Possibly the first thing you'd touch in a dark room | 55 |
Physicist who received 1958's Albert Einstein Award | 55 |
Player of Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter films | 55 |
Phish lyric "___ bouncing round the room ..." | 55 |
Profanities (and a hint to this puzzle's anomalies) | 55 |
Peanuts character with "naturally curly hair" | 55 |
Popular Bach work for keyboard (1994, 1996, 1999, 2002) | 55 |
Political group whose name means "enthusiasm" | 55 |
Pay you receive as you're frogmarched out the door? | 55 |
Philosopher associated with the “will to power” | 55 |
Popular gifts that make a distinctive sound when shaken | 55 |
Pianist Ruth's audience knows exactly when to clap? | 55 |
Politician who launched "Citizens for McCain" | 55 |
Protective covering rolled out at a seafood restaurant? | 55 |
Portrayer of Lt. Rodriguez on "N.Y.P.D. Blue" | 55 |
Play with no intermission and only a few scenes, likely | 55 |
Painter Alice who was the subject of a 2007 documentary | 55 |
Portia's maid in "The Merchant of Venice" | 55 |
Person who's undergone a change, self-descriptively | 55 |
Phrase often followed with "it's nothing" | 55 |
Possible reply to "I have a question for you" | 55 |
Pink Floyd "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" song | 55 |
Praiseful essay about the grandaddy of all video games? | 55 |
Punishment of having to wear a paper sign on your back? | 55 |
Practices performed for one's health and well-being | 55 |
Portmanteau for some larger-than-average mobile devices | 55 |
Post-pink band formed from the ashes of the Sex Pistols | 55 |
Pablo's wife in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | 55 |
People who prefer to woo from the comfort of the couch? | 55 |
Presidential candidate who wrote "No Apology" | 55 |
Poem whose first, third and seventh lines are identical | 55 |
Publicist covers my group's bakery container (5, 4) | 55 |
Prenuptial press moniker for the late Princess of Wales | 55 |
President Santos portrayer on "The West Wing" | 55 |
Promo by the author of "Baby and Child Care"? | 55 |
Person that a whale with a clogged blowhole might call? | 55 |
Piece of work found in this puzzle's longer entries | 55 |
President who went on to become a Supreme Court justice | 55 |
Plummet ... or what this puzzle's theme answers do? | 55 |
Pico de ___ (12,000-foot volcano on the Canary Islands) | 55 |
Physicist who pioneered alternating current electricity | 55 |
Penultimate song on "Abbey Road" (ironically) | 55 |
Prefix with "dynamics" or "nuclear" | 55 |
Poitier's "In the Heat of the Night" role | 55 |
Picard's counselor on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 55 |
Ponytailed pal of Lucy Van Pelt, in "Peanuts" | 55 |
Portrayer of Deangelo Vickers on "The Office" | 55 |
PBS station behind "Live From Lincoln Center" | 55 |
Pair commemorated on North Carolina's state quarter | 55 |
Programming language named for Lord Byron's daughter | 56 |
Port whose harbor is in the crater of an extinct volcano | 56 |
Prefix with "ballistic" or "dynamic" | 56 |
Prefix with "magnetic" or "dynamics" | 56 |
Pulitzer winner for "A Delicate Balance," 1967 | 56 |
Portrayer of Baldwin's father on "30 Rock" | 56 |
Portrayer of Senator Vinick on "The West Wing" | 56 |
Physicist represented in the play "Copenhagen" | 56 |
Pleading question said while pulling on Mom's sleeve | 56 |
Pet that never eats or has ''accidents'' | 56 |
Product once advertised as "Ice-cold sunshine" | 56 |
Place where an insulting comment might "stick" | 56 |
Painter of ''The Persistence of Memory'' | 56 |
Product that produces a geyser when combined with Mentos | 56 |
Prefix with "friendly" and "warrior" | 56 |
Poe poem written at the time of the California Gold Rush | 56 |
Poisoned husband in "Mourning Becomes Electra" | 56 |
Part of Greenstreet's "Casablanca" costume | 56 |
Part of a "Jack and the Beanstalk" exclamation | 56 |
Pointer Sisters wanted a man with a "Slow" one | 56 |
Prefix with "national" or "personal" | 56 |
Period of human history that began about 3,000 years ago | 56 |
Pacific island on which a memorable WWII photo was taken | 56 |
Penn taking a break from acting to work for Barack Obama | 56 |
Philosopher who asked "What is enlightenment?" | 56 |
Pip at the start of "Great Expectations," e.g. | 56 |
Poetry's ''rare and radiant maiden'' | 56 |
Pirsig book subtitled "An Inquiry Into Morals" | 56 |
Pete and Julie's cohort on "The Mod Squad" | 56 |
Philosopher John who posited a theory of social contract | 56 |
Peter who played Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon" | 56 |
Prefix with "morning" or "afternoon" | 56 |
Peter Gabriel "The Family and the Fishing ___" | 56 |
Player for whom Giants Stadium, oddly, is the home field | 56 |
Phrase on a menu that includes egg rolls and wonton soup | 56 |
People who won't just let you live your life already | 56 |
Props used in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" | 56 |
Poem used in Beethoven's "Choral Symphony" | 56 |
Phrase before "tear" or "shoestring" | 56 |
Performer who's the descendant of a Japanese emperor | 56 |
Playwright Joe who wrote "What the Butler Saw" | 56 |
Prize that, surprisingly, contains a large amount of tin | 56 |
Place where you might wager on the Belmont Stakes: Abbr. | 56 |
Product once pitched by Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey | 56 |
Proust's "Ë la Recherche du Temps ___" | 56 |
Product name derived from the German word for peppermint | 56 |
Pope's name over half the time in the past 230 years | 56 |
Participate in a fad in which a wooden board is mimicked | 56 |
Phantom's rival, in "Phantom of the Opera" | 56 |
Part of a show that begins "Previously on ..." | 56 |
President who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday | 56 |