| Onetime weight-loss drug | 24 |
| "... They lived peacefully in the land of ___, until one day ..." | 75 |
| "Family Guy" girl | 27 |
| Author Prosper __ who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based | 75 |
| Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | 73 |
| French author who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based | 71 |
| Creator of Carmen | 17 |
| Carmen author | 15 |
| "Carmen" author Prosper | 33 |
| "Carmen" author | 25 |
| ''Carmen'' author Prosper | 41 |
| It's not all fluff | 22 |
| Frothy toppings | 15 |
| Botanical part: Suffix | 22 |
| Scout's honor? | 18 |
| One of twenty-one for an Eagle Scout | 36 |
| Bugling, for one | 16 |
| Boy Scout's award | 21 |
| Award for a Cub, e.g. | 21 |
| Deserve to be heckled? | 22 |
| Worthy of | 9 |
| Increase your earnings immediately with cigarettes! | 51 |
| Excellence: Sp. | 15 |
| Belief that rulers should be chosen based on skills rather than wealth | 70 |
| Self-made leader | 16 |
| Performance-based pay increase | 30 |
| Reward for good work | 20 |
| Has importance | 14 |
| Sole woman to serve as Germany's Chancellor | 47 |
| Schröder successor | 21 |
| First female chancellor of Germany | 34 |
| Dawdling Opry singer? | 21 |
| European blackbirds | 19 |
| Oberon and Haggard | 18 |
| Haggard and Oberon | 18 |
| Miller and Oberon | 17 |
| "Father Murphy" star | 30 |
| Famed magician cheats chumps? | 29 |
| Small falcons | 13 |
| Wine country products | 21 |
| Reagle and a Belgian blackbird | 30 |
| Ariel and others | 16 |
| Subjects of some sea tales | 26 |
| "Teach me to hear ___": Donne | 39 |
| Sea creatures of myth | 21 |
| Males with tails | 16 |
| Half-humans of folklore | 23 |
| Fishy fellows? | 14 |
| Fabulous aquatic creatures | 26 |
| Relative of a sea bass | 22 |
| Large grouper | 13 |
| Grouper of warm seas | 20 |
| Grouper of Florida waters | 25 |
| Former WWE wrestler Rena ___, a.k.a. Sable | 42 |
| Ancient Ethiopian capital | 25 |
| Ancient Nile city | 17 |
| Ruined city on the Nile | 23 |
| Old Egyptian city | 17 |
| Ancient capital on the Nile | 27 |
| Ex ___ (of one's own accord) | 32 |
| Actress in "Poseidon" | 31 |
| ___-Webster (dictionary publisher) | 34 |
| Series with "Duck Amuck" and "One Froggy Evening" | 69 |
| More, it's sometimes said | 29 |
| More cheerful around the holidays, say | 38 |
| "The more the ___" | 28 |
| More festive justices of the peace? | 36 |
| Most jubilant | 13 |
| Most gamesome | 13 |
| Burl "Gopher" Smith's boss | 40 |
| Round words | 11 |
| Civil War vessel | 16 |
| Warship of 1862 | 15 |
| The South's ironclad | 24 |
| Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and ___ Rivers" | 62 |
| Wassail spirit | 14 |
| Mama on ''That's My Mama'' | 46 |
| Island near Canaveral | 21 |
| C. ____ (1942 BC born VC winner) | 32 |
| Happy one or 1958 Danny Kaye film | 33 |
| Season's greetings from Manchester | 38 |
| ''Ivanhoe'' setting | 35 |
| Election victory celebration? | 29 |
| Playground equipment | 20 |
| Social whirls | 13 |
| Places for tireless horses | 26 |
| The Festive State? | 18 |
| King Cole? | 10 |
| Boisterous celebration | 22 |
| Weasel's jolly cousin? | 26 |
| May description, in a song | 26 |
| What May is, so they say | 24 |
| May? | 4 |
| Description of May | 18 |
| Harvest time in the Corn Belt? | 30 |
| Thomas Dekker wrote about it (with "the") | 51 |
| Mirthful flying insect active in spring? | 40 |
| A musical mode of travel | 24 |
| What a nursery rhyme king is called | 35 |
| Traveling gang in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" | 61 |