| 'The Taking of -- 123' (2009 film) | 42 |
| Louisiana (with ''state'') | 42 |
| Boehner's predecessor as House speaker | 42 |
| Something used by a standout sudoku solver | 42 |
| Implement for a confident crossword solver | 42 |
| Confident crossword solver's implement | 42 |
| Transportation secretary beginning in 1993 | 42 |
| Where a rule-breaking Canadien may be seen | 42 |
| Umbrella-toting "Batman" villain | 42 |
| "Mystic River" Oscar winner Sean | 42 |
| "Mystic River" Best Actor winner | 42 |
| "Mystic River" Oscar-winner Sean | 42 |
| "City of Brotherly Love" founder | 42 |
| Food whose name means "feathers" | 42 |
| Some Matt Gaffney Crossword Contest prizes | 42 |
| " . . . long in city ___": Keats | 42 |
| Site of a Lincoln antislavery speech: 1854 | 42 |
| Musical partner of DJ Spinderella and Salt | 42 |
| ___-Lachaise (Jim Morrison's cemetery) | 42 |
| Former U.N. chief Javier ___ de Cuéllar | 42 |
| "In Living Color" Fly Girl Rosie | 42 |
| Roz's portrayer on "Frasier" | 42 |
| ''Frasier'' actress Gilpin | 42 |
| 'Do in many an '80s yearbook photo | 42 |
| WWI hero promoted to General of the Armies | 42 |
| "The Motorcycle Diaries" setting | 42 |
| Joe of ''My Cousin Vinny'' | 42 |
| Santa's Little Helper, to the Simpsons | 42 |
| '90s "Biography" host Graves | 42 |
| Actor who played four roles in this puzzle | 42 |
| Show about a beggar who won't grow up? | 42 |
| Brock of "To Kill a Mockingbird" | 42 |
| Norm's last name on "Cheers" | 42 |
| Ruined "rose-red city" of Jordan | 42 |
| Bacteriologist with a dish named after him | 42 |
| Dutch pianist Egon who taught Victor Borge | 42 |
| Takes care of the neighbor's dog, e.g. | 42 |
| Place to find a long-term companion, maybe | 42 |
| "Encore en __" (a little longer) | 42 |
| Org. whose members are concerned with lies | 42 |
| Grp. that gives out cups for reaching cups | 42 |
| Eliminate gradually (with "out") | 42 |
| Child's bad behavior, the parent hopes | 42 |
| Letter before Beta in a society's name | 42 |
| ___ Bete (honor-society member, for short) | 42 |
| Spector, of "Wall of Sound" fame | 42 |
| Rizzuto of the 1940's-50's Yankees | 42 |
| Dr. who got his start on "Oprah" | 42 |
| Triangular-headed Disney Channel character | 42 |
| "Lo's Diary" author ___ Pera | 42 |
| Unnatural desire to eat chalk, ashes, etc. | 42 |
| Person who might bump into you on a subway | 42 |
| "Hillbillies" band Hot Apple ___ | 42 |
| It's held by someone who's packing | 42 |
| "___ Beauty," G. M. Hopkins poem | 42 |
| Michelangelo's 1499 marble masterpiece | 42 |
| Wilbur, in "Charlotte's Web" | 42 |
| "Ecce homo!" utterer Pontius ___ | 42 |
| Item in a box with seven compartments, say | 42 |
| Alanis had a "Jagged Little" one | 42 |
| "Mr. ___ Passes By" (Milne play) | 42 |
| Respighi's "The ___ of Rome" | 42 |
| Golf club brand founded by Karsten Solheim | 42 |
| "IÂ’ve Got No Strings" singer | 42 |
| Ship that spotted land on October 12, 1492 | 42 |
| Like a huge fan of ministry and the church | 42 |
| Feature of a Norman Rockwell self-portrait | 42 |
| "I can't hear myself think!" | 42 |
| "Twelve Days of Christmas" group | 42 |
| Place for a "Tiltin' Hilton" | 42 |
| Depressing situation, with "the" | 42 |
| British leader in the Seven Years' War | 42 |
| What most of these theme entires could use | 42 |
| Author of ''The Republic'' | 42 |
| "Hamlet" and "Macbeth" | 42 |
| ''Let my people go,'' e.g. | 42 |
| State ''Not guilty,'' e.g. | 42 |
| "Nothing's holding you back" | 42 |
| Said ''Not guilty,'' maybe | 42 |
| " . . . nothin's ___ for me" | 42 |
| Group granted U.N. observer status in 1974 | 42 |
| Sign that can mean "better than" | 42 |
| ___ Park (Pittsburgh Pirates' stadium) | 42 |
| "Rooms" in some no-frills hotels | 42 |
| "The Cask of Amontillado" author | 42 |
| "The Cask of Amontillado" writer | 42 |
| Writer of "The Purloined Letter" | 42 |
| Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia | 42 |
| Author of "The Purloined Letter" | 42 |
| "The Imp of the Perverse" writer | 42 |
| "The Imp of the Perverse" author | 42 |
| "Some Words With a Mummy" penner | 42 |
| "Casey at the Bat," for instance | 42 |
| Pulitzer Prize winner Howard Nemerov, e.g. | 42 |
| Morrissey "Sister I'm a ___" | 42 |
| Certain people buried in Westminster Abbey | 42 |
| "Miss America" judging criterion | 42 |
| Searched (with ''around'') | 42 |
| Explorer's quest, with "the" | 42 |
| San Francisco street named for a president | 42 |