| Tallest piece in jeu d'échecs | 36 |
| Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu ___” | 36 |
| ___ rage (problem for some athletes) | 36 |
| ''Today'' weatherman | 36 |
| Captain Jack Sparrow, to Johnny Depp | 36 |
| You feel good when you're on one | 36 |
| REO "___ With the Changes" | 36 |
| "Kansas City Bomber" focus | 36 |
| Rich kid in "Nancy" comics | 36 |
| Marcello Mastroianni's home town | 36 |
| Elliott Smith "___ Candle" | 36 |
| "Friends, ___, countrymen" | 36 |
| Setting for "Don Pasquale" | 36 |
| Nickel Creek "When in ___" | 36 |
| "Wherefore art thou ___?" | 36 |
| Triple Crown-winning jockey Turcotte | 36 |
| 2000 Heisman Trophy winner ___ Dayne | 36 |
| "Tin Cup" director Shelton | 36 |
| First name in Hollywood dirt-dishing | 36 |
| One of the R's in J.R.R. Tolkien | 36 |
| Icon once portrayed by Willard Scott | 36 |
| "La ___" (Max Ophuls film) | 36 |
| Keanu Reeves' "47 ___" | 36 |
| Quintana ___ (Cancún's state) | 36 |
| You may hit it when you're angry | 36 |
| Pamirs, "___ of the world" | 36 |
| An emcee may ask a crowd to raise it | 36 |
| Worker who may be found atop a house | 36 |
| "Landing strips" for Santa | 36 |
| A studio apartment generally has one | 36 |
| Slow-motion replay innovator Arledge | 36 |
| Art ___, Steelers owner for 55 years | 36 |
| "Babes in Arms" star, 1939 | 36 |
| Footwear brand with pockets, briefly | 36 |
| Chicken's sleeping accommodation | 36 |
| Unearth, with ''up'' | 36 |
| Coerced to join, with "in" | 36 |
| 'Three's Company' couple | 36 |
| Composer of "Penny Arcade" | 36 |
| "Whitman Cantata" composer | 36 |
| "Air Music" composer, 1974 | 36 |
| Test that can have you seeing things | 36 |
| Macaulay Culkin's acting brother | 36 |
| Sigur ___ (Icelandic post-rock band) | 36 |
| Santa ___ (Sonoma's county seat) | 36 |
| After sub, it's cloak-and-dagger | 36 |
| ____ Parks (US civil rights heroine) | 36 |
| ___ Lee Parks, civil-rights activist | 36 |
| Fatty Arbuckle's real first name | 36 |
| Kate's role in 'Titanic' | 36 |
| Bette Midler's '79 character | 36 |
| "Second Hand" girl of 1921 | 36 |
| "___ of Washington Square" | 36 |
| Charles Foster Kane's dying word | 36 |
| It follows a section of old Route 66 | 36 |
| Like some provocatively colored lips | 36 |
| Traditional Valentine's Day gift | 36 |
| Girl in Maude Nugent's 1896 song | 36 |
| One of NBC's "Friends" | 36 |
| Diana who sang "Baby Love" | 36 |
| "Golden Boot" winner Paolo | 36 |
| Full of promise, as one's future | 36 |
| Like an optimist's point of view | 36 |
| What some things do to raise a stink | 36 |
| Campus program for grunts, for short | 36 |
| "Goodbye, Columbus" author | 36 |
| "The Human Stain" novelist | 36 |
| Author of Portnoy's Complaint | 36 |
| Start for ''tiller'' | 36 |
| Dissolute man in fashionable society | 36 |
| Capital of Seine-Maritime department | 36 |
| Petition with names in circular form | 36 |
| Not an apt support for a box camera? | 36 |
| "The Wrestler" star Mickey | 36 |
| Contest that might involve a doormat | 36 |
| "I get my kicks on ___ 66" | 36 |
| Bob Dylan "Desolation ___" | 36 |
| Baseball's "Schoolboy" | 36 |
| Baseball's ``Schoolboy'' | 36 |
| "Lady Jane Grey" dramatist | 36 |
| Went through an "oar-deal" | 36 |
| Fleming's "Casino ___" | 36 |
| Many are buried at Westminster Abbey | 36 |
| Philosopher Josiah: 1855–1916 | 36 |
| Mnemonic for this puzzle's theme | 36 |
| Peri's role on 'Frasier' | 36 |
| Coach Washington on "Glee" | 36 |
| The Engineers of the N.C.A.A.: Abbr. | 36 |
| Tech school on the Hudson, initially | 36 |
| Sch. with the nickname the Engineers | 36 |
| Grammar school education, initially? | 36 |
| Basics of grade school learnin'? | 36 |
| Say you will, or won't, be there | 36 |
| Letters before a phone number maybe | 36 |
| Mail carrier's assignment: Abbr. | 36 |
| They're numbered on maps (abbr.) | 36 |
| Navigation system suggestions: Abbr. | 36 |
| Whom a cartooning award is named for | 36 |
| Race car driver Ricky a k a Iron Man | 36 |
| Emerson's "___ bridge" | 36 |