| Ending for "national" or "capital" | 54 |
| Schoolyard retort, and hint to this puzzle's theme | 54 |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Love ___ All" | 54 |
| Stevie Wonder's ''___ She Lovely'' | 54 |
| " . . . as it ___, it ain't": Tweedledee | 54 |
| "The Times ___ It" (popular Twitter account) | 54 |
| "Genius ___ percent inspiration ...": Edison | 54 |
| Popular children's "find it" book series | 54 |
| "One Word ___ Often Profaned" (Shelley poem) | 54 |
| Words with "the jig" or "the game" | 54 |
| "All I Ever Need ___" (Sonny & Cher hit) | 54 |
| "Let's make ___ true Daily Double, Alex" | 54 |
| ''Confessions of Zeno'' novelist Svevo | 54 |
| Tupac "Changes (That's Just the Way ___" | 54 |
| "--- never fly" (pessimist's prediction) | 54 |
| "___ never fly" (pessimist's prediction) | 54 |
| Figure skater who lit the flame at the Nagano Olympics | 54 |
| "What Am ___ You?" (2004 Norah Jones single) | 54 |
| "___ Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" | 54 |
| "___ My Party" (1963 #1 hit for Lesley Gore) | 54 |
| Facetious response to "How did you do that?" | 54 |
| "They'll ambush you if you go in there!" | 54 |
| "The only thing we have to fear is fear ___" | 54 |
| ''Fathers and Sons'' novelist Turgenev | 54 |
| One of Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" | 54 |
| Trump with a cameo in "The First Wives Club" | 54 |
| "Don't get mad; get everything!" speaker | 54 |
| Infant who succeeded Russia's Empress Anna in 1740 | 54 |
| Suffix with "correct" or "collect" | 54 |
| "___ Been" ("Next to Normal" song) | 54 |
| "__ Got to Crow": "Peter Pan" song | 54 |
| "___ neater, sweeter maiden . . . ": Kipling | 54 |
| "The Strange Love of Martha ___" (1946 film) | 54 |
| Actress Judith of "The Devil's Advocate" | 54 |
| "An Odyssey of the North" short story writer | 54 |
| Space between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place | 54 |
| "Dammit ___" ("Rocky Horror" song) | 54 |
| It's dropped when you encounter something shocking | 54 |
| A.L. East rival of the D-Rays, O's, Sox, and Yanks | 54 |
| "The Catcher in the Rye" author's inits. | 54 |
| Dujardin who won Best Actor for "The Artist" | 54 |
| "Paw" on "The Beverly Hillbillies" | 54 |
| Martial arts star in "The Forbidden Kingdom" | 54 |
| "The ___ of Malta," Christopher Marlowe play | 54 |
| Celebrity killed while flying to Martha's Vineyard | 54 |
| "___ Plays Monterey" (posthumous 1986 album) | 54 |
| Latina actress/singer who started out as a breakdancer | 54 |
| "Como Ama una Mujer" album maker, familiarly | 54 |
| Family name in ''The Grapes of Wrath'' | 54 |
| "The Year of Magical Thinking" author Didion | 54 |
| Early host of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" | 54 |
| "___ my memory" ("Give me a hint") | 54 |
| "___ and the Pussycats" (1970's cartoon) | 54 |
| It's "bustin' out all over," in song | 54 |
| Goddess named in the opening of the "Aeneid" | 54 |
| Actor Penn who has worked for the Obama administration | 54 |
| Actor Penn of the "Harold & Kumar" films | 54 |
| Its state song is "Home on the Range": Abbr. | 54 |
| Gary Cooper's "High Noon" character Will | 54 |
| Film character whose last word was "Rosebud" | 54 |
| "Little House on the Prairie" setting: Abbr. | 54 |
| "The Empire Strikes Back" co-author Lawrence | 54 |
| Seacrest's "American Top 40" predecessor | 54 |
| Actress Dennings of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" | 54 |
| He wrote "Endymion" and "Hyperion" | 54 |
| "Pirates of the Caribbean" actress Knightley | 54 |
| Ashton Kutcher's 'That '70s Show' role | 54 |
| ''Lie Down With Lions'' author Follett | 54 |
| Umpire Kaiser who wrote "Planet of the Umps" | 54 |
| "Unforgivable Blackness" documentarian Burns | 54 |
| "Born in a great steak house" salad dressing | 54 |
| "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" composer | 54 |
| She wrote "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" | 54 |
| "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author | 54 |
| "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" writer | 54 |
| ''Defense of Fort M'Henry'' author | 54 |
| ''The Defense of Fort McHenry'' author | 54 |
| 1953 film based on "The Taming of the Shrew" | 54 |
| P.O.D. "Who's gonna bow down? Every ___" | 54 |
| Mayor famous for asking "How'm I doing?" | 54 |
| "The Eighth Wonder of the World," informally | 54 |
| Pyongyang's place (with ''North'') | 54 |
| Word after Vanilla or Chocolate, at Dunkin' Donuts | 54 |
| '70s record label that advertised on late night TV | 54 |
| "Cat's Cradle" novelist ___ Vonnegut Jr. | 54 |
| Sport not played officially in the Olympics since 1908 | 54 |
| "__-A-Lympics": '70s Hanna/Barbera spoof | 54 |
| New York mayor nicknamed "The Little Flower" | 54 |
| Pakistan's so-called "Garden of Mughals" | 54 |
| Bert who sang "If I Were King of the Forest" | 54 |
| Actor with the lion's share of a 1939 movie script | 54 |
| Dr. Austin's portrayer on "Chicago Hope" | 54 |
| "The best-___ schemes of mice and men . . ." | 54 |
| ''I don't remember the words ...'' | 54 |
| Spiritual leader whose title sounds like a pack animal | 54 |
| Hawaiian island 98% of which is owned by Larry Ellison | 54 |
| Oscar-nominated "Peyton Place" actress, 1957 | 54 |
| Elissa of "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934) | 54 |
| Word with "express" and "shipping" | 54 |
| Southeast Asian nation with delicious bread and cheese | 54 |