| Columnist nee Esther Pauline Lederer | 36 |
| ___ regni (in the year of the reign) | 36 |
| Texas governor before George W. Bush | 36 |
| Per ___ (how budgets may be planned) | 36 |
| "I'll take that as __" | 36 |
| ''Feliz ___ Nuevo!'' | 36 |
| The difference between Jan and Joan? | 36 |
| California's __ Nuevo State Park | 36 |
| "Shall I take that as __?" | 36 |
| "I take it that's ___" | 36 |
| "___ is as good as a wink" | 36 |
| "--- is as good as a wink" | 36 |
| Positive battery terminal, sometimes | 36 |
| What Walter Brennan typically played | 36 |
| "___, good nurse!": Juliet | 36 |
| Abbr. used when an author is unknown | 36 |
| Unknown author's byline, briefly | 36 |
| Source of many quotations, for short | 36 |
| Old folk song composer, often: Abbr. | 36 |
| " . . . turn deserves ___" | 36 |
| "Antigone" playwright Jean | 36 |
| What "A" might mean: Abbr. | 36 |
| The "A" of Q&A (Abbr.) | 36 |
| "As I Lay Dying" character | 36 |
| First name in wilderness photography | 36 |
| Saint and a founder of scholasticism | 36 |
| 11th-century Benedictine philosopher | 36 |
| Cap ___ in the Baseball Hall of Fame | 36 |
| Insignificant person, metaphorically | 36 |
| Army member with no national loyalty | 36 |
| "Anthology" Alien ___ Farm | 36 |
| You're out until you put this in | 36 |
| Word on a Caribbean Stud Poker table | 36 |
| Throw some coins on the table, maybe | 36 |
| No one's in until this is put in | 36 |
| 'Home on the Range' creature | 36 |
| "My Favorite Martian" prop | 36 |
| It's often played before playing | 36 |
| "La Marseillaise," for one | 36 |
| "God Save the Queen," e.g. | 36 |
| Prefix with disestablishmentarianism | 36 |
| Prefix with ''skid'' | 36 |
| Prefix for disestablish-mentarianism | 36 |
| Chekhov who wrote "Ivanov" | 36 |
| ''Goldengirl'' Susan | 36 |
| Willa Cather's "My __" | 36 |
| Shakespeare's merchant of Venice | 36 |
| Roman general in a Shakespeare title | 36 |
| Caesar, J.'s pal was an opposite | 36 |
| "Low," to "high" | 36 |
| Unwelcome visitors to one's home | 36 |
| Bugs in "A Bug's Life" | 36 |
| People, seemingly, from a skyscraper | 36 |
| Dreamworks's first animated film | 36 |
| "Doesn't matter to me" | 36 |
| "There isn't ___ more" | 36 |
| "___ Wednesday," 1966 film | 36 |
| "___ way you slice it ..." | 36 |
| "Press __ key to continue" | 36 |
| "... by __ other name ..." | 36 |
| "Notwithstanding that ..." | 36 |
| "Be that as it may . . . " | 36 |
| Astronaut's "Perfect!" | 36 |
| Armstrong's "Perfect!" | 36 |
| "All's well," in space | 36 |
| ISP with a circle-in-a-triangle logo | 36 |
| Company that merged with Time Warner | 36 |
| Alternative to Prodigy or CompuServe | 36 |
| Co. that owns Moviefone and Mapquest | 36 |
| Increasingly hard to find net surfer | 36 |
| Get an ___ (pass with flying colors) | 36 |
| "In ___-horse open sleigh" | 36 |
| "Fantastic Voyage" carrier | 36 |
| "... to fetch __ of water" | 36 |
| "Never Tear Us ___" (INXS) | 36 |
| The worst of evils, per Helen Keller | 36 |
| "I don't care" feeling | 36 |
| "Calling all cars" letters | 36 |
| "NYPD Blues" issuing order | 36 |
| They might prevent getaways, briefly | 36 |
| "...partridge in ___ tree" | 36 |
| Early characters in "2001" | 36 |
| One who's good at impersonations | 36 |
| "Planet of the ___" (1968) | 36 |
| Headquarters for Polynesian Airlines | 36 |
| Place that's abuzz with activity | 36 |
| '... blackbirds baked in --' | 36 |
| Rating for a smooth eBay transaction | 36 |
| Problem that some people have in bed | 36 |
| Mount ___, active Philippine volcano | 36 |
| Moon's farthest point from earth | 36 |
| Skating gold medalist ___ Anton Ohno | 36 |
| Opposite of "to starboard" | 36 |
| "Killer" piece of software | 36 |
| Neville Chamberlain's reputation | 36 |
| Tree in the Garden of the Hesperides | 36 |
| "Temptation" is their word | 36 |
| Progs that may be "killer" | 36 |
| "Killer" computer programs | 36 |
| What "4" may mean, briefly | 36 |