| Aria from Bernstein's "Candide" | 45 |
| "Chinese Democracy" band, for short | 45 |
| His motto is: "The puck stops here" | 45 |
| "Incompleteness theorem" formulator | 45 |
| "The Wayward Wind" singer ___ Grant | 45 |
| ...and this bag with the Midas touch..." | 45 |
| "The Lord of the Rings" ring bearer | 45 |
| " . . . GETTING ON IN YEARS . . . " | 45 |
| "___, sweet ladies . . . ": Ophelia | 45 |
| Enthusiastic cheering section at a bullfight? | 45 |
| Unselfish participant, or a mercantile harbor | 45 |
| "He wos wery ___, he wos!": Dickens | 45 |
| One of several kids in a 1985 Spielberg story | 45 |
| Apt dish for a team that's been shut out? | 45 |
| The sound of honking and coughing all in one? | 45 |
| A teen blogger narrates this television drama | 45 |
| Stained-glass windows, in some old cathedrals | 45 |
| Tried to buzz off of a fertilizer ingredient? | 45 |
| Make one's way down the corporate ladder? | 45 |
| Wagner's "twilight of the gods" | 45 |
| National Historic Landmark designated 3/27/06 | 45 |
| Genre of Verdi's "Jérusalem" | 45 |
| Magnificent car driven by giant B-movie ants? | 45 |
| Saturday, "Turn On Your Love Light" | 45 |
| Jerry Garcia's band, with "the" | 45 |
| Beats in Gray's "Elegy . . . "? | 45 |
| Stereotypical garb for an ad agency executive | 45 |
| Bambi's father's title, re the forest | 45 |
| 14th/15th-century period of papal uncertainty | 45 |
| Historic structure between China and Mongolia | 45 |
| A: Seven drachmas a day. Q: What's a ___? | 45 |
| Contents of four answers found in this puzzle | 45 |
| Like the grass on the other side, in a saying | 45 |
| Rumer Godden's "The ___ Summer" | 45 |
| Meal starter that's happy on the outside? | 45 |
| One of the Allman Brothers is way too simple? | 45 |
| Lady ___, a founder of Irish National Theatre | 45 |
| Bedtime stories (and this puzzle's theme) | 45 |
| One who's happy when his stock goes down? | 45 |
| Inept barbarian created by Sergio Aragonés | 45 |
| With Morne, Newfound-land World Heritage park | 45 |
| Nose-picking and belching in the White House? | 45 |
| Eric Carle kids' book with 'The', | 45 |
| 2002 Dave Matthews single about a lonely girl | 45 |
| Two concerns of a secretive voodoo practicer? | 45 |
| Toxic assets that pay for cleaning out sinks? | 45 |
| Georgia county named for a Declaration signer | 45 |
| Athletic-sounding series of equestrian events | 45 |
| City for which a Manhattan district was named | 45 |
| __ Bourguiba, Tunisian president from 1957-87 | 45 |
| Most shaggy / Hotel offering / Actress Goldie | 45 |
| Movie starring a cross-dressing John Travolta | 45 |
| Dice that weigh 1000 pounds each, in Chicago? | 45 |
| Kitchen product à la "Jeopardy!" | 45 |
| Worker in the medium of torn and pasted paper | 45 |
| Group with the 1997 #1 hit "MMMBop" | 45 |
| "Beautiful Goodbye" singer Jennifer | 45 |
| One is whistled in "The King and I" | 45 |
| Presley song in "King Creole": 1958 | 45 |
| 2013 dance all over YouTube, based on Mahler? | 45 |
| Fiesta toy endorsed by a '70s songwriter? | 45 |
| Word in the etymology of "assassin" | 45 |
| How some letters to the editor may be written | 45 |
| Figurative drink for the chronically critical | 45 |
| What some grain companies are busy doin'? | 45 |
| Means of using your noggin to achieve a goal? | 45 |
| Words sung in The Who's "Tommy" | 45 |
| Where to get soybeans, tiger's milk, etc. | 45 |
| Lower Manhattan Cultural Council director Tom | 45 |
| How the other theme answers created this one? | 45 |
| " . . . he bowed, ___": Judges 5:27 | 45 |
| Wendy Wasserstein play (with "The") | 45 |
| ``. . . that flesh is ___'': Hamlet | 45 |
| Bonham Carter's personal ambulance staff? | 45 |
| North Sea isle under British control: 1945-52 | 45 |
| Figure in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts | 45 |
| Cartoon character with a red bow and whiskers | 45 |
| Home of the Rochester Institute of Technology | 45 |
| Acronym for a type of filter used in a vacuum | 45 |
| ''Babes in Toyland'' composer | 45 |
| Plant sown by Alpert and Helen's abductor | 45 |
| What the cashier sings when the Beatles shop? | 45 |
| "This is what I wanted to show you" | 45 |
| "I'm Into Something Good" group | 45 |
| "And upon a cherub ___": Psa. 18:10 | 45 |
| ___-Ur (Egyptian sky god; hidden in CHERUBIC) | 45 |
| 1962 Crystals album with cover art of a biker | 45 |
| Brush-off from the carpenter's secretary? | 45 |
| Within a lumberjack's ability to cut down | 45 |
| Speculative stock, or Dracula when hopped-up? | 45 |
| Workout for bratty kids at a mountain resort? | 45 |
| There's no place to go but down from here | 45 |
| ______, Alberta (sounds like Clinton, Ontario | 45 |
| What a cool rapper might listen to in heaven? | 45 |
| "A ___ very palpable . . . ": Shak. | 45 |
| What a baseball player's life is full of? | 45 |
| ...dream) Ray Charles chart-topper (Speedy... | 45 |
| Roy ___, lead role in "The Natural" | 45 |
| J. D. Salinger character's favorite game? | 45 |
| Daredevil driver's warning to a passenger | 45 |