| Aspiring musician's dream status | 36 |
| Aspiring interpreter's subj. | 32 |
| Aspiring DA's hurdle in college | 35 |
| Aspiring cartoonist's problem? | 34 |
| Aspiring basket maker's song? | 33 |
| Aspiring ballerina's training | 33 |
| Aspiring attorney's hurdle (abbr.) | 38 |
| Aspiring attorney's exam (abbr.) | 36 |
| Aspiring artist's submission | 32 |
| Aspiring ABA members' hurdles | 33 |
| Aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen, briefly | 41 |
| Aspect of "Final Jeopardy" | 36 |
| Asner's "Elf" role | 32 |
| Asleep ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 47 |
| Asks, "where r u?" perhaps | 36 |
| Asks to be excused, with "off" | 40 |
| Asks the Crocodile Hunter a series of questions? | 48 |
| Asks for a driver's license, briefly | 40 |
| Asked a hard question in public, say | 36 |
| Asked "Paper or plastic?" | 35 |
| Asked "Got milk?", maybe | 34 |
| Ask, as "the question" | 32 |
| Ask, "Is this really diet?" | 37 |
| Ask to be excused, with ''off'' | 47 |
| Ask to be excused from, with "off" | 44 |
| Ask the director of church singing? | 35 |
| Ask Jeeves after a night at the bar? | 36 |
| Ask a tough question like a major leaguer | 41 |
| Asimov-inspired Will Smith movie | 32 |
| Asimov's sea bird or American violinist? | 44 |
| Asimov who was extraordinarily prolifiC | 39 |
| Asimov sci-fi novel based on a 1966 movie | 41 |
| Asians who sealed Marcus Crassus's fate | 43 |
| Asian-American basketball sensation Jeremy | 42 |
| Asian wrap that may be six yards long | 37 |
| Asian weight equal to about 1.3 ounces | 38 |
| Asian weight equal to 1.3 ounces | 32 |
| Asian site for a choir convention? | 34 |
| Asian sea with a much-receded shoreline | 39 |
| Asian sea that's really a lake | 34 |
| Asian river in a 1957 film title | 32 |
| Asian river flowing into Korea Bay | 34 |
| Asian region, with "the" | 34 |
| Asian region, to the State Department | 37 |
| Asian region settled by ancient Greeks | 38 |
| Asian range, with "the" | 33 |
| Asian nation with sixteen provinces | 35 |
| Asian nation with a ruling Maoist party | 39 |
| Asian leader who inspired a jacket style | 40 |
| Asian leader who had a Ph.D. from Princeton | 43 |
| Asian language with no plural form | 34 |
| Asian language with 14+ million speakers | 40 |
| Asian language spoken by 32 million | 35 |
| Asian land where French is widely spoken | 40 |
| Asian ending for "land" | 33 |
| Asian drink made with tapioca pearls | 36 |
| Asian currency name meaning "round" | 45 |
| Asian country slightly larger than California | 45 |
| Asian city with a Revolution Museum | 35 |
| Asian city heavily bombed during W.W. II | 40 |
| Asian capital whose trains offer oxygen masks | 45 |
| Asian appetizer served with peanut sauce | 40 |
| Asian "sea" that's really a lake | 46 |
| Asian "sea" that's drying up | 42 |
| Asia's Trans-___ mountain range | 35 |
| Asia's Trans ___ mountain range | 35 |
| Asia's first female president | 33 |
| Asia's fast-shrinking ___ Sea | 33 |
| Asia's direction, on many maps | 34 |
| Asia Minor region colonized by Greek settlers | 45 |
| Asia album featuring "Don't Cry" | 46 |
| Ashton Kutcher or Elijah Wood, by birth | 39 |
| AshleyÂ’s country-singing mother | 35 |
| Ashley, in "Gone With the Wind" | 41 |
| Ashley's country-singing mother | 35 |
| Ashley Wilkes's plantation Twelve __ | 40 |
| Ashley Wilkes sister, in "G.W.T.W." | 45 |
| Ashley or Elizabeth on a movie screen | 37 |
| Ashley of "High School Musical" | 41 |
| Ashford of the Track and Field Hall of Fame | 43 |
| Asher ___, Chaim Potok character | 32 |
| Ashe Humanitarian Award recipient, 1995 | 39 |
| AshcroftÂ’s predecessor as Attorney General | 46 |
| Ashcroft's predecessor at Justice | 37 |
| Ashcroft's predecessor as attorney general | 46 |
| Ashanti single off "Chapter II" | 41 |
| Ash Wednesday-to-Easter observance | 34 |
| Asch's "___ River" | 32 |
| Ascetics of the second century B.C. | 35 |
| Ascetic responsible for abbey rules? | 36 |
| Ascetic family of Chief Justice in Carolina? | 44 |
| Ascending swimmer lacks time for recovery (5) | 45 |
| As vertical as possible, as an embedded anchor | 46 |
| As time expires, in a football game | 35 |
| As thin as you'd ever want to be? | 37 |
| As the crow flies, perhaps?: Abbr. | 34 |
| As swords, they're virtually pointless | 42 |
| As required, after "if" | 33 |
| As previously mentioned, in footnotes | 37 |
| As previously mentioned, in bibliographies | 42 |