| "Swing Shift" actress Christine | 41 |
| "Running on Empty" actress | 36 |
| "My First Mister" director Christine | 46 |
| "Chicago Hope"'s Christine | 40 |
| ''Chicago Hope'' actress | 40 |
| "Love Story" composer Francis | 39 |
| Chou En-___ (former Communist leader) | 37 |
| "A Man and a Woman" composer Francis | 46 |
| Oscar-winning "Love Story" composer | 45 |
| Francis ___, "Love Story" composer | 44 |
| Chou En--- (former Communist leader) | 36 |
| "Love Story" score composer | 37 |
| "A Man and a Woman" composer | 38 |
| ''Love Story'' composer | 39 |
| "The best ___ schemes ..." | 36 |
| "The best-___ plans . . ." | 36 |
| "The best ___ schemes . . . " | 39 |
| "... best-___ plans ..." | 34 |
| Chewed out, with "into" | 33 |
| "The best-___ plans..." | 33 |
| ". . . best-___ plans . . ." | 38 |
| ''. . . best ___ plans . . .'' | 46 |
| Spacehog "At Least I Got ___" | 39 |
| Produced and deposited, as an egg | 33 |
| Placed (with ''down'') | 38 |
| New Medicine "I've been ___ out" | 46 |
| Better Than Ezra's James cover | 34 |
| "The Goose That ___ the Golden Eggs" | 46 |
| "The best-___ schemes ..." | 36 |
| "The best ___ schemes . . . ": Burns | 46 |
| "The best ___ plans ..." | 34 |
| "The best ___ plans . . ." | 36 |
| "And I ___ me down with a will": R.L.S. | 49 |
| "And I ___ me down . . . ": R.L.S. | 44 |
| ''The best ___ plans'' | 38 |
| ___ an egg (flopped on Broadway) | 32 |
| Flew under the radar, colloquially | 34 |
| Knocked hard to the ground, in football | 39 |
| Arranged, as articles for display | 33 |
| U.K. indie band named for a Soviet space dog | 44 |
| Muhammad Ali's boxing daughter | 34 |
| Muhammad's pugilistic daughter | 34 |
| Boxer Ali who never lost a match | 32 |
| Ali who retired with a perfect 24-0 record | 42 |
| Boxing legend's athlete daughter | 36 |
| Muhammad's super middleweight daughter | 42 |
| Muhammad's footstep-following daughter | 42 |
| Boxer who wrote "Reach!" | 34 |
| Placed horizontally, with "down" | 42 |
| Past participle of "lie" | 34 |
| Put oneself into a horizontal position | 38 |
| Kilmer's rhyme for "rain" | 39 |
| "Upon whose bosom snow has ___": Kilmer | 49 |
| "Rawhide" singer Frankie | 34 |
| "Mule Train" singer, 1949 | 35 |
| ''Mule Train'' singer | 37 |
| ''Rawhide'' singer | 34 |
| Frankie who sang "Mule Train" | 39 |
| Frankie who sang "Moonlight Gambler" | 46 |
| Singer of the "Blazing Saddles" theme | 47 |
| Popularizer of "Mule Train" | 37 |
| Frankie who sang "Rawhide" | 36 |
| Denny, formerly of Wings and The Moody Blues | 44 |
| Denny of the Moody Blues and Wings | 34 |
| Crooner Frankie or adult film actress Charlie | 45 |
| "That Lucky Old Sun" singer, 1949 | 43 |
| "That Lucky Old Sun" singer Frankie | 45 |
| "Mule Train" singer Frankie | 37 |
| "Moonlight Gambler" singer | 36 |
| "Jezebel" belter Frankie | 34 |
| "I Believe" singer, 1953 | 34 |
| "I Believe" singer Frankie | 36 |
| "High Noon" singer, 1952 | 34 |
| "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" actress MacNeil | 48 |
| 'Mule Train' singer Frankie | 35 |
| ''Mule Train'' singer Frankie | 45 |
| ''High Noon'' singer | 36 |
| "The Divided Self" author R.D. | 40 |
| "The Divided Self" author R. D. ___ | 45 |
| "The Divided Self" author R.D. ___ | 44 |
| Memorable English psychiatrist-author | 37 |
| "The Divided Self" writer R.D. | 40 |
| "The Divided Self" psychiatrist | 41 |
| Kazan of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 45 |
| Kazan of "My Favorite Year" | 37 |
| Dragon's ___ (early video game) | 35 |
| Wild animal's place, perhaps | 32 |
| Dragon's ___ (hit video game of the 1980s) | 46 |
| Nixon's Secretary of Defense | 32 |
| '70s defense secretary Melvin | 33 |
| Secretary of Defense: 1969–73 | 36 |
| Secretary of Defense: 1969–72 | 36 |
| Scottish aristocrat, or place in Saskatchewan | 47 |
| Nixon's first Defense Secretary | 35 |
| Defense secretary before Richardson | 35 |
| Small-estate owners, in Scotland | 32 |
| Café au ___ (bistro drink order) | 35 |
| "Sucre" alternative, maybe | 36 |
| 2012 Stanley Cup champs, initially | 34 |
| ''Mighty ___ a Rose'' (1901 song) | 49 |