| Controversial Starbucks water brand | 35 |
| Controversial Strip in the Middle East | 38 |
| Controversial substance in baseball news | 40 |
| Controversial tobacco-product pitcher | 37 |
| Controversial website run by Julian Assange | 43 |
| Controversial word for Rhett Butler | 35 |
| Controversially, Jane Fonda visited it in 1972 | 46 |
| Conundrum of today's puzzle, part one | 41 |
| Conundrum of today's puzzle, part two | 41 |
| Convened to consider legislation | 32 |
| Convenience for a long highway trip | 35 |
| Convenience for an overnight guest | 34 |
| Convenience for Northeastern toll-paying drivers | 48 |
| Convenience for wedding-gift shoppers | 37 |
| Convenience of some gas stations | 32 |
| Convenience store connected to BP | 33 |
| Convenience store convenience, perhaps | 38 |
| Convenience store convenience: Abbr. | 36 |
| Convenience store locations, at times | 37 |
| Convenience store locations, often | 34 |
| Conveniences not found at Churchill Downs | 41 |
| Convenient strip of computer icons | 34 |
| Conveniently weak argument, metaphorically | 42 |
| Convention center event, for short | 34 |
| Convention site for blacksmiths? | 32 |
| Convention site for diamond fanciers? | 37 |
| Convention site for mattress manufacturers? | 43 |
| Convention site for orthopedists? | 33 |
| Convention site for phrenologists? | 34 |
| Convention writer's footwear? | 33 |
| Conventional explanation for a tragic event | 43 |
| Conventions concerned with wartime conduct | 42 |
| Convento de Santa Teresa setting | 32 |
| Converging mountain ranges of India | 35 |
| Conversation about a narrow channel? | 36 |
| Conversation between Carney and Linkletter? | 43 |
| Conversation between King Mongkut and Tuptim? | 45 |
| Conversation with a granny from Accra? | 38 |
| Conversation-filled places in a restaurant? | 43 |
| Conversations in the bowling league? | 36 |
| Conversations with one's kitty? | 35 |
| Converse of "divided by" | 34 |
| Conversion attempt involving a Hail Mary? | 41 |
| Conversion attempts follow them, briefly | 40 |
| Conversions of films into digital form? | 39 |
| Convert food into absorbable substances | 39 |
| Convert from abstract to concrete | 33 |
| Convert Giovanni into John, e.g. | 32 |
| Convert illegal funds into legal ones | 37 |
| Convert to a computer system, e.g. | 34 |
| Convert to McDonald's, the Gap, etc. | 40 |
| Convert to the Koran's religion | 35 |
| Converted from coal via distillation | 36 |
| Converted into bundles for a loft | 33 |
| Converted version of 50 Cent's biggest hit | 46 |
| Convertible carriage used to transport popes? | 45 |
| Convertible fitness area, casually | 34 |
| Convertible for a Canadian hockey player? | 41 |
| Convertible parked in the living room? | 38 |
| Converts code into ordinary language | 36 |
| Conveyance in "Back to the Future" | 44 |
| Conveyance system, as for water or oil | 38 |
| Conveyances generally only ridden downward | 42 |
| Conveyed, as water through a main | 33 |
| Conveying impulses to a nerve center | 36 |
| Conveying impulses toward a nerve center | 40 |
| Convict's absolution from the governor | 42 |
| Convicted criminal's punishment | 35 |
| Convicted thief with a fruit fetish? | 36 |
| Convicts' level on a prison ship? | 37 |
| Convinces (with "over") | 33 |
| Convulsion often followed by a blessing | 39 |
| Cook cabbage salad in hot water? | 32 |
| Cook for whom a culinary award is named | 39 |
| Cook in a way, as tuna or beef tenderloin | 41 |
| Cook in Creedence Clearwater Revival | 36 |
| Cook in the bottom of the oven, say | 35 |
| Cook just below the boiling point | 33 |
| Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revisited | 38 |
| Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revival | 36 |
| Cook one's ___ (dash another's hopes) | 45 |
| Cook or server in a greasy spoon diner, in slang | 48 |
| Cook so as to lock in the flavor, say | 37 |
| Cook's "Food's ready!" | 40 |
| Cook's favorite Rolling Stones song? | 40 |
| Cook's Illustrated competitor | 33 |
| Cookbook author James unveiled a loaf? | 38 |
| Cooke who sang "You Send Me" | 38 |
| Cooked by browning and then simmering | 37 |
| Cooked for a shorter time, perhaps | 34 |
| Cookie brand named for its flavor | 33 |
| Cookie celebrating its centennial in 2012 | 41 |
| Cookie company with a tree on its packages | 42 |
| Cookie jar raider's betrayal? | 33 |
| Cookie made famous by crosswords | 32 |
| Cookie made with Chianti instead of figs? | 41 |
| Cookie made with cinnamon and sugar | 35 |
| Cookie man with a Yankee Doodle? | 32 |
| Cookie named for a Massachusetts city | 37 |
| Cookie owned by the same company as Chips Ahoy! | 47 |