| Mark the transition from an old year to the new, maybe | 54 |
| Options strategy also known as a "buy-write" | 54 |
| Submission with a submission (with an up-front charge) | 54 |
| Aging effect that art forgers can't well duplicate | 54 |
| Attend a national party in Nuuk without an invitation? | 54 |
| " . . . tomorrow ___ this petty pace . . . " | 54 |
| Order to a Nile reptile to upset a vessel? [1973/1974] | 54 |
| Italian appetizer, literally "little toasts" | 54 |
| Arthur Miller drama set in Salem, with "The" | 54 |
| Drama whose theme song is "Baba O'Riley" | 54 |
| "We'll tak a ___ kindness . . . ": Burns | 54 |
| Try-before-you-buy opportunities at knickknack stores? | 54 |
| "Come see the view, for all you nosy types!" | 54 |
| "Sleight of hand" used to summon a Bohemian? | 54 |
| Common girls lacking finish at the end of December (8) | 54 |
| "A little ___ do ya" (1950s-'60s slogan) | 54 |
| Peter Parker's newspaper in "Spider-Man" | 54 |
| Publication that is the key to this puzzle's theme | 54 |
| Denzel Washington's "Man on Fire" costar | 54 |
| Major point on the Oregon Trail (with "The") | 54 |
| Sophie B Hawkins "___ Wish I Was Your Lover" | 54 |
| Beverly of "National Lampoon's Vacation" | 54 |
| Olu ___ (jazz musician who is rapper Nas's father) | 54 |
| Says "Your great idea will never work," e.g. | 54 |
| Director of "Rififi" and "Topkapi" | 54 |
| Richard ___ (original host of "Family Feud") | 54 |
| "A ___ Pigs Would Die," Robert N. Peck novel | 54 |
| Really impress an audience at a New York concert hall? | 54 |
| They rate zero on the "credit-ability" scale | 54 |
| "___ remember'd kisses . . . ": Tennyson | 54 |
| If it's regular, each of its angles is 144 degrees | 54 |
| Fortified position offering protection from enemy fire | 54 |
| "Pyromania" and "Hysteria" rockers | 54 |
| Part of the next-to-last line of the Lord's Prayer | 54 |
| Necessary sense for a driver (with an up-front charge) | 54 |
| Unappealing theme restaurant based on a hit CGI movie? | 54 |
| One-named R&B singer with "Feel So High" | 54 |
| The Penguin's player in "Batman Returns" | 54 |
| Rap group with the 2006 #1 hit "Laffy Taffy" | 54 |
| Gilded Age philanthropist known for his large appetite | 54 |
| Instruction on preparing a tiny Thanksgiving side dish | 54 |
| Comic strip character with an upwardly curving necktie | 54 |
| "Chapel of Love" group, with "the" | 54 |
| 1,000 years before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I | 54 |
| DDS alternative (they essentially mean the same thing) | 54 |
| Engine type, in mechanic shorthand (anagram of OH, DC) | 54 |
| "Light My Fire" band appearing at Microsoft? | 54 |
| ''In the Still of the Night,'' for one | 54 |
| Lowercase letter illustrated six times in this puzzle? | 54 |
| < Season record for which Earl Webb had this number | 54 |
| How L.L.Bean prioritizes its winter jacket ads, maybe? | 54 |
| The Mamas & the Papas' 'California --' | 54 |
| What the dry cleaner might say after losing a garment? | 54 |
| New Orleans bluesman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 54 |
| Dwight Gooden's nickname, based on many strikeouts | 54 |
| Website with the slogan "Simplify your life" | 54 |
| Embarrassing message you might hear about the next day | 54 |
| Battleship coordinate at the middle right of the board | 54 |
| Public transportation to New York's Yankee Stadium | 54 |
| New York City transport from the Bronx to Coney Island | 54 |
| "___ spiro, spero" (motto of South Carolina) | 54 |
| Dancer Gregory's nickname when shootin' hoops? | 54 |
| He said "Everybody wants to get into da act" | 54 |
| "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" musician | 54 |
| Ones performing a folk legend's tunes in Michigan? | 54 |
| "__-mite!": "Good Times" catchword | 54 |
| Former Montreal baseballer working for interpreter (9) | 54 |
| "New Kid in Town" band appearing at a rodeo? | 54 |
| Business transactions free from government regulation? | 54 |
| What Hannibal Lecter might do to those who bother him? | 54 |
| Transitional zones between different plant communities | 54 |
| 1975 seminal green movement novel by Ernest Callenbach | 54 |
| Country singer Arnold and reggae singer Grant, for two | 54 |
| Role that earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar | 54 |
| Aristotle's "best provision for old age" | 54 |
| ''Early Sunday Morning'' artist Hopper | 54 |
| Author/illustrator who used the pseudonym Ogdred Weary | 54 |
| 1949 Emmy winner for Most Outstanding Live Personality | 54 |
| Where the Stephen King fan club meets in Pennsylvania? | 54 |
| "30 Rock" acronym about entertainment awards | 54 |
| Research journal for Middle-earth gastroenterologists? | 54 |
| Competitor of "The 5th Wheel," in reality TV | 54 |
| Quick Draw McGraw alter ego with a guitar for a weapon | 54 |
| ''The Magic Kingdom'' novelist Stanley | 54 |
| California town whose name means "the river" | 54 |
| Member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke | 54 |
| Only person to win Oscars for acting and screenwriting | 54 |
| Dropped "The Simpsons" from the TV schedule? | 54 |
| Minstrel show figure who banters with the interlocutor | 54 |
| Words with "an era" and "the line" | 54 |
| Haydn used two in "The Philosopher" Symphony | 54 |
| What you may be saying after reading the theme answers | 54 |
| Early hip-hop group with "Strictly Business" | 54 |
| Originator of the phrase "Pandora's box" | 54 |
| ''Give My Regards to Broadway'' ending | 54 |
| 1974 hit song that starts "Como una promesa" | 54 |
| Joanie Cunningham portrayer, in 1970's-80's TV | 54 |
| Name shared by two brothers in the Hockey Hall of Fame | 54 |
| First N.H.L. player to score over 70 goals in a season | 54 |
| George's mother on "Seinfeld" and others | 54 |