| ___ acid (old name for hydrochloric acid) | 41 |
| ___ acid (perfume ingredient) | 29 |
| ___ acid (preservative) | 23 |
| ___ acid (protein builder) | 26 |
| ___ acid (protein building block) | 33 |
| ___ acid (protein component) | 28 |
| ___ acid (soap ingredient) | 26 |
| ___ acid (sour cream component) | 31 |
| ___ acid (substance once known as aqua fortis) | 46 |
| ___ acid (substance that turns turmeric paper reddish-brown) | 60 |
| ___ acid (vinegar component) | 28 |
| ___ acid (vitamin C) | 20 |
| ___ acid (yellow vitamin) | 25 |
| ___ acid, bleaching agent | 25 |
| ___ acid, found in apples | 25 |
| ___ acid, from grapes | 21 |
| ___ acid, in apples | 19 |
| ___ acid, soap component | 24 |
| ___ acid, used as a vitamin | 27 |
| ___ acid, used for synthetic resins | 35 |
| ___ acid, used in bleaching | 27 |
| ___ acids | 9 |
| ___ acids (main components of proteins) | 39 |
| ___ acre (churchyard) | 21 |
| ___ Acres ("Tiny Toon Adventures" setting) | 52 |
| ___ Acrobat | 11 |
| ___ Acrobat (publishing program for PDF files) | 46 |
| ___ across (contribute) | 23 |
| ___ Act | 7 |
| ___ Act (1862 measure) | 22 |
| ___ Act (British measure of 1773) | 33 |
| ___ act (hesitant) | 18 |
| ___ Act (law fighting organized crime) | 38 |
| ___ Act of 1715 | 15 |
| ___ Act: 1765 | 13 |
| ___ Act: 1862 | 13 |
| ___ acting | 10 |
| ___ action (impels) | 19 |
| ___ active life | 15 |
| ___ actor | 9 |
| ___ ad (political ploy) | 23 |
| ___ adagio (score direction) | 28 |
| ___ adagio (very slowly) | 24 |
| ___ Adama ("Battlestar Galactica" captain) | 52 |
| ___ Adams Wilderness (Sierra Nevada region) | 43 |
| ___ Adams, patriot with a beer named after him | 46 |
| ___ Adams, signature on the Declaration of Independence | 55 |
| ___ Adams, wife of Kovacs | 25 |
| ___ Addar (Cape Bon) | 20 |
| ___ adjudicata | 14 |
| ___ adjudicata (settled matter) | 31 |
| ___ Adler of Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia" | 63 |
| ___ admin | 9 |
| ___ admin (computer techie) | 27 |
| ___ admin (computer techie, for short) | 38 |
| ___ administravit | 17 |
| ___ administravit (court plea) | 30 |
| ___ admiral | 11 |
| ___ Admiral (1937 Triple Crown winner) | 38 |
| ___ admiral (imaginary wedgie relative on "The Simpsons") | 67 |
| ___ admiral (rank above captain) | 32 |
| ___ Aduba of "Orange Is the New Black" | 48 |
| ___ Adul (F. Murray Abraham's "Homeland" character) | 65 |
| ___ advantage | 13 |
| ___ advantage (find handy) | 26 |
| ___ advocate | 12 |
| ___ aerobics | 12 |
| ___ Affair | 10 |
| ___ Affair (Civil War imbroglio) | 32 |
| ___ Affair (Civil War incident of 1861) | 39 |
| ___ Affair (diplomatic incident during John Adams's presidency) | 67 |
| ___ Affair: 1798-1800 France/USA dispute | 40 |
| ___ affaire flambée | 22 |
| ___ Aficionado (smoker's mag) | 33 |
| ___ after (attend) | 18 |
| ___ after (look like) | 21 |
| ___ after (resembled) | 21 |
| ___ again | 9 |
| ___ again (Trivial Pursuit space) | 33 |
| ___ against (compare) | 21 |
| ___ against (have effect) | 25 |
| ___ against (protest) | 21 |
| ___ against Day-Lewis (what the 2007 Oscars did) | 48 |
| ___ Against the Machine | 23 |
| ___ against Thebes | 18 |
| ___ Agathe, Manitoba | 20 |
| ___ Agathe, Que. | 16 |
| ___ Age | 7 |
| ___ Age (1870-98 in U.S.) | 25 |
| ___ age (long time) | 19 |
| ___ agency | 10 |
| ___ agent | 9 |
| ___ ager | 8 |
| ___ ages of man | 15 |
| ___ agrasshopper | 16 |
| ___ Agrippa (king of Judea) | 27 |
| ___ Agron (Marc Anthony's role in "The Capeman") | 62 |
| ___ Aid | 7 |
| ___ Aigner (purse designer) | 27 |
| ___ Aigner, noted designer of shoes and handbags | 48 |