| Short and stocky | 16 |
| Brain opening | 13 |
| Sgt. Carter, in 60's TV? | 28 |
| Charles I antagonist and family | 31 |
| Family in "House of Seven Gables" | 43 |
| Old talk show host Joe | 22 |
| Joe __, confrontational '50s-'60s talk show host | 56 |
| In-your-face '50s-'60s talk show host Joe | 49 |
| Christie sleuth Parker | 22 |
| Christie detective Parker ___ | 29 |
| 60's talk show host Joe | 27 |
| Taedong River capital | 21 |
| Capital of the so-called Hermit Kingdom | 39 |
| Heat: Prefix | 12 |
| Site of Anaho Island | 20 |
| 1973 book subtitled "The Millennium Science" | 54 |
| Some royal tombs | 16 |
| Saqqara attractions | 19 |
| Heaps up | 8 |
| Giza attractions | 16 |
| Gets bigger and bigger | 22 |
| Cheops creation | 15 |
| Financial connivances | 21 |
| Radiohead song written about Egypt? | 35 |
| Lover of Thisbe | 15 |
| Cyclic compound | 15 |
| Range between Spain and France | 30 |
| Range separating France and Spain | 33 |
| France-Spain range | 18 |
| Some fruit pits | 15 |
| Pungent liquids | 15 |
| Source of sulfuric acid | 23 |
| Sulfur source | 13 |
| It glitters but isn't gold | 30 |
| Minerals known as "fool's gold" | 45 |
| Brass-yellow minerals | 21 |
| Sulfide-containing group | 24 |
| Minerals that look like gold | 28 |
| Fool's gold, e.g. | 21 |
| Fire starter's obsession | 28 |
| What might involve reminiscing about old flames? | 48 |
| Light-mindedness? | 17 |
| Impulse to start fires | 22 |
| Classic Def Leppard album from 1983 | 35 |
| One playing with fire | 21 |
| Arsonist's cousin | 21 |
| Fear of fire | 12 |
| Tom Brady lighting jerseys on fire just to watch them burn? | 59 |
| Porno for ___ | 13 |
| Perry Farrell's Porno for ___ | 33 |
| Ones who are always starting something? | 39 |
| Ones drawn to flames, briefly | 29 |
| Firebugs, for short | 19 |
| Compulsive fire starters, informally | 36 |
| Fire-detecting device | 21 |
| What we watch on July 4 | 23 |
| Mineral found in igneous rocks | 30 |
| Win that wasnÂ’t worth it | 28 |
| Win offset by losses | 20 |
| Gray cardinal of Arizona | 24 |
| Michael Jackson hit off "Thriller" | 44 |
| will.i.am remixed this MJ hit in 2008 | 37 |
| Michael Jackson hit that begins "Where did you come from lady? | 67 |
| Abbreviated single on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album | 70 |
| 1983 Michael Jackson song | 25 |
| "Thriller" jam | 24 |
| "I want to love you, ___" (Michael Jackson) | 53 |
| He knew his right triangles | 27 |
| Greek who knew his numbers | 26 |
| GAP/RAYTHEON merger hailed by geometry theorists | 48 |
| Humorously surrealistic | 23 |
| "The Father of Numbers" | 33 |
| Shrubby evergreen plant | 23 |
| Shrubby evergreen | 17 |
| Creeping evergreen | 18 |
| Folded Pizza Hut offering | 25 |
| Mushroom, for one | 17 |
| Crowded womb member | 19 |
| Town in Saudi Arabia | 20 |
| Muslim administrators | 21 |
| Variant spelling for an eskimo boat recently added to the Scrabble dictionary (you'll need at least one blank to play it) | 125 |
| Writer/humorist Joe [white] | 27 |
| ___ A (event at which a famous person might say hI) | 51 |
| Grizzlies who give great interviews? | 36 |
| Interview near an inn? | 22 |
| Post-seminar session | 20 |
| Informal interviews | 19 |
| Press time (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 50 |
| Informative dialogues | 21 |
| ... QATAR AIRWAYS, DJ QBERT, and IRAQ WAR | 41 |
| ___ Qum, Turkmen desert | 23 |
| 1978 Devo album cover query "___ We Not Men?" | 55 |
| Yemeni shrub whose leaves are chewed as a stimulant | 51 |
| Plant chewed in Arabia | 22 |
| Chewable Mideast stimulant | 26 |
| Arabian tea: Var. | 17 |
| African tea leaves (Var.) | 25 |
| African tea leaves | 18 |
| African plant whose leaves are chewed as a stimulant | 52 |
| African evergreen whose leaves are chewed as a narcotic | 55 |