| Count of candles on a cake | 26 |
| Cause of many unwelcome lines | 29 |
| Category of discrimination | 26 |
| Carbon-dating estimation | 24 |
| Carbon dating estimate | 22 |
| Carbon dating determination | 27 |
| Candles representation | 22 |
| Candle count, on many cakes | 27 |
| Calculation from tree rings | 27 |
| Cake's candle count | 23 |
| Bronze, Copper or Iron | 22 |
| Birthday candle number | 22 |
| Birth-certificate item | 22 |
| Better to do this than not? | 27 |
| Become better, as Brie | 22 |
| Beauty preceder, in a saying | 28 |
| Beauty preceder, in a phrase | 28 |
| Beauty preceder, at times | 25 |
| Basis of some divisions | 23 |
| Basis for some discrimination | 29 |
| Baby boomer's bane | 22 |
| Application form question | 25 |
| Application form datum | 22 |
| Application blank info | 22 |
| Antique dealer's estimate | 29 |
| AARP membership concern | 23 |
| A dog's ___ (long time) | 27 |
| 65, say, for retirement | 23 |
| 21, for many new drinkers | 25 |
| "Act your _____!" | 27 |
| "___ of Reason" | 25 |
| "___ of Aquarius" | 27 |
| "__ before beauty" | 28 |
| Like geriatric patients | 23 |
| Well past one's prime | 25 |
| Like much wine and cheese | 25 |
| ___ P., Dickens character | 25 |
| ___ P, Dickens character | 24 |
| Past one's prime, perhaps | 29 |
| Passed one's prime? | 23 |
| Like some wines and cheeses | 27 |
| Like some wine and cheese | 25 |
| Like one born in 1920, now | 26 |
| Left in the wine cellar | 23 |
| Geriatrician's patients | 27 |
| Dry-___ (like great steak) | 26 |
| Brought to desired maturity | 27 |
| Word on a brandy bottle | 23 |
| Word on a bottle of Scotch | 26 |
| Sat in the wine cellar | 22 |
| Ready to get drunk, perhaps | 27 |
| Pulp "Help the ___" | 29 |
| Processed wine or cheese | 24 |
| Perfected, in the wine cellar | 29 |
| Medicare-eligible, maybe | 24 |
| Made better, as cheddar | 23 |
| Like supercentenarians | 22 |
| Like some cheddar cheese | 24 |
| Like single-malt whiskey | 24 |
| Like single-malt scotch | 23 |
| Like sharp Canadian cheddar | 27 |
| Like quality balsamic vinegar | 29 |
| Like good wine and cheese | 25 |
| Like fine wine or cheese | 24 |
| Like extra-sharp cheddar | 24 |
| Like extra sharp cheddar, say | 29 |
| Like Enos, in the Bible | 23 |
| Like cheese or whiskey | 22 |
| Like a prized cabernet, say | 27 |
| Left in a barrel, perhaps | 25 |
| Kept underground, maybe | 23 |
| Kept in the cellar, maybe | 25 |
| Kept in a cellar, perhaps | 25 |
| Keith Richards' look | 24 |
| In a bottle for a long time | 27 |
| Improved in a wine cellar | 25 |
| Got better, like cheddar | 24 |
| Entered a new decade, say | 25 |
| Ending for school or middle | 27 |
| Dry-___ (like some steak) | 25 |
| Describing some cheeses | 23 |
| Describing nonagenarians | 24 |
| Adjective for nonagenarians | 27 |
| Adjective for a patriarch | 25 |
| Accrued some experience | 23 |
| In a geriatric fashion | 22 |
| Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 | 29 |
| 1958 Pulitzer winner James | 26 |
| Tommie of the Miracle Mets | 26 |
| U.S. author: 1909–55 | 27 |
| Pulitzer-winning author James | 29 |
| Pulitzer Prize novelist | 23 |
| 1958 Pulitzer author James | 26 |
| '40s film critic James | 26 |
| Pulitzer Prize author: 1958 | 27 |
| 1966 A.L. Rookie of the Year | 28 |
| World Series star: 1969 | 23 |
| Pulitzer-winning writer James | 29 |
| Author and film critic James | 28 |
| American novelist (1909-1955) | 29 |