| "The Shelters of Stone" writer | 40 |
| "Rhapsodie Hongroise" composer | 40 |
| Literally, "with the scraping" | 40 |
| Baked with a cheese and breadcrumb crust | 40 |
| Title word in the first song of the year | 40 |
| Word heard at a New Year's Eve party | 40 |
| ___ May, surrogate mother for Spider-Man | 40 |
| Alpha Conspiracy album about atmosphere? | 40 |
| Constellation between Perseus and Gemini | 40 |
| The green and gold, in Olympic standings | 40 |
| "The Third Man" setting: Abbr. | 40 |
| Indonesia is part of it in the game Risk | 40 |
| Place where you used to get a box lunch? | 40 |
| Gardner of "Seven Days in May" | 40 |
| Smashing Pumpkins: "___ Adore" | 40 |
| She played Eloise in "Mogambo" | 40 |
| Grace's rival in "Mogambo" | 40 |
| Gardner of ''Show Boat'' | 40 |
| Gardner in "Seven Days in May" | 40 |
| Something that makes stops on the ocean? | 40 |
| "Halt!," to Horatio Hornblower | 40 |
| ''Stop!'' in piratespeak | 40 |
| "___ Maria" (Gounod/Bach work) | 40 |
| ''Good morning, Caesar'' | 40 |
| Margaret of "The Color Purple" | 40 |
| Indiana and Illinois, in Monopoly: Abbr. | 40 |
| Population of interest to ornithologists | 40 |
| Professional whose career is taking off? | 40 |
| One passing a course with flying colors? | 40 |
| Fowler's "A Room With ___" | 40 |
| ___ Camacho (Mexican president: 1940-46) | 40 |
| Word on an envelope from abroad, perhaps | 40 |
| "We Try Harder" rental company | 40 |
| Their motto is "We try harder" | 40 |
| What kind of fruit is an alligator pear? | 40 |
| ''Guacamole,'' literally | 40 |
| Georges Perec novel without the letter E | 40 |
| Bard of ___ (Shakespeare's nickname) | 40 |
| "Lucid" stream, to Thomas Gray | 40 |
| "Sliding ___," Paul Simon song | 40 |
| "Just ___ doch an' dorris" | 40 |
| "Just ___ doch an' . . . " | 40 |
| "'Twasn't nuthin'" | 40 |
| Seuss's "Horton Hears ___" | 40 |
| Stitching ___ (leatherworker's tool) | 40 |
| It might help loosen your belt, in a way | 40 |
| What rocker went, when fame hit too hard | 40 |
| Like George W. Bush, in 1972 and '73 | 40 |
| Into the second week of a three-day pass | 40 |
| Exclamation before "How cute!" | 40 |
| "So I Married an ___ Murderer" | 40 |
| "He who laughs last..." et al. | 40 |
| Rose that blossomed in the late '80s | 40 |
| Bart Simpson's "Holy cow!" | 40 |
| "Sheesh!," south of the border | 40 |
| How Jimmy Buffett says yes, when sailing | 40 |
| "Christmas comes but once ___" | 40 |
| "--- in Provence" (Mayle work) | 40 |
| First mate's response to the captain | 40 |
| "The Valley of Horses" heroine | 40 |
| "Atlas Shrugged" novelist Rand | 40 |
| "The Fountainhead" author Rand | 40 |
| "The Fountainhead" writer Rand | 40 |
| Island group that includes São Miguel | 40 |
| Portuguese islands in the North Atlantic | 40 |
| They used a calendar called Xiuhpohualli | 40 |
| California city on the San Gabriel River | 40 |
| It's hardly the silence of the lambs | 40 |
| It didn't keep Little Boy Blue awake | 40 |
| "Ali __ and the Forty Thieves" | 40 |
| Jean de Brunhoff's beloved character | 40 |
| "Wayne's World" descriptor | 40 |
| Kingsley's "The Water-___" | 40 |
| Kingsley's "The Water ___" | 40 |
| "Goo goo gaa gaa," for example | 40 |
| Bogart's 'Key Largo' co-star | 40 |
| "Goldberg Variations" composer | 40 |
| "St. Matthew Passion" composer | 40 |
| Composer of "St. John Passion" | 40 |
| It might reveal a skeleton in the closet | 40 |
| Pamphlet in a chiropractor's office? | 40 |
| Comeuppance for evil actions, supposedly | 40 |
| "Mama's Gun" singer Erykah | 40 |
| Max, the former heavyweight boxing champ | 40 |
| "Madcap Maxie" of 1930s boxing | 40 |
| Last act on the first night of Woodstock | 40 |
| Grand ___ (vacation island near Florida) | 40 |
| Actress ___ Ling of "The Crow" | 40 |
| It's limited by the Eighth Amendment | 40 |
| 'It's a Wonderful Life' hero | 40 |
| Removes water from, with "out" | 40 |
| Scott of "Joanie Loves Chachi" | 40 |
| "Charles in Charge" star Scott | 40 |
| Scott of ''I Love N.Y.'' | 40 |
| "Scott ___ Is 45...and Single" | 40 |
| Gulf of California peninsula, familiarly | 40 |
| Like a gingerbread man ready to be eaten | 40 |
| Establishment that makes a lot of dough? | 40 |
| Golf-ball ingredient from the bully tree | 40 |
| ''The Italian Stallion'' | 40 |