| Circus performer's prop | 27 |
| Coolers for firebugs et al. | 27 |
| Cardinals' cap insignia | 27 |
| Cardinals' cap initials | 27 |
| Cardinal's cap monogram | 27 |
| Cardinal's cap insignia | 27 |
| Cardinals' team letters | 27 |
| Cardinal's nest?: Abbr. | 27 |
| Caps on Cardinals' caps | 27 |
| Cap inits. at Busch Stadium | 27 |
| Colonnade of ancient Greece | 27 |
| Column-lined pedestrian way | 27 |
| Colonial form of punishment | 27 |
| Crept in on little cat feet | 27 |
| Certain aircraft, for short | 27 |
| Carved in __ (unchangeable) | 27 |
| Clapton's Hendrix cover | 27 |
| Cry from a stuck-up person? | 27 |
| Controllers of traffic flow | 27 |
| Counter for a 100-yard dash | 27 |
| Call off a police stakeout? | 27 |
| Child's bedtime request | 27 |
| Child's bedtime reading | 27 |
| Concordia University locale | 27 |
| Cremona creation, for short | 27 |
| Cause of an artery blockage | 27 |
| Casey's box-score entry | 27 |
| Cellos, violas, etc.: Abbr. | 27 |
| Clears up a mistaken notion | 27 |
| Charles I and Mary II, e.g. | 27 |
| Checkwriter's remainder | 27 |
| Caribbean ___ (casino game) | 27 |
| Comic Gilliam and namesakes | 27 |
| Case for an ophthalmologist | 27 |
| Clothes go in and out of it | 27 |
| Commercial prefix with foam | 27 |
| Construction project bidder | 27 |
| Conjugation addition, often | 27 |
| Chinese dynasty 580 -618 AD | 27 |
| Credit ___ (UBS competitor) | 27 |
| Clothing store shoplifters? | 27 |
| Cato's "I am" | 27 |
| Certain theater productions | 27 |
| Competition held in a dohyo | 27 |
| Colorful photograph subject | 27 |
| Car option that slides open | 27 |
| Civil rights leader Anthony | 27 |
| Course for wild trumpeters? | 27 |
| Clutch and ___ (slow dance) | 27 |
| Celsius, but not Fahrenheit | 27 |
| Constant and imminent peril | 27 |
| Charlie's comic brother | 27 |
| Capital with an opera house | 27 |
| Conference room centerpiece | 27 |
| Center of a marked success? | 27 |
| Crisp fabric for ball gowns | 27 |
| Chief justice before Hughes | 27 |
| Children's running game | 27 |
| Chevy K5 Blazer, since 1995 | 27 |
| Chinese meditative exercise | 27 |
| Coniferous evergreen forest | 27 |
| Coin toss result, sometimes | 27 |
| Chiang Kai-shek's haven | 27 |
| Chess champ: 1960–61 | 27 |
| Creator of a bathroom cloud | 27 |
| Certain scout's concern | 27 |
| Communicated with, in a way | 27 |
| Closest to heaven, in a way | 27 |
| Cards left over from a deal | 27 |
| Circus employee with a whip | 27 |
| Cigar-making center in Fla. | 27 |
| City known as the Big Guava | 27 |
| Chicken tick or a Floridian | 27 |
| Convert to leather, as hide | 27 |
| Chinese Olympic diver: 1984 | 27 |
| Central religious principle | 27 |
| Cosmic reason, to Confucius | 27 |
| Chinese philosophical ideal | 27 |
| China's "way" | 27 |
| Covered, as chairs or walls | 27 |
| Clairvoyant's card deck | 27 |
| Card of fortune, supposedly | 27 |
| Certain Queen's bakings | 27 |
| Confrontation-ending device | 27 |
| Commencement-hat attachment | 27 |
| Cousin of "Ciao!" | 27 |
| Certain Turkic tribesperson | 27 |
| Color similar to mouse gray | 27 |
| Cry of economic liberation? | 27 |
| Cabby's nonstop patter? | 27 |
| Coordinate system reference | 27 |
| Certain investment, briefly | 27 |
| Cable sta. for cinema buffs | 27 |
| Contents of some small bags | 27 |
| Cause of a restaurant stir? | 27 |
| Container used at elevenses | 27 |
| Colonial imposition of 1767 | 27 |
| Computer repairer, slangily | 27 |
| Computer workers, for short | 27 |
| Commodity in a bear market? | 27 |