| 2012 billion-dollar Facebook acquisition | 40 |
| "Fast beautiful photo sharing" company | 48 |
| Performed an Inauguration Day rite | 34 |
| Payment arrangement for big-ticket items | 40 |
| Does some renovating at a magazine headquarters? | 48 |
| "Buy now, pay later" deals: Var. | 42 |
| Not head and shoulders above the rest? | 38 |
| Vacationer's purchase, perhaps | 34 |
| Lennon hit appropriate for this puzzle? | 39 |
| Creamy Indian dish prepared by just adding water? | 49 |
| What an exploding microwave can make? | 37 |
| Betty Crocker or Hungry Jack product | 36 |
| Locale for astrological advice or big egos | 42 |
| Taught gradually, with "in" | 37 |
| What Dr. Frankenstein tried to do? | 34 |
| How the witty surgeon left his patients | 39 |
| Another surgeon had the audience ___ | 36 |
| "The rule is not written ___" | 39 |
| ''Assembly required'' need | 42 |
| Take of song with vocal track left out | 38 |
| One of Nelson Riddle's fortes | 33 |
| Northern Mariana Islands, to the State department | 49 |
| Guam or Puerto Rico, to the State Department | 44 |
| Major export from the islets of Langerhans | 42 |
| It's produced in the islets of Langerhans | 45 |
| Public-utility magnate of the 30's | 38 |
| Like a car or home, to State Farm | 33 |
| Affording grounds for a certain premium | 39 |
| Something that may cover a house | 32 |
| Printing that uses an engraved plate | 36 |
| Inlay style using a mosaic of wood pieces | 41 |
| Like "Avatar" or "Hugo" | 43 |
| Adherence to a moral or ethical code | 36 |
| Outer protective covering, such as skin | 39 |
| Violent breakup of a computer giant? | 36 |
| Slogan seen on computer stickers | 32 |
| What some probes are searching for | 34 |
| Focus of an interplanetary search | 33 |
| "Back ___ minutes" (shop-door sign) | 45 |
| How you might get change for a twenty | 37 |
| What a boilermaker may operate under | 36 |
| Sharply focused Warsaw residents? | 33 |
| Like electrical signals in the body [Toyota] | 44 |
| Between S.M.U. and U.C.L.A., e.g. | 33 |
| Adjective for some athletic events | 34 |
| Savings account holders, collectively? | 38 |
| Action taken to improve a colleague's day | 45 |
| Like the Enterprise in "Star Trek" | 44 |
| One who's always busy with appointments | 43 |
| Form of stream-of-consciousness writing | 39 |
| They're far from the coastline | 34 |
| Mix with alternate layers of fat | 32 |
| Transfer from one carrier to another, as freight | 48 |
| Written between two rows of text | 32 |
| O'Neill's "Strange ___" | 41 |
| Do what Abie's Irish Rose did | 33 |
| Investigative division (and puzzle theme hint) | 46 |
| Tryout limited to current members of the troupe? | 48 |
| "Young M.D." said Tom ___ | 35 |
| Company that tackles global poverty? | 36 |
| Nobel Peace Prize recipient: 1944 | 33 |
| Numbers used to reach a computer | 32 |
| In this, a "." is a "dot" | 45 |
| Money earned by a hospital worker? | 34 |
| Works off and on as a hospital resident? | 40 |
| "___ Memorandum," Stepquote source | 44 |
| Set young trees among existing ones | 35 |
| Slammer used by a global crime-fighting agency? | 47 |
| Individual renderings of roles, scores, etc. | 44 |
| Linked, as this puzzle's thematic entries | 45 |
| Hollywood's Hollywood and Vine do it | 40 |
| Helpful step for an employment seeker | 37 |
| Asks the Crocodile Hunter a series of questions? | 48 |
| Body part bothered by celiac disease | 36 |
| Digestive system parts with recycling? | 38 |
| How quickly an egotist may do something? | 40 |
| With surprising speed, to an egotist? | 37 |
| Where sand and plastic shovels go? | 34 |
| Start of a question about an old proverb | 40 |
| Where forgotten ones are left out | 33 |
| Like a wedding anniversary forgetter | 36 |
| Where sad trash collectors get together? | 40 |
| Flying in a supersonic transport? | 33 |
| Where a specialist has expertise | 32 |
| Song title used twice on "The Wall" | 45 |
| Part three of a bad cook's quip | 35 |
| "Pease-porridge ___ . . . " | 37 |
| Where you pour vinegar when making colorful slaw? | 49 |
| Having a successful theater career? | 35 |
| Salinger's backer of "The Catcher" | 48 |
| "Along related lines ..." | 35 |
| Where there are too many fish, as per a 1964 hit | 48 |
| Where those who have it made sit | 32 |
| Holding a position of prominence | 32 |
| Blindly supportive, with "for" | 40 |
| "I was born ___" (Springsteen) | 40 |
| Occupying a very wide part of a road? | 37 |
| How badly poets want to succeed? | 32 |
| Where tales of odd containers may be told? | 42 |
| Getting close to the lead, maybe | 32 |