| Highly worried | 14 |
| All anxious | 11 |
| ___ the finish | 14 |
| __ the finish | 13 |
| Take ___ the waist (tailor's job) | 37 |
| ___ the kill | 12 |
| "For those listening ___ home . . ." | 46 |
| "Tune ___ 11" | 23 |
| Words with ''the kill'' or ''the buzzer'' | 73 |
| Take __ the waist: alter | 24 |
| Take __ the waist (alter, perhaps) | 34 |
| "For those listening __ home ..." | 43 |
| --- nine, out by five | 21 |
| ____ the finish | 15 |
| ___ the start | 13 |
| ___ the buzzer | 14 |
| ___ the beginning | 17 |
| Take --- the waist (tailor's job) | 37 |
| Take --- the waist (alter) | 26 |
| Take ___ the waist (alter) | 26 |
| Jump __ the deep end | 20 |
| Clock ___ (finish with a time of) | 33 |
| Check ___ the gate | 18 |
| "Tune ___ eleven" | 27 |
| "The doctor will be __ ten" | 37 |
| "For those listening ___ home ..." | 44 |
| ''Tune ___ 11'' | 31 |
| -- the finish | 13 |
| _____ the kill | 14 |
| _____ the finish | 16 |
| ___ the start (present from the beginning) | 42 |
| ___ the beginning (present from the start) | 42 |
| ___ nine, out by five | 21 |
| How some games end | 18 |
| Even, scorewise | 15 |
| Evened | 6 |
| How many soccer matches end | 27 |
| Rare way for football games to end | 34 |
| How some soccer games end | 25 |
| How some games finish | 21 |
| How not a few soccer games end | 30 |
| How MLB games almost never end | 30 |
| How many tic-tac-toe games end | 30 |
| How baseball games rarely finish | 32 |
| How baseball games rarely end | 29 |
| How a soccer game might end | 27 |
| Headed for sudden death, say | 28 |
| Headed for sudden death, perhaps | 32 |
| Going to extra innings, say | 27 |
| Dead even, score-wise | 21 |
| All even, as a score | 20 |
| How smokeless tobacco may be packaged | 37 |
| How Altoids mints are packaged | 30 |
| Hypnotized | 10 |
| Like a happy medium? | 20 |
| Dazed, as through hypnosis | 26 |
| Snared | 6 |
| Ensnared | 8 |
| Caught with the cheese | 22 |
| Like a rat ___ | 14 |
| "Caught like a rat ___" | 33 |
| Place for three men | 19 |
| "Three men ___" | 25 |
| Where to find three men | 23 |
| Place for three men? | 20 |
| Place for a nursery rhyme trio | 30 |
| Where you might find three men | 30 |
| Where to find three men? | 24 |
| Where "three men" of rhyme are | 40 |
| Where "three men" are, in a rhyme | 43 |
| Three men's place | 21 |
| Soaking, perhaps | 16 |
| Soaking and relaxed | 19 |
| Place for three men of verse | 28 |
| Place for a male trio | 21 |
| Place for "three men" | 31 |
| Nursery rhyme trio's place | 30 |
| Nursery rhyme trio setting | 26 |
| Like a trio of rhyme | 20 |
| Enjoying a bubble bath, say | 27 |
| Bathing, probably | 17 |
| Bathing | 7 |
| "Rub-a-dub-dub" line ender | 36 |
| Not picked up | 13 |
| Unable to be transcribed from a recording | 41 |
| Too soft to hear | 16 |
| Silent, or almost so | 20 |
| Like sound frequencies above 20 kHz or so, to humans | 52 |
| Like many a whisper | 19 |
| Quadrennial White House party | 29 |
| Quadrennial gala | 16 |
| Presidential party | 18 |
| Possibly | 8 |
| With reservations | 17 |
| After a fashion | 15 |
| Kinda, sorta . . . | 18 |
| From one viewpoint | 18 |
| Reverent | 8 |
| Full of wonder | 14 |
| With jaw to floor | 17 |