| Contentious | 11 |
| Contentious confrontation | 25 |
| Contentious economic issue for the 112th Congress | 49 |
| Contentious ones | 16 |
| Contentious political assembly | 30 |
| Contentious subject | 19 |
| Contentious talk | 16 |
| Contentious TV star (planning to get...) | 40 |
| Contentment | 11 |
| Contentment sound | 17 |
| Contents | 8 |
| Contents in the silly question, paronomastically | 48 |
| Contents intro? | 15 |
| Contents list | 13 |
| Contents meas. | 14 |
| Contents of Lac Champlain | 26 |
| Contents of "The Federalist" | 38 |
| Contents of a barbecue pit, often | 33 |
| Contents of a BBQ pit, often | 28 |
| Contents of a big bowl | 22 |
| Contents of a big spread | 24 |
| Contents of a biggin | 20 |
| Contents of a Bombay bread basket | 33 |
| Contents of a certain ark | 25 |
| Contents of a certain household box | 35 |
| Contents of a certain tub | 25 |
| Contents of a chest? | 20 |
| Contents of a child's box | 29 |
| Contents of a child's chest | 31 |
| Contents of a cool tub | 22 |
| Contents of a cruet | 19 |
| Contents of a cylindrical case | 30 |
| Contents of a diamond bag | 25 |
| Contents of a diaper bag packet | 31 |
| Contents of a diner dispenser that might get sticky | 51 |
| Contents of a dugout rack | 25 |
| Contents of a dump | 18 |
| Contents of a fearless person's veins, reportedly | 53 |
| Contents of a flick? | 20 |
| Contents of a flickering sign, at times | 39 |
| Contents of a fruit basket given to Mr. Hope? | 45 |
| Contents of a hoedown seat | 26 |
| Contents of a La Brea pit | 25 |
| Contents of a large, round, flat can | 36 |
| Contents of a leak | 18 |
| Contents of a lode | 18 |
| Contents of a lode-bearing wall? | 32 |
| Contents of a modern flood | 26 |
| Contents of a Mumbai bread basket | 33 |
| Contents of a nut | 17 |
| Contents of a package from Mom | 30 |
| Contents of a Paris grid | 24 |
| Contents of a pitching mound bag | 32 |
| Contents of a playground box | 28 |
| Contents of a political tract, maybe | 36 |
| Contents of a risky box | 23 |
| Contents of a scoop | 19 |
| Contents of a seidel | 20 |
| Contents of a sensitive layer | 29 |
| Contents of a Shakespearean purse | 33 |
| Contents of a silent butler | 27 |
| Contents of a sleeve | 20 |
| Contents of a small bankroll | 28 |
| Contents of a stannary mine | 27 |
| Contents of a stylo | 19 |
| Contents of a tub | 17 |
| Contents of a well | 18 |
| Contents of a windrow | 21 |
| Contents of Alice's pool | 28 |
| Contents of an album, perhaps | 29 |
| Contents of an atlas | 20 |
| Contents of an Italian indictment? | 34 |
| Contents of an onomasticon | 26 |
| Contents of backup disks | 24 |
| Contents of Bartlett's | 26 |
| Contents of certain books | 25 |
| Contents of certain showers | 27 |
| Contents of certain trays | 25 |
| Contents of cuppas | 18 |
| Contents of el mar | 18 |
| Contents of envs. | 17 |
| Contents of four answers found in this puzzle | 45 |
| Contents of guns used in training exercises | 43 |
| Contents of Hamlet's sea | 28 |
| Contents of Horace's ''Carmina'' | 52 |
| Contents of Horace's "Carmina" | 44 |
| Contents of hourglasses | 23 |
| Contents of iPods | 17 |
| Contents of jewel boxes | 23 |
| Contents of jewel cases | 23 |
| Contents of Julianne's bio? (1997, 1999, 2002) | 50 |
| Contents of la plume | 20 |
| Contents of lamps, maybe | 24 |
| Contents of Lenin's Tomb, e.g.? | 35 |
| Contents of letters to Santa | 28 |
| Contents of lodes | 17 |
| Contents of lots of mail | 24 |
| Contents of many California orchards | 36 |
| Contents of many files: Abbr. | 29 |
| Contents of many outtakes | 25 |