| Text | Length |
| Film critic, often | 18 |
| Triple-A, at times | 18 |
| He makes the grade | 18 |
| Those using scales | 18 |
| Talent show judges | 18 |
| Figures in a hotel | 18 |
| Is good enough for | 18 |
| Hourly wages, e.g. | 18 |
| Hotel-door posting | 18 |
| Hotel room listing | 18 |
| Cronkite successor | 18 |
| Half a star, maybe | 18 |
| Media measurements | 18 |
| Betting odds, e.g. | 18 |
| Three to one, e.g. | 18 |
| Relative magnitude | 18 |
| Probability number | 18 |
| Numeric comparison | 18 |
| Comparative figure | 18 |
| Comparable figures | 18 |
| 11:10, for example | 18 |
| Nautical rope rung | 18 |
| Sell out, in a way | 18 |
| Town in New Mexico | 18 |
| Sing at Sing Sing? | 18 |
| Betray by blabbing | 18 |
| Nine-to-five grind | 18 |
| Exhausting routine | 18 |
| Tiring competition | 18 |
| Exhaustive routine | 18 |
| Willard's pals | 18 |
| Hamelin's bane | 18 |
| Tells in a bad way | 18 |
| Slangy exclamation | 18 |
| Charlie Brown word | 18 |
| 'Blasted!' | 18 |
| Dirty, messy place | 18 |
| Joe Buck's pal | 18 |
| Exposes by finking | 18 |
| Knock on wood, say | 18 |
| Named names, maybe | 18 |
| Shake roll divider | 18 |
| Nursery noisemaker | 18 |
| Hopeless situation | 18 |
| Writer Santha Rama | 18 |
| Author Santha Rama | 18 |
| Julia of Hollywood | 18 |
| One of the Castros | 18 |
| Outfielder Mondesi | 18 |
| He succeeded Fidel | 18 |
| Pan's opposite | 18 |
| Rant's partner | 18 |
| Talk like a madman | 18 |
| Thumbs-up write-up | 18 |
| Superlative review | 18 |
| Definite thumbs up | 18 |
| Critic's kudos | 18 |
| Talk extravagantly | 18 |
| Speak incoherently | 18 |
| Give four stars to | 18 |
| Act like a lunatic | 18 |
| Spoke irrationally | 18 |
| Spoke ecstatically | 18 |
| Tangle or untangle | 18 |
| Bolero composer | 18 |
| Where Marner lived | 18 |
| Bird in a Poe poem | 18 |
| Jet-black, as hair | 18 |
| Harsh-voiced birds | 18 |
| Wild dance parties | 18 |
| Critics' kudos | 18 |
| Sitar star Shankar | 18 |
| First name in raga | 18 |
| Norah's father | 18 |
| Lahore's river | 18 |
| Product of erosion | 18 |
| Deep, narrow gorge | 18 |
| Mountain separator | 18 |
| Pillows on a plate | 18 |
| Pasta with pockets | 18 |
| Cappelletti cousin | 18 |
| Transport with joy | 18 |
| Like steak tartare | 18 |
| Like uncooked meat | 18 |
| Like a new recruit | 18 |
| Like most recruits | 18 |
| Lacking experience | 18 |
| Coarse, as a comic | 18 |
| Like some recruits | 18 |
| Like some emotions | 18 |
| Like March weather | 18 |
| In the ___ (naked) | 18 |
| Grittily realistic | 18 |
| Fresh, as recruits | 18 |
| Eddie Murphy movie | 18 |
| Eddie Murphy flick | 18 |
| Place for shuckers | 18 |
| Uninterpreted info | 18 |
| Grist for analysts | 18 |
| Grist for analysis | 18 |
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