| 2026-06-15 | "___ not worthy!" ("Wayne's World" quote) |
| 2026-03-25 | Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes ___ Watching God" |
| 2025-01-26 | Common word with or without an apostrophe |
| 2024-09-23 | "___ Not Gonna Take It" (Twisted Sister hit) |
| 2023-08-31 | "___ all mad here": Cheshire cat |
| 2022-12-13 | "What ___ you thinking?" |
| 2022-12-06 | "… ___ not in Kansas anymore" |
| 2022-08-01 | "Now, where ___ we?" |
| 2022-07-10 | "___ saved!" |
| 2022-02-06 | "___ Hiring" (business sign) |
| 2022-02-02 | Lead-in to wolf |
| 2021-11-23 | "What ___ you thinking?" |
| 2021-09-03 | "Now ___ even" |
| 2021-03-16 | "Now, where ___ we?" |
| 2020-11-27 | Word that may or may not be a contraction |
| 2020-08-27 | "Would that it ___" |
| 2020-07-17 | "Now ___ talking!" |
| 2020-02-27 | "___ #1!" |
| 2020-01-12 | "___ here!" |
| 2019-08-09 | "___ sorry ..." |
| 2019-06-01 | "___ doomed!" |
| 2019-03-05 | "___ #1!" |
| 2018-09-07 | Fall Out Boy's "Sugar, ___ Goin Down" |
| 2018-06-29 | Contraction that's also a past-tense verb |
| 2018-05-06 | Existed |
| 2018-02-11 | Are no longer |
| 2018-02-05 | "The Way We ___" |
| 2017-08-22 | Used to be |
| 2016-12-05 | "As you ___" |
| 2016-07-08 | "___ live!" |
| 2015-12-17 | Lived |
| 2015-09-09 | "___ #1!" |
| 2015-06-17 | "___ back" |
| 2015-05-31 | "___ even" |
| 2014-12-25 | "As you ___" |
| 2014-05-23 | Existed |
| 2014-04-09 | "#1" may follow it |
| 2014-03-14 | "___ back!" |
| 2014-02-27 | Used to be |
| 2012-10-28 | "___ #1!" |
| 2011-11-13 | "#1" follows it |
| 2011-10-09 | "While you ___ out ... " |
| 2011-07-17 | Had been |
| 2011-04-26 | "___ pregnant!" |
| 2010-02-03 | "___ #1!" |
| 2009-12-31 | Be in a certain mood? |
| 2009-12-30 | See 15-Across |
| 2009-12-06 | "___ here!" |
| 2009-06-15 | See 3-Down |
| 2008-05-25 | "___ #1!" |
| 2008-02-07 | "___ #1!" |
| 2007-12-11 | 1973 #1 hit "___ an American Band" |
| 2007-03-31 | "___ in the Money" (1933 hit) |
| 2006-08-04 | Existed |
| 2006-01-16 | "___ number one!" (stadium chant) |
| 2005-07-17 | Used to be |
| 2004-09-25 | With 50-Down, cry upon returning |
| 2004-05-26 | Lived |
| 2004-02-01 | "___ madly for Adlai" (1952 campaign slogan) |
| 2004-01-27 | "The Way We ___" |
| 2004-01-13 | "___ #1!" |
| 2003-12-26 | Ginger Rogers song "___ in the Money" |
| 2003-09-07 | As it ___ |
| 2003-06-25 | "___ #1!" |
| 2002-01-29 | "Now ___ talkin'!" |
| 2001-08-29 | Are, eventually |
| 2001-06-20 | Used to be |
| 2001-05-28 | Used to be |
| 2000-11-12 | Number one starter? |
| 2000-09-15 | "___ sorry..." |
| 2000-09-08 | "___ Not Dressing" (Crosby comedy) |
| 1999-12-03 | "___ No Angels" |
| 1999-08-05 | "Where ___ you?" |
| 1999-06-15 | "As you ___" |
| 1999-05-30 | "___ off to see the Wizard" |
| 1999-03-10 | "___ No Angels" (Bogart flick) |
| 1998-11-16 | "The Way We ___" |
| 1998-05-06 | "___ No Angels" (Bogart film) |
| 1997-05-20 | Existed |
| 1997-05-08 | Ginger Rogers tune "___ in the Money" |
| 1996-12-22 | "The stockings ___ hung..." |
| 1996-12-13 | "As you ___" |
| 1996-11-02 | Word before "#1" |
| 1996-08-07 | "___ Off to See the Wizard" |
| 1996-04-27 | Had being |
| 1995-11-18 | Lived |
| 1995-04-28 | "If I _____..." |
| 1994-11-15 | "_____ all in this together" |
| 1994-09-12 | Had been |
| 1994-07-26 | "_____ off to see..." |