| Diplomat-author Welles: 1892–1961 | 40 |
| Contact sport with a purification ritual | 40 |
| Sport in which the referee carries a fan | 40 |
| Weezer's "Island" is in it | 40 |
| Snack food with a Harvest Cheddar flavor | 40 |
| Start of the title of a Broadway musical | 40 |
| "Song ___ Blue" (Neil Diamond) | 40 |
| Noted jazz bandleader born Herman Blount | 40 |
| Easter morning rite, to a double-crosser | 40 |
| Florida (with ''state'') | 40 |
| Play by Neil Simon, with "The" | 40 |
| "How's it goin', man?" | 40 |
| Tuesday preceder, but only in leap years | 40 |
| Tutorial on becoming a resident manager? | 40 |
| Apartment building overseers, informally | 40 |
| Word in the title of a da Vinci painting | 40 |
| Start of a conjecture re a novelty dance | 40 |
| Prefix meaning ''above'' | 40 |
| That the sun will rise in the East, e.g. | 40 |
| "Quite a hot day out" response | 40 |
| Chicago "Baby, What a Big ___" | 40 |
| Reality show that took place in Thailand | 40 |
| "L.A. Law" Golden Globe winner | 40 |
| "Valley of the Dolls" novelist | 40 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival hit of 1968 | 40 |
| 1968 Creedence Clearwater Revival single | 40 |
| "Kama ___" (Hindu love manual) | 40 |
| Text in any of several Eastern religions | 40 |
| He wrote "Where the Money Was" | 40 |
| Soccer mom's wheels, stereotypically | 40 |
| "American Beauty" actress Mena | 40 |
| What you put away for a rainy day: Abbr. | 40 |
| ''Law & Order: ___'' | 40 |
| Language that gave us "safari" | 40 |
| Sibelius tone poem, with "The" | 40 |
| 1978 disaster film, with "The" | 40 |
| Swing that rips the leather off the ball | 40 |
| Tenor Jussi Björling's birthplace | 40 |
| "I'll Take ___," 1965 film | 40 |
| It indicates the seconds on a clock face | 40 |
| Steinbeck's "___ Thursday" | 40 |
| Eaten during "Fox On the Run"? | 40 |
| Housekeeper player on "Benson" | 40 |
| Won the World Series in four games, e.g. | 40 |
| "___ Away," Wertmüller film | 40 |
| What a short-tempered umpire might have? | 40 |
| Likely result of pollution along a beach | 40 |
| Animals known for their boarish behavior | 40 |
| What a screen door may do on a windy day | 40 |
| Slide, as a credit card through a reader | 40 |
| "Dora the Explorer" antagonist | 40 |
| Ben & Jerry's Strawberry Kiwi __ | 40 |
| Sounded like the net on a perfect jumper | 40 |
| Major player on '70s and '80s TV | 40 |
| And Ryan Howard steps to the plate . . . | 40 |
| Insisted on using, like a favorite brand | 40 |
| Disraeli work that caused factory reform | 40 |
| Charlie Chaplin's elder half-brother | 40 |
| Matched up, as a laptop and a smartphone | 40 |
| Supplier of puzzles to newspapers: abbr. | 40 |
| "Riders to the Sea" playwright | 40 |
| Big name in ketchup packets and the like | 40 |
| Gambler's claim to beating the house | 40 |
| Afrikaans (with ''the'') | 40 |
| He wrote "The Rosary in Rhyme" | 40 |
| Perfume with a "verboten" name | 40 |
| "Tic ___ Dough" (TV game show) | 40 |
| Maestro's "don't play" | 40 |
| "Be silent," in musical scores | 40 |
| Aircraft control panel device, for short | 40 |
| Like pretty much everything in Graceland | 40 |
| Where to 'think outside the bun' | 40 |
| ___ Bo (Billy Blanks' exercise form) | 40 |
| Formerly much-ballyhooed fitness program | 40 |
| Fitness system developed by Billy Blanks | 40 |
| Exercise technique based on martial arts | 40 |
| President who later became Chief Justice | 40 |
| "Do Not Remove" item on a sofa | 40 |
| It may keep you from getting home safely | 40 |
| Person saying "you're it!" | 40 |
| "Mutiny on the Bounty" setting | 40 |
| South Pacific island where Gauguin lived | 40 |
| Faa'a International Airport location | 40 |
| Resort at the base of the Sierra Nevadas | 40 |
| Lake that the Truckee River flows out of | 40 |
| Seventh-century Chinese emperor __ Tsung | 40 |
| ___ chi ch'uan (Chinese martial art) | 40 |
| Overzealous promgoer's choice, maybe | 40 |
| "But never ___ my love": Shak. | 40 |
| Large snake or James Clavell best seller | 40 |
| Atlantic City spot, with "the" | 40 |
| Queen "You ___ My Breath Away" | 40 |
| Suffer one-day losses in the market, say | 40 |
| Sulu portrayer, in "Star Trek" | 40 |
| George of TV's "Star Trek" | 40 |
| Frost's "The Road Not ___" | 40 |
| We wouldn't have givers without them | 40 |
| " . . . and the Lord ___ away" | 40 |
| "___ ?A' Train": 1941 song | 40 |
| "The ___ Pelham One Two Three" | 40 |