| Raison d'être of many annual conventions | 47 |
| Mark Knopfler "The Way It Always ___" | 47 |
| "Virtue ___ while vice is fed" (Pope) | 47 |
| "Immediately!," in the operating room | 47 |
| Belle and Sebastian "The ___ I Am In" | 47 |
| Cardinal vis-Ã -vis Illinois, Indiana or Ohio | 47 |
| Instrument that makes a drummer feel important? | 47 |
| Record label for Booker T. & the M.G.'s | 47 |
| "Don't come any closer, Zombie!"? | 47 |
| Shows the obedience school money was well spent | 47 |
| Monk known as ''the Venerable'' | 47 |
| ___-Mère-Église (Normandy invasion town) | 47 |
| "Home" or "farm" attachment | 47 |
| Surf that's in charge of grilling the turf? | 47 |
| Word with "base" or "scene" | 47 |
| "The Feast of Saint Nicholas" painter | 47 |
| "The Doctor's Visit" painter, Jan | 47 |
| Gwen who sang "Don't Speak," 1996 | 47 |
| ''Three Lives'' author Gertrude | 47 |
| 1993 National Women's Hall of Fame inductee | 47 |
| Keep an antioxidant-heavy fruit juice in check? | 47 |
| Manager of five straight World Series champions | 47 |
| Item with two red lines running down the middle | 47 |
| Sir Frank ___, historian of Anglo-Saxon England | 47 |
| ''Don't take another ___!'' | 47 |
| Mike Brady of "The Brady Bunch," e.g. | 47 |
| Naval hero who dueled with James Barron in 1820 | 47 |
| Onetime partner of David Crosby and Graham Nash | 47 |
| Hitchcock's "The Thirty-Nine ___" | 47 |
| Ending with "song" or "hip" | 47 |
| What "........" means to a typesetter | 47 |
| Manuscript editor's "Leave it in" | 47 |
| "Keep this word in," to a proofreader | 47 |
| Editorial marks meaning "leave as is" | 47 |
| "The Language Instinct" author Pinker | 47 |
| "Little of this, little of that" dish | 47 |
| All-time Blue Jays' winningest pitcher Dave | 47 |
| "Tropic Thunder" director and co-star | 47 |
| Author of the horror novel "Red Rain" | 47 |
| Dana Carvey doing The Police's lead singer? | 47 |
| Children's hospital founded by Danny Thomas | 47 |
| Children's hosp. co-founded by Danny Thomas | 47 |
| Town nearly destroyed in the Battle of Normandy | 47 |
| Town almost destroyed in the Battle of Normandy | 47 |
| Normandy city almost entirely destroyed in WWII | 47 |
| Famed children's magazine: 1873–1940 | 47 |
| Locale in Sinclair's "The Jungle" | 47 |
| Able to keep a straight face despite discomfort | 47 |
| Abbr. for an aircraft not needing a long runway | 47 |
| Ancient circular arrangement on Salisbury Plain | 47 |
| "___ End" (1971 Barbra Streisand hit) | 47 |
| "The boy ___ the burning deck . . . " | 47 |
| Against Me! song that's dead in its tracks? | 47 |
| Policy forcing soldiers to extend their service | 47 |
| ___ bite (temporary birthmark on some newborns) | 47 |
| Brand known as "the racer's edge" | 47 |
| State capital originally known as Pig's Eye | 47 |
| Sandburg's "Always the Young ___" | 47 |
| "The Adam Carolla Show" cohost Teresa | 47 |
| Children's home immortalized by the Beatles | 47 |
| Movie star with the most Oscar nominations (15) | 47 |
| Actress with the most Academy Award nominations | 47 |
| They're often found near busy intersections | 47 |
| Concern for someone holding put or call options | 47 |
| Instrument for Bob Haggart, Slam Stewart et al. | 47 |
| The Bada Bing on "The Sopranos," e.g. | 47 |
| "Reptilia" band, with "The" | 47 |
| Ontario town whose sign boasts a giant elephant | 47 |
| Name that consists of three consecutive letters | 47 |
| Man's nickname that's an alphabetic run | 47 |
| Dad Pickles in the "Rugrats" cartoons | 47 |
| "The Simpsons" dancemeister Disco ___ | 47 |
| Masonry work that may be smoothed with a trowel | 47 |
| They receive transportation discounts in Europe | 47 |
| "Unfaithfully Yours" director Preston | 47 |
| Sound before "That's all, folks!" | 47 |
| Lapidarists' concern, with "Will" | 47 |
| It may precede or follow ''as'' | 47 |
| ''Parting is ___ sweet sorrow'' | 47 |
| "Parting is ___ sweet sorrow": Juliet | 47 |
| Step 2 in plan to win "American Idol" | 47 |
| Buddy Holly's ''Peggy ___'' | 47 |
| What little girls are made of, so it's said | 47 |
| Fruity beverage served in a hut used in Tishri? | 47 |
| "Star Trek" role for John Cho in 2009 | 47 |
| "The ___ of All Fears" (Clancy novel) | 47 |
| Shrub that may cause a severe allergic reaction | 47 |
| Sport that takes place in a ring called a dohyo | 47 |
| " . . . and Juliet is the ___": Romeo | 47 |
| Start of the 'Sesame Street' theme song | 47 |
| 1978 blockbuster movie co-written by Mario Puzo | 47 |
| Larger-than-life statue of a Civil War general? | 47 |
| "Satisfaction guaranteed" catchphrase | 47 |
| Like Miró's "The Tilled Field" | 47 |
| "Young Frankenstein" director Stroman | 47 |
| Plastic or wooden item in a Japanese restaurant | 47 |
| Mena of "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" | 47 |
| Olympic runner and former Vegas escort Hamilton | 47 |
| "Law & Order" spinoff, familiarly | 47 |
| Dept. in a "Law & Order" spin-off | 47 |