| Consonant such as "f" or "v" | 48 |
| Voter's ''crossover'' ballot | 48 |
| Lousy team that wrecks a contender's chances | 48 |
| Reason that rainwater is pouring over the eaves? | 48 |
| Shortest player to win the NBA Slam Dunk contest | 48 |
| Bioengineered cross between a bird and a mammal? | 48 |
| Apt username for Margaret, the geometry teacher? | 48 |
| H.S. students who are often tired of being there | 48 |
| Group that might be assembling C.V.'s: Abbr. | 48 |
| Group that may be applying early decision: Abbr. | 48 |
| Direction from Columbus, Ohio, to Columbia, S.C. | 48 |
| Money source for the permanently disabled: abbr. | 48 |
| Letters on two former UN members' nameplates | 48 |
| Visual representation of this puzzle's theme | 48 |
| Red giants with zirconium oxide in their spectra | 48 |
| Planes that routinely flew faster than 768 mi/hr | 48 |
| Fergie from The Black Eyed Peas's first name | 48 |
| Typical "Toddlers & Tiaras" parent | 48 |
| Order from an old English outlaw to his cohorts? | 48 |
| Critic's pan of a Jim Morrison rock concert? | 48 |
| "We ___ our guns all day": G. & S. | 48 |
| Nixon's first Commerce Secretary Maurice ___ | 48 |
| Connell's "Son of the Morning ___" | 48 |
| Person trying not to blink in a certain contest? | 48 |
| Paderewski, for one <--> guiding principle | 48 |
| "___ the Revolution Without Me" (1970) | 48 |
| Word before "put" or "tuned" | 48 |
| Ballplayer nicknamed "Le Grand Orange" | 48 |
| Thing that might be contracted by unions?: Abbr. | 48 |
| Strange bedfellows might give them to you: Abbr. | 48 |
| Suffix with "farm" or "home" | 48 |
| Jane's Addiction "Been Caught ___" | 48 |
| Turkey ___, slugger in the Baseball Hall of Fame | 48 |
| Weepy 1989 movie shown at the construction site? | 48 |
| Painter of "The Feast of St. Nicholas" | 48 |
| Only American star of "Doctor Zhivago" | 48 |
| Radio drama "of mother love sacrifice" | 48 |
| Part of the pot that doesn't go in the bowl? | 48 |
| "This is how it's really done ..." | 48 |
| Solid unsaturated alcohol found in animal tissue | 48 |
| ''Don't expunge that,'' e.g. | 48 |
| Editor's "it's fine after all" | 48 |
| ''Don't touch!'' editorially | 48 |
| ...and here's our head of human resources... | 48 |
| Hotep in ''The Prince of Egypt'' | 48 |
| Comedian who had a hit with "King Tut" | 48 |
| Comic who inspired this puzzle's theme query | 48 |
| What is actor Stewart Granger's family name? | 48 |
| Weapon typically used in its surface-to-air form | 48 |
| Fizz added to "Every Breath You Take"? | 48 |
| Word with "fried" or "crazy" | 48 |
| Pony Express's Missouri terminus, familiarly | 48 |
| "Battle for __": Peter Yates WWII book | 48 |
| End of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 9/23/1806 | 48 |
| Airplane with short runway requirements, briefly | 48 |
| Brand with Ohranj and Razberi varieties, briefly | 48 |
| Like Cheech & Chong, in most of their movies | 48 |
| Word before or after ''traffic'' | 48 |
| Halle Berry role in 2000's "X-Men" | 48 |
| It's in the kitchen, perhaps with a potbelly | 48 |
| ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' author | 48 |
| Like carry-on luggage during takeoff and landing | 48 |
| "Interstate Love Song" band, for short | 48 |
| Gatekeeper addressed in "Sixteen Tons" | 48 |
| "Tales From the Vienna Woods" composer | 48 |
| It can be twisted and flicked to make a loud pop | 48 |
| Likeness of director Sidney used as a scarecrow? | 48 |
| Singer with the 1980 #1 album "Guilty" | 48 |
| Job change or marriage, psychologically speaking | 48 |
| Challenge intended to spark innovative solutions | 48 |
| "Blondie" or "Beetle Bailey" | 48 |
| With "Ace," a Burt Reynolds film title | 48 |
| Leather sharpener used in old-timey barber shops | 48 |
| "The Elements of Style" author William | 48 |
| They generally run east-west in Manhattan: Abbr. | 48 |
| Abbr. concerning the holy or "potholy" | 48 |
| "Little Flower" of the Catholic church | 48 |
| Three-time World Series of Poker champ ___ Ungar | 48 |
| Disco ___ (minor "Simpsons" character) | 48 |
| 1950's-70's senator Symington, for short | 48 |
| "Junk" pitcher Miller or comic Gilliam | 48 |
| "___ on You" (1960 Elvis Presley song) | 48 |
| James Farrell's subject in his 1930s trilogy | 48 |
| "Don't Rain on My Parade" composer | 48 |
| "The Confessions of Nat Turner" writer | 48 |
| "The Confessions of Nat Turner" author | 48 |
| "Sophie's Choice" novelist William | 48 |
| Where Achilles was dipped to make him invincible | 48 |
| Hit 1970s-'90s band with a mythological name | 48 |
| Band with the 1979 album "Cornerstone" | 48 |
| "The Hunt for Red October" and others? | 48 |
| "Parting is ___ sweet sorrow" (Juliet) | 48 |
| Best Actress nominee for "King Congo"? | 48 |
| Paper puzzle usually involving a 9x9 grid (2004) | 48 |
| Word with ''the pant's off'' | 48 |
| "-er" or "-ing," e.g.: Abbr. | 48 |
| Thing one lights after being doused by gasoline? | 48 |
| ''I'll go along with that!'' | 48 |
| It's when the ``livin' is easy'' | 48 |
| "The ___" (1960 film set in Australia) | 48 |