| Asks to be excused, with "off" | 40 |
| Literature's "Borstal Boy" | 40 |
| "The Hostage" playwright, 1958 | 40 |
| Execute, as during the French Revolution | 40 |
| "___ and Nothingness" (Sartre) | 40 |
| Ann Patchett novel "___ Canto" | 40 |
| "The Rape of the Lock" heroine | 40 |
| "Beauty and the Beast" heroine | 40 |
| "Tigermilk" __ & Sebastian | 40 |
| You'll find one at a five-star hotel | 40 |
| Sylvia Plath novel, with "The" | 40 |
| Part of Santa that shakes when he laughs | 40 |
| Everly Brothers' 'Let It --' | 40 |
| Leader of the Others on "Lost" | 40 |
| "On Language" columnist Zimmer | 40 |
| ___ Nevis: highest peak in Great Britain | 40 |
| ___ Nevis, highest peak in Great Britain | 40 |
| "John Brown's Body" author | 40 |
| Cris Collinsworth, for most of the 1980s | 40 |
| 19th-century Mexican president Juárez | 40 |
| 1974 film shot from a dog's-eye view | 40 |
| Like a pole vaulter's pole in action | 40 |
| "___ time" (boss's dictum) | 40 |
| "The Green ___," J. Wayne film | 40 |
| Something that's fallen off a shelf? | 40 |
| City whose newspaper is the Daily Planet | 40 |
| Switzerland's capital, to the French | 40 |
| Player in a record 75 World Series games | 40 |
| Hall-of-Famer with 10 World Series rings | 40 |
| Dick's "Mary Poppins" role | 40 |
| "Win, Lose or Draw" host Convy | 40 |
| "Don't take silly chances" | 40 |
| Edna and Peter make a list of top books? | 40 |
| "You ___!" ("O.K.!") | 40 |
| "La Belle et la __": 1946 film | 40 |
| ___ palm (tree also known as the pinang) | 40 |
| Title auto in a 1978 Harold Robbins film | 40 |
| Midler of "Scenes from a Mall" | 40 |
| One to make pinky swears with, for short | 40 |
| Piano's highest and lowest black key | 40 |
| Piano key that's the same as A sharp | 40 |
| Nigerian secessionist state of the 1960s | 40 |
| One of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece | 40 |
| Cause for a judge's recusal, perhaps | 40 |
| Actress Andersson of "Persona" | 40 |
| They're often covered with baby food | 40 |
| Muscle strengthened by curls, informally | 40 |
| The other half of a winning team in 2012 | 40 |
| Cheney's successor as vice president | 40 |
| Hypothesis underlying the Swiss economy? | 40 |
| City near TV's Southfork, familiarly | 40 |
| Southern nickname, after "the" | 40 |
| Mardi Gras setting, with "the" | 40 |
| Maker of a small purchase, sarcastically | 40 |
| Exquisite gem, or a classic theater name | 40 |
| Fonda was this in "Easy Rider" | 40 |
| Lower exterior part of a ship's hull | 40 |
| Portrayer of TV's Dr. Cliff Huxtable | 40 |
| Nickname of AA co-founder William Wilson | 40 |
| Psychologist who gave his name to a test | 40 |
| "Road" picture partner for Bob | 40 |
| Work subtitled "A Life": Abbr. | 40 |
| You might have it between Eng. and Hist. | 40 |
| Subject of an adoptee's quest, maybe | 40 |
| They sometimes accompany photos, briefly | 40 |
| Yellow ____ (Quebec's official tree) | 40 |
| Tree whose bark is used in writing paper | 40 |
| Hitchcock classic (with "The") | 40 |
| Aristophanes drama, with "The" | 40 |
| Grafton's "__ for Burglar" | 40 |
| McQueen's "Bullitt" costar | 40 |
| Type of movie part for a musician, maybe | 40 |
| Supertramp "Give a Little ___" | 40 |
| What anglers want that campers don't | 40 |
| Second word of a Brian Hyland song title | 40 |
| Rodriguez upset with negative publicity? | 40 |
| What some fight to, with "the" | 40 |
| Difficult thing to swallow, figuratively | 40 |
| ''That's show ___!'' | 40 |
| Variety's beat, with "the" | 40 |
| "L'Arlésienne" composer | 40 |
| Swedish name that means "bear" | 40 |
| Descriptive of 10 answers in this puzzle | 40 |
| "Bringing Down the House" game | 40 |
| Where you might see an underground movie | 40 |
| Twisted Sister "Under the ___" | 40 |
| Bogart's "Casablanca" role | 40 |
| "That's all, folks!" voice | 40 |
| Mel who was the voice of Foghorn Leghorn | 40 |
| Cannibal Corpse "Hung and ___" | 40 |
| Fightstar "Colours ___ to Red" | 40 |
| Like the top part of Haïti's flag | 40 |
| "Mutiny on the Bounty" captain | 40 |
| Temporary deviation from a general trend | 40 |
| 1958 sci-fi terror, with "the" | 40 |
| 1958 movie chiller, with "The" | 40 |
| A flower is pretty when it's in this | 40 |
| It may be supplanted by a T-shirt, today | 40 |
| Sandwich that's definitely not glatt | 40 |
| "___ Skies," Berlin prediction | 40 |