| Word after "G" or "PG" | 42 |
| Word after "going twice ..." | 38 |
| Word after "going twice" | 34 |
| Word after "hand" or "snow" | 47 |
| Word after "he" and "she" | 45 |
| Word after "I'll be" | 34 |
| Word after "la la la la" | 34 |
| Word after "let" and "be" | 45 |
| Word after "My country" | 33 |
| Word after "Old" in a dog film title | 46 |
| Word after "pay" or "play" | 46 |
| Word after "perched," often | 37 |
| Word after "Permission to speak freely" | 49 |
| Word after "plow" or "bump" | 47 |
| Word after "ppd." on a sports page | 44 |
| Word after "risk" or "census" | 49 |
| Word after "Roger" in ham lingo | 41 |
| Word after "roger," to a radioer | 42 |
| Word after "rubber" or "time" | 49 |
| Word after "share and share" | 38 |
| Word after "Strike three!" | 36 |
| Word after "Web" or "camp" | 46 |
| Word after "your" or "my" | 45 |
| Word after a name-dropper's name? | 37 |
| Word after a repeated ''long'' | 46 |
| Word after Assiniboia and Flamboro | 34 |
| Word after back, and before goods | 33 |
| Word after Bell's or cerebral | 33 |
| Word after big, middle, or little | 33 |
| Word after Bright, Frog, or Wolf in band names | 46 |
| Word after Christmas and New Year's | 40 |
| Word after cinnamon or hot cross | 32 |
| Word after curtain or conference | 32 |
| Word after fallow and before tracks | 35 |
| Word after fine, martial, or liberal | 36 |
| Word after Georgia or Virginia in school names | 46 |
| Word after horse or before house | 32 |
| Word after locking or needle-nose | 33 |
| Word after mail and before machine | 34 |
| Word after many presidents' names | 37 |
| Word after martial or industrial | 32 |
| Word after pig or before Quarter | 32 |
| Word after progressive or dead-ball | 35 |
| Word after scratch or before match | 34 |
| Word after something or anything | 32 |
| Word after the crash of dishes, perhaps | 39 |
| Word after the last word of the theme entries | 45 |
| Word after thumb and before finger | 34 |
| Word after time or timed-release | 32 |
| Word after Virginia or Westphalian | 34 |
| Word after who, what or where, but rarely when | 46 |
| Word after who, what, how, when or where | 40 |
| Word appearing eight times in this puzzle grid | 46 |
| Word appearing in all nine theme answers | 40 |
| Word appearing three times in a Roger Ebert title | 49 |
| Word applying to few in Washington | 34 |
| Word as rhymeless as "pint" | 37 |
| Word associated with a light bulb | 33 |
| Word associated with Abdul and Cowell | 37 |
| Word associated with cover albums | 33 |
| Word associated with light bulbs | 32 |
| Word associated with Russell Simmons | 36 |
| Word at the bottom of a page, perhaps | 37 |
| Word at the end of a French film | 32 |
| Word at the end of many French films | 36 |
| Word at the express checkout aisle | 34 |
| Word at the top of an application | 33 |
| Word attached to "fall" | 33 |
| Word attached to "poly" | 33 |
| Word attached to "sack" | 33 |
| Word attached to approximate dates | 34 |
| Word before ''Blast off!'' | 42 |
| Word before ''d'etre'' | 42 |
| Word before ''excellence'' | 42 |
| Word before ''Happy new year!''? | 48 |
| Word before ''I don't know'' | 48 |
| Word before ''the worse'' | 41 |
| Word before ''words'' | 37 |
| Word before "... liftoff!" | 36 |
| Word before "aim" or "set" | 46 |
| Word before "amis," in French | 39 |
| Word before "ball" in carnival games | 46 |
| Word before "Blast off!" | 34 |
| Word before "Blastoff!" | 33 |
| Word before "boy" or "girl" | 47 |
| Word before "boy" or "party" | 48 |
| Word before "crust" or "deck" | 49 |
| Word before "dear" or "sir" | 47 |
| Word before "dog" or "Pie" | 46 |
| Word before "drop" or "drum" | 48 |
| Word before "drop" or "flap" | 48 |
| Word before "hand" or "rags" | 48 |
| Word before "hangs a tale" | 36 |
| Word before "Happy New Year!"? | 40 |
| Word before "humor" or "will" | 49 |
| Word before "I don't know" | 40 |
| Word before "I told you so!" | 38 |
| Word before "ignition ... liftoff!" | 45 |
| Word before "in a galaxy far, far away" | 49 |
| Word before "in sickness and in health" | 49 |