| "Life is just a fantasy" Aldo ___ | 43 |
| "Life is just a fantasy" Aldo | 39 |
| Stars that increase in brightness, then fade | 44 |
| Phenomena associated with some dwarfs | 37 |
| Kim of "The Mirror Crack'd" | 41 |
| Stewart's "Vertigo" co-star | 41 |
| Stewart's "Vertigo" costar | 40 |
| Robert of CNN's "Crossfire" | 41 |
| Kim of "Bell, Book and Candle" | 40 |
| Holden's "Picnic" co-star | 39 |
| Former CNN show "Evans & ___" | 43 |
| Evans's "Inside Report" partner | 45 |
| 2011 Australian Open champ Djokovic | 35 |
| "Bell, Book and Candle" actress Kim | 45 |
| ''Inside Report'' columnist | 43 |
| Stars with fluctuating brightness | 33 |
| They suddenly become much brighter | 34 |
| Stars that suddenly become much brighter | 40 |
| Stars that lose their sudden shine | 34 |
| Penny dreadful or shilling shocker | 34 |
| "The Catcher in the Rye," e.g. | 40 |
| "Portnoy's Complaint," e.g. | 41 |
| "Lord Jim" or "Lucky Jim" | 45 |
| "Catch-22" or "Mila 18" | 43 |
| It's never been thought of before | 37 |
| "Animal Farm," for one | 32 |
| Wharton's "Old New York," e.g. | 44 |
| "The Old Man and the Sea," for one | 44 |
| "Breakfast at Tiffany's," for one | 47 |
| "A Christmas Carol," for one | 38 |
| Series of repeated Catholic prayers | 35 |
| Nine-day series of Catholic prayers | 35 |
| ___ Sad (Serbia's second-largest city) | 42 |
| From the start, after "de" | 36 |
| "De __" (from the start) | 34 |
| ''De __'' (from the start) | 42 |
| Word on the Great Seal of the U.S. | 34 |
| __ ordo seclorum: Great Seal words | 34 |
| Response to "When do we want it?" | 43 |
| ''Right this instant!'' | 39 |
| Tough concept for procrastinators | 33 |
| First word of "Richard III" | 37 |
| "I won't wait another second!" | 44 |
| ''Straight away!'' | 34 |
| When your boss wants things done, perhaps | 41 |
| When repeated, a phrase of reproof | 34 |
| When impatient people want things | 33 |
| Opening word of “Richard III” | 37 |
| Kaltenborn's "Europe ___" | 39 |
| Immediately; today; November 5th, 2008 | 38 |
| Good time to do crosswords, looks like | 38 |
| Ford's "Whip Inflation ___" | 41 |
| Coppola's "Apocalypse ___" | 40 |
| "When do we want it?" respone | 39 |
| "Whaddya waitin' for?!" | 37 |
| "I'm not waiting one more second!" | 48 |
| "I meant tomorrow, duh!" | 34 |
| "Both Sides ___," folk-song hit of 1968 | 49 |
| "_____ is the winter..." | 34 |
| "___ That's What I Call Music!" | 45 |
| "___ is the winter of our discontent" | 47 |
| "___ is the time for all good men ..." | 48 |
| "___ is the hour . . . " | 34 |
| "I don't believe it!" | 35 |
| "You gotta be kidding me!" | 36 |
| "That's too hard to believe..." | 45 |
| "Don't even go there!" | 36 |
| ''You're kidding!'' | 39 |
| "There's ___" (impossible) | 40 |
| "That can't be true!" | 35 |
| ''Not a chance!'' | 33 |
| Trouble for the hopelessly trapped | 34 |
| Problem for one who's trapped | 33 |
| Characteristic of an impossible situation | 41 |
| "___ lay me down . . . " | 34 |
| "___ Know," Jack Jones hit | 36 |
| ''__ know my ABC's . . .'' | 46 |
| Sure to end in failure, as a situation | 38 |
| Impossible, and hint to this puzzle's theme | 47 |
| Having only unfavorable outcomes | 32 |
| Darned-if-you-do, darned-if-you-don't | 41 |
| Folksy antonym of "entirely" | 38 |
| "I'm not surprised!" | 34 |
| "Ah, that explains it!" | 33 |
| ''Oh, that's why!'' | 39 |
| ''Last chance!'' | 32 |
| "The same," in condition | 34 |
| Traveler who's really with it? | 34 |
| "OK, I'm waiting..." | 34 |
| "Yet another problem?" | 32 |
| "Where do we go from here?" | 37 |
| "The Highwayman" poet Alfred | 38 |
| ''The Highwayman'' poet | 39 |
| Poet best known for "The Highwayman" | 46 |
| He wrote "The Highwayman" | 35 |
| He wrote 'The Highwayman' | 33 |
| "The Loom of Years" poet | 34 |
| "Drake" is his epic poem | 34 |
| Poet with a seemingly self-contradictory name | 45 |
| Poet whose name is two opposites in a row | 41 |