| Start of a counting-out rhyme | 29 |
| Start of a choosing rhyme | 25 |
| Start of a child's rhyme | 28 |
| ___, meenie, miney, mo | 22 |
| Start of a selecting rhyme | 26 |
| Kids' rhyme starter | 23 |
| Counting rhyme starter | 22 |
| Word used while counting | 24 |
| Start of an elimination rhyme | 29 |
| Start of an elimination | 23 |
| Elimination rhyme's start | 29 |
| Counting-out word: Var. | 23 |
| Counting word of rhyme | 22 |
| Early nights, in sonnets | 24 |
| Gloaming times, in poetry | 25 |
| Dark times, poetically | 22 |
| Times after sunsets, to poets | 29 |
| Sunset times, to bards | 22 |
| Sunset times, in poesy | 22 |
| Sundown times, to Keats | 23 |
| Shelley's sundowns | 22 |
| Poets' dark periods | 23 |
| Nighttimes, poetically | 22 |
| Dark times, in literature | 25 |
| Dark times in literature | 24 |
| Chaucer's twilights | 23 |
| Bard's twilight times | 25 |
| Very small, informally | 22 |
| Microscopic, informally | 23 |
| Counting-rhyme starter | 22 |
| Choosing rhyme starter | 22 |
| Start of a selection process | 28 |
| Counting-out rhyme start | 24 |
| Chooser's first word | 24 |
| Start of a selection ritual | 27 |
| One of a few choice parts? | 26 |
| Chooser's nonsense word | 27 |
| "__ ... moe" | 22 |
| Word in a counting-out rhyme | 28 |
| Word in a counting-down rhyme | 29 |
| Word in a counting game | 23 |
| Tot's counting word | 23 |
| The first one pointed to? | 25 |
| Start of some choice words? | 27 |
| Start of a playground rhyme | 27 |
| Start of a few choice words? | 28 |
| Start of a counting out rhyme | 29 |
| Part of a choosing-up routine | 29 |
| Counting-out rhyme starter | 26 |
| Child's rhyme word | 22 |
| Beginning of a countdown | 24 |
| "___-meeny . . . " | 28 |
| Abbr. in a help wanted ad | 25 |
| Fairness-in-hiring abbr. | 24 |
| Abbr. in a help-wanted ad | 25 |
| Abbr. in help-wanted ads | 24 |
| Anti-discrimination initials | 28 |
| Affirmative action letters | 26 |
| Fairness-in-hiring inits. | 25 |
| Fairness-in-hiring agcy. | 24 |
| Employment listing letters | 26 |
| Antidiscrimination agcy. | 24 |
| Fed. anti-discrimination org. | 29 |
| Anti-discrimination agcy. | 25 |
| Worker's protection agy. | 28 |
| Title VII enforcer: Abbr. | 25 |
| Govt. antidiscrimination org. | 29 |
| Federal agcy. since 1964 | 24 |
| Fed. fair-hiring watchdog | 25 |
| Fair-hiring watchdog: Abbr. | 27 |
| Fair-hiring watchdog (abbr.) | 28 |
| Discrimination fighter: Abbr. | 29 |
| Antidiscrimination org. | 23 |
| 1964 Civil Rts. Act creation | 28 |
| Bard's "always" | 29 |
| Always, to an old poet | 22 |
| At all times, in verse | 22 |
| All eternity, to a bard | 23 |
| "Air" homonym | 23 |
| Perpetually, poetically | 23 |
| Always used by a poet? | 22 |
| All eternity, poetically | 24 |
| Poetic "always" | 25 |
| Poetic 'always' | 23 |
| For all time, poetically | 24 |
| Ending for "puppet" | 29 |
| Poet's "always" | 29 |
| It's always in verse | 24 |
| Ending for market or profit | 27 |
| Convention lengthener? | 22 |
| At any time, to a bard | 22 |
| Suffix with rocket or racket | 28 |
| Suffix with rocket or profit | 28 |
| Suffix with racket or rocket | 28 |
| Suffix with convention | 22 |
| Suffix for profit or auction | 28 |
| Suffix for "puppet" | 29 |
| One engaged in: Suffix | 22 |
| It's always in verse? | 25 |
| Ending for puppet or musket | 27 |