| Alexander ___, real-life prototype of Robinson Crusoe | 53 |
| Actress Ione who's the daughter of singer Donovan | 53 |
| Alternative to "champ" or "sport" | 53 |
| Ashford & Simpson lyric "___ as a rock" | 53 |
| Actress Braga of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" | 53 |
| Awful sound to hear while riding in a hot air balloon | 53 |
| Antebellum northerner (with ''free'') | 53 |
| Atlantic City resort, informally with "The" | 53 |
| Atlantic City hotel, informally, with "the" | 53 |
| Atlantic City hotel, familiarly, with "the" | 53 |
| “The ___ of Despereaux” (2004 Newbery winner) | 53 |
| Actress Balsam who was once married to George Clooney | 53 |
| After a rant, avoid saying you never meant to ___ ... | 53 |
| Appealing element in plotless movies, for some: Abbr. | 53 |
| Atomic ___ (Crayola color formerly called Chartreuse) | 53 |
| Athlete Jim whose Native American name was Wa-Tho-Huk | 53 |
| Add atop a refuse pile, after aiming out and missing? | 53 |
| AC/DC "Cause I'm ___, I'm dynamite" | 53 |
| Attired for an ''Animal House'' scene | 53 |
| Adjective for an ethnically marked character, perhaps | 53 |
| A long one is 12% "longer" than a short one | 53 |
| All the "Simpsons" characters, for instance | 53 |
| Aaron's "Beverly Hills, 90210" daughter | 53 |
| Actress Spelling after marrying baseball manager Joe? | 53 |
| Apple thrower in ''The Wizard of Oz'' | 53 |
| Arizona's Petrified Forest dates from this period | 53 |
| American Dialect Society's word of the year, 2009 | 53 |
| Author of "The Unfinished Revolution": 1979 | 53 |
| Actress Liv of ''Cries and Whispers'' | 53 |
| Actress whom Quentin described as "my muse" | 53 |
| Artist with the album "Vivaldi's Cello" | 53 |
| Alcopop brand that means "winter" in Polish | 53 |
| Émile who wrote "Truth is on the march" | 53 |
| Auden's ''The _____ of Anxiety'' | 52 |
| Arnold Vinick portrayer on "The West Wing" | 52 |
| Actor whose last name has three letters of his first | 52 |
| Athletes' concern at the '68 Summer Olympics | 52 |
| Author of "The Cat Who Came for Christmas" | 52 |
| Actress Hathaway of "The Princess Diaries" | 52 |
| Author Isaac who sported enormous white mutton chops | 52 |
| African mammal that's the ancestor of the donkey | 52 |
| Author of "Fair Stood the Wind for France" | 52 |
| Airer of the sitcom "'Allo 'Allo!" | 52 |
| Apt place to shout, "Honey, I'm home?" | 52 |
| Actor in "I Spy," 1965–68 TV series | 52 |
| Amorphous horror movie villain, with "The" | 52 |
| Aron Trask's brother in "East of Eden" | 52 |
| “How many times __ man turn his head”: Dylan | 52 |
| Animal Collective row out in a "Flesh" one | 52 |
| Agency within the Dept. of Health and Human Services | 52 |
| Actress de Pablo who played Ziva on "NCIS" | 52 |
| A ''That's Entertainment!'' host | 52 |
| “Eggs on the Plate Without the Plate” artist | 52 |
| Alfalfa's love in "The Little Rascals" | 52 |
| Alfalfa's girl in "The Little Rascals" | 52 |
| AC/DC's Chuck Berry cover "School ___" | 52 |
| Author of "My Point ... and I Do Have One" | 52 |
| “Salon ___ Refusés” (1863 art exhibition) | 52 |
| Actress Merrill of ''BUtterfield 8'' | 52 |
| Author of "Diplomacy for the Next Century" | 52 |
| Award for Best Novel won three times by Dick Francis | 52 |
| A Tribe Called Quest "Ham 'N' ___" | 52 |
| Airline that flew the humanitarian Operation Solomon | 52 |
| Airline that doesn't schedule flights on Shabbat | 52 |
| Aboveground dwellers in "The Time Machine" | 52 |
| Actor Jannings, winner of the first Best Actor Oscar | 52 |
| Ari Meyer's role on "Kate & Allie" | 52 |
| Adjective for some contemporary high school haircuts | 52 |
| Archers of Loaf "South Carolina" time zone | 52 |
| Abbr. before 1895 on the "Cheers" bar sign | 52 |
| Actress Longoria of "Desperate Housewives" | 52 |
| An Allen who wrote "Treadmill to Oblivion" | 52 |
| Agcy. that created the National Do Not Call Registry | 52 |
| Actress mentioned in Madonna's "Vogue" | 52 |
| Antepenultimate word of "Casey at the Bat" | 52 |
| Atreyu track off "Lead Sails Paper Anchor" | 52 |
| Australian band with the 1987 album "Kick" | 52 |
| Adler introduced in "A Scandal in Bohemia" | 52 |
| Answer to one's own rhetorical question, perhaps | 52 |
| Awesome parts of a Museum of Natural History display | 52 |
| Actress Allen of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 52 |
| Almost stop with the head facing the wind, as a ship | 52 |
| Architect Maya who created the Civil Rights Memorial | 52 |
| Anderson who wrote "My Life in High Heels" | 52 |
| Actor with the line "Rick! Rick, help me!" | 52 |
| After 18 nominations, she won a Daytime Emmy in 1998 | 52 |
| Actress Rainer aka "The Viennese Teardrop" | 52 |
| Ancient stringed instrument you shouldn't trust? | 52 |
| Activity in which you might bust someone's chops | 52 |
| Alma mater of NPR's Tom and Ray Magliozzi: Abbr. | 52 |
| Attachment for "rail" or "plane" | 52 |
| Agarn or O'Rourke, in "F Troop": Abbr. | 52 |
| Actor who wrote "The Moon's a Balloon" | 52 |
| Appropriately, he wrote "The Barrel-Organ" | 52 |
| Award for Lynn Nottage's play "Ruined" | 52 |
| Actress who played the mom in "Home Alone" | 52 |
| A: Ready to start? T: I wish I had __ (Phil Collins) | 52 |
| Andy's son on "The Andy Griffith Show" | 52 |
| Algerian port where Camus set "The Plague" | 52 |
| Award for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" | 52 |