| "Pride and Prejudice" protagonist | 43 |
| Thomas ____ McGee | 17 |
| Suitor in Austen | 16 |
| Austen hero | 11 |
| "Pride and Prejudice" suitor | 38 |
| "Pride and Prejudice" hero | 36 |
| "Pride and Prejudice" character | 41 |
| Turkish tribesman | 17 |
| Song hit of 1919 | 16 |
| Hit song in 1919 | 16 |
| Blind Marvel Comics superhero | 29 |
| Harum-scarum type | 17 |
| Evel Knievel, e.g. | 18 |
| Recklessly bold | 15 |
| Marvel Comics superhero who's blind | 39 |
| Karl Wallenda or Evel Knievel | 29 |
| Hairbreadth Harry, e.g. | 23 |
| Evel Knievel, for one | 21 |
| Evel Knievel for one | 21 |
| Reckless ones | 13 |
| Thrill-seekers | 14 |
| Evel and Robbie Knievel, for two | 32 |
| Derring-doers | 13 |
| Evel Knievel's forte | 24 |
| "Oh yeah? Let's see you hold your breath for TWO minutes!," e.g.? | 79 |
| "This may be controversial, but ..." | 46 |
| Wouldn't venture, for short | 31 |
| Be too cowardly (contraction) | 29 |
| Provoke pops? | 13 |
| Parcel with challenges? | 23 |
| Venture to utter | 16 |
| Venture an opinion | 18 |
| Think likely | 12 |
| Think it could possibly be | 26 |
| Venture verbally | 16 |
| Venture to postulate | 20 |
| Venture to mention | 18 |
| Venture to express | 18 |
| Think probable | 14 |
| Assume as probable | 18 |
| Lacks the courage to | 20 |
| Is unwilling to risk | 20 |
| Lacks the nerve, for short | 26 |
| Biblical anagram for trades | 27 |
| "_____ Thou Now O Soul" (Whitman poem) | 48 |
| "___ Thou Now, O Soul" (Walt Whitman poem) | 52 |
| "___ thou now O soul": Whitman | 40 |
| "Do I ___?" (Prufrock query) | 38 |
| Indian millet | 13 |
| Modern variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan | 47 |
| Grain sorghum: Var. | 19 |
| A grain sorghum | 15 |
| Onetime MTV animated title character and others | 47 |
| Old Persian coin | 16 |
| Persian coin | 12 |
| Language that gave us "kowtow" | 40 |
| Singer Bobby and others | 23 |
| Singer Bobby and family | 23 |
| Italian playwright ___ Fo | 25 |
| Modernismo's Rubén ___ | 29 |
| Literature Nobelist Fo | 22 |
| Indy winner Franchitti | 22 |
| Indy 500 winner Franchitti | 26 |
| Horror director Argento | 23 |
| 1997 Literature Nobelist Fo | 27 |
| Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish | 35 |
| Rucker of country | 17 |
| Persian king, 522-486 B.C. | 26 |
| Persian king known as "the Great" | 43 |
| One of Hootie and the Blowfish | 30 |
| King of Persia | 14 |
| Hootie & the Blowfish's Rucker | 38 |
| Father of Xerxes | 16 |
| Composer Milhaud | 16 |
| Persian ruler dubbed "the Great" | 42 |
| City with a view of Mt. Everest | 31 |
| Time of little advancement | 26 |
| Period of human benightedness | 29 |
| Hardly a period of enlightenment | 32 |
| "Tall, ___" | 21 |
| TV series about genetically enhanced warrior Max Guevara | 56 |
| "And his affections ___ Erebus": Shak. | 48 |
| Bock, for one | 13 |
| R. L. Stevenson line | 20 |
| "Final Fantasy VII" character, turned evil | 52 |
| Grimly satiric entertainment | 28 |
| Film characterized by satiric humor | 35 |
| "O ___, amid the blaze of noon": Milton | 49 |
| Brown paint, e.g. | 17 |
| More dismal | 11 |
| Shady Doves song? | 17 |
| Not as sunny | 12 |
| More stygian | 12 |
| More sinister | 13 |
| More saturnine | 14 |
| More downbeat | 13 |
| Less lit | 8 |
| Gloomier | 8 |
| Closer to black | 15 |
| Black, as compared to gray | 26 |