| Soccer player Hope on "Dancing With the Stars" | 56 |
| Its flag consists of one white star on a blue background | 56 |
| "___ Guys Have All the Luck" (Rod Stewart hit) | 56 |
| Why certain folks decide not to go south for the winter? | 56 |
| 1990 Roscoe Mitchell album (and this puzzle's theme) | 56 |
| The merry widow in MGM's "The Merry Widow" | 56 |
| Hot-headed Corleone brother in "The Godfather" | 56 |
| Pearl S. Buck's sequel to "The Good Earth" | 56 |
| ___ Pictures Television ("Jeopardy!" producer) | 56 |
| Neil Diamond "Girl, You'll Be a Woman ___" | 56 |
| Frequent response to "When will we get there?" | 56 |
| Nickname for a cheater in the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 | 56 |
| Neil Diamond lyric "And counting on ___ later" | 56 |
| "In __, you are to blame": "Othello" | 56 |
| Superstition that a rookie's second season will fail | 56 |
| With "potassium," it's a food preservative | 56 |
| Only ballplayer to hit 60 homers in a season three times | 56 |
| Future star athlete who debuted with the Rangers in 1989 | 56 |
| Description of work by the figures haunting this puzzle? | 56 |
| "The final frontier," on "Star Trek" | 56 |
| Food that's the subject of a museum in Austin, Minn. | 56 |
| The chorus of Beck's "Loser" is sung in it | 56 |
| Mississippi town in "In the Heat of the Night" | 56 |
| First-nameless private eye in Robert B. Parker mysteries | 56 |
| 1984 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah | 56 |
| Make two hands out of one in this puzzle's card game | 56 |
| "Block that kick!" and "Dee-fense!"? | 56 |
| Try to improve one's intelligence illegally, perhaps | 56 |
| Rub out answer written about percussion instrument (5,4) | 56 |
| 2001 Eminem hit from "The Marshall Mathers LP" | 56 |
| Fictional organization run by "the Federation" | 56 |
| " . . . first ___ see tonight" (wishing verse) | 56 |
| "The ___ Night" (Vincent van Gogh masterpiece) | 56 |
| Allmans "I woke up this morning, had them ___" | 56 |
| What comes out of an angry person's ears in cartoons | 56 |
| Brando's cry in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 56 |
| "I'm in a hurry to see that bug squashed!" | 56 |
| ''. . . bigger than a breadbox?'' coiner | 56 |
| Sportsmanlike NBA All-Star (secretly planning to get...) | 56 |
| Board game for kids that's actually painful to play? | 56 |
| Missouri band that failed to "shake things up" | 56 |
| "Although this volume contains many a ___ ..." | 56 |
| Holiday character derived from pagan mythology, casually | 56 |
| Grocery employee dealing with a shortage of shelf space? | 56 |
| Marianne Faithfull "Conversation on a Bar ___" | 56 |
| Sign that often got "BUSH" spray painted on it | 56 |
| Auto additives co. that hints at this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Old "From one beer lover to another" sloganeer | 56 |
| Single for Kanye West in 2007 and Kelly Clarkson in 2011 | 56 |
| Marryin' Sam portrayer in "Li'l Abner" | 56 |
| Seafood selection suggested by this puzzle's circles | 56 |
| John ___, who directed "The Magnificent Seven" | 56 |
| Band with the 1981 #1 album "Paradise Theater" | 56 |
| "Don Giovanni" aria "Dalla ___ pace" | 56 |
| "Music of the ___" (Rihanna's debut album) | 56 |
| George Burns's 1975 Oscar film, with "The" | 56 |
| "I say every member of this board is a ___..." | 56 |
| Brazilian neighbor with fewer than half a million people | 56 |
| 1957 hit covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968 | 56 |
| The Beatles' "I Feel Fine" begins with one | 56 |
| Name that comes from Old Norse for "young man" | 56 |
| Source of most of the names in "The Lion King" | 56 |
| People magazine's 1991 "Sexiest Man Alive" | 56 |
| It had the earliest parliament on the European continent | 56 |
| How we describe my uncle ever since his, um, visitations | 56 |
| Adult ___ (Cartoon Network subchannel for older viewers) | 56 |
| Took a dip (I can never believe this is actually a word) | 56 |
| Where Oceanic Flight 815 originated, on "Lost" | 56 |
| Monument inscribed "Sufferin' succotash!"? | 56 |
| "Walking Through ___" Ned's Atomic Dustbin | 56 |
| Daughter of Samantha and Darrin on "Bewitched" | 56 |
| Indian-themed Atlantic City casino, with "The" | 56 |
| "That the life-weary ___ may fall dead": Romeo | 56 |
| "Britain's Got ___" (Susan Boyle platform) | 56 |
| With "A," half-priced Charles Dickens classic? | 56 |
| He wrote " . . . A Serendipiter's Journey" | 56 |
| Interrupt (whose initials spell "honk a horn") | 56 |
| ''The Bonesetter's Daughter'' author | 56 |
| Best dramatic actress Tony winner of 1948, 1978 and 1983 | 56 |
| "Assassination ___" (2002 Robert Duvall movie) | 56 |
| Nation that borders the Democratic Republic of the CongO | 56 |
| The Met's "Hunt of the Unicorn" and others | 56 |
| Tune also known as "Butterfield's Lullaby" | 56 |
| A Supremes classic — as sung by a famous swinger? | 56 |
| Where to see a Constable or Turner, with "the" | 56 |
| Darth ___ (Mr. Potato Head "Star Wars" tie-in) | 56 |
| Director and star of the 1958 Best Foreign Language Film | 56 |
| First name among the ''Paper Moon'' cast | 56 |
| First letter in the fourth quarter of the Greek alphabet | 56 |
| Fiscal event scheduled for January 1, 2013, colloquially | 56 |
| Car in the Beach Boys' hit "Fun, Fun, Fun" | 56 |
| "Doing what I'm supposed to do," initially | 56 |
| Sch. whose football team plays in Amon G. Carter Stadium | 56 |
| Measure that led to a 1773 Boston Harbor 'party' | 56 |
| Nicolas Cage's co-star in "The Family Man" | 56 |
| ___ talks, offerers of "ideas worth spreading" | 56 |
| Six-time Emmy nominee (and two-time winner) of the 1970s | 56 |
| ". . . all I got was this stupid . . ." shirts | 56 |
| Proust's "À la Recherche du ___ Perdu" | 56 |
| Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle | 56 |