| Word after step or stand | 24 |
| Utterance to the audience | 25 |
| Tangential observation | 22 |
| Remarks to an audience | 22 |
| Playwright's device | 23 |
| Place for all kidding? | 22 |
| Onstage thought balloon | 23 |
| In reserve Weakerthans tune? | 28 |
| Hit song on a 45, usually | 25 |
| Comment off the main point | 26 |
| Words to no one in particular | 29 |
| Whispered line on the stage | 27 |
| To the left or the right | 24 |
| Thinking out loud, in a way | 27 |
| Spoken thought, onstage | 23 |
| Song much played on the radio | 29 |
| Remark for the audience | 23 |
| Out of one's mind? | 22 |
| Onstage thought bubble | 22 |
| Much-played part of a 45 | 24 |
| Line just for the audience | 26 |
| It might be in parentheses | 26 |
| It breaks the fourth wall | 25 |
| In the rainy-day fund, say | 26 |
| Hamlet's first line, e.g. | 29 |
| Delivery to the audience | 24 |
| Comment to an audience | 22 |
| Comment in parentheses | 22 |
| Bracketed word in a script | 26 |
| All kidding ____ . . . | 22 |
| "Stand ___!" | 22 |
| Comments to the audience | 24 |
| Parenthetical comments | 22 |
| Remarks to the audience | 23 |
| Sotto voce stage remarks | 24 |
| Lines spoken to an audience | 27 |
| Comments from the stage | 23 |
| They might be parenthesized | 27 |
| They might be in parentheses | 28 |
| They go in parentheses | 22 |
| Spoken thoughts, in a way | 25 |
| Playwrights' ploys | 22 |
| Many of Hamlet's lines | 26 |
| Hand-to-mouth comments? | 23 |
| Dramatists' devices | 23 |
| Actors' lines, at times | 27 |
| "Just like me" | 24 |
| "Just do ___" | 23 |
| "... say, not __" | 27 |
| "... say, not ___" | 28 |
| ". . . say, not __" | 29 |
| "A likely story!" | 27 |
| "Fat chance!" | 23 |
| "In your dreams!" | 27 |
| "Yeah, sure!" | 23 |
| 'Yeah, right!' | 22 |
| "Yeah, right" | 23 |
| "Like, no way!" | 25 |
| "Not on your life!" | 29 |
| "In your dreams" | 26 |
| "Not likely!" | 23 |
| "Keep dreaming!" | 26 |
| "A likely story" | 26 |
| "___ I care!" | 23 |
| 'In your dreams!' | 25 |
| Teen's catchphrase | 22 |
| "Oh, come on!" | 24 |
| "Keep dreaming" | 25 |
| Book of poems by Ciardi | 23 |
| "Ri-i-ight!" | 22 |
| "Oh, right!" | 22 |
| "Clueless" phrase | 27 |
| ''You wish!'' | 29 |
| "Oh, you wish!" | 25 |
| "Not gonna happen!" | 29 |
| "Highly unlikely!" | 28 |
| ''Get real!'' | 29 |
| _____I didn't care | 22 |
| Valley girl's comeback | 26 |
| Vaihinger's philosophy | 26 |
| Expression of ridicule | 22 |
| Clueless exclamation | 23 |
| Book of poems by John Ciardi | 28 |
| [pshaw] "Yeah!" | 25 |
| "Shyeah . . ." | 24 |
| "Nope. Never" | 23 |
| "No way!" to a teen | 29 |
| "Highly doubtful" | 27 |
| "Fer sher ... not!" | 29 |
| "___ to say ..." | 26 |
| "___ I cared!" | 24 |
| "___ I care" | 22 |
| "__ I care!" | 22 |
| 'Likely story' | 22 |
| 'Don't you wish!' | 29 |
| ____ I didn't know! | 23 |
| "I, Robot" author | 27 |
| 'I, Robot' writer | 25 |
| 'I, Robot' author | 25 |
| 'Foundation' author | 27 |