| Playwright who's afraid of Christmas? | 41 |
| Involving purely intellectual speculation | 41 |
| "Milk futures? They're ___" | 41 |
| "Don't worry, I'm O.K." | 41 |
| They're popular on New Year's Eve | 41 |
| More likely to be ousted from the library | 41 |
| "Oh, ___'s Devo!" (1982 LP) | 41 |
| 'But there is in Mudville ...' -- | 41 |
| Result of cleaning up some building toys? | 41 |
| Shortstop-turned-ESPN analyst Garciaparra | 41 |
| Losing one's mind after getting lost? | 41 |
| "___ deserves the fair": Dryden | 41 |
| Historical articles, biographies and such | 41 |
| Type of organization in need of religion? | 41 |
| "Indiana Jones" films have this | 41 |
| NHLer before the name change to Avalanche | 41 |
| "I wouldn't change a thing" | 41 |
| '95 Van Morrison song for an atheist? | 41 |
| Viking's method for sending messages? | 41 |
| Couric succeeded her on "Today" | 41 |
| British home of Cow Tower and Dragon Hall | 41 |
| The anesthesiologist's shtick was ___ | 41 |
| Pater ___ ("Our Father" prayer) | 41 |
| " . . . you are ___": Epictetus | 41 |
| Thompson's "___ a Stranger" | 41 |
| "___ a Stranger" (Sinatra film) | 41 |
| How to score in basketball from close up? | 41 |
| " . . . my heart is ___": Burns | 41 |
| What "bupkes" means, literally? | 41 |
| Kiss debut classic without repercussions? | 41 |
| "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 41 |
| " . . . as those that will ___" | 41 |
| ____ People : Doris Day/Buddy Clark hit | 41 |
| Like words for people, places, and things | 41 |
| "And ___ word from our sponsor" | 41 |
| J.W. Johnson's Pulitzer-winning novel | 41 |
| Mozart's "Le ___ di Figaro" | 41 |
| Aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen, briefly | 41 |
| "The Origin of Species" concept | 41 |
| Ordered sets of arbitrary length, in math | 41 |
| Maxwell Smart film (with "The") | 41 |
| "___ Dimittis" (song of Simeon) | 41 |
| Early gangsta rap group featuring Dr. Dre | 41 |
| Major League player before moving to S.F. | 41 |
| Three times, a classic Three Stooges line | 41 |
| Having a stronger wood-sap taste, as wine | 41 |
| Quartet that's into a bit of granola? | 41 |
| Â Â How Elvis albums are rereleased | 41 |
| Seafood selection from the North Atlantic | 41 |
| Biography of a noted newspaper publisher? | 41 |
| Strange misspelled city on the Black Sea? | 41 |
| Like Ben-Hur and company when not racing? | 41 |
| " . . . merry, merry month ___" | 41 |
| Memoirs of a psychology lab maze builder? | 41 |
| "Barefoot boy, with cheek ___!" | 41 |
| Wolfe's "___ and the River" | 41 |
| U.S. scientific satellite of the 60's | 41 |
| "__ I Jubal's Lyre": Handel | 41 |
| "Let's be serious here ..." | 41 |
| It has the world's largest brass band | 41 |
| "Aw, what the heck, let's!" | 41 |
| "_____ Night" (Christmas carol) | 41 |
| "What an unfortunate situation" | 41 |
| "___ no more today!": S. Foster | 41 |
| Lose your composure, in junior high-speak | 41 |
| Sue Grafton's "___ For Owl" | 41 |
| Sue Grafton's '-- for Outlaw' | 41 |
| Fresh-squeezed ex-football star/pitchman? | 41 |
| "That's true - however ..." | 41 |
| "Needing/Getting" alt-rock band | 41 |
| "We're good to go" gestures | 41 |
| Sainted king known as "the Fat" | 41 |
| Sainted king called "the Stout" | 41 |
| "Werewolf of London" star, 1935 | 41 |
| They're on Harald V's family tree | 41 |
| Unflattering metaphor for a female senior | 41 |
| Language of Julius Caesar's ancestors | 41 |
| "Mosses from an ___": Hawthorne | 41 |
| Ancient Athens's Thirty Tyrants, e.g. | 41 |
| ''__ Story'' (Segal book) | 41 |
| Plant with vet-friendly branches, perhaps | 41 |
| Defunct Pacific Northwest brew, for short | 41 |
| Banner passed from host city to host city | 41 |
| "Sweet Child ___" (1987 single) | 41 |
| "High __ was a lonely goatherd" | 41 |
| Piers Anthony's "___ Horse" | 41 |
| "Walk ___" (Dionne Warwick hit) | 41 |
| Start of a law observed by Charles Schulz | 41 |
| Apartment that's bigger than a studio | 41 |
| What a man and a woman become in marriage | 41 |
| "Paper futures? That's ___" | 41 |
| 20 ... (when completed, a military salvo) | 41 |
| Ambiguous headline about the Bush cabinet | 41 |
| Guns N' Roses "___ Million" | 41 |
| What those in agreement are said to be of | 41 |
| Time it is when daylight saving time ends | 41 |
| A car with this is often easier to resell | 41 |
| All it takes to convince you, in some ads | 41 |
| Limited in talent, as the proverbial pony | 41 |
| "Buzz" or "pop," e.g. | 41 |