| "There was no other option!" | 38 |
| "There was no other choice!" | 38 |
| "You can't dissuade me!" | 38 |
| "Really! It's MY treat!" | 38 |
| Mideastern country's autobiography | 38 |
| Statement right after plastic surgery? | 38 |
| Computer operator's lament: Part 1 | 38 |
| When repeated, an old New Orleans tune | 38 |
| "___ thug life" (2Pac lyric) | 38 |
| "___ Tear Fall in the River" | 38 |
| Artist's comment at the poker game | 38 |
| Repetitively named Philippine province | 38 |
| Admission from someone who went postal | 38 |
| "That put me over the edge!" | 38 |
| "___ Pastore" (Mozart opera) | 38 |
| "Casablanca" role and others | 38 |
| Poetry movement promoted by Amy Lowell | 38 |
| Lyrical self-observation from Beck ... | 38 |
| Words spoken while stretching, perhaps | 38 |
| Statement made after a break-up, maybe | 38 |
| "You'll have to show me" | 38 |
| "Aah," Ã la Irving Berlin | 38 |
| Observation after too many wrong turns | 38 |
| "Send a note," in geek-speak | 38 |
| Coach George's handheld appliance? | 38 |
| "Can't fool me, buster!" | 38 |
| Pearl Jam song off "No Code" | 38 |
| Result of a good shot with a spear gun | 38 |
| Remove old-time shoemaker from office? | 38 |
| Little devil gets crumbs from overseas | 38 |
| Not the real Charlie of Star-Kist ads? | 38 |
| #1 hit from the album "J.Lo" | 38 |
| Response to a highly anticipated event | 38 |
| Frustrated cry from an experienced pro | 38 |
| "Be great ___ . . . ": Shak. | 38 |
| Start of a quotation by Budd Schulberg | 38 |
| "___ Out" (Kevin Kline film) | 38 |
| "And a partridge ___ . . . " | 38 |
| Dire Straits: "Brothers ___" | 38 |
| Like rough-and-tumble kids, frequently | 38 |
| _____ of troubles (beset on all sides) | 38 |
| How insistent sentences might be typed | 38 |
| The cross aromatherapy patient was ... | 38 |
| Evil spirits that visit women at night | 38 |
| "... if I do say so myself!" | 38 |
| Tireless in pursuit of weight control? | 38 |
| Certain Simon & Schuster employees | 38 |
| "Blankets for Sale," for one | 38 |
| Five-time Tour de France winner Miguel | 38 |
| "500" race-sanctioning group | 38 |
| Egotistical George Bernard Shaw drama? | 38 |
| 1970 Gene Hackman/Melvyn Douglas movie | 38 |
| 1959-60 heavyweight champion Johansson | 38 |
| Boxer Ingemar Johansson's nickname | 38 |
| How many TV shows can be seen nowadays | 38 |
| "___ Own Write," Lennon book | 38 |
| Bit of humor most people can't get | 38 |
| "Birdman of Alcatraz" extras | 38 |
| "Nuts ___," by C. O. Skinner | 38 |
| "___ Room" (Beach Boys song) | 38 |
| Focus of a 1990 psychology best-seller | 38 |
| 1869 Twain novel, with "The" | 38 |
| How Santa's reindeer are harnessed | 38 |
| Denoting a loss, as on a balance sheet | 38 |
| Phrase for a judgment against property | 38 |
| Advance made at the expense of another | 38 |
| At just the right time for consumption | 38 |
| Ones with special information, perhaps | 38 |
| Not head and shoulders above the rest? | 38 |
| Take of song with vocal track left out | 38 |
| Public-utility magnate of the 30's | 38 |
| Savings account holders, collectively? | 38 |
| Digestive system parts with recycling? | 38 |
| "I won't lie to you ..." | 38 |
| How the animals entered Noah's ark | 38 |
| "Space ---" (arcade classic) | 38 |
| ''___ Arabian Nights'' | 38 |
| Nickname for a fierce moon of Jupiter? | 38 |
| "Enjoys the beach" means ... | 38 |
| Tablet with a "mini" version | 38 |
| Sleuths hired to track online hackers? | 38 |
| Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra | 38 |
| What Apple's Project Purple became | 38 |
| Farmer's comment at the poker game | 38 |
| Old-school online chat option, briefly | 38 |
| Actress in "Zorba the Greek" | 38 |
| Opened (or closed), as a shot on a set | 38 |
| Van Morrison album with The Chieftains | 38 |
| Author of "The Sea, the Sea" | 38 |
| Displaced-persons org.: 1946–52 | 38 |
| Pulitzer-winning William Kennedy novel | 38 |
| William Kennedy Pulitzer-winning novel | 38 |
| Material sometimes used in fence posts | 38 |
| Reason #1 to chill at home this summer | 38 |
| Writer-biochemistry professor: 1920-92 | 38 |
| Writer who held 14 honorary doctorates | 38 |
| Parent's authoritarian explanation | 38 |
| Answer to a tot's "Why?" | 38 |
| "Babette's Feast" writer | 38 |
| " . . . Love ___": Dickinson | 38 |