| How Cain's postman rings | 28 |
| How biscotti is baked | 21 |
| How a postman rings | 19 |
| Hawthorne's "___ Told Tales" | 42 |
| Doubled | 7 |
| Cautious way to look | 20 |
| As much again | 13 |
| A couple of times | 17 |
| "Once bitten, ___ . . . " | 35 |
| "Measure ___ ..." | 27 |
| " . . . bitten, ___ shy" | 34 |
| ___ told (trite) | 16 |
| ___ day (prescription direction) | 32 |
| ___ day (pill dosage) | 21 |
| Every 12 hours | 14 |
| Fairly frequently | 17 |
| Semiannually | 12 |
| What b.i.d. means, in prescriptions | 35 |
| Leontyne plus Vincent | 21 |
| Cain's postman | 18 |
| Bitten before? | 14 |
| Result of 'once bitten' | 31 |
| Less likely to be bitten again? | 31 |
| End of an adage about negative experience | 41 |
| 1989 Great White album | 22 |
| "Once bitten" follower | 32 |
| Syndicated columns? | 19 |
| Like Hawthorne's "Tales" | 38 |
| Like the tales in a Hawthorne title | 35 |
| Like some of Hawthorne's tales | 34 |
| Like Hawthorne's tales | 26 |
| Old yarn | 8 |
| Boring thing to hear | 20 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne work | 24 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne collection | 30 |
| Hawthorne collection of previously published stories | 52 |
| Hawthorne collection | 20 |
| 1837 literary collection | 24 |
| Repeated a-pealing story? | 25 |
| Thing to do with one's thumbs | 33 |
| Tinker | 6 |
| Play lightly with | 17 |
| Move one's thumbs idly | 26 |
| Move about absently, as one's thumbs | 40 |
| ___ one's thumbs | 20 |
| They have time on their hands | 29 |
| Plays with one's thumbs, in a way | 37 |
| Plays with one's fingers | 28 |
| Bit of kindling | 15 |
| Nest component | 14 |
| Branch offshoot | 15 |
| Branch branch | 13 |
| Tree offshoot | 13 |
| Nest part | 9 |
| Slender shoot | 13 |
| Piece of kindling | 17 |
| Nest piece | 10 |
| Little branch | 13 |
| Kindling component | 18 |
| Campfire kindling | 17 |
| Marshmallow holder | 18 |
| It may be a major branch one day | 32 |
| Future branch | 13 |
| Branchling | 10 |
| Bit of basketwork | 17 |
| "Just as the ___ is bent . . . " | 42 |
| Young branch | 12 |
| Wee branch | 10 |
| Tiny offshoot | 13 |
| Tiny bit of kindling | 20 |
| Thin person's sobriquet | 27 |
| Stick on the ground | 19 |
| Stick in the wilderness | 23 |
| Stem offshoot | 13 |
| Small tree branch | 17 |
| Small stick | 11 |
| Small offshoot | 14 |
| Skinny-minny | 12 |
| Potential limb | 14 |
| Poplar part | 11 |
| Part of a nest | 14 |
| Outdoor marshmallow holder | 26 |
| One may help support a nest egg | 31 |
| Kindling candidate | 18 |
| Kindling bit | 12 |
| Itty-bitty branch | 17 |
| It may be a snap to snap | 24 |
| Ingredient of a besom | 21 |
| Forest-floor bit | 16 |
| Chickadee's perch. | 22 |
| Chickadee's perch | 21 |
| Catch (on to) | 13 |
| Campfire fodder | 15 |
| Bud site | 8 |
| Branch extension | 16 |
| Branch bit | 10 |
| Bit of wicker | 13 |
| Bit of a nest | 13 |
| Lazy landscaper's cleanup routine? | 38 |
| Thin 1960's supermodel | 26 |