| ''A la vodka'' pasta | 36 |
| Keystone State founder and family | 33 |
| ___ Landing (part of Philadelphia) | 34 |
| "Strangers on a Train" chase scene site | 49 |
| It may be offered for your thoughts | 35 |
| "Big" director Marshall | 33 |
| "___ Lane," Beatles song: 1967 | 40 |
| "___ Lane," Beatles song | 34 |
| One involved in foreign exchange? | 33 |
| Someone from whom you might collect exotic stamps | 49 |
| Receiver of exotic stamps, perhaps | 34 |
| Participant in a foreign exchange | 33 |
| One who might have a collection of foreign stamps | 49 |
| Letter-writing prisoner, perhaps | 32 |
| Letter-writing friend from far away | 35 |
| Faraway friend who likes to write | 33 |
| What great crossword-solvers use | 32 |
| They're at all the big signing ceremonies | 45 |
| What songwriters should always have on them | 43 |
| What confident crossword solvers use | 36 |
| Tools for some crossword solvers | 32 |
| Tools for confident crossword solvers | 37 |
| They used to be lowered into wells | 34 |
| They can be filled with inks or oinks | 37 |
| Some Matt Gaffney Crossword Contest prizes | 42 |
| Brave crossword solver's tools | 34 |
| Closely confined (with "up") | 38 |
| Confined, with ''up'' | 37 |
| Confined (with ''up'') | 38 |
| Constrained, with "up" | 32 |
| Abbr. on a certain elevator button | 34 |
| " . . . long in city ___": Keats | 42 |
| Big brand of writing instruments | 32 |
| Keats's "wealth of globèd ___" | 47 |
| Flower once a national emblem of China | 38 |
| Traditional floral symbol of China | 34 |
| Flowering plant named for a Greek god | 37 |
| Flower that's a traditional symbol of China | 47 |
| China's unofficial national flower | 38 |
| Magazine with a famous crossword | 32 |
| Tune from "Funny Girl" | 32 |
| Radio's "___ Are Funny" | 37 |
| Mia Farrow graced its first cover | 33 |
| Magazine with a Stylewatch spinoff | 34 |
| Its first issue featured Mia Farrow on the cover | 48 |
| Hit song from "Funny Girl" | 36 |
| ______, Saskatchewan's motto part 2 | 39 |
| Illinois city famed for test-marketing | 38 |
| "But will it play in ___?" | 36 |
| "Will it play in ___?" | 32 |
| Metropolitan symbol of the American mainstream | 46 |
| Largest city on the Illinois River | 34 |
| Where the Chiefs play minor-league baseball | 43 |
| Site of a Lincoln antislavery speech: 1854 | 42 |
| Richard Pryor's Illinois birthplace | 39 |
| People wonder if it'll play there | 37 |
| Midwest League city where the Chiefs play | 41 |
| Midwest city representing average tastes | 40 |
| Midwest city founded as Fort Clark | 34 |
| Illinois home to Caterpillar, Inc. | 34 |
| Illinois city that symbolizes Middle America | 44 |
| Illinois city symbolizing middle America | 40 |
| Illinois city symbolizing mainstream America | 44 |
| Home of the Chiefs in minor-league baseball | 43 |
| Famously mainstream American town | 33 |
| City that symbolizes Middle America | 35 |
| ''Will it play in __?'' | 39 |
| Word with "pill" or "rally" | 47 |
| Product with a circular red, white and blue logo | 48 |
| Willie ___, 1942–48 featherweight champ | 46 |
| Make lively, with "up" | 32 |
| Become spirited, with "up" | 36 |
| __ band: school rally performers | 32 |
| Salt's partner, in old hip-hop | 34 |
| Salt-N- ___ ('80s-'90s group) | 37 |
| Rapper Sandra Denton's stage name | 37 |
| One of Salt's singing partners | 34 |
| Musical partner of DJ Spinderella and Salt | 42 |
| Hip-hop's Sandra Denton, familiarly | 39 |
| --- Le Pew (cat-lovin' skunk) | 33 |
| Warner Bros. toon who's odorous and amorous | 47 |
| Prawn of "The Muppets" | 32 |
| Penelope's pursuer in Looney Tunes toons | 44 |
| Mephitic cartoon character LePew | 32 |
| First name of a Warner Bros. skunk | 34 |
| First name of a Parisian stinker | 32 |
| Costar of Daffy, Bugs, and Elmer | 32 |
| Classic French film "___ Le Moko" | 43 |
| Cartoon character who constantly woos Penelope | 46 |
| "Muppets Tonight" prawn | 33 |
| "_____ Le Moko" 1937 film | 35 |
| "___ Le Moko" (1937 movie) | 36 |
| "___ Le Moko" (1937 Duvivier drama) | 45 |
| "___ le Moko," Gabin film | 35 |
| Frankish king known as "the Short" | 44 |
| King known as "The Short" | 35 |
| King called "The Short" | 33 |
| Charlemagne's dad ("the Short") | 45 |
| "Fast Food My Way" chef Jacques | 41 |
| ___ the Short, early king of the Franks | 39 |