| A comb makes one | 16 |
| A Columbus caravel | 18 |
| A colorless hydrocarbon | 23 |
| A colorless gas | 15 |
| A colored warning flare | 23 |
| A color purple | 14 |
| A color in the U.S. flag | 24 |
| A colony of ____ | 16 |
| A Colonial governor | 19 |
| A colonel of cartoons | 21 |
| A colon has two | 15 |
| A Colo. mountain is named for him | 33 |
| A college of Oxford | 19 |
| A college at Oxford | 19 |
| A collectible | 13 |
| A colleague of Sam Adams | 24 |
| A colleague of Reasoner | 23 |
| A colleague of Kennedy's | 28 |
| A colleague of Jung | 19 |
| A colleague of Danton | 21 |
| A Cole Porter classic — as sung by a famous swinger? | 59 |
| A Cole | 6 |
| A cold, violent wind | 20 |
| A cold place, but often baked | 29 |
| A cold dish ... | 15 |
| A cold | 6 |
| A coin in Colombia | 18 |
| A coil, as of yarn | 18 |
| A coif on "The Mod Squad" | 35 |
| A Coen brother | 14 |
| A code we live by | 17 |
| A code in the head? | 19 |
| A code | 6 |
| A cocktail | 10 |
| A Cockney will often drop one | 29 |
| A cock does it | 14 |
| A cobbler may replace it | 24 |
| A Cobb | 6 |
| A coast | 7 |
| A coal shuttle | 14 |
| A coach might flash one | 23 |
| A co-worker of Alice | 20 |
| A co-star of Sylvester | 22 |
| A co-inventor of cordite | 24 |
| A club, e.g. | 12 |
| A club for Tiger Woods | 22 |
| A club for Caponi | 17 |
| A clown might get it in the face | 32 |
| A clown may wear it | 19 |
| A clowder of _____ | 18 |
| A clowder of ____ | 17 |
| A CLOTHING SHOP | 15 |
| A clothes-knit union? | 21 |
| A clothes-knit union | 20 |
| A closet organizer | 18 |
| A closer might get one | 22 |
| A close ___ | 11 |
| A close watch | 13 |
| A close call | 12 |
| A clip of his "Inside Edition" meltdown made Huffington Post's #1 spot on "YouTube's Best of 2008: Top Ten" | 135 |
| A clip may come from it | 23 |
| A Clinton | 9 |
| A clever person | 15 |
| A Clement Moore opener | 22 |
| A clef | 6 |
| A Cleaver, for short | 20 |
| A clavier | 9 |
| A classified advertisement | 26 |
| A classic race at Epsom Downs | 29 |
| A classic beauty who is not all there | 37 |
| A clash of symbols | 18 |
| A Clanton at the OK Corral | 26 |
| A Clanton at the O.K. Corral | 28 |
| A Clampett | 10 |
| A civil wrongdoing | 18 |
| A civil wrong | 13 |
| A city or former governor of Pa. | 32 |
| A city of Judah | 15 |
| A city light | 12 |
| A city in central New York | 26 |
| A city in Canada that sounds like a thing | 41 |
| A city elf? | 11 |
| A circus lion may jump through one | 34 |
| A cipher needs one | 18 |
| A cinch for some factory workers? | 33 |
| A cinch | 7 |
| A cigarette filter filters it | 29 |
| A cigar has one | 15 |
| A Churchill successor | 21 |
| A Churchill offering | 20 |
| A church could have one | 23 |
| A chuck holds it | 16 |
| A chromolithograph, for short | 29 |
| A Christmas-shopping mo. | 24 |
| A Christmas reindeer | 20 |
| A Christmas in "A Christmas Carol" | 44 |
| A Christmas in ''A Christmas Carol'' | 52 |
| A Christmas hue | 15 |
| A Christmas connection | 22 |
| A chorus of negativity | 22 |