| Made the newspaper | 18 |
| Made it into the papers | 23 |
| Made (off) | 10 |
| Lit out | 7 |
| Linda Ronstadt "When We ___" | 38 |
| Kurosawa movie: 1985 | 20 |
| Kurasawa film | 13 |
| Japanese film version of King Lear | 36 |
| Japanese adaptation of "King Lear" | 44 |
| If it follows also, it's a failure | 38 |
| Helmed | 6 |
| Hank of twine | 13 |
| Got the hell out of there | 25 |
| Gained yardage on the ground | 28 |
| Flock of Seagulls: "I ___ so far away ..." | 52 |
| Fled on foot | 12 |
| Faced the electorate | 20 |
| Executed, as a computer program | 31 |
| Entered a dash | 14 |
| Entered a contest | 17 |
| Emulated Waitz | 14 |
| Emulated Steve Scott | 20 |
| Emulated Nurmi | 14 |
| Emulated Georgie Porgie | 23 |
| Emulated Edwin Moses | 20 |
| Emulated Coe | 12 |
| Emulated Bill Rodgers | 21 |
| Emulated Abebe Bikila | 21 |
| Dr. Seuss's "If I ___ The Circus" | 47 |
| Didn't stay and fight | 25 |
| Didn't go slow | 18 |
| Didn't face the enemy | 25 |
| Did the last leg of a triathlon | 31 |
| Did more than walked | 20 |
| Did a dash | 10 |
| Did a charity 5K | 16 |
| Did a 6K, say | 13 |
| Contested an election | 21 |
| Conducted, as a campaign | 24 |
| Completed a triathlon | 21 |
| Completed a marathon | 20 |
| Competed, in a way | 18 |
| Competed politically | 20 |
| Competed in the Badwater Ultramarathon | 38 |
| Competed in a heat | 18 |
| Competed in a dash | 18 |
| Competed for office | 19 |
| Chose not to fight | 18 |
| Chased (after) | 14 |
| Carried the ball | 16 |
| Came (across) | 13 |
| Cam-paigned | 11 |
| Buggered off | 12 |
| Breakfast cereal bit | 20 |
| Bled, like dyes | 15 |
| Bled, like dye | 14 |
| Bled in the rain | 16 |
| Became a candidate | 18 |
| Award-winning Japanese film | 27 |
| Avoided bloodshed | 17 |
| Analyzed, as the numbers | 24 |
| Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of "King Lear" | 56 |
| Akira Kurosawa's "King Lear" | 42 |
| Accepted the nomination, say | 28 |
| 1985 Kurosawa film | 18 |
| 1985 Kurosawa classic | 21 |
| 1985 film partly based on “King Lear” | 45 |
| 1985 film based on "King Lear" | 40 |
| 1985 Akira Kurosawa movie | 25 |
| 1985 Akira Kurosawa film based on "King Lear" | 55 |
| 1985 Akira Kurosawa film | 24 |
| "On the Streets I ___" Morrissey | 42 |
| Â Â Took off | 18 |
| ___ temperature (was feverish) | 30 |
| Frog genus | 10 |
| Bombay bigwig | 13 |
| Punjabi potentate | 17 |
| "It ___ hundred years . . . " | 39 |
| Genus of frogs | 14 |
| ___ close second (almost won) | 29 |
| Words with tab or temperature | 29 |
| Words with ''fever'' or ''tight ship'' | 70 |
| Words before tab or temperature | 31 |
| Bullfrog genus | 14 |
| ___ temperature (ailed) | 23 |
| Words before temperature or tight ship | 38 |
| New Delhi noble | 15 |
| Madras V.I.P. | 13 |
| Frog, to Cicero | 15 |
| Frog genus that's Spanish for "frog" | 50 |
| East Indian prince | 18 |
| "The young lambs ___ pretty race": Wordsworth | 55 |
| "It ___ hundred years to a day?" | 42 |
| "It ___ hundred years . . . ": Holmes | 47 |
| -- tab (drank on credit) | 24 |
| ____ close second | 17 |
| ___ tight ship | 14 |
| ___ temperature (was sick) | 26 |
| ___ tab (let the charges accumulate) | 36 |
| ___ fever (was sick) | 20 |