| Very hot under the collar | 25 |
| Going postal | 12 |
| Blowing a gasket | 16 |
| Measured two-dimensionally | 26 |
| Words denoting square feet | 26 |
| With regard to surface space | 28 |
| Size-wise, for land | 19 |
| On the surface, measurably | 26 |
| How Russia ranks #1 | 19 |
| How carpet quantities are expressed | 35 |
| How California ranks #3 | 23 |
| Extent-wise | 11 |
| As regards square footage | 25 |
| Linear | 6 |
| Consecutively | 13 |
| One after another | 17 |
| Back to back | 12 |
| All lined up | 12 |
| "And pretty maids all ___" | 36 |
| Lined up single-file | 20 |
| Way to organize all your ducks? | 31 |
| Sequenced | 9 |
| Neatly lined up | 15 |
| How police lineup suspects stand | 32 |
| How pawns are arranged, at first | 32 |
| Back-to-back | 12 |
| "Pretty maids all ___" | 32 |
| " . . . maids all ___" | 32 |
| Like the White Rabbit | 21 |
| Hurrying | 8 |
| Extremely busy | 14 |
| With no time to lose | 20 |
| Without time to think | 21 |
| Speeding | 8 |
| Not stopping to talk | 20 |
| Hurrying along | 14 |
| How looming deadlines may be met | 32 |
| Hell-bent for leather | 21 |
| Bogged down | 11 |
| Habituated | 10 |
| Going nowhere fast | 18 |
| Getting nowhere fast | 20 |
| Mired | 5 |
| Lacking variety | 15 |
| Needing change | 14 |
| Getting nowhere | 15 |
| Bound by routine | 16 |
| Stuck with the same old routine | 31 |
| Uncreative | 10 |
| Stuck and not going anywhere | 28 |
| Trapped by routine | 18 |
| Spinning one's wheels | 25 |
| Not progressing | 15 |
| Needing a change | 16 |
| Making no progress | 18 |
| Doing the same old thing | 24 |
| Crying out for change | 21 |
| Bored by routine | 16 |
| Where the bored may be stuck | 28 |
| Unpromisingly stuck | 19 |
| Unhappy with the daily grind | 28 |
| Unable to escape the daily grind | 32 |
| Trapped by sameness | 19 |
| Trapped by habit | 16 |
| Stultified | 10 |
| Showing no imagination | 22 |
| Plodding the treadmill | 22 |
| Not showing much creativity | 27 |
| Needing variety | 15 |
| Like many nine-to-fivers | 24 |
| Going nowhere, jobwise | 22 |
| Going nowhere, fast | 19 |
| Doing the same thing over and over | 34 |
| Doing the same thing daily | 26 |
| Doing the same old, same old | 28 |
| Doing the same old same old | 27 |
| Desperate for change | 20 |
| Bored with life, say | 20 |
| Bored and trapped | 17 |
| Claire and Balin | 16 |
| Balin and Claire | 16 |
| ___ much as | 11 |
| Actresses Claire and Balin | 26 |
| Miss Claire and others | 22 |
| Claire et al. | 13 |
| Balin and Coolbrith | 19 |
| Sworn __: given the oath of office for | 38 |
| Much attachment | 15 |
| Miss Claire et al. | 18 |
| Lead-in to much | 15 |
| Claire and others | 17 |
| Actresses Balin and Claire | 26 |
| "Much" preceder | 25 |
| What much may follow | 20 |
| What much can follow | 20 |
| Sworn ___ (officially given the role of) | 40 |
| Sworn ___ (given the oath of office for) | 40 |
| Suffixes with czar and signor | 29 |
| Poet Coolbrith et al. | 21 |
| Poet Coolbrith and others | 25 |