| Approach threateningly | 22 |
| "And now you ___" | 27 |
| Urgent summoner's words | 27 |
| Senator Gerald | 14 |
| Smart retort | 12 |
| Request to Little Sheba | 23 |
| Order to Little Sheba | 21 |
| Career revival | 14 |
| "___ to Erin" (folk song) | 35 |
| Classic Western line | 20 |
| Loser's hoped-for path | 26 |
| Boulevard of Mended Dreams? | 27 |
| Word defined by the definition | 30 |
| Neil Simon play that fits this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| Just miss a target | 18 |
| Just fall short | 15 |
| Spanish drama | 13 |
| Rochester | 9 |
| Earnings from doing bits? | 25 |
| Newman | 6 |
| Pryor's timing | 18 |
| Meant to be humorous | 20 |
| Like a Laurel-Hardy film | 24 |
| Laugh-producing | 15 |
| Full of cracks? | 15 |
| ___ Française (French national theater) | 42 |
| Funny female | 12 |
| Bea Lillie, e.g. | 16 |
| Women who may make people break up? | 35 |
| Stand-up kind of gals? | 22 |
| Funny girls | 11 |
| Funny femmes | 12 |
| Simon products | 14 |
| Neil Simon products | 19 |
| Divine and Human | 16 |
| Dermal blemish | 14 |
| Certain facial blemish | 22 |
| Get sick (with) | 15 |
| Do a joyful "The Price is Right" action | 49 |
| Descent in dignity | 18 |
| Make a more attractive offer | 28 |
| Get real | 8 |
| Raindrops do it | 15 |
| Be realistic | 12 |
| What airplanes do daily | 23 |
| Abandon fantasy | 15 |
| What airplanes do | 17 |
| Return, astronaut style | 23 |
| Return to reality | 17 |
| Get realistic | 13 |
| Get one's head out of the clouds | 36 |
| Become practical or realistic | 29 |
| Airplanes do it every day | 25 |
| Big seller for Chris Rock | 25 |
| "Ally McBeal" genre | 29 |
| Great source of humor | 21 |
| Typical game of the early Mets | 30 |
| Social satire | 13 |
| Dramatic genre | 14 |
| Vincent Price hair-raiser: 1963 | 31 |
| Shakespearean Halloween play? | 29 |
| ... then several art majors presented a ... | 43 |
| Happen without a struggle | 25 |
| "Seven ___!" | 22 |
| Cost what it may | 16 |
| Precede all others | 18 |
| Sammy Cahn song | 15 |
| Are products of | 15 |
| Rally to victory | 16 |
| 1978 debut solo album by Rick James | 35 |
| "I'm stranded and need a ride" | 44 |
| "I need a ride home from school" | 42 |
| 1957 hit for the Dell-Vikings | 29 |
| 1957 Dell-Vikings hit | 21 |
| Words spoken while flexing a finger | 35 |
| Summoning command | 17 |
| Attractive words | 16 |
| Question that's a classic pickup line | 41 |
| Seductive glance | 16 |
| Plea to Lassie | 14 |
| Plea to Lassie in a 1943 film title | 35 |
| Command to Lassie? | 18 |
| "LASSIE ___" (1943 FILM) | 34 |
| What carnivores like to do after a hard day at the office? | 58 |
| "Enter" | 17 |
| "Enter!" | 18 |
| Response to a knock, maybe | 26 |
| ... to the tide | 15 |
| Enter with a paycheck | 21 |
| Emulate March | 13 |
| Fountain of Youth slogan? | 25 |
| Sensible people do it | 21 |
| Acquire, as an inheritance | 26 |
| Acquire by accident | 19 |
| Run across, with "with" | 33 |
| Inherit, perhaps | 16 |
| One way to please a studio | 26 |
| Miss the start, maybe | 21 |
| Miss the intro | 14 |
| Be fashionable, in some circles | 31 |