| Words before may and might | 26 |
| "___ could" (expression of regret) | 44 |
| Start of a quizzical Bob Seger lyric | 36 |
| Well activity | 13 |
| Appointed time to hope for things? | 34 |
| Fact about a magic Singer? | 26 |
| Using a voodoo doll? | 20 |
| Place for fanciful notions | 26 |
| It may have coins on the bottom | 31 |
| Where Snow White dreams of her prince | 37 |
| Coin collector, in a way | 24 |
| Where Jonah may have tossed a coin for luck? | 44 |
| Where Nirvana's "Muddy Banks" were | 48 |
| Things you want | 15 |
| Letter to Santa, essentially | 28 |
| Letter to Santa, e.g. | 21 |
| It's just what you're looking for | 41 |
| It has things you want | 22 |
| Ideal enumeration | 17 |
| Covetous compilations | 21 |
| "A world I did not ___ enter": Hardy | 46 |
| Invoke a dancer to get what one wants? | 38 |
| __-washy (inconsistent) | 23 |
| ___-washy | 9 |
| "Why, oh why isn't my boyfriend more like the 1999 sexiest man alive?"? | 85 |
| Trite sentiment on a postcard | 29 |
| 1987 British film about a balding man's lament? | 51 |
| Vacation postcard sentiment #3 | 30 |
| Sign-off from there | 19 |
| Sentiment on a postcard | 23 |
| Post-card sentiment for Custer | 30 |
| Long-distance longing | 21 |
| Harold Rome's card | 22 |
| Without much of a backbone | 26 |
| Hardly decisive | 15 |
| Becoming better behaved | 23 |
| Rival of Fab | 12 |
| Gain rival | 10 |
| "Ring around the collar" detergent | 44 |
| 'Ring around the collar' fighter | 40 |
| The Vistula, to Poles | 21 |
| Thin strand | 11 |
| Smoke trace | 11 |
| Will-o'-the-___ | 19 |
| Trace of smoke | 14 |
| Thin tuft | 9 |
| Handful of straw | 16 |
| Fleeting trace | 14 |
| Stray strand | 12 |
| Tuft | 4 |
| Thin streak of smoke | 20 |
| Smoke curl | 10 |
| Faint trace, as of smoke | 24 |
| Thready streak | 14 |
| Thin trail of smoke | 19 |
| Thin puff | 9 |
| Thin curl of smoke | 18 |
| Smidgen of smoke | 16 |
| Handful of hay | 14 |
| Cirrus cloud formation | 22 |
| Bit of a smoke screen? | 22 |
| Bit of a cloud | 14 |
| Will-o'-the- -- | 19 |
| Trace, as of smoke | 18 |
| Thin streak, as of smoke | 24 |
| Thin streak | 11 |
| Thin smoke trail | 16 |
| Thin puff of smoke | 18 |
| Thin lock | 9 |
| Tenuous strip | 13 |
| Tenuous fragment | 16 |
| Tendril; strand | 15 |
| Streaky emanation | 17 |
| Strand; tendril | 15 |
| Strand, as of hair | 18 |
| Start of a smoke signal | 23 |
| Something frail | 15 |
| Smoky thread | 12 |
| Small, thin child | 17 |
| Small bundle of straw | 21 |
| Slender trace | 13 |
| Slender amount | 14 |
| Puff of smoke | 13 |
| Part of a smoke screen? | 23 |
| Paltry puff | 11 |
| Miniature cloud | 15 |
| Mere indication | 15 |
| Frail thing | 11 |
| Fragment or shred | 17 |
| Flimsy lock | 11 |
| Finger of smoke | 15 |
| Filmy strand | 12 |
| Filmy piece | 11 |
| Faint cloud | 11 |
| Delicate lock of hair | 21 |
| Curl of a cloud | 15 |
| Cig emanation | 13 |
| Bit of smoke or hair | 20 |
| Bit of hay | 10 |
| Went up in smoke | 16 |