| 1983 #1 hit with the lyric "Put on your red shoes" | 60 |
| Classic show tune, or another phrase said before sex | 52 |
| "I'm sure we can think of something ..." | 54 |
| Only vegetable never sold frozen, canned, processed, or cooked | 62 |
| "My Name Is Asher ___" (Chaim Potok novel) | 52 |
| ''My Name Is Asher ___'' (Potok novel) | 54 |
| Zep "Mean old ___ taught me to weep and moan" | 55 |
| Led Zep "When the ___ breaks, mama, you got to move" | 62 |
| "When the ___ breaks I'll have no place to stay" | 62 |
| "Drove my Chevy to the ___..." (1972 lyric) | 53 |
| ''The Periodic Table'' novelist Primo | 53 |
| Veronese masterpiece "The Feast in the House of ___" | 62 |
| Benjamin Harrison's vice president, ___ P. Morton | 53 |
| "Can't you see my faded ___ bursting apart" Meat Loaf | 67 |
| He's on the back of Missouri's state quarter | 52 |
| Gold medalist at the 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympics | 56 |
| Defeater of Holyfield, 1999, for the world heavyweight title | 60 |
| Christian apologist who wrote "The Four Loves" | 56 |
| Buddy Love portrayer in "The Nutty Professor" | 55 |
| "The Joy of ___" (Gyles Brandreth book about words) | 61 |
| "The Joy of ___" (Brandreth's celebration of wordplay) | 68 |
| "The Joy of ___" (book celebrating wordplay) | 54 |
| ''The Conquest of Space'' writer Willy | 54 |
| Island where MacArthur fulfilled his promise to return | 54 |
| Venti's equivalent in regular coffeeshops: Abbr. | 52 |
| Setting for Martin Scorsese's "Kundun" | 52 |
| Capital city whose name means "place of the gods" | 59 |
| Asian city whose name means "place of the gods" | 57 |
| Asian capital whose name means "place of the gods" | 60 |
| ___ Fáil (Ireland's palindromic coronation stone) | 56 |
| Neeson who voiced Aslan in the "Narnia" movies | 56 |
| Former "Weekend Edition Sunday" host Hansen | 53 |
| Someone touching their face or avoiding eye contact, probably | 61 |
| Either of two guests on "To Tell the Truth" | 53 |
| Aretha lyric "You're a ___ and you're a cheat" | 64 |
| "A ___ should have a good memory": Quintilian | 55 |
| '97 film with the tagline "Coming soon. Honest." | 62 |
| Jim Carrey film with the ironic tagline "Trust Me" | 60 |
| 1997 film with the tagline "Coming soon. Honest." | 59 |
| "It is the nature of ambition to make men __": Tynan | 62 |
| Its flag resembles the U.S. flag but with only one star | 55 |
| Country with modern Africa's first female head of state | 59 |
| Bell opening? (and this puzzle's theme spelled out) | 55 |
| Walt Whitman's ''procreant urge'' | 53 |
| Subject of some notes sent home to parents by the school nurse | 62 |
| "___ Capades" ("South Park" episode) | 56 |
| "___ Rose" ("The Music Man" song) | 53 |
| "___ Rose" (song from "The Music Man") | 58 |
| "__ Rose": "The Music Man" quartet | 54 |
| Beach resort at the entrance to the Lagoon of Venice | 52 |
| "The dog ate my homework" is a classic one | 52 |
| Tiger's position (read into that clue how you'd like) | 61 |
| "Well, I'd love to keep talking ...," probably | 60 |
| "This puzzle is really, really hard," e.g. | 52 |
| "So you're just gonna sit there and ___ to my face?" | 66 |
| "I didn't know I was speeding, officer," probably | 63 |
| "I cannot tell a ___" (George Washington's claim) | 63 |
| "Ball don't ___" (trash talk from a hoopster) | 59 |
| "A ___ cannot live": Martin Luther King Jr. | 53 |
| "___ to me. But please don't leave" Sheryl Crow | 61 |
| "___ to me, but please don't leave" Crow lyric | 60 |
| ''A ___ of the Mind,'' Shepard drama | 52 |
| "Said I Loved You ... But I ___" Michael Bolton | 57 |
| "Don't ___ on me" (debtor's motto?) | 53 |
| ''Don't ___ on me'' (debtor's motto?) | 61 |
| Oxymoronic movie title, ''True ___'' | 52 |
| Churchill's "categorical inexactitude" | 52 |
| "Debts and ___ are generally mixed together": Rabelais | 64 |
| " . . . believing in old men's ___ . . . ": Pound | 63 |
| ''Every bed, whereon he ___ . . .'' (Leviticus 15:4) | 68 |
| Almost stop with the head facing the wind, as a ship | 52 |
| Mil. title literally meaning "holding a place" | 56 |
| Schreiber who won a Tony for "Glengarry Glen Ross" | 60 |
| "Everything is Illuminated" director Schreiber | 56 |
| Schreiber of "Love in the Time of Cholera" | 52 |
| Hugh's fellow fighter, in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" | 66 |
| Co-star of Denzel in "The Manchurian Candidate" | 57 |
| "Glengarry Glen Ross" Tony winner Schreiber | 53 |
| ___ Schreiber (headliner of TV's "Ray Donovan") | 61 |
| It's "too short for chess": Henry J. Byron | 56 |
| Word that can follow the ten starred words in this puzzle | 57 |
| The "it" in "He likes it! Hey Mikey!" | 57 |
| Prison sentence that may be "without parole" | 54 |
| Magazine that first published "The Old Man and the Sea" | 65 |
| Per 2006 estimates, it ranges from 33 in Swaziland to 84 in Andorra | 67 |
| 1997 Roberto Benigni film that starts with a board game? | 56 |
| Contestant's help on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 66 |
| "Use an energy-saving bulb, rather than the old style..." | 68 |
| 1967 hit that begins "You know that it would be untrue" | 65 |
| Word with ''crazy'' or ''clockwork'' | 68 |
| "Black ___ Me" (John Howard Griffin memoir) | 53 |
| ''Some ___ It Hot'' (1959 Marilyn Monroe film) | 62 |
| "___ Folks" ("Peanuts," originally) | 55 |
| Repeated word in "Bridging the Gap" song title | 56 |
| "Peanuts" before its name change, "___ Folks" | 65 |
| "___ Folks" (original title for "Peanuts") | 62 |
| "___ Folks" (original name of "Peanuts") | 60 |
| "___ Bush" (Comedy Central political satire) | 54 |
| ___ Wayne with the platinum album "Tha Block Is Hot" | 62 |
| Pirsig book subtitled "An Inquiry Into Morals" | 56 |