| "Never eat __ waffles"" compass point mnemonic | 61 |
| "It's ___, the cows are giving evaporated milk" | 61 |
| Appearance during a partial wardrobe malfunction? (29->28) | 61 |
| "___ or five attend him": "Twelfth Night" | 61 |
| Chris and Stewie, to Peter Griffin, on "Family Guy" | 61 |
| Author of the award-winning 1999 novel "In America" | 61 |
| Jack who played Detective Yemana on "Barney Miller" | 61 |
| Oscar-winning screenwriter for "The Social Network" | 61 |
| George who wrote "The Bubble of American Supremacy" | 61 |
| Only hit song for which title and artist are both palindromes | 61 |
| Athlete feted with a New York City ticker-tape parade in 1998 | 61 |
| ''Red'' or ''White'' follower | 61 |
| "Final frontier" related to this puzzle's theme | 61 |
| Director whose work has been nominated for 123 Academy Awards | 61 |
| What the original Mortal Kombat was criticized for depicting? | 61 |
| Nitpick, and what this puzzle's circled letters represent | 61 |
| What the dish ran away with, in "Hey Diddle Diddle" | 61 |
| What each of the other four longest answers in this puzzle is | 61 |
| Agent "embedded" in this puzzle's theme answers | 61 |
| Array in mathematics with the same number of rows and columns | 61 |
| Sacrifice bunt with a runner on third and fewer than two outs | 61 |
| In Harry Potter books, nonmagical offspring of wizard parents | 61 |
| Org. that maintains a "Popular Baby Names" Web page | 61 |
| Dir. from Satan's Kingdom, VT, to Satan's Kingdom, MA | 61 |
| 078-05-1120, on a Woolworth's sample wallet insert: Abbr. | 61 |
| Fast plane that's on exhibit at NYC's Intrepid Museum | 61 |
| 1987 drama based on the true story of teacher Jaime Escalante | 61 |
| Song about going a little too far to get a crime-scene photo? | 61 |
| Andy escapes from one in "The Shawshank Redemption" | 61 |
| Ambassadors and such, or an appropriate title for this puzzle | 61 |
| Say ''Maine'' or ''Montana''? | 61 |
| Waldorf's heckling parter, on "The Muppet Show" | 61 |
| "Infections" inside this puzzle's theme entries | 61 |
| < Season record for which Rickey Henderson had this number | 61 |
| First African-American Republican National Committee chairman | 61 |
| "Nope, you had it right the first time," on a proof | 61 |
| Second baseman in both of the Dodgers' 1980s World Series | 61 |
| Larsson who wrote "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" | 61 |
| Word before the first word in this puzzle's theme answers | 61 |
| Criminal Robert nicknamed "The Birdman of Alcatraz" | 61 |
| Coauthors of "The Elements of Style," ___ and White | 61 |
| Al Franken's "SNL" motivational speaker Smalley | 61 |
| Soul's Lattisaw who sang "Let Me Be Your Angel" | 61 |
| Archies hit with the lyric, "You are my candy girl" | 61 |
| Group that was second only to the Beatles in '60s #1 hits | 61 |
| "It's a ___!" ("You can't miss!") | 61 |
| ___ Kramer, 2010 Dutch Olympic gold medalist in speed skating | 61 |
| Part of the "Law & Order" franchise, familiarly | 61 |
| Nation that's home to the metal bands Opeth and Meshuggah | 61 |
| ___ Twitchit (mother of Tom Kitten of Beatrix Potter stories) | 61 |
| Destination of the Bounty in "Mutiny on the Bounty" | 61 |
| Actress Elg of "Les Girls" (hidden in MAINTAINABLE) | 61 |
| Republic with an image of Sun Yat-Sen on some of its currency | 61 |
| "¿Qué ___?" ("How's it going?") | 61 |
| The only chess player you need to know for solving crosswords | 61 |
| "What does it take to succeed in Hollywood, Tonto?" | 61 |
| Sweet group that did the score for "Risky Business" | 61 |
| Food whose name comes from the Tupi language of South America | 61 |
| "Trip for ___" (Tweety and Sylvester cartoon title) | 61 |
| Pop duo with the 2003 hit "All the Things She Said" | 61 |
| Penultimate percent of the last century before the Common Era | 61 |
| All-American Rejects: "I'm on the Football ___" | 61 |
| Group associated with 2009's Taxpayer March on Washington | 61 |
| It's "short and stout" in a children's song | 61 |
| Paretsky's Warshawski and Grafton's Millhone, briefly | 61 |
| #1 hit song that asks "Are you somewhere up above?" | 61 |
| Pearl Jam album with "Alive" and "Jeremy" | 61 |
| ___ Beer Night (1974 baseball promotion that ended in a riot) | 61 |
| Some of the knights in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" | 61 |
| Blythe's daughter in ''Meet the Parents'' | 61 |
| Electric car company named after an Serbian-American inventor | 61 |
| Author Gerritsen who created the characters Rizzoli and Isles | 61 |
| Tactical position that literally means "bridgehead" | 61 |
| "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" singer Ritter | 61 |
| New Valentine's phrase added on Sweethearts candy in 2010 | 61 |
| Je ne sais quoi capturing mid-14th to mid-17th century China? | 61 |
| Word with ''end'' or ''pits'' | 61 |
| Word often mistakenly thought to be in Smokey Bear's name | 61 |
| "The Work of Art in ___ of Mechanical Reproduction" | 61 |
| With the circled letters, 1955 Bill Haley and His Comets hit? | 61 |
| Alice Walker novel ... or a hint to 12 squares in this puzzle | 61 |
| Rockers who reunited to release "Hell Freezes Over" | 61 |
| "___, please" (awards show presenter's request) | 61 |
| Title TV and movie character who sought out the One-Armed Man | 61 |
| Era referred to in the United Kingdom as "naughty"? | 61 |
| "That small drink you ordered has now been poured"? | 61 |
| 1980s TV program that caused a rift between Carson and Rivers | 61 |
| "___ again ..." ("on the other hand ...") | 61 |
| "Floral" film of 1986 based on an Umberto Eco novel | 61 |
| Something to "Blame It On," in a Milli Vanilli song | 61 |
| Debate team's consensus about rules for counterarguments? | 61 |
| Admission from someone who just realized they're rambling | 61 |
| ''__ are the times that try men's souls'' | 61 |
| “___ Thirteen” (1931 Faulkner short-story collection) | 61 |
| 1955 sci-fi film that was one of the first to use Technicolor | 61 |
| Clichéd start of a depressingly-timed February 14th speech | 61 |
| One of the superheroes in 2012's "The Avengers" | 61 |
| '93 album "Common ___: The Songs of the Eagles" | 61 |
| With ''The'', Joanne Woodward film of '57 | 61 |
| Night "Cheers" was on TV for each of its 11 seasons | 61 |