| The Mavs' Mark Cuban and the Nets' Jay-Z, e.g. | 54 |
| The Heatles, e.g. | 17 |
| Shaq and Yao, for two | 21 |
| Jazz greats, maybe | 18 |
| Jazz greats, e.g. | 17 |
| Court luminaries | 16 |
| Thunder, e.g. | 13 |
| Rockets, for one | 16 |
| Magic, since the late '80s | 30 |
| Magic, for one | 14 |
| Magic, for instance | 19 |
| Wizards and Kings, e.g. | 23 |
| Timberwolves and the like | 25 |
| Thunder and Heat, e.g. | 22 |
| Magic and Wizards, e.g. | 23 |
| Kings and others | 16 |
| Grizzlies, Bulls, and Hawks | 27 |
| Hoops cable channel | 19 |
| Sports league-backed cable network | 34 |
| Cable channel for hoops fans | 28 |
| Tom Brokaw's domain | 23 |
| John Williams composed its on-air theme | 39 |
| Employer of Brian Williams | 26 |
| "The Chris Matthews Show" producer | 44 |
| Belonging to a Big Three network | 32 |
| The cast of "SNL," say | 32 |
| Comcast holding | 15 |
| Nuclear radiation weapon, for short | 35 |
| High-radiation WMDs | 19 |
| Immigrant's opposite | 24 |
| Richard Wright's autobiography | 34 |
| U. S. research org. | 19 |
| Old measurement agcy. | 21 |
| Measurements overseer: Abbr. | 28 |
| Fed. office of measures formerly | 33 |
| Org. for the rah-rah people | 27 |
| They're often busted mid-March | 34 |
| March Madness feature | 21 |
| March Madness contest | 21 |
| March tourney, casually | 23 |
| March tourney | 13 |
| March Madness, with "the" | 35 |
| March hoops tourney, with "the" | 41 |
| Big tournaments for university teams, informally | 48 |
| "March Madness" games, informally | 43 |
| 'March Madness' games, informally | 41 |
| There's no foul play when one passes by these | 49 |
| Section of U.S.: Abbr. | 22 |
| Linda Hunt series, for short | 28 |
| CBS drama featuring LL Cool J | 29 |
| Grateful Dead classic about a family member's musical group | 63 |
| On life support and unresponsive | 32 |
| MP? | 3 |
| Copy medium since the '70s | 30 |
| Popular clique | 14 |
| Cartoonists' org. | 21 |
| The Wolfpack, informally | 24 |
| Sch. that John Tesh was expelled from | 37 |
| Play with no intermission and only a few scenes, likely | 55 |
| Not salable | 11 |
| Tooth specialists' gp. | 26 |
| Document to protect confidentiality: Abbr. | 42 |
| Doc. to protect company secrets | 31 |
| Contract in which the parties promise to keep proprietary information secret: abbr. | 83 |
| One of South Africa's official languages | 44 |
| Art house films, typically | 26 |
| Chad's capital | 18 |
| Capital of Chad | 15 |
| Team that won Super Bowl XLI | 28 |
| Moderately slow, on a score | 27 |
| Zambian city | 12 |
| Senegalese singer Youssou ___ | 29 |
| Voter's acronym | 19 |
| Tommy Douglas Party | 19 |
| Political acronym | 17 |
| Layton's party | 18 |
| Layton's org. | 17 |
| J. Layton's party | 21 |
| Start of a quote from Proverbs | 30 |
| STEP UP: 7 | 10 |
| Swaths of vegetation near the forest floor | 42 |
| Def Leppard "High ___" | 32 |
| Metallic elements: Abbr. | 24 |
| State and univ. | 15 |
| Endings with 22, 32, etc. | 25 |
| Calls the wedding off | 21 |
| A real pal | 10 |
| Lake of Ireland | 15 |
| Lake in northern Ireland | 24 |
| Singles champ: 1960 | 19 |
| Tennis's Fraser and others | 30 |
| Football's Greasy et al. | 28 |
| Actress Patricia and family | 27 |
| Actress Patricia et al. | 23 |
| Patricia and Tom of films | 25 |
| Curly and Patricia | 18 |
| Singer McCoy and composer Hefti | 31 |
| Poet/dramatist Larry et al. | 27 |
| Patricia and Peggy of film | 26 |
| Oscar winner Patricia and others | 32 |