| Britten's "Peter ___" | 35 |
| Britten opera hero | 18 |
| Actress Tammy who won a Tony for playing Molly Brown | 52 |
| "Go Tell It on the Mountain" family name | 50 |
| Mr. Clean? | 10 |
| Abolitionists Sarah and Angelina | 32 |
| In a sinister way | 17 |
| How bad news is often received | 30 |
| "Brothers," said Tom ___ | 34 |
| What horror writers use? | 24 |
| Bedtime stories (and this puzzle's theme) | 45 |
| Fairy tale farmer? | 18 |
| Brothers famous for folk tales | 30 |
| "__ Fairy Tales" | 26 |
| "___ Tales" | 21 |
| Theory of linguistics | 21 |
| English borough | 15 |
| Borough near the Humber | 23 |
| "The Little Mermaid" fellow | 37 |
| Well-soiled | 11 |
| Needing scouring | 16 |
| Mean and unpleasant | 19 |
| Like Poppins, at times | 22 |
| Like coal miners' clothes | 29 |
| In need of deep cleaning | 24 |
| Hard to get clean | 17 |
| Full of dirt | 12 |
| Dingy and grubby | 16 |
| Covered in schmutz | 18 |
| Caked with crud | 15 |
| ___ it (stripper's motto) | 29 |
| How to succeed as a stripper? | 29 |
| For nudists | 11 |
| Ecdysiast's slogan | 22 |
| Advice to an ecdysiast | 22 |
| Stoic's credo | 17 |
| Comic strip since 1932 | 22 |
| Advice for one facing adversity | 31 |
| Accept philosophically | 22 |
| TOLERATE THE ROAST? | 19 |
| Abstain happily? | 16 |
| Greet, in Cheshire? | 19 |
| Flash a quick smile to | 22 |
| Silently react to a joke | 24 |
| Show pleasure toward | 20 |
| Look upon with amusement | 24 |
| Give a smile | 12 |
| Be tickled by | 13 |
| Be amused by | 12 |
| Heros | 5 |
| Very burdensome | 15 |
| Molar's mode | 16 |
| Shutting down unceremoniously | 29 |
| Losing steam | 12 |
| Getting bogged down | 19 |
| Imogene Coca TV role | 20 |
| Uses a millstone | 16 |
| Runs through the mill | 21 |
| Dances suggestively | 19 |
| Uses a coffee mill | 18 |
| Slavish routines | 16 |
| Operates, as a hand organ | 25 |
| Makes fish meal | 15 |
| Drip and regular, e.g. | 22 |
| Crushes up | 10 |
| Old knife sharpeners | 20 |
| Shift noisily | 13 |
| Yank in the Yucatan | 19 |
| Yankee | 6 |
| "__ Viejo": Carlos Fuentes novel | 42 |
| Yankee, below the border | 24 |
| Ugly American, in Acapulco | 26 |
| New Mexican in old Mexico, e.g. | 31 |
| Californian in Cancun, e.g. | 27 |
| An American in Mexico | 21 |
| "Old ___" (1989 Jane Fonda film) | 42 |
| Yanks, in Mexico | 16 |
| Some Yanquis | 12 |
| Butch and Sundance, e.g. | 24 |
| Americans, to Mexicans | 22 |
| Showed defiance, perhaps | 24 |
| Smiled at a funny performer | 27 |
| Said ''Cheese!'' | 32 |
| Looked like the Cheshire cat | 28 |
| Emulated a Cheshire cat | 23 |
| Cheshire cat, e.g. | 18 |
| Steve Miller "I'm a picker, I'm a ___" | 56 |
| One with a smile | 16 |
| One showing pleasure | 20 |
| Cheshire cat | 12 |
| Looking sheepish, say | 21 |
| Like the Cheshire Cat | 21 |
| Like the Cheshire-Cat | 21 |
| Is friendly (or maybe creepy) toward, silently | 46 |
| Shows a smile to | 16 |
| Reacts to, as a joke | 20 |
| Finds amusing | 13 |
| Rupert of the Harry Potter universe | 35 |
| Storyteller in West Africa | 26 |
| West African storyteller | 24 |