| Contrasting music as in a march | 32 |
| Contribute to a Cricket team, perhaps? | 38 |
| Contribute to a lengthy résumé | 36 |
| Contribute, as to the conversation | 34 |
| Contributed, with "up" | 32 |
| Contributes (or creates this puzzle's theme) | 48 |
| Contributes some marginal thoughts? | 35 |
| Contributes to a football pileup | 32 |
| Contributing some chips for a hand | 34 |
| Contributions to one are not tax-deductible | 43 |
| Contributions to them are not tax-deductible | 44 |
| Contributor to Herculaneum's ruin | 37 |
| Contributors to The Paris Review, e.g. | 38 |
| Contrivance for taking people for a ride | 40 |
| Control a race horse's speed | 32 |
| Control exclusively, with "up" | 40 |
| Control for an out-of-control crowd | 35 |
| Control in a relationship, according to Seinfeld | 48 |
| Control of a market by a few firms | 34 |
| CONTROL rival on "Get Smart" | 38 |
| Control surface on a plane's wing | 37 |
| Control tower's "A" | 33 |
| Control tower's guess: Abbr. | 32 |
| Control ___ (four-wheel-drive system) | 37 |
| CONTROL's enemy on "Get Smart" | 44 |
| CONTROL's nemesis on "Get Smart" | 46 |
| Control-driven people, supposedly | 33 |
| Controlled exclusively (with "up") | 44 |
| Controlled regimen of food and drink | 36 |
| Controlled substance substitutes | 32 |
| Controlled the situation completely | 35 |
| Controller of corp. purse strings | 33 |
| Controller of future generations? | 33 |
| Controllers notorious for being thrown at TVs | 45 |
| Controls a prison guard like a pop singer? | 42 |
| Controversial "language" of the 1990s | 47 |
| Controversial 1715 measure of Parliament | 40 |
| Controversial 1767 act of Parliament | 36 |
| Controversial 1960's magazine | 33 |
| Controversial 1970 Jim Bouton book | 34 |
| Controversial 1980's plan: Abbr. | 36 |
| Controversial 1980's proposal: Abbr. | 40 |
| Controversial 1980s-'90s baseball team owner | 48 |
| Controversial 1984 Penthouse model | 34 |
| Controversial 1990s treaty acronym | 34 |
| Controversial 2000 debate sounds from Al Gore | 45 |
| Controversial 2000 election issue | 33 |
| Controversial 2006 Miss USA winner Conner | 41 |
| Controversial 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd | 46 |
| Controversial 70's-80's sitcom | 38 |
| Controversial apple growth regulator | 36 |
| Controversial Arkansas belle oddly spelled | 43 |
| Controversial author and W.W. I pacifist | 40 |
| Controversial baby food ingredient | 34 |
| Controversial Bikini Atoll event | 32 |
| Controversial cigarette additive | 32 |
| Controversial conflict since 2003 | 33 |
| Controversial continental commerce pact | 39 |
| Controversial courtroom evidence: abbr. | 39 |
| Controversial current-carried carp catcher | 42 |
| Controversial director Riefenstahl | 34 |
| Controversial driving video game, briefly | 41 |
| Controversial former Detroit Piston Thomas | 42 |
| Controversial Gettysburg general | 32 |
| Controversial hanging thing in 2000 | 35 |
| Controversial high school health lesson | 39 |
| Controversial initiation practice | 33 |
| Controversial issue's initials | 34 |
| Controversial James Lovelock book | 33 |
| Controversial journalist Fallaci | 32 |
| Controversial law enforcement tool | 34 |
| Controversial legal event of 1925 | 33 |
| Controversial letters in California, these days | 47 |
| Controversial London clothier, briefly | 38 |
| Controversial material for libraries | 36 |
| Controversial name in avant-garde music and art | 47 |
| Controversial New Age program of the '70s | 45 |
| Controversial nuclear site in N.H. | 34 |
| Controversial O. J. Simpson book | 32 |
| Controversial oil-extraction method | 35 |
| Controversial one-act play by Mamet | 35 |
| Controversial online music service | 34 |
| Controversial orchard application | 33 |
| Controversial Oscar recipient of 1999 | 37 |
| Controversial post-Katrina housing unit | 39 |
| Controversial rap producer Gotti | 32 |
| Controversial Reagan Supreme Court nominee | 42 |
| Controversial Red Bull ingredient | 33 |
| Controversial school language subject | 37 |
| Controversial spoon-bender Geller | 33 |
| 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 |