| Former Tonight Show regular | 33 |
| American humorist: 1850–96 | 33 |
| 1920's-40's North Dakota senator Gerald | 47 |
| "The Steve Allen Show" regular Louis | 46 |
| "Steve Allen Show" veteran | 36 |
| "Steve Allen Show" regular | 36 |
| "Soft Power" author Joseph | 36 |
| "Great Big Book of Tiny Germs" author | 47 |
| "Bill ---, the Science Guy" | 37 |
| "Bill ___ and Boomerang" | 34 |
| ''Bill ___, the Science Guy'' | 45 |
| Science guy Bill and funnyman Louis | 35 |
| Longtime North Dakota senator Gerald and others | 47 |
| Humorist Bill and comedian Louis | 32 |
| “Bill ___ Red Book” (1906 publication) | 46 |
| Bill ___ Climate Lab (Oakland science exhibit) | 46 |
| "Bill ___ History of the United States" | 49 |
| Vote seldom heard in the Presidium | 34 |
| Response to a request to extradite Edward Snowden | 49 |
| Mr. ___ (moniker for Andrei Gromyko) | 36 |
| It may be heard in Orel arguments | 33 |
| Fyodor's "Forget it!" | 35 |
| Da's opposite in the Kremlin | 32 |
| Comment put in by Putin, perhaps | 32 |
| "Forget it," to Fyodor | 32 |
| "Can't do it, Sasha" | 34 |
| 2008 ticker-tape parade recipients | 34 |
| Silk's successor, in stockings | 34 |
| Synthetic material invented in the 1930s | 40 |
| Polymer introduced by DuPont in 1938 | 36 |
| Polymer developed by DuPont in 1935 | 35 |
| Material used in Christo's "Gates" | 48 |
| Like the strings on many tennis rackets | 39 |
| It debuted in a 1930s toothbrush | 32 |
| Classical guitar string material | 32 |
| They're useless when they run | 33 |
| They were used for barter in World War II | 41 |
| Ryan, before he became a Cal. Angel | 35 |
| Orange and blue wearer, for short | 33 |
| Johan Santana or R.A. Dickey, e.g. | 34 |
| Citi Field player, starting next year | 37 |
| Subject of "The Bad Guys Won!" | 40 |
| MLB team with a bridge in its logo | 34 |
| M.L.B. team with a bridge in its logo | 37 |
| "Miracle" W.S. winners of 1969 | 40 |
| "Miracle" team of '69 | 35 |
| "___, in thy orisons . . . " | 38 |
| Part of a 1997 telecommunications merger | 40 |
| Phone company that merged with Bell Atlantic | 44 |
| Old Baby Bell based in the Big Apple | 36 |
| Former Baby Bell from the northeast | 35 |
| Part of Rockefeller Ctr.'s address | 38 |
| Part of PuzzleSocial's address | 34 |
| Part of an Empire State Bldg. address | 37 |
| Part of a Manhattan address: Abbr. | 34 |
| Manhattan, Brooklyn, etc. (abbr.) | 33 |
| Line on a letter to U.N. headquarters | 37 |
| Line on a letter to Mayor Bloomberg | 35 |
| Address with ZIP code 10001: Abbr. | 34 |
| "30 Rock" setting, briefly | 36 |
| "Blue" entity, on a TV cop show | 41 |
| "Law & Order" org. | 32 |
| Dennis Franz's former TV employer | 37 |
| "The French Connection" gp. | 37 |
| "___ Blue" (ABC drama) | 32 |
| Org. in 1997's "Cop Land" | 39 |
| Force that's out in force in Times Sq. | 42 |
| Force seen in "Ghostbusters" | 38 |
| Cops seen in "Ghostbusters" | 37 |
| Capt. Barney Miller's employer | 34 |
| Big Apple enforcers, for short (4) | 34 |
| "Law & Order" group | 33 |
| "Law & Order: SVU" force | 38 |
| "Cagney & Lacey" org. | 35 |
| "Blue" entity, on an old TV show | 42 |
| "___ Blue" (TV cop series) | 36 |
| Daily News competitor, for short | 32 |
| Laura who wrote "Wedding Bell Blues" | 46 |
| "Stoned Soul Picnic" songwriter Laura | 47 |
| "Stoned Soul Picnic" songwriter | 41 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Laura | 33 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Laura | 39 |
| Composer and singer of "And When I Die" | 49 |
| 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Laura | 46 |
| "Wedding Bell Blues" singer Laura | 43 |
| "Wedding Bell Blues" composer Laura | 45 |
| "Wedding Bell Blues" composer | 39 |
| "Stoney End" songwriter | 33 |
| "Stoned Soul Picnic" writer Laura | 43 |
| "Eli's Coming" songwriter | 39 |
| "Eli's Coming" composer Laura | 43 |
| Home to Albany and Buffalo (Abbr.) | 34 |
| Gov. Paterson's place, briefly | 34 |
| Where Rockefeller was gov. from 1959-73 | 39 |
| Sen. Schumer represents it: Abbr. | 33 |
| Sen. Gillibrand represents it: Abbr. | 36 |
| Paper for which Peter Gordon used to edit xwords | 48 |
| Hillary's post-election domain (Abbr.) | 42 |
| Grover Cleveland was once its gov. | 34 |
| Governor Cuomo's constituency (abbr.) | 41 |