100% | MINARET | 7 | Where long-distance calls are made in the Mideast? |
46% | LOSING | 6 | Getting defeated is long in the making |
45% | BAR | 3 | Where a person in charge is making the rounds? |
43% | BURNED | 6 | Was out in the sun too long, perhaps |
43% | FIVECARDSTUD | 12 | Calls may be made in it |
42% | GEORGESMILEY | 12 | Long-running fictional hero who made his debut in "Call for the Dead" |
42% | POKERTABLE | 10 | Place where lots of calls are made |
42% | THESHOTS | 8 | Call __, be in charge of decision making |
41% | CORSICAN | 8 | Spoken in the island where Napoleon was born |
41% | WET | 3 | What standing in the rain will make you |
41% | CARMEN | 6 | Where in the World Is __ Sandiego? |
41% | FBIAGENTS | 9 | Govt. employees encoded by the nine other longest across entries in this puzzle ... and who might be called in to decode them |
41% | PLAGUEPIT | 9 | Where bodies with buboes were interred in the past |
41% | EASTSIDE | 8 | Where the United Nations is in Manhattan |
41% | MISDIAL | 7 | Make the wrong call, in a way |
40% | CLOSETOYOU | 10 | Where the Carpenters "long to be" in a 1970 #1 hit |
40% | OMAHA | 5 | Largest city in the state where Lincoln is the capital |
40% | EASTSIDE | 8 | Where the lowest-numbered avenues in Manhattan are |
40% | MEADOW | 6 | Where the sheep is in "Little Boy Blue" |
40% | REAR | 4 | Where the engine is in a Porsche 911 |
40% | CORNWALL | 8 | Area in the UK where the Eden Project can be found |
40% | BONANZA | 7 | Where gold was struck in the Klondike, in __ Creek |
40% | PHONEBOX | 8 | In London this is famously red, for making calls |
40% | EASTSIDE | 8 | Where the United Nations is in Manhattan: 2 wds. |
40% | APSE | 4 | Where the altar is usually found in a church |
40% | HESPERUS | 8 | The evening star was called this in ancient times |
39% | BIRD | 4 | One word in the 10 longest answers, if one letter is changed |
39% | RESEARCH | 8 | The R in R&D, where the D is development |
39% | STERNUM | 7 | Long flat vertical bone in man also called the breastbone |
39% | FIRST | 5 | Where the U.N. is in Manhattan, with 27-Across |