| Kind of sac | 11 |
| ___ fluid | 9 |
| "I --- expert, but..." | 32 |
| David's eldest son | 22 |
| Tamar's half-brother | 24 |
| Country cousin of ain't | 27 |
| Relative of ain't | 21 |
| Clumsy but correct contraction | 30 |
| School phrase with a clue to this puzzle's theme | 52 |
| Old gas giant | 13 |
| Alternately responsive, as verses | 33 |
| Like a microscopic animal | 25 |
| Infections caused by protozoans | 31 |
| Roundish with an irregular border | 33 |
| Of simple organisms | 19 |
| Of a single-celled organism | 27 |
| Like some single-celled organisms | 33 |
| Having an irregularly curved outline | 36 |
| Like some shape shifters? | 25 |
| Like some basic organisms | 25 |
| "I ___ the opinion..." | 32 |
| "I ___ the opinion ..." | 33 |
| "I __ the opinion . . ." | 34 |
| Soap plants | 11 |
| Soap substitutes, in the Southwest | 34 |
| You might need it when you're flustered | 43 |
| What you may have while solving this puzzle? | 44 |
| Bathing suit try-on, for some? | 30 |
| Verdi's Ethiopian king | 26 |
| Eavesdropper in Act III of "Aïda" | 46 |
| "Cat ___": Christie | 29 |
| More of the epitaph | 19 |
| Neil Diamond "Lost ___" | 33 |
| King of gods, in Egyptian myth | 30 |
| Egyptian sun god, variantly | 27 |
| II CHRONICLES 33:22 | 19 |
| Turgenev's "___ in the Country" | 45 |
| "___ of Sundays": Updike | 34 |
| 1987 drama starring Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh | 51 |
| Soda jerk's routine? | 24 |
| Ice cream spree? | 16 |
| John Updike novel | 17 |
| Updike novel | 12 |
| Updike title | 12 |
| Relative of a coon's age | 28 |
| Never, probably | 15 |
| Long time metaphor | 18 |
| Part 2 of the mystery | 21 |
| Pay ___ rent in advance | 23 |
| "___ Apart," Frost poem | 33 |
| "I never saw ___": Dickinson | 38 |
| Movie about Othello looking out Desdemona's window? | 55 |
| "It's ____ question" | 34 |
| "It's ___ point" (debatable) | 42 |
| "It's ___ point" | 30 |
| Ancient Jewish scholar | 22 |
| One of an early rabbinical group | 32 |
| One of an early rabbi group | 27 |
| Mishna interpreter | 18 |
| Hebrew law interpreter of yore | 30 |
| Of a group of Jewish scholars | 29 |
| Test at Anything Goes University? | 33 |
| Absence of guiding principles | 29 |
| Lack of concern for right or wrong | 34 |
| Unscrupulous operator? | 22 |
| Unprincipled operation? | 23 |
| Acronym for a Rosicrucian order | 31 |
| Ovid work | 9 |
| Ovid opus | 9 |
| Title shared by works of Ovid and D. H. Lawrence | 48 |
| Roman romances | 14 |
| Ovid's love poetry | 22 |
| Ovid's love elegies | 23 |
| Ovid's first work | 21 |
| Ovid's book of love poetry | 30 |
| Andalusian affections | 21 |
| A work by Ovid | 14 |
| Old love token | 14 |
| Old-style love song | 19 |
| Old style love song | 19 |
| Cherubs | 7 |
| Little cupids | 13 |
| Spenser sonnet cycle | 20 |
| Little cherubs | 14 |
| Infant cupids | 13 |
| Botticelli figures | 18 |
| Little cupid | 12 |
| Little boy with a bow and arrow | 31 |
| Infant cupid | 12 |
| Frequent figure in Renaissance paintings | 40 |
| Cupid in early Italian art | 26 |
| A cupid, in Italian paintings | 29 |
| Valentine figures | 17 |
| Cupids | 6 |
| Putto | 5 |
| Infant cupid in Italian paintings | 33 |
| Love lover | 10 |
| Writer about love | 17 |
| He lives for love | 17 |
| Don Juan or Casanova | 20 |