| Text | Length |
| R&B singer Mayfield | 23 |
| Reason for slowing down | 23 |
| Continuous bending line | 23 |
| John or Joan of filmdom | 23 |
| Horn of a crescent moon | 23 |
| Zodiac transition point | 23 |
| Where some signs change | 23 |
| Part of a crescent moon | 23 |
| User of strong language | 23 |
| Triggers a bleep, maybe | 23 |
| Order from Delbert Mann | 23 |
| Like babies and puppies | 23 |
| Attractive, as a kitten | 23 |
| More like kitten videos | 23 |
| Like one's own baby | 23 |
| More darling and cuddly | 23 |
| Not wait one's turn | 23 |
| Break up a dancing pair | 23 |
| Snip from the newspaper | 23 |
| Swordsmen's worries | 23 |
| Removes from the roster | 23 |
| Eschews hotdog garnish? | 23 |
| Sloop's sister ship | 23 |
| Year in the Han Dynasty | 23 |
| Printer's ink color | 23 |
| Phyrgian nature goddess | 23 |
| The Terminator, for one | 23 |
| Emulate Lance Armstrong | 23 |
| Stock market phenomenon | 23 |
| Presoak, wash and rinse | 23 |
| What washers go through | 23 |
| Three-wheeled Asian cab | 23 |
| The Ugly Duckling, e.g. | 23 |
| One-eighth pt. of a V-8 | 23 |
| Scornful, negative sort | 23 |
| Negative sort of person | 23 |
| Ambrose Bierce, notably | 23 |
| Snarky, minus the humor | 23 |
| Critically contemptuous | 23 |
| Hero known for his nose | 23 |
| First name in big noses | 23 |
| It might come to a boil | 23 |
| Former Russian autocrat | 23 |
| Ivan the Terrible, e.g. | 23 |
| Pre-revolutionary ruler | 23 |
| Grand duke's father | 23 |
| White House appointment | 23 |
| Person exercising power | 23 |
| Executive branch V.I.P. | 23 |
| Drug-fighting authority | 23 |
| Certain Obama appointee | 23 |
| Spouse of Ivan or Peter | 23 |
| Winter Palace residents | 23 |
| Country divided in 1993 | 23 |
| Little bit, as of color | 23 |
| Apply with a swab, e.g. | 23 |
| Word with sand or smack | 23 |
| Touch with a hanky, say | 23 |
| Flounder's relative | 23 |
| Part of Fred's yell | 23 |
| Straight dope, ya heard | 23 |
| Silvery freshwater fish | 23 |
| Fish of the carp family | 23 |
| Small freshwater fishes | 23 |
| Wrinkle-resistant fiber | 23 |
| Book by William Wharton | 23 |
| Ricky, to Gunnar Nelson | 23 |
| Palindromic family name | 23 |
| Rebellious art movement | 23 |
| Precursor to Surrealism | 23 |
| Nihilistic art movement | 23 |
| Baby's second word? | 23 |
| Subversive art movement | 23 |
| Some of Ernst's art | 23 |
| Pop for a young person? | 23 |
| Mama's guy, to baby | 23 |
| Jean Arp's movement | 23 |
| Convention-flouting art | 23 |
| "Antiart" art | 23 |
| Fred Astaire title role | 23 |
| 1955 Caron-Astaire film | 23 |
| Groove cut into a board | 23 |
| Woodworker's groove | 23 |
| Ornamental wall section | 23 |
| Carpenters' grooves | 23 |
| Carpenter's grooves | 23 |
| Some Little League fans | 23 |
| Most Pop Warner coaches | 23 |
| Many Pop Warner coaches | 23 |
| Many Little League fans | 23 |
| Mythical inferior deity | 23 |
| Wordsworth's flower | 23 |
| A penny short of a dime | 23 |
| U.N.'s Hammarskjold | 23 |
| Bumstead's nickname | 23 |
| "___ nabbit!" | 23 |
| Mr. Bumstead, for short | 23 |
| Hammarskjold of UN fame | 23 |
| "Lah-di-___!" | 23 |
| Telegraph "T" | 23 |
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