| ___ credit (banker's notification) | 38 |
| ___ Creed (set of Christian beliefs) | 36 |
| ___ Creed (statement of religious beliefs) | 42 |
| ___ Creek (1864 Virginia battle site) | 37 |
| ___ Creek, N.C., site of a 1771 colonial battle | 47 |
| ___ Cristo-Loveanu, painter of Eisenhower | 41 |
| ___ Croft, title role for Angelina Jolie | 40 |
| ___ croisés (French crossword) | 33 |
| ___ Cross, James Patterson detective | 36 |
| ___ crossing (crosswalk, to a Brit) | 35 |
| ___ crossing (Hawaiian road sign) | 33 |
| ___ Crossing (historic Colorado River ford) | 43 |
| ___ Crouse, 1946 Pulitzer winner for Drama | 42 |
| ___ Cruz (name on old Mexican maps) | 35 |
| ___ Cruz, known as "the queen of salsa" | 49 |
| ___ cube (popular 60's-70's puzzle) | 43 |
| ___ Culp Hobby of H.E.W.: 1953-55 | 33 |
| ___ Culp Hobby, D.D.E.'s H.E.W. Sec. | 40 |
| ___ Culp Hobby, first Secretary of H.E.W. | 41 |
| ___ culpa ("my fault") | 32 |
| ___ cum laude (with highest honors) | 35 |
| ___ Cup (annual Canadian hockey championship) | 45 |
| ___ Cup (candy with a gooey center) | 35 |
| ___ cup (tot's drinking vessel) | 35 |
| ___ curiae (friend of the court) | 32 |
| ___ curiae (friend of the court, in Latin) | 42 |
| ___ curiae (friends of the court) | 33 |
| ___ curiam (like some court rulings) | 36 |
| ___ Curtis (erstwhile beauty care line) | 39 |
| ___ Curtis, onetime cosmetics giant | 35 |
| ___ Cynwyd (Philadelphia suburb) | 32 |
| ___ d'amore (baroque instrument) | 36 |
| ___ d'amore (reed instrument) | 33 |
| ___ d'armes (fencing teacher) | 33 |
| ___ d'esprit (frame of mind) | 32 |
| ___ d'Isère (French skiing locale) | 41 |
| ___ d'Italia (cycling event) | 32 |
| ___ d'Ivoire (African nation) | 33 |
| ___ d'orchestre (organ stop) | 32 |
| ___ d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) | 39 |
| ___ d'Orsay, French Foreign Ministry | 40 |
| ___ d'Ouessant (westernmost point of France) | 48 |
| ___ D. Young (Time's Man of the Year in 1929) | 49 |
| ___ da caccia (cor anglais forerunner) | 38 |
| ___ da caccia (English-horn forerunner) | 39 |
| ___ da Gama of the Age of Discovery | 35 |
| ___ Dai (exiled Vietnamese emperor) | 35 |
| ___ Dai (last emperor of Vietnam) | 33 |
| ___ Dai, former Vietnamese emperor | 34 |
| ___ Daly of TV's "Cagney and Lacey" | 49 |
| ___ Damon of "Saving Private Ryan" | 44 |
| ___ Dan (Israeli archaeological site) | 37 |
| ___ Dan (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band) | 41 |
| ___ dancer (old slang for a railroad worker) | 44 |
| ___ dancer, railroad-track layer | 32 |
| ___ Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo | 40 |
| ___ Dark Materials (Philip Pullman trilogy) | 43 |
| ___ dark space (region in a vacuum tube) | 40 |
| ___ Darrow of "King Kong" | 35 |
| ___ Darya (river to the Aral Sea) | 33 |
| ___ Dashan (highest point in Ethiopia) | 38 |
| ___ Dashan, highest Ethopian peak | 33 |
| ___ David (presidential retreat) | 32 |
| ___ Davis of "The Brady Bunch" | 40 |
| ___ Davis, county in Ga. or Tex. | 32 |
| ___ Dawn (Muppet on "Sesame Street") | 46 |
| ___ Dawn Chong of "Commando" | 38 |
| ___ Dawn Chong of "Quest for Fire" | 44 |
| ___ Day (annual Hawaiian observance) | 36 |
| ___ day (dosage amount, perhaps) | 32 |
| ___ Day (environmentalists' event) | 38 |
| ___ Day (Hawaiian holiday celebrated on May 1) | 46 |
| ___ Day (May 1 holiday on Hawai'i) | 38 |
| ___ day (prescription direction) | 32 |
| ___ Day (tree-planting occasion) | 32 |
| ___ Day, former Canadian celebration | 36 |
| ___ Day, May 1 celebration in Hawaii | 36 |
| ___ Day, post-Christmas holiday in England | 42 |
| ___ days (for fasting and prayer) | 33 |
| ___ days (happy time in the past) | 33 |
| ___ days, for prayer and fasting | 32 |
| ___ de bandera (Spanish flagstaff) | 34 |
| ___ de Beaujeu, a daughter of Louis XI | 38 |
| ___ de Beber (Antonio Carlos Jobim classic) | 43 |
| ___ de Bologne (park west of Paris) | 35 |
| ___ de Boulogne, Parisians' park | 36 |
| ___ de bourrée (ballet movement) | 35 |
| ___ de Brabant, medieval philosopher | 36 |
| ___ de café (cup of coffee, in Chambéry | 45 |
| ___ de canard (feathers tied to fishing lures) | 46 |
| ___ de Castro (storied noblewoman) | 34 |
| ___ de Castro, Spanish noblewoman | 33 |
| ___ de cebolla (onion rings, in Spain) | 38 |
| ___ de Champlain, founder of Quebec | 35 |
| ___ de coeur (passionate appeal) | 32 |
| ___ de coeur (passionate protest) | 33 |
| ___ de Cristo Mountains, in the Rockies | 39 |
| ___ de gallo (Mexican condiment) | 32 |
| ___ de gallo (Mexican restaurant order) | 39 |
| ___ de gato (Southwestern shrub) | 32 |