| Big spinner | 11 |
| AKA Fred (Taylor) | 17 |
| A twister | 9 |
| "The Wizard of Oz" event | 34 |
| Twisters | 8 |
| Violent rotating windstorms | 27 |
| Iowa State U. | 13 |
| Iowa State team | 15 |
| Big books | 9 |
| One-eyed monster | 16 |
| One-eyed giant | 14 |
| One with an eye for a storyteller? | 34 |
| One eyed one | 12 |
| Dr. ___, Dekker role in 1940 | 28 |
| Three-wheeled motor taxis | 25 |
| Physicist's accelerator | 27 |
| Spiral-shaped particle accelerators | 35 |
| Apple drink (variation) | 23 |
| Dancer Charisse et al. | 22 |
| Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez best seller | 40 |
| Gang of swans? | 14 |
| Young swans | 11 |
| Those like the ugly duckling | 28 |
| Caesar's swans | 18 |
| Engine chamber | 14 |
| Edison recording medium | 23 |
| The 8 in V-8 | 12 |
| V-8's eight: Abbr. | 22 |
| Engine specification: Abbr. | 27 |
| Autos' 4, 6, or 8, for short | 32 |
| Cornice molding | 15 |
| Projecting molding | 18 |
| Moulding | 8 |
| Mother Goose character? | 23 |
| Shakespearean play about a British ruler | 40 |
| Type of flower cluster | 22 |
| Inflorescence | 13 |
| An inflorescence | 16 |
| Wave: Comb. form | 16 |
| Welsh people | 12 |
| Pessimism | 9 |
| Pessimistic disposition | 23 |
| Distrusting disposition | 23 |
| Belief in disbelief | 19 |
| One who likes dogs | 18 |
| Things that strongly attract attention | 38 |
| They provide guidance | 21 |
| Nixon of "Sex and the City" | 37 |
| "Sex and the City" actress Nixon | 42 |
| Young persons' assn. | 24 |
| Young people's org. | 23 |
| Church-affiliated kids' grp. | 32 |
| What Young caused Red Sox fans to heave? | 40 |
| Soho O | 6 |
| Naught, in Nottingham | 21 |
| Code breaker's challenge | 28 |
| 2002 Lucy Liu sci-fi film | 25 |
| Codes, in Cambridge | 19 |
| French evergreen | 16 |
| Tree that symbolizes Pebble Beach | 33 |
| Louisiana's state tree (with ''bald'') | 58 |
| Louisiana's state tree | 26 |
| Van Morrison's crossroad? | 29 |
| EURASIA, EURASIA | 16 |
| Saint-___ (French military academy) | 35 |
| France's Saint-___ | 22 |
| St.-___, seat of a military school | 34 |
| St.-___-l'École, France | 31 |
| St.-____-l'École, France | 32 |
| St._____-l'école, France | 31 |
| St. _____- l'Ecole, France | 30 |
| Saint-___ (French West Point) | 29 |
| Saint-___ (France's West Point) | 35 |
| Minsky's Lili St. ___ | 25 |
| Lingerie designer Lili St. --- | 30 |
| Lili St. ___ | 12 |
| Legendary strongman Louis | 25 |
| France's Saint-___-l'École | 38 |
| Famed stripper Lili St. ___ | 27 |
| Burlesque star Lili St. ___ | 27 |
| Author McFadden | 15 |
| ___ Bergerac | 12 |
| 1950 Jose Ferrer film shown on C-SPAN, appropriately? | 53 |
| Rostand hero et al. | 19 |
| De Bergerac and others | 22 |
| Libyan resort | 13 |
| Russians write in it | 20 |
| Like letters from Lenin | 23 |
| Portrayer of Captain Hook | 25 |
| Actor Ritchard et al. | 21 |
| Actor Ritchard and others | 25 |
| Curved: prefix | 14 |
| Persian king | 12 |
| "Hannah Montana" star Miley | 37 |
| Persian Empire founder | 22 |
| Inventor McCormick | 18 |
| Former "Hannah Montana" star Miley | 44 |
| Statesman Vance | 15 |
| Singer Billy Ray -- | 19 |
| Singer Billy Ray | 16 |