| Magicians, often | 16 |
| Laser pointer used by that jerk in the audience? | 48 |
| Absent-minded | 13 |
| Unable to concentrate | 21 |
| A pint to drown your sorrows? | 29 |
| Gallows humor? | 14 |
| Roadside emergency signals | 26 |
| There are nine in this puzzle, including a symbolic one | 55 |
| S O S and Mayday | 16 |
| Flares, e.g. | 12 |
| Flares at sea | 13 |
| Attempts to get help | 20 |
| Present praise, on the street | 29 |
| Supplied to retailers | 21 |
| Criticize awards? | 17 |
| Cover in some auto engines | 26 |
| Oscar-nominated sci-fi film of 2009 | 35 |
| Divided into political boundaries | 33 |
| 2009 sci-fi Best Picture nominee | 32 |
| Set of software components packaged for release, briefly | 56 |
| Linux option | 12 |
| Have little faith in | 20 |
| Have doubts about | 17 |
| Chess player accidentally pushes pawn, gets charged with ... | 60 |
| Cause commotion | 15 |
| Make noise illegally | 20 |
| U.S.S.R. crisis: 1991 | 21 |
| Alienator | 9 |
| Lack of cohesiveness | 20 |
| Cause of unrest | 15 |
| Obsolescence | 12 |
| Cause of atrophy | 16 |
| What obsolete things fall into | 30 |
| Something to fall into | 22 |
| Rust cause, perhaps | 19 |
| Fate of some old ways | 21 |
| Cessation of practice | 21 |
| Abandonment | 11 |
| Dropping, in a manner of speaking | 33 |
| India's devil's-tree | 28 |
| Vittorio Emanuele, re ___ | 25 |
| "___ Deus," Arizona motto | 35 |
| "___ Deus," Ariz. motto | 33 |
| Employee with a pick and shovel | 31 |
| Laborer used for underground work? | 34 |
| Worker with pick and shovel | 27 |
| Worker in the trenches? | 23 |
| His work may take him underground | 33 |
| Excavator of a sort | 19 |
| Leaves behind | 13 |
| Truant activity | 15 |
| What Crystal Harris became famous for doing in 2011, and a hint to the theme | 76 |
| What something may be as dull as | 32 |
| Dull as --- | 11 |
| Spoken: Fr. | 11 |
| Called: Fr. | 11 |
| 'South Pacific' song with lyrics in French | 50 |
| Photographer of "Killing Fields" fame, ___ Pran | 57 |
| Was indecisive | 14 |
| Made a nervous fuss | 19 |
| Flustered one | 13 |
| Dagwood's boss | 18 |
| Dagwood Bumstead's boss | 27 |
| Bumstead's boss | 19 |
| Flustered states | 16 |
| Blondie's "boss-in-law" J.C. | 42 |
| Angry states for Bumstead's boss? | 37 |
| Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep? | 40 |
| Impassioned acclaims | 20 |
| Queens neighborhood near La Guardia | 35 |
| Rocco's finger | 18 |
| More vapid | 10 |
| Not so level-headed | 19 |
| More airheaded | 14 |
| More addled | 11 |
| Most clueless | 13 |
| Simple songs | 12 |
| Playful tunes | 13 |
| Cute songs | 10 |
| Cheerful songs | 14 |
| Catchy tunes | 12 |
| Said the same | 13 |
| Repeated the words of | 21 |
| Repeated the last statement | 27 |
| Repeating the words of | 22 |
| [See above] | 11 |
| Shopping place for copycats? | 28 |
| Listmaker's shortcut | 24 |
| Sailors' etuis | 18 |
| Bubbleheads | 11 |
| Blonde's quality, in jokes | 30 |
| Sewing and scrapbooking, like, I don't know, I forget? | 58 |
| Island off India's coast | 28 |
| Island off India | 16 |
| Goa, Daman and ___ | 18 |
| Active from dawn to dusk | 24 |
| On a 24-hour schedule | 21 |
| Like the snowy owl | 18 |
| Daily | 5 |
| Active when the sun shines | 26 |