| Words with pickle or pinch | 26 |
| Words with jiffy or tizzy | 25 |
| Words with jam or pickle | 24 |
| Words with jam or hurry | 23 |
| Words with flash or pinch | 25 |
| Words preceding pickle or jam | 29 |
| Words before way or walk | 24 |
| Words before tizzy or funk | 26 |
| Words before tither or flash | 28 |
| Words before stew or pickle | 27 |
| Words before split second | 25 |
| Words before sec or jiffy | 25 |
| Words before pinch or pickle | 28 |
| Words before pinch or flash | 27 |
| Words before pinch and bind | 27 |
| Words before pickle or stew | 27 |
| Words before jiffy or pinch | 27 |
| Words before flash or fix | 25 |
| Words before fix or flash | 25 |
| Words before day or way | 23 |
| TV actress ___ Ray Hutton | 25 |
| Square peg ___ round hole | 25 |
| Scored with three sharps | 24 |
| Put _____ good word for | 23 |
| Perfect world starter? | 22 |
| Partridge-pear tree connector | 29 |
| Once - lifetime connector | 25 |
| Old-time actress Claire | 23 |
| NPR correspondent Jaffe | 23 |
| Musical instrument: Suffix | 26 |
| Like Beethoven's Seventh | 28 |
| Ending for concert and czar | 27 |
| Claire of "Claudia" | 29 |
| Claire of the theater | 22 |
| Bandleader ___ Ray Hutton | 25 |
| Actress Balin or Claire | 23 |
| "Three men ___ tub" | 29 |
| "___-Gadda-Da-Vida" | 29 |
| "_____ moment" | 24 |
| "_____ minute" | 24 |
| "___ way..." | 22 |
| "___ second" | 22 |
| "___ minute" | 22 |
| "___ minute!" | 23 |
| "___ Big Country" | 27 |
| ____ sec: just a moment | 23 |
| ___ way (to some extent) | 24 |
| ___ pickle (on the ropes) | 25 |
| ___ flash (immediately) | 23 |
| __ pinch (if necessary) | 23 |
| __ __ flash (two words) | 25 |
| Procrastinator's refrain | 28 |
| "Not right now" | 25 |
| "Pretty soon" | 23 |
| "Come back later" | 27 |
| Where mimes may be trapped | 26 |
| Ready for gifting, perhaps | 26 |
| Doing what they do best | 23 |
| How Rome wasn't built | 25 |
| When Rome wasn't built? | 27 |
| Out to lunch, so to speak | 25 |
| Unable to make the grade | 24 |
| Up the proverbial creek | 23 |
| Like dirty clothes, often | 25 |
| Not at all well-organized | 25 |
| Like rubble after a razing | 26 |
| Financially compromised | 23 |
| Scampering and scurrying | 24 |
| Where to see bombs bursting | 27 |
| Where Key's bombs burst | 27 |
| Where bombs burst, so we sing | 29 |
| Where bombs burst, in song | 26 |
| Key scene for bursting bombs? | 29 |
| ". . . bursting __" | 29 |
| Up the creek, so to speak | 25 |
| Stuck during rush hour, say | 27 |
| Faced with difficulties | 23 |
| Experiencing serious traffic | 28 |
| Embarrassing way to be caught | 29 |
| How perjurers may be caught | 27 |
| How a snake may be caught? | 26 |
| Caught ___ (being dishonest) | 28 |
| Awkward way to be caught | 24 |
| Everything being counted | 24 |
| With everything counted | 23 |
| Not leaving out anything | 24 |
| Everything being considered | 27 |
| With everything included | 24 |
| Like Junior's room | 22 |
| "Hold your horses!" | 29 |
| "Be right there!" | 27 |
| Words with instant or uproar | 28 |
| Words with instant and uproar | 29 |
| Words with uproar or instant | 28 |
| ___ instant (very quickly) | 26 |
| ___ instant (immediately) | 25 |
| __ instant (very quickly) | 25 |
| ___ instant (suddenly) | 22 |
| ___ instant (right away) | 24 |
| __ instant (very fast) | 22 |