| Number of diamond positions | 27 |
| Number of circles in Dante's hell | 37 |
| Number of cats' lives | 25 |
| Number of cat's lives | 25 |
| Number of Beethoven symphonies | 30 |
| Number of "lives" a cat has | 37 |
| Number of "ladies dancing" | 36 |
| Number of Dvorák symphonies | 31 |
| Number in an ennead | 19 |
| Number for the Muses | 20 |
| Number dialed before two ones | 29 |
| Number before Lives or West, in brand names | 43 |
| Not-quite-perfect rating | 24 |
| Not quite Bo Derek | 18 |
| Near-perfect score, maybe | 25 |
| National pastime number | 23 |
| Musical inspired by Fellini's "8½" | 51 |
| Musical inspired by a Fellini film | 34 |
| Muses, e.g. | 11 |
| Muses of myth | 14 |
| Muse quantity | 13 |
| Muse number | 11 |
| Mudville team | 13 |
| Mudville complement | 19 |
| Mrs. O'Connor and colleagues | 32 |
| Mozart's age, when he wrote his Fifth Symphony | 50 |
| Mets, e.g. | 10 |
| Mets or Expos | 13 |
| Mets or Cards | 13 |
| Mets | 4 |
| Lowest stripe | 13 |
| Love potion number | 18 |
| Lottery pick | 12 |
| Lofted iron | 11 |
| Lives for Garfield | 18 |
| Last single-digit number | 24 |
| Last of the teens | 17 |
| Last numerical digit in a hexadecimal system | 44 |
| Last digit in a price, often | 28 |
| Judicial number | 15 |
| Inches in a span | 16 |
| Highest one-digit number | 24 |
| High gymnastic score | 20 |
| High digit | 10 |
| High Court count | 16 |
| High card in a yarborough | 25 |
| Happy cloud number | 18 |
| Half of many a course | 21 |
| Half of eighteen | 16 |
| Half a round | 12 |
| Half a course | 13 |
| Good diving score | 17 |
| Full complement of planets | 26 |
| Full complement of baseball players | 35 |
| Front or back at the course | 27 |
| Front or back in golf | 22 |
| Front __ | 8 |
| Football team minus two | 23 |
| Five and four | 13 |
| First digit in a Hawaiian zip code | 34 |
| Fine diving score | 17 |
| Famed love potion number | 24 |
| Excellent-plus rating | 21 |
| Excellent gymnastics score | 26 |
| Earned run average times innings pitched divided by earned runs given up | 72 |
| Diamond team | 12 |
| Diamond digit | 13 |
| Diamond cluster? | 16 |
| Desirable cloud? | 16 |
| Day shift start | 15 |
| Curvy square? | 13 |
| Cubs' number | 16 |
| Cubs or Pirates e.g. | 21 |
| Cubs or Giants | 14 |
| Cubs or cardinals | 17 |
| Course half | 11 |
| Count of Dante's circles of Hell | 36 |
| Cost in dollars of the world's first TV ad in 1941 | 54 |
| Complement of Dante's circles of hell | 41 |
| Common punch-in time | 20 |
| Common opening time | 19 |
| Cloud to be on? | 15 |
| Cloud number | 12 |
| Chicago Cubs e.g. | 18 |
| Certain pet's proverbial life count | 39 |
| Cat's lucky number | 22 |
| Casey and Mudville mates | 24 |
| Cardinal with a loop | 20 |
| Bucs or Cubs | 12 |
| Braves, e.g. | 12 |
| Best musical: 1982 | 18 |
| Best hand in baccarat | 21 |
| Beethoven symphony count | 24 |
| Baseball team, in old-timey lingo | 33 |
| Baseball starters, in number | 28 |
| Baseball quota | 14 |
| Baseball complement | 19 |
| Baseball team | 14 |
| Astrodome group | 15 |
| Almost-perfect score | 20 |