| Yeltsin's successor as leader of Russia | 43 |
| 1972 and '74 Oscar-winning screenwriter | 43 |
| Edgar Allan Poe character Arthur Gordon ___ | 43 |
| Rapper with the album "Amplified" | 43 |
| Feature of this puzzle's theme answers? | 43 |
| "___ immortality and joy": Milton | 43 |
| Mid-Atlantic nickname, with "The" | 43 |
| One needing three more wins to become champ | 43 |
| Bogart role in "The Caine Mutiny" | 43 |
| Piece in the lower left corner of the board | 43 |
| "What's happening?" in Oaxaca | 43 |
| Townsman in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 43 |
| ''Chariots of Fire'' finale | 43 |
| "The Sea Around Us" author Carson | 43 |
| Straight edges of pizza slices, essentially | 43 |
| John who searched for the Northwest Passage | 43 |
| Bob ___, first socialist premier of Ontario | 43 |
| 2006 Newbery Medal winner Lynne ___ Perkins | 43 |
| "Is This Love" Corinne Bailey ___ | 43 |
| Pulitzer-winning poet Armantrout and others | 43 |
| Its motto is "Per Ardua ad Astra" | 43 |
| Org. with group captains and pilot officers | 43 |
| "A Yank in the __": 1941 war film | 43 |
| "Huckleberry Finn" transportation | 43 |
| "Mama's Special Garden" brand | 43 |
| Former Miss World from India, Aishwarya ___ | 43 |
| Director of the "Evil Dead" films | 43 |
| "Spider-Man" trilogy director Sam | 43 |
| ''___ Man'' (Hoffman flick) | 43 |
| "Tall in the Saddle" actress Ella | 43 |
| Movie for which Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar | 43 |
| Ruins a picnic or a Little League game, say | 43 |
| Word from the Sanskrit for "king" | 43 |
| "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-___" (lullaby) | 43 |
| First name among classic TV sitcom husbands | 43 |
| It's followed by a bull in some circles | 43 |
| Stallone's "First Blood" role | 43 |
| Film character who's hunted in a forest | 43 |
| He was told to "let my people go" | 43 |
| Onetime "SCTV" head writer Harold | 43 |
| NFL team whose helmet logo is a curved horn | 43 |
| "...And Out Come the Wolves" band | 43 |
| "The Fountainhead" writer Ayn ___ | 43 |
| ''The Fountainhead'' writer | 43 |
| Department that creates products, for short | 43 |
| The Amazing ___ (debunker of pseudoscience) | 43 |
| Abbreviated vacation goal, letter-perfectly | 43 |
| "You ___?" (Lurch's question) | 43 |
| What Tommy Tutone did to "Jenny"? | 43 |
| Doctor Who villainess, with "the" | 43 |
| "The Phantom of the Opera" suitor | 43 |
| "___ as a winter swallow": Balzac | 43 |
| " . . . so ___ as a day in June?" | 43 |
| "And what is so ___ a day . . . " | 43 |
| Like the most valuable baseball cards, e.g. | 43 |
| One who views Ethiopia as the promised land | 43 |
| "The Wind in the Willows" critter | 43 |
| Treachery metaphor with a distinctive odor? | 43 |
| It's smelled when something's fishy | 43 |
| Henry, by the end of "Goodfellas" | 43 |
| Increase in increments, with "up" | 43 |
| Give a "G" or "PG," say | 43 |
| It may be "golden" in mathematics | 43 |
| "Ocean's Eleven" cast members | 43 |
| Dustin's 'Midnight Cowboy' role | 43 |
| Hoffman role in "Midnight Cowboy" | 43 |
| ___ Rizzo, "Midnight Cowboy" role | 43 |
| "The Addams Family" co-star Julia | 43 |
| Julia of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” | 43 |
| "___ On, John Donne" Van Morrison | 43 |
| Composer of "Daphnis et Chloé" | 43 |
| Mail carrier in "Game of Thrones" | 43 |
| "A Natural Man" Grammy winner Lou | 43 |
| 2004 biopic that was a Best Picture nominee | 43 |
| "What'd I Say" singer Charles | 43 |
| "The Martha ___ Show" of 1950s TV | 43 |
| "The ___ Edge" (Bill Murray film) | 43 |
| After 2012, A-Rod is one behind Stan Musial | 43 |
| A comebacker will rarely get you one: Abbr. | 43 |
| Banks had many in the '50s and '60s | 43 |
| "His Master's Voice" initials | 43 |
| Co. in "The Farnsworth Invention" | 43 |
| Features of some home entertainment systems | 43 |
| Actor Stephen of "V for Vendetta" | 43 |
| "Guilty," in a Latin legal phrase | 43 |
| Walter ___ Theater (part of Lincoln Center) | 43 |
| "An American Life" autobiographer | 43 |
| Give a tongue-lashing, with "out" | 43 |
| Kant's "Critique of Pure ___" | 43 |
| Old CW sitcom starring a country music star | 43 |
| "___: Duets" (2007 country album) | 43 |
| "__ #1's": 2005 country album | 43 |
| Diane's successor on "Cheers" | 43 |
| Red Deer ______ (Memorial Cup winners 2001) | 43 |
| Bebe who was a confidant of President Nixon | 43 |
| It often comes with a "Thank You" | 43 |
| "Eye of newt" may be a part of it | 43 |
| Create a director's edition of, perhaps | 43 |
| Color of Grateful Dead's little rooster | 43 |
| "The Hunt For ___ October" (1990) | 43 |