| Our rival | 9 |
| Our enemies? | 12 |
| Our adversaries | 15 |
| Opponents of us | 15 |
| Opponents of 'us' | 25 |
| Ones yonder | 11 |
| Oates title | 11 |
| Oates book: 1969 | 16 |
| Novel in Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet | 51 |
| Movie with a big bug problem | 28 |
| Movie re ants: 1954 | 19 |
| Movie about giant ants | 22 |
| J. C. Oates book | 16 |
| It's not you or me | 22 |
| Horror film of 1954 | 19 |
| Him and her | 11 |
| Goes with Pink Floyd's "Us" | 41 |
| Goes w/Pink Floyd's "Us" | 38 |
| Classic black-and-white film featuring gigantic irradiated ants | 63 |
| Classic 1954 sci-fi film | 24 |
| Classic 1954 horror film whose title creatures have invaded this puzzle | 71 |
| Book by J. C. Oates | 19 |
| Berlin's "___ There Eyes" | 39 |
| Ant movie with the tagline "Kill one and two take its place!" | 71 |
| Adversaries of "us" | 29 |
| 1970 National Book Award winner | 31 |
| 1969 best seller | 16 |
| 1954 sci-fi movie with an exclamation point in its title | 56 |
| 1954 sci-fi film with giant ants | 32 |
| 1954 sci-fi classic | 19 |
| 1954 horror movie | 17 |
| 1954 horror film about giant ants | 33 |
| "There's gold in ___ thar hills!" | 47 |
| "Let __ eat cake!" | 28 |
| "Killing ___ Softly" (2012 Brad Pitt movie) | 53 |
| "It's ___ or us!" | 31 |
| "Always leave ___ laughing" | 37 |
| "___ There Eyes," 1930 tune | 37 |
| "___ Bones" (Alice in Chains song) | 44 |
| " . . . gold in ___ thar hills" | 41 |
| ____ There Eyes : 1930 song | 29 |
| Topic of discourse | 18 |
| Topic of discourse (var.) | 25 |
| Discourse topic | 15 |
| Unit of discourse | 17 |
| Subject, to Cicero | 18 |
| Ph.D. topic | 11 |
| Idea of a musical composition | 29 |
| Dissertation topic | 18 |
| Dissertation motif | 18 |
| Timeless Wells classic? | 23 |
| First Syd Barrett solo album | 28 |
| Nickname for someone who really dislikes Alfred E. Neuman? | 58 |
| Possible creator of some Easter bonnets | 39 |
| Tony Soprano's group | 24 |
| Storied gift givers | 19 |
| Christmas pageant parts | 23 |
| Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior | 31 |
| "Adoration" subjects in a Leonardo painting | 53 |
| Opera about spellbinding stairs? | 32 |
| Opera by today's birthday composer | 38 |
| Mozart opera | 12 |
| Disney realm | 12 |
| Disney place | 12 |
| "___ Krynn," created by Weis and Hickman | 50 |
| Compass-needle attractor | 24 |
| Pop western of 1960? | 20 |
| Branch Rickey's nickname | 28 |
| Beaumont-Fletcher play | 22 |
| Ship to "remember" | 28 |
| Sinking of 1898 | 15 |
| She went down in 1898 | 21 |
| 2001 Jim Carrey flop | 20 |
| On ___ (trying to succeed) | 26 |
| On ___ (aggressive) | 19 |
| "___ Animal," 1942 film | 33 |
| Thurber-Nugent bio of Kong? | 27 |
| Teen's hangout, perhaps | 27 |
| Movie about a "Sopranos"-like actress from the Mediterranean? | 71 |
| Chick lit book #6 (1930) | 24 |
| 1941 Humphrey Bogart film | 25 |
| 1941 film noir classic: 3 wds. | 30 |
| What Tito Puente was "King of" | 40 |
| Dance invented by Cachao | 24 |
| Title of Al Jolson's memoirs? | 33 |
| Words for Musial | 16 |
| Stan ___ | 8 |
| Oppressive authority, slangily | 30 |
| One in charge, slangily | 23 |
| Nickname for Stan Musial | 24 |
| Musial, for short | 17 |
| Jack Albertson TV role | 22 |
| Eugene Levy bomb among MSNBC.com's "Worst Movies of 2005" | 71 |
| Chico's partner | 19 |
| Chico's boss | 16 |
| Authority figure, in slang | 26 |
| 1964 Irving Wallace best seller | 31 |
| Bachelor party? | 15 |
| Napoleon Solo | 13 |
| Napoleon Solo's show | 24 |