| Text | Length |
| Novel underpinning | 18 |
| Central story line | 18 |
| Builder's site | 18 |
| Whodunit storyline | 18 |
| Whodunit blueprint | 18 |
| Prepare for a coup | 18 |
| Essence of a novel | 18 |
| Conspire (against) | 18 |
| Whodunit skeletons | 18 |
| What Christie wove | 18 |
| They often thicken | 18 |
| Cemetery divisions | 18 |
| Cabal constituents | 18 |
| Prepare for sowing | 18 |
| Turn over the soil | 18 |
| Tractor's pull | 18 |
| Tractor attachment | 18 |
| Make Deere tracks? | 18 |
| Field furrow maker | 18 |
| Cultivate the soil | 18 |
| A tractor pulls it | 18 |
| Underhanded tactic | 18 |
| Calculated schemes | 18 |
| Opposite of sings. | 18 |
| Polite word: Abbr. | 18 |
| Counterpart to thx | 18 |
| Perfect beginning? | 18 |
| Play, as a ukulele | 18 |
| Press agentry word | 18 |
| Has-been racehorse | 18 |
| Free advertisement | 18 |
| Makes a connection | 18 |
| Coveted assignment | 18 |
| Horner's prize | 18 |
| Prune's source | 18 |
| Job everyone wants | 18 |
| Fruit with a stone | 18 |
| Perfectly vertical | 18 |
| Decorative feather | 18 |
| Come down abruptly | 18 |
| Rewarding dessert? | 18 |
| Damson and bullace | 18 |
| Choice assignments | 18 |
| Prunes, originally | 18 |
| Men or women, e.g. | 18 |
| Mice and men, e.g. | 18 |
| Summer's sign? | 18 |
| Adding machine key | 18 |
| Desirable addition | 18 |
| Appealing addition | 18 |
| Like thick carpets | 18 |
| Gains or additions | 18 |
| Orb beyond Neptune | 18 |
| A Neptune neighbor | 18 |
| Tire reinforcement | 18 |
| Toilet paper layer | 18 |
| Perform diligently | 18 |
| Tissue layer, e.g. | 18 |
| Layer or thickness | 18 |
| Some natl. leaders | 18 |
| Pres. counterparts | 18 |
| Parliament V.I.P.s | 18 |
| Irish V.I.P.'s | 18 |
| 1957 Nabokov novel | 18 |
| Nabokov book: 1957 | 18 |
| Nabokov book, 1957 | 18 |
| 1957 Nabokov title | 18 |
| ___ Penh, Cambodia | 18 |
| ___-Penh, Cambodia | 18 |
| FedEx no-no, often | 18 |
| Oval Office action | 18 |
| Somewhat, in music | 18 |
| Slightly, in music | 18 |
| A little, in music | 18 |
| Little, in Livorno | 18 |
| Somewhat, to Solti | 18 |
| Somewhat, to Mehta | 18 |
| Slightly, to Solti | 18 |
| A little, to Verdi | 18 |
| A little, in Italy | 18 |
| Jet-engine housing | 18 |
| Container for peas | 18 |
| Spacecraft chamber | 18 |
| Pea-picking target | 18 |
| Keeper of the peas | 18 |
| Detachable housing | 18 |
| Chickpea container | 18 |
| Show online, maybe | 18 |
| Spots for speakers | 18 |
| Orators' spots | 18 |
| Jet-engine holders | 18 |
| Typical small town | 18 |
| Rue Morgue creator | 18 |
| He wrote of Lenore | 18 |
| He felled an Usher | 18 |
| Rhyming literature | 18 |
| Limerick or sonnet | 18 |
| Robert Frost piece | 18 |
| Quatrain container | 18 |
| Prothalamion, e.g. | 18 |
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