| Sizing up a potential partner, perhaps | 38 |
| Seeing someone socially | 23 |
| Seeing someone | 14 |
| Out, say | 8 |
| Out, perhaps | 12 |
| Out with one's sweetie | 26 |
| Out with one's flame | 24 |
| Out with an escort | 18 |
| Out to lunch, maybe | 19 |
| Out socially | 12 |
| Out for the evening, perhaps | 28 |
| Out for the evening, maybe | 26 |
| Out at the prom, maybe | 22 |
| Not stag | 8 |
| Like many new couples | 21 |
| Enjoying dinner before the movies, say | 38 |
| At the theater, perhaps | 23 |
| At the movies, say | 18 |
| Trying to lose | 14 |
| Reducing | 8 |
| Cutting back | 12 |
| Planning to lose? | 17 |
| Losing weight | 13 |
| Lightening up? | 14 |
| Trying to lose weight | 21 |
| Taking off? | 11 |
| Shrinking, perhaps | 18 |
| Losing purposely | 16 |
| Losing it? | 10 |
| Like Oprah, perennially | 23 |
| Going against the grain, perhaps? | 33 |
| Following doctor's orders, perhaps | 38 |
| Following Atkins? | 17 |
| Doing South Beach, perhaps | 26 |
| Cutting down, in a way | 22 |
| Counting calories | 17 |
| Consuming carefully | 19 |
| Avoiding starch, say | 20 |
| Stop ___ | 8 |
| How some cars stop | 18 |
| Quick way to stop | 17 |
| Words after stop or turn | 24 |
| Stop ___ (halt suddenly) | 24 |
| Stop ___ (brake fast) | 21 |
| Quick way to turn or stop | 25 |
| One place to stop | 17 |
| Instantly, so it's said | 27 |
| Immediately, in an idiom | 24 |
| How well-tuned vehicles stop | 28 |
| How to stop | 11 |
| Back together, for now | 22 |
| Rescheduled | 11 |
| Like half a cyclical romance | 28 |
| Sporadic | 8 |
| Not continuous | 14 |
| Intermittent, as a relationship | 31 |
| Wild ass | 8 |
| Medieval catapult | 17 |
| Asian wild ass | 14 |
| Relative of the zebra | 21 |
| Wild Asian equine | 17 |
| Relative of a zebra | 19 |
| Ass or catapult | 15 |
| Ancient catapult | 16 |
| Jackass' Asian relative | 27 |
| Equus hemionus | 14 |
| Catapult or ass | 15 |
| Wild equine of Asia | 19 |
| Wild ass of Asia (anagram of ORANGE) | 36 |
| Siege catapault | 15 |
| Heavy catapult | 14 |
| Endangered equine | 17 |
| Cousin of a donkey | 18 |
| Catapult of old | 15 |
| Asian wild equine | 17 |
| Asian jackass relative | 22 |
| Asian donkey | 12 |
| Asian ass | 9 |
| Ancient war engine | 18 |
| Wild asses | 10 |
| Wild asses or catapults | 23 |
| Wild asses of central Asia | 26 |
| Catapults | 9 |
| Wild asses of Asia | 18 |
| Old stone-throwers | 18 |
| Medieval stone throwers | 23 |
| Donkey relatives | 16 |
| Asses with dorsal stripes | 25 |
| Asses wild? | 11 |
| Asses | 5 |
| Ancient catapults | 17 |
| One way to field a ball | 23 |
| How some ground balls may be played | 35 |
| How some ground balls may be fielded | 36 |
| How some double play balls are fielded | 38 |
| How some balls are fielded | 26 |
| How a ground ball may be caught | 31 |
| Having bounced once | 19 |
| Studio sign | 11 |
| Broadcasting | 12 |