| "__ Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | 40 |
| "__ Aeterna": Requiem Mass song | 41 |
| "__ Ado About Nothing" | 32 |
| "__ a world in a grain of sand": Blake | 48 |
| "__ a Woman?" (bell hooks book) | 41 |
| "__ a stinker?": Bugs Bunny line | 42 |
| "__ a stinker?" (Bugs Bunny line) | 43 |
| "__ a Song Go Out of My Heart" | 40 |
| "__ a real nowhere man": Beatles lyric | 48 |
| "__ a Rainy Night": 1981 chart-topper | 47 |
| "__ a Rainbow": Stones hit | 36 |
| "__ a Rainbow" (Rolling Stones tune) | 46 |
| "__ a Name": Croce hit | 32 |
| "__ a monkey's uncle!" | 36 |
| "__ a Message": INXS song | 35 |
| "__ a man with seven wives" | 37 |
| "__ a man who wasn't there ..." | 45 |
| "__ a man who wasn't ..." | 39 |
| "__ a Letter to My Love": Signoret film | 49 |
| "__ a Letter to My Love": 1980 film | 45 |
| "__ a Kick Out of You": Cole Porter | 45 |
| "__ a Good Man, Charlie Brown" | 40 |
| "__ a far, far better thing I do..." | 46 |
| "__ a dark and stormy night ..." | 42 |
| "__ a bird dog" (Everly Brothers lyric) | 49 |
| "__ a Beach": Claire Cook novel | 41 |
| "__ 911!": police series parody | 41 |
| "__ 101": Former Nickelodeon sitcom | 45 |
| "__ & the Women": 2000 Gere film | 46 |
| "__ & Moe": Gleason/Carney film | 45 |
| "__ & Juliet": 2011 animated film | 47 |
| "__ & Janis": comic strip | 39 |
| "__ & Jack" (1998 golf book) | 42 |
| "__ #1's": 2005 country album | 43 |
| "__ #1!" (winners' cry) | 37 |
| "[CBS] picked a fight with a ___." | 44 |
| "Zyxt" is its final entry: Abbr. | 42 |
| "Zut __!": French exclamation | 39 |
| "Zuppa Inglese" cousin | 32 |
| "Zuckerman Unbound" novelist | 38 |
| "Zuckerman Unbound" author Philip | 43 |
| "Zorba the Greek" setting | 35 |
| "Zorba the Greek" Oscar-winner Kedrova | 48 |
| "Zorba the Greek" Oscar winner Kedrova | 48 |
| "Zorba the Greek" author Kazantzakis | 46 |
| "Zorba the Greek" actress | 35 |
| "Zoot suit with a drape ___" | 38 |
| "Zoom-zoom" car company | 33 |
| "Zoo Story" playwright | 32 |
| "Zone" or "table" lead-in | 45 |
| "ZOMG! n RIGHT b4 prom!!!" thing | 42 |
| "Zomething different" from Coors | 42 |
| "Zoey 101" actress Sanders | 36 |
| "Zits" cartoonist Borgman | 35 |
| "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" movie | 35 |
| "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" composer Wrubel | 45 |
| "Zip-a-Dee-Doo- _____" | 32 |
| "Ziggy" cartoonist Wilson | 35 |
| "Ziggy Stardust" creator | 34 |
| "Zigeunerliebe" composer | 34 |
| "Ziegfeld Girl" Turner | 32 |
| "Ziegfeld Girl" actress | 33 |
| "Ziegfeld Follies" hit song of 1913 | 45 |
| "Ziegfeld Follies" costume designer | 45 |
| "Zero-___ Society": Thurow | 36 |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" villain | 36 |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" org. | 33 |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" locale | 35 |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" group | 34 |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" climax | 35 |
| "Zelig" director Woody | 32 |
| "Zebras," in sports slang | 35 |
| "Zebras" on a gridiron | 32 |
| "Zdravljica" is its national anthem | 45 |
| "Zapped!" co-star, 1982 | 33 |
| "Zack and Miri Make a ___" | 36 |
| "Zack & ___" (1998 movie) | 39 |
| "Zabrinskie ___" (soundtrack) | 39 |
| "Z" ___ "zebra" | 35 |
| "Yummy! Here comes your tuna sashimi!"? | 49 |
| "Yuletide carols being sung by ___" | 45 |
| "Yuck-___!" ("Ewww!") | 41 |
| "Yu-Gi-Oh!" cartoons genre | 36 |
| "Yu-Gi-Oh!" cartoon genre | 35 |
| "Yowzah" band-leader of yore | 38 |
| "Youth With a Skull" painter | 38 |
| "Youth Gone Wild" band ___ Row | 40 |
| "Youth & Young Manhood" ___ of Leon | 49 |
| "Youse guys," in Dixie | 32 |
| "Yours," to the French | 32 |
| "Yours, Mine, and Ours" actress Rene | 46 |
| "Yours, Mine and Ours" actress Rene | 45 |
| "Yours, Mine and Ours" actress | 40 |
| "Yours, Mine and ---" (1968) | 38 |
| "Yours _____" (letter closing) | 40 |
| "Yours truly" relative | 32 |
| "Yours truly" and the like | 36 |
| "Yours truly" and others | 34 |
| "Yours truly" alternative | 35 |
| "Your ___ wearing thin" | 33 |