| Stone Gossard's band, when not with Pearl Jam | 49 |
| Last word of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 49 |
| "What's ___ in the Bone": R. Davies | 49 |
| Former pornstar and ex of Charlie Sheen ___ Olson | 49 |
| "Private Benjamin" Oscar nominee Eileen | 49 |
| Jake's love in "The Sun Also Rises" | 49 |
| In a ___, there's no shortage of ___ to drink | 49 |
| French district that lent its name to a foodstuff | 49 |
| Brand named from the Latin for "bright" | 49 |
| Tom who wrote "The Greatest Generation" | 49 |
| Pinchot of TV's "Perfect Strangers" | 49 |
| Sultanate known as "the Abode of Peace" | 49 |
| "You Forgot It In People" band, briefly | 49 |
| ''That'll Be the Day'' singer | 49 |
| Spy device dropped into each of the theme entries | 49 |
| The answer to each starred clue ends in a big one | 49 |
| "Six foot, seven foot, eight foot ___!" | 49 |
| Vice president who graduated from Princeton at 16 | 49 |
| First U.S. vice president not to become president | 49 |
| ''Heavenly'' songwriter Bacharach | 49 |
| Words expressing a sad, surprising turn of events | 49 |
| 1963 Ann-Margret film based on a Broadway musical | 49 |
| "I'm not supplying," on invitations | 49 |
| "We're not serving liquor," briefly | 49 |
| Noted gp. of entertainment and sports talent reps | 49 |
| Major org. representing entertainers and athletes | 49 |
| Scott of ''Ocean's Thirteen'' | 49 |
| James who played the Mafia mobster Sonny Corleone | 49 |
| Finding one takes a "hail" of an effort | 49 |
| Cassius and company, in "Julius Caesar" | 49 |
| Women's rights advocate Elizabeth ___ Stanton | 49 |
| French city where William the Conqueror is buried | 49 |
| His famous quote begins ''Et tu'' | 49 |
| Word in the etymology of ''czar'' | 49 |
| "Lady in a ___," 1964 de Havilland film | 49 |
| ''I Know Why the ___ Bird Sings'' | 49 |
| "Am I my brother's keeper?" speaker | 49 |
| "The Postman Always Rings Twice" author | 49 |
| Biblical figure Grendel was supposedly related to | 49 |
| Biblical character with his own "curse" | 49 |
| "Pound" and "sponge" desserts | 49 |
| "Curtain" or "cattle" adjunct | 49 |
| Stan Lee had one in every Marvel movie adaptation | 49 |
| "___ I Get a Witness" (Marvin Gaye hit) | 49 |
| ''No ___'' (negative slang reply) | 49 |
| "The ___ Man," Sammy Davis Jr. hit song | 49 |
| "__ be?": "Is that possible?" | 49 |
| It's often turned upside down when not in use | 49 |
| Slugger José who was an early McGwire teammate | 49 |
| "What services ___ thou do?": King Lear | 49 |
| Arthur Honegger's "A Christmas ___" | 49 |
| Word with "baseball" or "gas" | 49 |
| Where to find a soft drink's promotional code | 49 |
| Massachusetts vacation spot, with "the" | 49 |
| Creator of Earthquake McGoon and Moonbeam McSwine | 49 |
| Director of "It's a Wonderful Life" | 49 |
| "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" director | 49 |
| ''Arsenic and Old Lace'' director | 49 |
| "Flashdance... What a Feeling" lyricist | 49 |
| "___ Mia" (Jay & the Americans hit) | 49 |
| Barker's "Price Is Right" successor | 49 |
| Dustin in "All the President's Men" | 49 |
| Author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" | 49 |
| Connie's husband in "The Godfather" | 49 |
| Swami routine of the old "Tonight Show" | 49 |
| "___ nome" ("Rigoletto" aria) | 49 |
| '-- nome' (aria from 'Rigoletto') | 49 |
| Astaire's "Daddy Long Legs" co-star | 49 |
| Where a belt is almost always required to be worn | 49 |
| Word with "closed" or "study" | 49 |
| "___ Timberlane" (Sinclair Lewis novel) | 49 |
| Instrument named for its similarity to a chestnut | 49 |
| About 600 miles of underground passages near Rome | 49 |
| Line to the crowd at the throwing of the bouquet? | 49 |
| Leonardo's co-star in "The Aviator" | 49 |
| "Death Comes for the Archbishop" author | 49 |
| Gag answer to "Why are birds so noisy"? | 49 |
| Finger Lakes Iroquois, or one of the Finger Lakes | 49 |
| Network with an "eye" for entertainment | 49 |
| Network the Academy of Country Music Awards is on | 49 |
| "The Price Is Right" network since 1972 | 49 |
| Third-century year of Philip the Arab's birth | 49 |
| ''Bad Moon Rising'' band, briefly | 49 |
| Government org. featured in "Contagion" | 49 |
| Medium for a computer "burner," briefly | 49 |
| Letter switched to ess in this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| Nobel-winning Spanish novelist Camilo José ___ | 49 |
| Virtuous wife in Jonson's "Volpone" | 49 |
| ___ Cruz, known as "the queen of salsa" | 49 |
| Whoopi's role in "The Color Purple" | 49 |
| Occupiers of Britain and Spain in pre-Roman times | 49 |
| Noted arcade classic, and this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| Metric prefix that's the reciprocal of hecto- | 49 |
| Asteroid named after a Roman agricultural goddess | 49 |
| Dance syllable that's this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| Hanger that caused a hang-up in the 2000 election | 49 |
| "Hanging" problems in the 2000 election | 49 |
| One of literature's "three sisters" | 49 |
| What some people do in an online "room" | 49 |
| ''The Last Emperor'' actress Joan | 49 |