| Like a game with equal winners and losers | 41 |
| Particle displacement symbols, in physics | 41 |
| Mexican drug cartel, with "Los" | 41 |
| "Immortals" role for Luke Evans | 41 |
| Starving artist's net worth, slangily | 41 |
| Essential element of dot-com transactions | 41 |
| They're written on states' rights | 41 |
| Tourist activity of declining popularity? | 41 |
| "From Aaron to ___" (name book) | 41 |
| Playwright Akins and Tony winner Caldwell | 41 |
| "J'accuse" author Émile | 41 |
| Dyer's "Your Erroneous ___" | 41 |
| Salinger's "Franny and ___" | 41 |
| When doubled, first name in old Hollywood | 41 |
| They're great on Triple Letter Scores | 41 |
| Like baseball's Sacramento Rivercats | 40 |
| ''That's the spot!'' | 40 |
| "Say ___" (doctor's order) | 40 |
| "I could get used to this ..." | 40 |
| Sounds coming from a doctor's office | 40 |
| "Toad of Toad Hall" playwright | 40 |
| "The Red House Mystery" author | 40 |
| "When We Were Very Young" poet | 40 |
| "Mr. Pim Passes By" playwright | 40 |
| Children's author trying to dry out? | 40 |
| Only American with more homers than Ruth | 40 |
| 'Hammerin' Hank' of baseball | 40 |
| 50-year-old group for people 50 or older | 40 |
| "Sports for All, Forever" org. | 40 |
| Org. that included the Kentucky Colonels | 40 |
| Rhyme pattern at the end of a villanelle | 40 |
| "The mind is like ___": Wilbur | 40 |
| Pop group spelled with a backward letter | 40 |
| Group featured in "Mamma Mia!" | 40 |
| Album with the hit "Mamma Mia" | 40 |
| "Thank You for the Music" band | 40 |
| '70s "Chiquitita" pop band | 40 |
| Wordsworth's "Tintern ___" | 40 |
| First word of a Beatles' album title | 40 |
| "The Name of the Rose" setting | 40 |
| "Who's on first?" comedian | 40 |
| "Dancing With the Stars" airer | 40 |
| "Desperate Housewives" network | 40 |
| "Wagon Train" network, 1962-65 | 40 |
| "Good Morning America" network | 40 |
| "Brothers & Sisters" airer | 40 |
| 'Dancing With the Stars' network | 40 |
| Multiple-choice question choice, perhaps | 40 |
| One-time colleague of Jackson and Cowell | 40 |
| He's next to Teddy on Mount Rushmore | 40 |
| "Honest" presidential nickname | 40 |
| Nineteenth-century presidential nickname | 40 |
| ''The Simpsons'' grandpa | 40 |
| Opposite the middle of a ship's side | 40 |
| At right angles to the length of a plane | 40 |
| "...butterfly, sting like ---" | 40 |
| "A keeper of sheep" in Genesis | 40 |
| Eponym of an annual Norwegian math prize | 40 |
| __ Prize (prestigious mathematics award) | 40 |
| Hated with every inch of one's being | 40 |
| “___ Baby” (“Hair” song) | 40 |
| Playing loudly, like a group of trumpets | 40 |
| Petra "Ready, Willing and ___" | 40 |
| Name meaning "father of light" | 40 |
| "Li'l ___" (Al Capp strip) | 40 |
| Oppenheimer's creation, colloquially | 40 |
| "...to fetch her poor dog ---" | 40 |
| "... to give her poor dog ___" | 40 |
| Hassan in "The Arabian Nights" | 40 |
| "___ Ben Adhem" (L. Hunt poem) | 40 |
| '-- Ben Adhem' (Leigh Hunt poem) | 40 |
| Rhyme for "love" in many songs | 40 |
| MacInnes's "___ Suspicion" | 40 |
| "___ Suspicion," MacInnes book | 40 |
| Like hoped-for winter temps in the North | 40 |
| "Life Is Just ___ of Cherries" | 40 |
| "___ -Ca-Dabra" ('74 song) | 40 |
| ___ Kadabra (DC Comics foe of the Flash) | 40 |
| James ___ Garfield (20th U.S. president) | 40 |
| They're hard when they're ripped | 40 |
| They look better when they're ripped | 40 |
| They do a lot of work during crunch time | 40 |
| "___ of Steel" (workout video) | 40 |
| It makes the heart grow fonder, they say | 40 |
| '-- makes the heart grow fonder' | 40 |
| Monkey companion of Disney's Aladdin | 40 |
| Take unfair advantage of, as a privilege | 40 |
| "Call me ___" (old joke setup) | 40 |
| It's far removed from the real world | 40 |
| 17th/18th-century division of New France | 40 |
| "A part to tear ___ in": Shak. | 40 |
| "... than one way to skin ___" | 40 |
| U. of Maryland athletic league, pre-2014 | 40 |
| Capital of Kofi Annan's home country | 40 |
| Capital just west of 0 degrees longitude | 40 |
| Bo Diddley "Before You ___ Me" | 40 |
| Criminal defendant, with "the" | 40 |
| Multimillion-selling band from Australia | 40 |
| Band with a lightning bolt in their logo | 40 |
| 2003 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee | 40 |