| Cause of impatience | 19 |
| Cause of inflation | 18 |
| Cause of inflation? | 19 |
| Cause of Irish emigration in the 1840s-'50s | 47 |
| Cause of Jove's laughter: Juliet | 36 |
| Cause of jungle fever | 21 |
| Cause of kitchen tears | 22 |
| Cause of knight sweats? | 23 |
| Cause of laughter or tears | 26 |
| Cause of Leah's many pit stops? | 35 |
| Cause of lightheadedness? | 25 |
| Cause of listlessness | 21 |
| Cause of losing by oozing | 25 |
| Cause of low visibility | 23 |
| Cause of malodor | 16 |
| Cause of malodors | 17 |
| Cause of many a bad decision | 28 |
| Cause of many a blowup | 22 |
| Cause of many a blue funk | 25 |
| Cause of many a clogged artery | 30 |
| Cause of many a duel | 20 |
| Cause of many a family feud | 27 |
| Cause of many a hangover | 24 |
| Cause of many a mistake | 23 |
| Cause of many a sick day | 24 |
| Cause of many a split | 21 |
| Cause of many an accident | 25 |
| Cause of many an error | 22 |
| Cause of many calls to the police, often | 40 |
| Cause of many computer errors | 29 |
| Cause of many crashes | 21 |
| Cause of many days off | 22 |
| Cause of many delays | 20 |
| Cause of many errors | 20 |
| Cause of many traveling delays | 30 |
| Cause of many trips, once | 25 |
| Cause of many unwelcome lines | 29 |
| Cause of many uprisings | 23 |
| Cause of many yawns | 19 |
| Cause of mental distress, perhaps | 33 |
| Cause of mental or metal fatigue | 32 |
| Cause of merchandise shrinkage | 30 |
| Cause of misery | 15 |
| Cause of misunderstanding? | 26 |
| Cause of more fondness? | 23 |
| Cause of much bellyaching? | 26 |
| Cause of much super PAC spending | 32 |
| Cause of muscle ache | 20 |
| Cause of nasality | 17 |
| Cause of negative earnings-per-share | 36 |
| Cause of nighttime neck spasms? | 31 |
| Cause of odd weather | 20 |
| Cause of one's undoing | 26 |
| Cause of over 5,000 annual deaths in India | 42 |
| Cause of overreactions? | 23 |
| Cause of overtime | 17 |
| Cause of pain in the side? | 26 |
| Cause of painter's colic | 28 |
| Cause of Philip Boyes's death in a Dorothy Sayers novel | 59 |
| Cause of pitter-patter | 22 |
| Cause of plane turbulence | 25 |
| Cause of plot holes? | 20 |
| Cause of pool problems | 22 |
| Cause of poor archery score | 27 |
| Cause of prickly heat? | 22 |
| Cause of problems | 17 |
| Cause of problems in radio communication | 40 |
| Cause of quailing | 17 |
| Cause of quaking | 16 |
| Cause of rage against the machine? | 34 |
| Cause of rage, briefly | 22 |
| Cause of red ink | 16 |
| Cause of reduced visibility | 27 |
| Cause of royal insomnia | 23 |
| Cause of royal insomnia? | 24 |
| Cause of ruin | 13 |
| Cause of ruination | 18 |
| Cause of rust | 13 |
| Cause of scaling | 16 |
| Cause of screaming and fainting, perhaps | 40 |
| Cause of senselessness | 22 |
| Cause of sepsis | 15 |
| Cause of shaking | 16 |
| Cause of shore erosion | 22 |
| Cause of shouting | 17 |
| Cause of shrinkage | 18 |
| Cause of side discomfort? | 25 |
| Cause of silence | 16 |
| Cause of silence in the locker room | 35 |
| Cause of silent-screen villainy | 31 |
| Cause of sink stains | 20 |
| Cause of skidding | 17 |
| Cause of slacking off at school | 31 |
| Cause of sloppiness, maybe | 26 |
| Cause of smithereens, maybe | 27 |
| Cause of sniffles | 17 |
| Cause of somberness, perhaps | 28 |
| Cause of some '60s trips | 28 |
| Cause of some 2002-2003 travel warnings | 39 |
| Cause of some aches | 19 |