| Text | Length |
| Paperbacks of yore | 18 |
| Melodramatic reads | 18 |
| Time, for one | 13 |
| Magnitude or extent | 19 |
| Length or width | 15 |
| Verse of two feet | 17 |
| Two-foot verse | 14 |
| Line of two feet | 16 |
| Become smaller | 14 |
| Reduce in size | 14 |
| Kind of returns | 15 |
| Composer Tiomkin | 16 |
| Lowered the lights | 18 |
| Lowered lights | 14 |
| Became faint | 12 |
| Light switcher? | 15 |
| Certain switch | 14 |
| Low-beam pair | 13 |
| Light lighteners | 16 |
| Light modifiers | 15 |
| Least sharp-witted | 18 |
| Least hopeful | 13 |
| Lack of light | 13 |
| Low-power period | 16 |
| Golf-ball feature | 17 |
| Golf ball feature | 17 |
| Smiler's hollow | 19 |
| Smile enhancer | 14 |
| Part of a golf ball | 19 |
| Mark on Miss Marker | 19 |
| Like a golf ball | 16 |
| Golf ball features | 18 |
| Golf-ball features | 18 |
| Chinese dumplings | 17 |
| Steamed dumplings | 17 |
| Pork rolls and such | 19 |
| Faint + ill-lit? | 16 |
| Chinatown offering | 18 |
| Appetizer sampler | 17 |
| Fools; blockheads | 17 |
| Jazz singer of note | 19 |
| Romantic night out? | 19 |
| Patronize, in a way | 19 |
| Eat at ten, say | 15 |
| Enjoy, as fine food | 19 |
| Have for supper | 15 |
| ___ home (eats in) | 18 |
| Orders from home | 16 |
| Makes a meal of | 15 |
| Has for supper | 14 |
| Has at a spread | 15 |
| Consumes with flair | 19 |
| Apartment furniture | 19 |
| Wacky person | 12 |
| Little-bell sounds | 18 |
| Carol of 1588 | 13 |
| Left an impression | 18 |
| Home run, in slang | 18 |
| Slugfest shots | 14 |
| Small boats: Var. | 17 |
| Doorbell promo? | 15 |
| Cowards, Down Under | 19 |
| Banquet facility | 16 |
| Nile Valley group | 17 |
| Small locomotive | 16 |
| Less significant | 16 |
| Soft tennis returns | 19 |
| Hardly smash hits | 17 |
| Standard date | 13 |
| First date doings | 17 |
| Dating option | 13 |
| Capote moves along? | 19 |
| Niven film of 1937 | 18 |
| Mealtime summoner | 17 |
| Sirloin steak, e.g. | 19 |
| Evening appointment | 19 |
| Calendar marking | 16 |
| Fancy dining wear | 17 |
| Hosted event | 12 |
| China shop purchase | 19 |
| They were big-boned | 19 |
| T. rex and others | 17 |
| Tyrannosaurus rex | 17 |
| Triceratops, e.g. | 17 |
| Terrible reptile | 16 |
| Mesozoic reptile | 16 |
| Extinct animal | 14 |
| Crichton critter | 16 |
| Crichton creature | 17 |
| Barney, for one | 15 |
| Outmoded items | 14 |
| Extinct reptiles | 16 |
| Extinct creatures | 17 |
| Drove in forcibly | 17 |
| Forces or powers | 16 |
| Drives in forcibly | 18 |
| ___ Moore stew | 14 |
| Bishop, often | 13 |
| Bishops' realms | 19 |
| Early Greek Cynic | 17 |
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