| UTNE | Reader's digest founder of 1984 |
| LILA | "Readers Digest" co-founder Wallace |
| CIRC | No. of Reader's Digest readers |
| DEWITT | Reader's Digest co-founder Wallace |
| POCKETVITO | Reader's Digest version of The Godfather? |
| MAG | Golf Digest or Reader's Digest for short |
| ANECDOTE | "Reader's Digest" item |
| ABRIDGE | Edit for "Reader's Digest" |
| ADS | Reader's Digest lack, until 1955 |
| THE | Article in Reader's Digest? |
| ABRIDGED | Like many Reader's Digest articles |
| EXCERPT | Reader's Digest offering |
| STORY | "Briefly, it's my job" as the Reader's Digest editor might put it (2,3,1,4,5,5) |
| SHORT | "Briefly, it's my job" as the Reader's Digest editor might put it (2,3,1,4,5,5) |
| TOCUTALONG | "Briefly, it's my job" as the Reader's Digest editor might put it (2,3,1,4,5,5) |
| SADAT | Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient of 1984 |
| NEWSPEAK | Height of intelligence, in terms of 1984 (8) |
| JUMP | No. 1 Van Halen tune of 1984 or No. 1 Kris Kross tune of 1992 |
| BEVERLYHILLSCOP | Protector of many stars" homes in movie of 1984 (7,5,3) |
| BATT | Mike ?, songwriter and composer of 1984 musical The Hunting of the Snark (4) |
