| Country music's David Allan ___ | 35 |
| Country music resort city in Missouri | 37 |
| Country music pio-neer_____ Carter | 34 |
| Country music icon, _____ Connors | 33 |
| Country Music Hall of Famer __ Travis | 37 |
| Country Music Hall of Famer Brenda | 34 |
| Country Music Hall of Fame member | 33 |
| Country Music Hall of Fame inductee of '88 | 46 |
| Country Music Hall of Fame first name | 37 |
| Country music giant of the 40's and 50's | 48 |
| Country music artist and actress K.T. | 37 |
| Country mailing addresses, for short | 36 |
| Country located in what was once the Inca Empire | 48 |
| Country led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 34 |
| Country known for its distance runners | 38 |
| Country known for its amusement parks? | 38 |
| Country involved in the Gadsden Purchase | 40 |
| Country invaded by Napoleon in 1798 | 35 |
| Country in which Tetris was created | 35 |
| Country in which Quechua is an official lang. | 45 |
| Country in the ctr. of Jerusalem? | 33 |
| Country in ''rain'' | 35 |
| Country hit "___ Been Everywhere" | 43 |
| Country fully landlocked by one other country | 45 |
| Country from which the Kon-Tiki sailed | 38 |
| Country from which the Kon-Tiki embarked | 40 |
| Country from which many marathon winners hail | 45 |
| Country founded by King Tomislav in A.D. 924 | 44 |
| Country fought over in the Russo-Japanese War | 45 |
| Country formerly known as French Sudan | 38 |
| Country for which a cat was named | 33 |
| Country film (with "The")? | 36 |
| Country film (with "The") | 35 |
| Country featured in a Beatles song | 34 |
| Country encircled by South Africa | 33 |
| Country created in a 1990 merger | 32 |
| Country composed of 200+ islands | 32 |
| Country completely surrounded by South Africa | 45 |
| Country common to the theme answers | 35 |
| Country club that has hosted eight U.S. Opens | 45 |
| Country club membership, perhaps | 32 |
| Country club member, stereotypically | 36 |
| Country claiming a chunk of Antarctica | 38 |
| Country channel relaunching in 2012 | 35 |
| Country called Chosen by Japanese | 33 |
| Country bordering Turkey and Iran | 33 |
| Country bordering the Caspian Sea | 33 |
| Country bordered by Niger and Nigeria | 37 |
| Country between Vietnam and Thailand | 36 |
| Country between Togo and Nigeria | 32 |
| Country between the Black and Caspian Seas | 42 |
| Country between Pakistan and Bangladesh | 39 |
| Country between Lakes Victoria and Albert | 41 |
| Country between France and Spain | 32 |
| Country between Canada and Mexico, cheesily | 43 |
| Country behind the Stuxnet computer virus: Abbr. | 48 |
| Country band named for their home | 33 |
| Country adjacent to the Dominican Republic | 42 |
| Country across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman | 45 |
| Country across the sea from Yemen | 33 |
| Country across the sea from Eritrea | 35 |
| Country across the Persian Gulf from Saudi Arabia | 49 |
| Country "house," maybe? | 33 |
| Countries with strong economic ties, say | 40 |
| Countries controlled by or dependent on another | 47 |
| Counting word in "Wooly Bully" | 40 |
| Counting the discarded golf props? | 34 |
| Counting of the ___ (observance after Passover) | 47 |
| Counting game with matchsticks or pennies | 41 |
| Counting Crows are the "King" of this | 47 |
| Counting Crows "___ Lullaby" | 38 |
| Counting Crows "___ Begins" | 37 |
| Counting Crows "Have You Seen ___" | 44 |
| Counting Crows "A Murder ___" | 39 |
| Countess's spouse, in England | 33 |
| Countess on "Downton Abbey" | 37 |
| Countess of a Kálmán operetta | 35 |
| Countess Nesselrode's memoir? | 33 |
| Countess bankrupts St. Louis N.H.L. team? | 41 |
| Countertop appliance good for reheating pizza | 45 |
| Counterproductive "Get Smart" apparatus | 49 |
| Counterpart of Thanatos, in Freudian psychology | 47 |
| Counterpart of a noted alter ego | 32 |
| Counterpart of "out the other" | 40 |
| Counterpart of "cathodal" | 35 |
| Counterpart for visitors to an African nation? | 46 |
| Counterfeiter's foe, briefly | 32 |
| Counterfeiter fighter, informally | 33 |
| Counterfeit midterms with bizarre questions? | 44 |
| Counterespionage agcy. of W.W. II | 33 |
| Countercultural magazine since 1974 | 35 |
| Counterbalance, as an investment | 32 |
| Counter-Reformation figure canonized in 1622 | 44 |
| Counter's intervals, perhaps | 32 |
| Countdown's penultimate number, perhaps | 43 |
| Countdown finale and this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| Count ___, villain in Lemony Snicket books | 42 |
| Count ___, character in the Lemony Snicket books | 48 |
| Count ___ of Lemony Snicket books | 33 |
| Count ___ (Lemony Snicket villain) | 34 |