “What would your mother ___?” | 37 |
| “What’s ___ for me?” | 32 |
| “When ___ hear from you?” | 33 |
| “Whether ___ nobler ...” | 32 |
| “Winter’s Bone” turndown | 36 |
| “You should know better!” | 33 |
| “___ & Stitch” (Disney film) | 40 |
| “___ 18” (Leon Uris novel) | 34 |
| “___ and Sympathy” (Robert Anderson play) | 49 |
| “___ Baby” (“Hair” song) | 40 |
| “___ better to have loved and lost ...” | 47 |
| “___ Boffo” (Joe Martin comic strip) | 44 |
| “___ Day Now” (Ronnie Milsap song) | 42 |
| “___ Diary” (Mark Twain story) | 38 |
| “___ Diavolo” (Auber opera) | 35 |
| “___ Dream Will Do” (Webber/Rice song) | 46 |
| “___ Ho” (Oscar-winning song) | 37 |
| “___ in the Art of Archery” (1953 book) | 47 |
| “___ Loser” (Beatles song) | 34 |
| “___ Love” (1957 #1 hit) | 32 |
| “___ Madness” (1936 antidrug film) | 42 |
| “___ Network” (1980’s comedy series) | 48 |
| “___ NFL” (video game series) | 37 |
| “___ no hooks” (cargo-container warning) | 48 |
| “___ of the Dead” (2004 comedy) | 39 |
| “___ of the Wolf” (Bergman film) | 40 |
| “___ pin and pick it up ...” | 36 |
| “___ Reader” (reprint mag) | 34 |
| “___ Style Manual” (writer’s guide) | 47 |
| “___ Sylphides” (Chopin ballet) | 39 |
| “___ the conquered!”: Livy | 34 |
| “___ the Wild” (Jon Krakauer book) | 42 |
| “___ to a Nightingale” (Keats poem) | 43 |
| “___ Too Late” (Carole King hit) | 40 |
| “___ Troyens” (Berlioz opera) | 37 |
| “___ View” (David Hare play) | 36 |
| “___ Williams,” 1985 action flick | 41 |
| “___ You Content” (Yeats poem) | 38 |
| École ___ Arts et Métiers | 32 |
| Élève's roll call response | 37 |
| Émile Zola's "La ___ humaine" | 47 |
| Émilie's emphatic assent | 32 |
| Étagère with a single tiny shelf? | 40 |
| Étoile de ___ (starfish, to Cousteau) | 41 |
| À la Edith Bunker, voicewise | 32 |
| À la the author of "Candide" | 42 |