| Ancient Romans | 14 |
| Sudoku's basis | 18 |
| "Amare" might be conjugated on it | 43 |
| Back when men were homines? | 27 |
| Varieties of lava | 17 |
| Side, in Italy | 14 |
| Ky. racetrack | 13 |
| Rte. for many a red-eye | 23 |
| 2004-06 Haitian P.M. | 20 |
| Play that inspired Puccini | 26 |
| Sardou play written for Sarah Bernhardt | 39 |
| Sardou drama that inspired a Puccini opera | 42 |
| Play on which a Puccini opera was based | 39 |
| Basis for a Puccini opera | 25 |
| 1887 Victorien Sardou play on which an opera is based | 53 |
| 1887 play on which a 1900 opera is based | 40 |
| "Just Wanna Dance" singer | 35 |
| "Bad Girl" singer | 27 |
| Interval between stimulation and response | 41 |
| Violetta Valery | 15 |
| Verdi's fallen woman | 24 |
| Verdi opera that had the working title "Violetta" | 59 |
| Venice premiere of 1853 | 23 |
| Another opera by Verdi: 1853 | 28 |
| Highest worship in Catholicism | 30 |
| Supreme homages | 15 |
| Site of an unwanted duty | 24 |
| Military head? | 14 |
| G.I. John? | 10 |
| Where the Army goes | 19 |
| Private's privy | 19 |
| Place to go on base | 19 |
| Military duty? | 14 |
| Head of the military? | 21 |
| Head of the army? | 17 |
| Division head? | 14 |
| Camp privy | 10 |
| Camp necessity | 14 |
| Camp facility | 13 |
| Base head? | 10 |
| WCs for GIs | 11 |
| Simple toilets | 14 |
| Places to go on the base | 24 |
| Places people go to go on base | 30 |
| Army heads | 10 |
| Cheers for the bodybuilder's muscles? | 41 |
| Algonquian speakers' midback muscles? | 41 |
| Coffee addict's meal? | 25 |
| Thin sheet metal | 16 |
| Metal sheets | 12 |
| Brass alloys | 12 |
| Like some saints | 16 |
| ___ Saint | 9 |
| Second of two pieces of fire truck equipment | 44 |
| Second of two spouses? | 22 |
| Having crossed strips | 21 |
| Arranged in crossed strips | 26 |
| Some fruit pie crusts | 21 |
| Screen patterns | 15 |
| Pastry decorations | 18 |
| Crossed-strip structures | 24 |
| Wide, to Cicero | 15 |
| Side, to an M.D. | 16 |
| Some dwellers on the Baltic | 27 |
| Modern-day inhabitants of old Livonia | 37 |
| Charlie of the 60's Orioles | 31 |
| Tepid, in the PAlatinate | 24 |
| Tepid, in Munich | 16 |
| Soap opera veteran Laurence | 27 |
| Lukewarm: Ger. | 14 |
| Hitting instructor Charlie | 26 |
| Fiji's ___ island group | 27 |
| Fiji island group | 17 |
| Famed batting instructor Charlie | 32 |
| Famed batting instructor Charley | 32 |
| Ex-pitcher Charlie ___ | 22 |
| Charlie who wrote "The Art of Hitting .300" | 53 |
| Batting instructor Charlie | 26 |
| "The Art of Hitting .300" writer Charley | 50 |
| Philippine mahogany | 19 |
| Worthy of praise | 16 |
| Worth praising | 14 |
| Tincture of opium | 17 |
| Praiseful | 9 |
| Like an ode | 11 |
| Full of or giving praise | 24 |
| Fort in Florida? | 16 |
| County in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee | 45 |
| Ones giving high praise | 23 |
| Summa cum ___ (top grads) | 25 |
| Singing the praises of | 22 |
| Nobelist in Physics: 1914 | 25 |
| Nobelist German physicist: 1914 | 31 |
| TV's Matt and Andy | 22 |
| Course, in Germany | 18 |
| 1965 Sonny Bono hit | 19 |
| Hit song of 1928 | 16 |
| Musical request of 1928 | 23 |
| Lewis-Young advice in a 1928 song | 33 |
| Ironic operatic line | 20 |