| The ___ from French Lick (Larry Bird) | 37 |
| The ___ Effect (grooming phenomenon) | 36 |
| The ___ Effect (deodorant ad claim) | 35 |
| The ___ Dukes (1960s-'70s band) | 35 |
| The ___ Dolls (cabaret/punk band) | 33 |
| The ___ Countess of "Downton Abbey" | 45 |
| The ___ Brothers of 70's-80's rock | 42 |
| The ___ Brothers of 1960's-70's R & B | 49 |
| The ___ Brothers (R&B group) | 32 |
| The ___ break (much-sampled hip-hop beat) | 41 |
| The ___ Boys (40's-50's film group) | 43 |
| The ___ Band, with guitarist Little Steven | 42 |
| The ___ Band (led by Lenny Pickett) | 35 |
| The ___ Band (Elvis Presley's backup) | 41 |
| The ___ Band (Elvis Presley's backing band) | 47 |
| The ___ and the Papas (rock group) | 34 |
| The ___ and the Issas (Djibouti, formerly) | 42 |
| The ___ (vast Russian grasslands) | 33 |
| The ___ (Jim Morrison's group) | 34 |
| The ___ (Friendly Islands), informally | 38 |
| The ___ (computer game about daily suburban life) | 49 |
| The ___ (brother-sister singing team) | 37 |
| The ___ ("Orphan Annie" character) | 44 |
| The ___ ("Lola" singers) | 34 |
| The ___ ("Batman" villain) | 36 |
| The __-Tones: Tormé's group | 34 |
| The __ Society of Boston: Irish culture group | 45 |
| The __ Kid: Willie Mays's nickname | 38 |
| The __ (Queen Beatrix's home) | 33 |
| The Zombies' "Tell ___ No" | 40 |
| The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, for short | 48 |
| The younger of the Gilmore girls | 32 |
| The Yoko of "Oh Yoko!" | 32 |
| The yellow Texas one, for example | 33 |
| The yellow one is Hawaii's state flower | 43 |
| The yearling in "The Yearling" | 40 |
| The year MCMXC, technologically? | 32 |
| The Yasawa Islands are part of it | 33 |
| The Yankees' Mariano Rivera, e.g. | 37 |
| The Yankees' Derek Jeter et al. | 35 |
| The Yankees swing here (with "the") | 45 |
| The Yankees retired his #3 in 1948 | 34 |
| The Yankees play on it during the summer: Abbr. | 47 |
| The Yankees often in the 20's | 33 |
| The Wright brothers' Ohio home | 34 |
| The Wright brothers' hometown | 33 |
| The Wright brothers' aircraft, for one | 42 |
| The worst song of all time, according to Blender | 48 |
| The worst of evils, per Helen Keller | 36 |
| The world's third-largest island | 36 |
| The world's southernmost active volcano | 43 |
| The world's smallest island nation | 38 |
| The world's second-highest volcano | 38 |
| The world's largest tennis stadium | 38 |
| The world's largest river, in volume | 40 |
| The world's largest particle physics lab | 44 |
| The world's largest fragrance company | 41 |
| The world's first independent black republic | 48 |
| The world's best-selling beer, for short | 44 |
| The World ____ See It : Einstein | 34 |
| The world total was approx. $70 trillion in 2011 | 48 |
| The World Series and the Super Bowl | 35 |
| The world record for this is just over 75 feet | 46 |
| The world of point-and-click shopping | 37 |
| The World Factbook publisher: Abbr. | 35 |
| The works of Yeats, Swift, Joyce, et al. | 40 |
| The working girl in "Working Girl" | 44 |
| The word before "the night before ..." | 48 |
| The women in "Little Women," e.g. | 43 |
| The Woman ____ : Wilder comedy | 32 |
| The woman replied "..." | 33 |
| The woman of Lennon's "Woman" | 43 |
| The woman of ''Woman'' | 38 |
| The woman in the song "Woman" | 39 |
| The woman in "An Unmarried Woman" | 43 |
| The woman exclaimed "...!" | 36 |
| The wolf, in "Peter and the Wolf" | 43 |
| The Wizard of ___ Park (Thomas Edison) | 38 |
| The Wizard of Westwood's sch. | 33 |
| The Wiz in ''The Wiz'' | 38 |
| The witches in "Macbeth," e.g. | 40 |
| The wise men came from this direction | 37 |
| The Wind in the Willows character | 36 |
| The wind at Chi-Town's Wrigley Field? | 41 |
| The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. | 32 |
| The Wildcats of the America East Conf. | 38 |
| The wild blue yonder to Dale Evans' horse? | 46 |
| The Wife of ___ (Chaucer story teller) | 38 |
| The Wife of ___ (Chaucer character) | 35 |
| The wife of Geraint in Arthurian lore | 37 |
| The Who: "Odds and ___" | 33 |
| The Who's was "Magic" | 35 |
| The Who's first live album location | 39 |
| The Who's "___ O'Riley" | 41 |
| The Who's "___ Hard" | 34 |
| The Who's "___ Get Fooled Again" | 46 |
| The Who's "Who ___ You" | 37 |
| The Who's "Tommy," for one | 40 |
| The Who's "Tommy" and others | 42 |
| The Who's "Quadrophenia," e.g. | 44 |