| After a rant, avoid saying you never meant to ___ ... | 53 |
| After 18 nominations, she won a Daytime Emmy in 1998 | 52 |
| Afrobeat legend who was the subject of a 2010 Tony-winning musical | 66 |
| African soccer powerhouse popularly known as the Black Stars | 60 |
| African republic with the motto "Victory is ours" | 59 |
| African plant whose leaves are chewed as a stimulant | 52 |
| African mammal that's the ancestor of the donkey | 52 |
| African mammal that eats ants, termites, and cucumbers | 54 |
| African language from which the word "chimpanzee" comes | 65 |
| African land whose name consists of three state postal abbreviations | 68 |
| African evergreen whose leaves are chewed as a narcotic | 55 |
| African country known as the Land of a Thousand Hills | 53 |
| African city of 2.5+ million founded by the Portuguese | 54 |
| African capital whose name means "tamarind tree" | 58 |
| African capital whose name means "new flower" | 55 |
| African capital which literally means "The Vanquisher" | 64 |
| African antelope "caged" in five answers in this puzzle | 65 |
| Africa's Lake ___, body of water in four countries | 54 |
| Africa's fourth-longest river and site of Victoria Falls | 60 |
| Afghanistan caves where the Taliban is suspected to be based | 60 |
| Affliction of those with long layovers at the airport? | 54 |
| Affliction for someone with too many deerstalkers and fedoras? | 62 |
| Afflalo of the Orlando Magic or Asham of the New York Rangers | 61 |
| Affirmative in the lyrics of "Penny Serenade" | 55 |
| Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to ___ Thing" | 57 |
| Aerosmith lyric "Sleeping late and smoking ___" | 57 |
| Aerosmith "Rock And A Hard Place (___ Cat)" | 53 |
| Aerosmith "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the ___)" | 58 |
| Advocating "Bring the troops home now!," say | 54 |
| Adviser of Capt. Picard on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 56 |
| Advice to the rash, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Advice to someone going to the Egg-Beaters' Convention? | 59 |
| Advice to Perseus if he had a bat instead of a sword? | 53 |
| Advice to a young Post: "If you want to succeed, ___!" | 64 |
| Advice to a young Marceau: "If you want to succeed, ___!" | 67 |
| Advice to a young Limbaugh: "If you want to succeed, ___!" | 68 |
| Advice to a young Knievel: "If you want to succeed, ___!" | 67 |
| Advice to a young Gates: "If you want to succeed, ___!" | 65 |
| Advice to a young Carnegie: "If you want to succeed, ___!" | 68 |
| Advice to a man who is planning his wedding by himself | 54 |
| Advice such as Polonius' "To thine own self be true" | 66 |
| Advice on a fitness instructor's answering machine message? | 63 |
| Advice for an out-of-shape guy trying to attract women? | 55 |
| Advertising icon enshrined on Madison Avenue's Walk of Fame | 63 |
| Adventuresome preteen originally voiced by Tim Matheson | 55 |
| Adventure flick about door-to-door sales (double feature)? | 58 |
| Advance copies of movies that are sent to award voters | 54 |
| Adult-contemperary music of the late '70s and early '80s | 64 |
| Adult ___ (Cartoon Network subchannel for older viewers) | 56 |
| Adolph who was chief of The New York Times from 1896 to 1935 | 60 |
| Adolph who coined "All the news that's fit to print" | 66 |
| Admonition to chimney sweeps about not getting anyone else dirty? | 65 |
| Admonition against trying algebra problems after imbibing? | 58 |
| Admission from someone who just realized they're rambling | 61 |
| Admiral who was Nixon's Chief of Naval Operations | 53 |
| Admiral Bobby who directed the N.S.A. under Jimmy Carter | 56 |
| Administrative group that oversees pop music performers? | 56 |
| Administer in small portions (with ''out'') | 59 |
| Adm. Zumwalt, chief of naval operations during the Vietnam War | 62 |
| Adler introduced in "A Scandal in Bohemia" | 52 |
| Adjusts the highs and lows on the 1's and 2's | 53 |
| Adjective with "zero" or "disaster" | 55 |
| Adjective with ''ear'' or ''tube'' | 66 |
| Adjective in the theme song to "The Addams Family" | 60 |
| Adjective from which John McCain hopes to disassociate himself | 62 |
| Adjective forbidden in crosswords because it's gross and bodily | 67 |
| Adjective for some contemporary high school haircuts | 52 |
| Adjective for an ethnically marked character, perhaps | 53 |
| Adjective for a mouth that needs to be washed out with soap | 59 |
| Adjective for a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" feature | 67 |
| Adjective for "Pygmalion" or "Major Barbara" | 64 |
| Address for a British magistrate, with "Your" | 55 |
| Additional ones not itemized (with ''the'') | 59 |
| Addison's "How are thy Servants blest? O Lord!" | 61 |
| Addictive Playstation game about rebuilding the universe, for short | 67 |
| Added three zeros to the end of, in binary arithmetic | 53 |
| Add ___ (X) (UK electronic group that broke up in 2003) | 55 |
| Add one letter, and you have an explanation of what it does | 59 |
| Add atop a refuse pile, after aiming out and missing? | 53 |
| Add a building wing to a "Lord of the Rings" actress? | 63 |
| Adapted screenplay nominee Monahan for "___" | 54 |
| Adams who's designed covers for the Beastie Boys and Jay-Z | 62 |
| Adams in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" | 56 |
| Adam Wainwright's defense against an angry batsman? | 55 |
| Ad slogan that suggests the little ones can play with huge dinosaurs? | 69 |
| Ad line that caused a Muppet to answer "You bet me do!"? | 66 |
| Actress ___ Ling of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" | 69 |
| Actress ___ de Rossi of "Arrested Development" | 56 |
| Actress ___ Dawn Chong of "The Color Purple" | 54 |
| Actress Zoe whose grandfather directed "On the Waterfront" | 68 |
| Actress Wynter of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" | 60 |
| Actress with the iconic line "What a dump!" | 53 |
| Actress with the autobiography "My Life in High Heels" | 64 |
| Actress whose last name is a New York school's inits. | 57 |
| Actress whom Quentin described as "my muse" | 53 |
| Actress who's the inspiration for this puzzle's theme? | 62 |
| Actress who's in the lyrics to "Mack the Knife" | 61 |
| Actress who won a Tony for "Wonderful Town" | 53 |
| Actress who was the voice of Duchess in "The Aristocats" | 66 |
| Actress who starred in "Marnie" and "The Birds" | 67 |