| Text | Length |
| Allowing no play | 16 |
| Take up the slack | 17 |
| Remove the slack | 16 |
| Remove slack from | 17 |
| Take out the slack | 18 |
| Take out slack | 14 |
| Stretch tight | 13 |
| Strain, in a way | 16 |
| Give less slack | 15 |
| Get more rigid | 14 |
| Free of slack | 13 |
| Become tense | 12 |
| Took up the slack? | 18 |
| Got rid of slack | 16 |
| Stretches tightly | 17 |
| Becomes unslack | 15 |
| Adds tension to | 15 |
| More strained | 13 |
| More high-strung | 16 |
| Not as slack | 12 |
| Having less slack | 17 |
| The most stretched | 18 |
| Most stretched | 14 |
| Most lacking slack | 18 |
| Furthest stretched | 18 |
| In a tense manner | 17 |
| Without any slack | 17 |
| With great tension | 18 |
| Lack of slack | 13 |
| Strained condition | 18 |
| Degree of strain | 16 |
| Wrasse's cousin | 19 |
| Edible wrasse fish | 18 |
| Needless repetition | 19 |
| Last Hebrew letter | 18 |
| 23rd Hebrew letter | 18 |
| T, as in Talmud | 15 |
| Final Hebrew letter | 19 |
| Imported rosé | 16 |
| Spot for a belt | 15 |
| Round building? | 15 |
| Mermaid or Mitre | 16 |
| Cheers, notably | 15 |
| Tosspot's spot | 18 |
| Round house? | 12 |
| Rathskeller, e.g. | 17 |
| Place to get drinks | 19 |
| Place for toasting | 18 |
| Cheers set | 13 |
| Alewife's place | 19 |
| Small Greek cafe | 16 |
| Italian bistro | 14 |
| Athens eatery | 13 |
| Person behind bars? | 19 |
| Places for ales | 15 |
| Round houses? | 13 |
| Mermaid and Mitre | 17 |
| Rikki-Tikki-___ | 15 |
| Rikki-tikki-_____ | 17 |
| Rikki-Tikki-__ | 14 |
| Rikki-Tikki- --- | 16 |
| Rikki-tikki- -- | 15 |
| Smiley of PBS | 13 |
| Smiley on TV | 12 |
| Table, in Napoli | 16 |
| Table, in Naples | 16 |
| Spotted, to Tweety | 18 |
| Shooter marble | 14 |
| Choice marble | 13 |
| Viewed, to Tweety | 17 |
| Verb for Tweety | 15 |
| Showy shooter | 13 |
| Marbles shooter | 15 |
| Marble for shooters | 19 |
| Fancy shooter | 13 |
| Tweety Bird verb | 16 |
| Shooter for Junior | 18 |
| Shoot a marble | 14 |
| Sharp shooter | 13 |
| Playground shooter | 18 |
| Observed, to Tweety | 19 |
| Marbles (the game) | 18 |
| Marble shooter | 14 |
| Large marble | 12 |
| Glass shooter | 13 |
| Espied, to Tweety | 17 |
| Espied, per Tweety | 18 |
| N.Z. evergreen | 14 |
| More meretricious | 17 |
| Cheap and gaudy | 15 |
| Gaudy and cheap | 15 |
| Cheap and shoddy | 16 |
| Meretricious | 12 |
| Cheaply showy | 13 |
| Leathermaker | 12 |
| Leather dresser | 15 |
| Lion-colored | 12 |
| Yellow-brown | 12 |
| Brownish orange | 15 |
| Cougar's color | 18 |
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