| What Gollum calls the Ring in "The Lord of the Rings" | 63 |
| Evergreen tree has critical condition that's contagious (7) | 63 |
| Government perceived to overcontrol the welfare of its citizens | 63 |
| "The Soup ___" (classic "Seinfeld" episode) | 63 |
| Grateful Dead classic about a family member's musical group | 63 |
| Member of a boy band with nine top 10 hits / Supply line cutter | 63 |
| Studio that distributed the "Lord of the Rings" films | 63 |
| What the giggling supporter of the Salem witch trials was told? | 63 |
| Writer who appeared in a 2004 "Gilmore Girls" episode | 63 |
| Nickname for critic Rex who doesn't sexually excite anyone? | 63 |
| Failed Facebook game where you set up a city out in the sticks? | 63 |
| Like food needing salt. Or pepper. Or any kind of spice at all. | 63 |
| "Single-file please, you'll all get your turn..." | 63 |
| Gary who sang "It's the only way to live in cars" | 63 |
| Speaker who declares wrong winner of the Lady Spud pageant? (9) | 63 |
| Segregate faulty computer code that only some know about (6, 3) | 63 |
| "'I'm ___ the store, can I get you anything?" | 63 |
| Subtitle of Neil Diamond's 'I Got the Feelin' ' | 63 |
| Signature plaintive cry from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" | 63 |
| "Sleepy Time ___" (William Joyce children's book) | 63 |
| 1971 Charlton Heston science fiction film, with "The" | 63 |
| "___ far away ..." ("The Old Rugged Cross") | 63 |
| " ___ one is born a roaster of meat": Brillat-Savarin | 63 |
| " . . . win ___" (exhortation for the Fighting Irish) | 63 |
| Tribe whose name means "People of the Standing Stone" | 63 |
| "Sunny, ___ true, I love you" (1966 Bobby Hebb lyric) | 63 |
| "Better a blush ___" (Beginning of a Cervantes quote) | 63 |
| Bach composition that might have you pulling out all the stops? | 63 |
| "Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator" author | 63 |
| "Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx," for example | 63 |
| Sobriquet for the author of "The Old Man and the Sea" | 63 |
| Result of incorrectly filling out paperwork about an invention? | 63 |
| French bandleader with the 1968 #1 hit "Love Is Blue" | 63 |
| Step 2: Trip is always a threat, so better shell out for a .... | 63 |
| Story that begins "All children, except one, grow up" | 63 |
| 1940s-'50s American Federation of Musicians president James | 63 |
| What the three sets of circled squares in this puzzle represent | 63 |
| Like a kid's face after both cheeks are tweaked by grandma? | 63 |
| Another place to follow the object named in the circled letters | 63 |
| 1951 Montgomery Clift/Elizabeth Taylor film, with "A" | 63 |
| Powerful news story about...a mill's brown-bagging mandate? | 63 |
| Get help of a sort on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 63 |
| Stadium the Yankees sublet from the Giants from 1913 until 1922 | 63 |
| Candy that, in urban legend, can be lethal when mixed with soda | 63 |
| Term for each of the 15 asterisked theme answers in this puzzle | 63 |
| Mail conveniences ... or a hint to eight squares in this puzzle | 63 |
| Why former Secretary of State Colin was never caught off guard? | 63 |
| Q: See title A: "None--that's a hardware problem" | 63 |
| Declaration sometimes made with crossed fingers behind the back | 63 |
| Handheld platform with "Monster Hunter Freedom Unite" | 63 |
| Businessman/entertainer who was once mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. | 63 |
| ''Tosca'' or ''Turandot,'' e.g. | 63 |
| "Punk Prayer - Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!" band | 63 |
| "Talking isn't going to reseal that wine bottle!" | 63 |
| Donald Duck's title adventures, in a '90s Disney series | 63 |
| Energy source that may be 2 trillion times as bright as the sun | 63 |
| Baked dish made of eggs, cheese, cigarette butts and cocktails? | 63 |
| Boy-meets-girl movie watched immediately after boy-leaves-girl? | 63 |
| Site whose slogan is "The front page of the internet" | 63 |
| Football field areas between the 20-yard line and the goal line | 63 |
| Terse pair of instructions to a stray usher who has work to do? | 63 |
| He might have described himself as a coated knowledge professor | 63 |
| What you might be looking through with your eye next to a butt? | 63 |
| Comic book character who wears an Eton collar and a red bow tie | 63 |
| Aviarists love this "Livin' La Vida Loca" singer! | 63 |
| Shak. play about a king who needs to loosen up once in a while? | 63 |
| Curl around the hole's edge without going in, in golf lingo | 63 |
| Only solo artist to win back-to-back Record of the Year Grammys | 63 |
| British leader from whom the "bobbies" got their name | 63 |
| Majestically named pro wrestling event held annually since 1988 | 63 |
| Random, casino-based way of deciding whether to admit a pledge? | 63 |
| Friend of Antonio in ''The Merchant of Venice'' | 63 |
| Fictional chocolate-lover Veruca married to a sergeant of song? | 63 |
| Fox with the 1988 hit "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" | 63 |
| Politician who said "Only dead fish go with the flow" | 63 |
| Michael Chiklis's role on "The Commish," Tony ___ | 63 |
| "Teach not thy lip such ___": "Richard III" | 63 |
| "Under the ___" ("The Little Mermaid" song) | 63 |
| Word with ''level'' or ''lion'' | 63 |
| "Under the ___" ("The Little Mermaid" tune) | 63 |
| ___ breeze (vodka cocktail with cranberry and grapefruit juice) | 63 |
| "I ___ You" ("Avatar" theme by Leona Lewis) | 63 |
| ''No man hath ___ God at any time'' (John 1:18) | 63 |
| Begin a game of "She loves me, she loves me not ..."? | 63 |
| Heroine of Wagner's ''The Flying Dutchman'' | 63 |
| Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle | 63 |
| Words with "bad example" or "high standard" | 63 |
| Acronym of a scientific project seeking contact with alien life | 63 |
| ___ Institute, org. that makes use of the Allen Telescope Array | 63 |
| Offensive to half of mankind...er, make that "people" | 63 |
| Its collection includes Rivera's "Flower Carrier" | 63 |
| Kimberly Munley's rank (she took down the Fort Hood gunman) | 63 |
| The cat who won't cop out when there's danger all about | 63 |
| BET Hip Hop Awards "Rookie of the Year" winner ___ Lo | 63 |
| 1935 movie starring Helen Gahagan as Queen Hash-a-Mo-Tep of Kor | 63 |
| Wooley with the 1958 #1 hit "The Purple People Eater" | 63 |
| ''Tool'' or ''wood'' attachment | 63 |
| 1962 #1 hit with the lyric "True love will never die" | 63 |
| "I Got Stoned and I Missed It" songwriter Silverstein | 63 |
| 1970 Grammy winner for writing "A Boy Named Sue" (25) | 63 |