| Text | Length |
| Jazz pianist Bill | 17 |
| Rogers's wife | 17 |
| Country star Sara | 17 |
| Columnist Rowland | 17 |
| 1996 Madonna role | 17 |
| Gabor and Tanguay | 17 |
| Miss Gabor et al. | 17 |
| Attempt to escape | 17 |
| Woman in a garden | 17 |
| Cain's mother | 17 |
| Abel's mother | 17 |
| Anticipatory time | 17 |
| Holiday harbinger | 17 |
| Holiday precursor | 17 |
| December 24, e.g. | 17 |
| Just-prior period | 17 |
| Time to celebrate | 17 |
| Seth's mother | 17 |
| Party time, maybe | 17 |
| Massenet oratorio | 17 |
| First grandmother | 17 |
| Three-faced woman | 17 |
| Playwright Ensler | 17 |
| December 31, e.g. | 17 |
| December 24 or 31 | 17 |
| WALL-E's love | 17 |
| Time for planning | 17 |
| Mother of mankind | 17 |
| Famous first mate | 17 |
| Adam's apple? | 17 |
| A memorable Arden | 17 |
| Time to get ready | 17 |
| Pre-crisis period | 17 |
| Portentous period | 17 |
| Noted apple eater | 17 |
| Motherless mother | 17 |
| Holiday minus one | 17 |
| First of a gender | 17 |
| Fig-leafed female | 17 |
| Early pome picker | 17 |
| Certain threshold | 17 |
| Celebratory night | 17 |
| Cain's raiser | 17 |
| Brink of an event | 17 |
| Baxter role: 1950 | 17 |
| Antecedent period | 17 |
| Daredevil Knievel | 17 |
| Stunt-man Knievel | 17 |
| Stunt man Knievel | 17 |
| Daredeviltry name | 17 |
| Speed-reader Wood | 17 |
| On the same level | 17 |
| What avengers get | 17 |
| At the same level | 17 |
| Without advantage | 17 |
| Splittable by two | 17 |
| Like two, not one | 17 |
| With no variation | 17 |
| Square, moneywise | 17 |
| Like 2 or 4, e.g. | 17 |
| Entering overtime | 17 |
| Shim, for example | 17 |
| Regulating device | 17 |
| It ties the score | 17 |
| Least out-of-line | 17 |
| Should it be that | 17 |
| Primetime TV time | 17 |
| Times for soirees | 17 |
| Fair way to share | 17 |
| Bet with 1-1 odds | 17 |
| Unexpected others | 17 |
| Reach equilibrium | 17 |
| Golf round result | 17 |
| Half the integers | 17 |
| Adjusts a hemline | 17 |
| 2, 4, 6, 8, . . . | 17 |
| Serene Spielberg? | 17 |
| It may be blessed | 17 |
| Caterer's job | 17 |
| Caterer's gig | 17 |
| Word with blessed | 17 |
| The Grammys, e.g. | 17 |
| Shot put, for one | 17 |
| Poetry slam, e.g. | 17 |
| Planner's gig | 17 |
| Olympics category | 17 |
| Job for a caterer | 17 |
| Decathlon segment | 17 |
| Calendar notation | 17 |
| Social happenings | 17 |
| Media attractions | 17 |
| Certain to happen | 17 |
| Occurring someday | 17 |
| Happening someday | 17 |
| ___ since (as of) | 17 |
| Happily ___ after | 17 |
| Word before after | 17 |
| Hardly __: rarely | 17 |
| Happily --- after | 17 |
| Green and lasting | 17 |
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