| Popular cereal | 14 |
| Popular cereal or magazine | 26 |
| Popular chain of chicken restaurants | 36 |
| Popular chalet style | 20 |
| Popular character introduced in 1937's "A Family Affair" | 70 |
| Popular charge card | 19 |
| Popular charity | 15 |
| Popular cheddar variety | 23 |
| Popular cheese | 14 |
| Popular Chevy model | 19 |
| Popular children's "find it" book series | 54 |
| Popular children's cookies | 30 |
| Popular children's explorer | 31 |
| Popular children's paperback series | 39 |
| Popular children's toy (and this puzzle's theme) | 56 |
| Popular Chinese beer brand | 26 |
| Popular Chinese restaurant dessert | 34 |
| Popular chip | 12 |
| Popular chip flavor | 19 |
| Popular chips | 13 |
| Popular chocolate and marshmallow snack | 39 |
| Popular chocolate bar | 21 |
| Popular chocolate candy | 23 |
| Popular chocolate snack | 23 |
| Popular chocolate treat | 23 |
| Popular Christmas carol | 23 |
| Popular Christmas decoration | 28 |
| Popular Christmas dessert | 25 |
| Popular Christmas gift | 22 |
| Popular Christmas gifts | 23 |
| Popular Christmas gifts for dads | 32 |
| Popular Christmas gifts, up north | 33 |
| Popular Christmas tree | 22 |
| Popular cigar | 13 |
| Popular cigar brand | 19 |
| Popular cigars | 14 |
| Popular cinema name | 19 |
| Popular citrus drink | 20 |
| Popular civic club | 18 |
| Popular Civil War song | 22 |
| Popular class for many 15-year-olds | 35 |
| Popular cleanser | 16 |
| Popular clique | 14 |
| Popular clog clearer | 20 |
| Popular clog remover | 20 |
| Popular clog-buster | 19 |
| Popular cloth | 13 |
| Popular cloth on campus | 23 |
| Popular clothing chain | 22 |
| Popular clothing retailer | 25 |
| Popular clothing store, with "The" | 44 |
| Popular cloud? | 14 |
| Popular clown | 13 |
| Popular clown at kids' parties | 34 |
| Popular club | 12 |
| Popular cocktail | 16 |
| Popular coffee flavoring | 24 |
| Popular coffee hr. | 18 |
| Popular cold and flu medicine | 29 |
| Popular cold cut | 16 |
| Popular cold remedy | 19 |
| Popular coll. guy | 17 |
| Popular collectibles | 20 |
| Popular college guy, briefly | 28 |
| Popular college items of the 20's | 37 |
| Popular collegiate "sport" played with balls and cups | 63 |
| Popular cologne | 15 |
| Popular color | 13 |
| Popular color for convertibles | 30 |
| Popular Colorado ski site | 25 |
| Popular combat game | 19 |
| Popular combo | 13 |
| Popular comedian | 16 |
| Popular comedienne | 18 |
| Popular comic | 13 |
| Popular comic book since 1942 | 29 |
| Popular commercial campground | 29 |
| Popular compote fruit | 21 |
| Popular computer | 16 |
| Popular computer adventure | 26 |
| Popular computer game | 21 |
| Popular computer game since 1989 | 32 |
| Popular computer game with geometric shapes | 43 |
| Popular computer graphics file | 30 |
| Popular computer logic/guessing game | 36 |
| Popular computer monthly | 24 |
| Popular computer operating system | 33 |
| Popular computer typeface | 25 |
| Popular computers | 17 |
| Popular condiment | 17 |
| Popular conductor | 17 |
| Popular connector | 17 |
| Popular construction toy | 24 |
| Popular continent in '82? | 29 |
| Popular contraction | 19 |
| Popular cookbook author | 23 |
| Popular cookie | 14 |
| Popular cookie brand | 20 |
| Popular cookie since 1912 | 25 |
| Popular cookies | 15 |