| Text | Length |
| Lambaste verbally | 17 |
| Headstone letters | 17 |
| Irving sleepyhead | 17 |
| Word with roaring | 17 |
| Upholstery defect | 17 |
| Tombstone acronym | 17 |
| Tear away roughly | 17 |
| Sleepy van Winkle | 17 |
| Open indelicately | 17 |
| Let-'er ender | 17 |
| Initials in stone | 17 |
| Headstone heading | 17 |
| Fictional sleeper | 17 |
| Engraved letters? | 17 |
| Dryer sheet noise | 17 |
| Boot Hill letters | 17 |
| ___ into (assail) | 17 |
| Prime for picking | 17 |
| Ready for reaping | 17 |
| Ready to be eaten | 17 |
| Like edible fruit | 17 |
| Like a red tomato | 17 |
| Sufficiently aged | 17 |
| Ready to retrieve | 17 |
| Ready on the vine | 17 |
| Old age preceder? | 17 |
| Turn color, maybe | 17 |
| Get ready to eat? | 17 |
| Become more tasty | 17 |
| Matured, as fruit | 17 |
| Came along nicely | 17 |
| Comes to maturity | 17 |
| Comes to fruition | 17 |
| Nearest to rotten | 17 |
| Best to pick, say | 17 |
| Wisconsin college | 17 |
| G.O.P. birthplace | 17 |
| Unwrap in a hurry | 17 |
| Remove, as a page | 17 |
| Undo, as stitches | 17 |
| Remove, as carpet | 17 |
| Van Winkle et al. | 17 |
| __ into (attacks) | 17 |
| Hazardous channel | 17 |
| Shred into pieces | 17 |
| Prepare to repave | 17 |
| Make into tatters | 17 |
| Laughter, in Lyon | 17 |
| Swell, as a river | 17 |
| Stairstep measure | 17 |
| Soufflés do it | 17 |
| Provoked response | 17 |
| Provoked reaction | 17 |
| Expand in the pan | 17 |
| On one's feet | 17 |
| Above the horizon | 17 |
| Gone up, as fever | 17 |
| Anagram for siren | 17 |
| Anagram for serin | 17 |
| Flight components | 17 |
| Stands for choirs | 17 |
| What the sun does | 17 |
| The Sun Also ____ | 17 |
| Disposed to laugh | 17 |
| Investment factor | 17 |
| Global board game | 17 |
| Takes a chance on | 17 |
| Daredevil dangers | 17 |
| Italian rice dish | 17 |
| Upstate N.Y. sch. | 17 |
| Slowing, in music | 17 |
| Brand to dye for? | 17 |
| Hurricane of 2005 | 17 |
| Comedienne Rudner | 17 |
| Metermaid of song | 17 |
| Lovely meter maid | 17 |
| Funnywoman Rudner | 17 |
| Funny lady Rudner | 17 |
| Moreno and Rudner | 17 |
| Rudner and Moreno | 17 |
| Solemn observance | 17 |
| Sacred observance | 17 |
| Marriage, for one | 17 |
| Christening, e.g. | 17 |
| Formal observance | 17 |
| Bas mitzvah, e.g. | 17 |
| Baby naming, e.g. | 17 |
| Scottish, for one | 17 |
| Prescribed custom | 17 |
| Mass, for example | 17 |
| Latin or Anglican | 17 |
| Initiation, often | 17 |
| Confirmation, say | 17 |
| Church observance | 17 |
| Bar mitzvah e.g. | 17 |
| Anglican, for one | 17 |
| Formal ceremonies | 17 |
| Solemn ceremonies | 17 |
| Solemn procedures | 17 |
| Sacred ceremonies | 17 |
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