| 2026-03-05 | With 68-Across, long-shot candidates … or a hint to six squares in this puzzle |
| 2023-07-04 | Like morbid humor |
| 2023-02-18 | Like some humor and chocolate |
| 2021-08-01 | What nyctophobia is the fear of |
| 2021-05-06 | Like yin but not yang |
| 2020-10-06 | Not in operation, as a Broadway theater |
| 2019-06-16 | Word before web or chocolate |
| 2018-06-27 | Noirish |
| 2016-04-08 | Macabre |
| 2016-02-15 | ___ horse (surprise candidate) |
| 2015-06-05 | Forbidding |
| 2015-05-21 | Word with horse or meat |
| 2014-10-31 | With 24-Across, witchcraft, e.g. |
| 2014-01-24 | Nighttime |
| 2013-10-26 | Giving no performances |
| 2011-08-08 | Unlit |
| 2011-01-03 | Alternative to white, as turkey meat |
| 2009-11-16 | Gloomy |
| 2009-10-04 | Noirish |
| 2009-05-24 | Chocolate choice |
| 2009-02-03 | Like some turkey meat |
| 2007-09-21 | With 4-Down, black magic |
| 2007-06-30 | With 54-Across, black magic |
| 2006-10-06 | Foreboding |
| 2006-06-07 | Not currently in use, as a theater |
| 2001-08-14 | Like some turkey meat |
| 1999-11-08 | Not white, as meat |
| 1999-10-05 | After dusk |
| 1998-04-15 | Unlit |
| 1997-05-06 | Thanksgiving meat request |
| 1996-12-22 | Swarthy |
| 1996-05-24 | Stygian |
| 1995-01-12 | Turkey meat request |