| Text | Length |
| Christie forte | 14 |
| Cemetery purchase | 17 |
| Cabal's plans | 17 |
| Cabal's creation | 20 |
| Burial unit | 11 |
| Boy gets / loses / gets girl, e.g. | 34 |
| Book thickener? | 15 |
| Bit of intrigue | 15 |
| Bellow's concern | 20 |
| Be scheming | 11 |
| Basis of a whodunit | 19 |
| Basic thread | 12 |
| An author might give it away | 28 |
| A bad one may contain holes | 27 |
| Drama essentials | 16 |
| Story threads | 13 |
| Screenplay features | 19 |
| Keyword co. | 11 |
| Film dialogue | 13 |
| They often have twists | 22 |
| Cabals | 6 |
| Novel ideas | 11 |
| Conspires | 9 |
| They may include twists | 23 |
| Scenarios | 9 |
| Novel ideas? | 12 |
| The best novels have great ones | 31 |
| Secret schemes | 14 |
| Novels have them | 16 |
| Machinates | 10 |
| Cabal activities | 16 |
| Whodunit story lines | 20 |
| Whodunit skeletons | 18 |
| What Christie wove | 18 |
| What cabalists cook up | 22 |
| They often thicken | 18 |
| They may have many twists | 25 |
| They may be brewing | 19 |
| Takes part in a cabal | 21 |
| Spots on a graph | 16 |
| Puts on a graph, say | 20 |
| Plans with malice | 17 |
| Plans subterfuge | 16 |
| Novels' essences | 20 |
| Novelists' creations | 24 |
| Novel necessities | 17 |
| Novel focuses | 13 |
| Novel essences | 14 |
| Novel designs | 13 |
| Most novels have them | 21 |
| Gunpowder, etc., e.g. | 21 |
| Graveyard divisions | 19 |
| Garden layouts | 14 |
| Evil schemes | 12 |
| Draws, as a line on a graph | 27 |
| Dramatic designs | 16 |
| Displays of data | 16 |
| Conspiracy theories | 19 |
| Cemetery divisions | 18 |
| Cabalists' plans | 20 |
| Cabal creations | 15 |
| Cabal concoctions | 17 |
| Bits of intrigue | 16 |
| Coup participant | 16 |
| Cabal member | 12 |
| Member of a cabal | 17 |
| Guy Fawkes, for one | 19 |
| Cabalist | 8 |
| Cabal constituents | 18 |
| Cabal men | 9 |
| Cooking up a coup | 17 |
| Conspirator's activity | 26 |
| Cabal's work | 16 |
| Faint from surprise | 19 |
| Fall over in a faint | 20 |
| Faint, in slang | 15 |
| Faint from excitement | 21 |
| Collapse in a weary heap | 24 |
| What you might do after you get all farklempt | 45 |
| What a nudnik might do after kvetching too much | 47 |
| Pass out from excitement, slangily | 34 |
| Have conniptions, on Fairfax | 28 |
| Faint, slangily | 15 |
| Faint dead away, in slang | 25 |
| Faint dead away | 15 |
| Collapse from exhaustion, in slang | 34 |
| Collapse from excitement, in Yiddish | 36 |
| Be overcome with emotion (Sl.) | 30 |
| Sandpiper relatives | 19 |
| A wing of _____ | 15 |
| Speed (through) | 15 |
| John Deere implement | 20 |
| Turn up, in a way | 17 |
| Snow remover | 12 |
| Oxen's burden | 17 |
| Furrow former | 13 |
| Do a farmer's job | 21 |
| Clear snow-covered roads | 24 |
| Winter truck attachment | 23 |
| Snow clearer | 12 |
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