| The queen of spades, in hearts | 30 |
| Special vehicle | 15 |
| Police special | 14 |
| Under-the-counter ne'er-do-wells? | 37 |
| Underground music genre | 23 |
| 1987 market crash, and this puzzle's title, whose first word can precede each word in the starred answers | 109 |
| He wrote "Lorna Doone" | 32 |
| Justice (1970) | 14 |
| Rumer Godden work | 17 |
| Movie with Deborah Kerr as a repressed nun | 42 |
| Mysterious "Ivanhoe" character, with "the" | 62 |
| Good and bad for a vampire | 26 |
| Niçoise salad ingredients | 28 |
| Some C.I.A. doings | 18 |
| Goth's offensive baseball stat? | 35 |
| 2010 installment in the Call of Duty series | 43 |
| Fictitious flower | 17 |
| Allowing no middle ground | 25 |
| 1991 Michael Jackson hit | 24 |
| Occasion for lighting candles | 29 |
| Kind of skit | 12 |
| Game requiring full 25-square coverage to win | 45 |
| Rich chocolate dessert | 22 |
| Some skits | 10 |
| Reasons to use flashlights | 26 |
| Stokely Carmichael, once | 24 |
| Huey Newton e.g. | 17 |
| Ship in "Pirates of the Caribbean" | 44 |
| What Attila reputedly demanded 3,000 pounds of as a ransom for the city of Rome | 79 |
| Karen and Claude | 16 |
| The oil spill, for BP | 21 |
| "The greatest threat to the internal security of the country," according to J. Edgar Hoover in 1969 | 109 |
| 1989 Michael Douglas movie set in Japan | 39 |
| Ice cream flavor #2 | 19 |
| Dock-destroying rodent | 22 |
| Dark rodents | 12 |
| Opposite of White playin' chess patiently? | 46 |
| Cocktails with a recipe on a Kahlua label | 41 |
| Onyx and ebony | 14 |
| Raven and sable | 15 |
| Sable and ebony | 15 |
| ___ out: swoons | 15 |
| "Heaven and Hell" band | 32 |
| Patriot Fraunces of "Tavern" fame | 43 |
| Water around Sevastopol | 23 |
| Ukraine neighbor | 16 |
| Russia's Riviera | 20 |
| Part of Turkey's border | 27 |
| Euxine | 6 |
| Farrier | 7 |
| Singers Clint + Patti | 21 |
| Professional forger? | 20 |
| Longfellow's village craftsman | 34 |
| Karen and Al | 12 |
| Karen & Jaclyn's favorite worker? | 41 |
| Scandalous 1919 Chicago baseball team | 37 |
| Chicago seven (plus maybe Jackson) | 34 |
| Subject of "Eight Men Out" | 36 |
| Controversy about the coloration of a cooking sauce? | 52 |
| Pepper? | 7 |
| Pohl book about Arsenio Hall? | 29 |
| Magician Harry, Sr. or Harry, Jr. | 33 |
| Name in law | 11 |
| Legal authority: 1723-80 | 24 |
| Jurist William | 14 |
| Famed writer on English law | 27 |
| English jurist: 1723-80 | 23 |
| Big name in law and legerdemain | 31 |
| Whose “Commentaries on the Laws of England” is that? | 60 |
| Item used at a goth soda fountain? | 34 |
| Super Bowl terror movie | 23 |
| Portman vs. Kunis smackdown | 27 |
| Portman film of 2010 | 20 |
| 2010 ballet movie | 17 |
| African-American martial art? | 29 |
| Pekoe from Ceylon | 17 |
| Irish breakfast, e.g. | 21 |
| Food item once used as currency in Mongolia | 43 |
| Roman river after a big ink spill? | 34 |
| Street coat? | 12 |
| Driveway improvement | 20 |
| Miss Road Pavement? | 19 |
| Paves, as a driveway | 20 |
| October 29, 1929 | 16 |
| Graffiti? | 9 |
| 1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers | 32 |
| 1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers | 35 |
| Poisonous arachnid | 18 |
| A 1986 suspense film | 20 |
| 1972 movie about an African vampire | 35 |
| Football lining | 15 |
| Waterskin | 9 |
| Pretentious person | 18 |
| Pee pod? | 8 |
| Inflatable lining | 17 |
| Football's inner lining | 27 |
| Basketball's inflatable lining | 34 |
| Bag inside a football | 21 |
| Parts of footballs | 18 |
| Aquatic plant whose leaves trap small insects | 45 |