| Most common draw in Scrabble | 28 |
| Common request for Pat Sajak | 28 |
| Speaker's opening, often | 28 |
| Speechmaker's icebreaker | 28 |
| Speaker's warm-up, often | 28 |
| Anoint with oil, archaically | 28 |
| Anoint as part of last rites | 28 |
| Cause for a lack of vitality | 28 |
| "__ of robins ..." | 28 |
| "___ of traitors!" | 28 |
| "___ of robins..." | 28 |
| ``___ of robins...'' | 28 |
| Work without ___ (be daring) | 28 |
| Jean Schopfer's pen name | 28 |
| Part of a certain even trade | 28 |
| Part of a biblical trade-off | 28 |
| Zam. and Nam.'s neighbor | 28 |
| Nat. whose capital is Luanda | 28 |
| ___ Thong, Thailand province | 28 |
| U2 "___ of Harlem" | 28 |
| Figure on Jacob's ladder | 28 |
| Extremely well-behaved child | 28 |
| Christmas-tree topper, maybe | 28 |
| Christmas tree topper, often | 28 |
| Christmas tree topper, maybe | 28 |
| Celestial beings, in Bologna | 28 |
| Michael and Gabriel, for two | 28 |
| Victoria's Secret models | 28 |
| One of the seven deadly sins | 28 |
| 2003 Sandler/Nicholson movie | 28 |
| Brings to the boiling point? | 28 |
| Prefix with -plasty or -gram | 28 |
| Prefix with -gram or -plasty | 28 |
| It's measured in degrees | 28 |
| It's a matter of degrees | 28 |
| Drop a line from a pier, say | 28 |
| One who's casting about? | 28 |
| "Saxon" attachment | 28 |
| Portuguese colony until 1975 | 28 |
| Breed of cat, goat or rabbit | 28 |
| Patsy, to a mohair merchant? | 28 |
| Subject of many grunge songs | 28 |
| It can make your heart pound | 28 |
| Frequent Woody Allen feeling | 28 |
| ___-Busch (Budweiser brewer) | 28 |
| Nickname for young Skywalker | 28 |
| Wheel spinner's purchase | 28 |
| The Skywalker boy, for short | 28 |
| Purchase from Vanna, perhaps | 28 |
| Folk rock's ___ DiFranco | 28 |
| C-3PO's builder, briefly | 28 |
| Shrub yielding an indigo dye | 28 |
| Shrub that yields indigo dye | 28 |
| Shrub that produces blue ink | 28 |
| Jung's inner personality | 28 |
| Type of cracker or magnetism | 28 |
| Member of a very old kingdom | 28 |
| Twisted balloon shape, often | 28 |
| One of nature's kingdoms | 28 |
| One of a guessing-game three | 28 |
| Classic Marx Brothers comedy | 28 |
| Kevin Bacon's film debut | 28 |
| Work for Warner Bros., maybe | 28 |
| "Pokémon" genre | 28 |
| "Ranma ½" genre | 28 |
| Have ___ with (be connected) | 28 |
| Have -- with (be favored by) | 28 |
| Have ___ with (know someone) | 28 |
| Flavoring for a Caen cordial | 28 |
| Flavoring for a Nice cordial | 28 |
| Córdoba cordial flavoring | 28 |
| Five-spice powder ingredient | 28 |
| Used in cookery and medicine | 28 |
| Liqueur and condiment flavor | 28 |
| Licorice-flavored seed plant | 28 |
| Plants of the parsley family | 28 |
| Members of the carrot family | 28 |
| Shanghai cocktail ingredient | 28 |
| Liqueur sweetened with syrup | 28 |
| Santa ___ (California track) | 28 |
| Gillette of stage and screen | 28 |
| "Sweet Love" Baker | 28 |
| "Peer Gynt" dancer | 28 |
| Ibsen's dancing princess | 28 |
| Whence the Plantagenets came | 28 |
| "Diana" songwriter | 28 |
| Ottawa's gift to songdom | 28 |
| Asian capital on a peninsula | 28 |
| Capital place to talk Turkey | 28 |
| Cross with a loop at the top | 28 |
| Some hieroglyphic characters | 28 |
| Spot often struck by a snake | 28 |
| Bracelet location, sometimes | 28 |
| Knee-hi's shorter cousin | 28 |
| Landers who dispensed advice | 28 |
| Zealous conservative Coulter | 28 |
| Right-wing columnist Coulter | 28 |
| PEN/Faulkner winner Patchett | 28 |
| Mickey's Broadway costar | 28 |
| Fay in "King Kong" | 28 |