| Bent at the waist, say, on stage | 32 |
| Busy times at fast-food restaurants | 35 |
| When actions creak louder than words? | 37 |
| One of life's turning points | 32 |
| Celebrating the big five-oh, say | 32 |
| At the top of the hill, so to speak | 35 |
| Juniors and sophomores on a Texas campus? | 41 |
| Setting for Patricia Heaton's TV show | 41 |
| Good note for beginners to start on | 35 |
| Place to start for a young music student | 40 |
| Its frequency is about 262 hertz | 32 |
| Sheet used in typing duplicates? | 32 |
| Where to find a hammer, anvil and stirrup | 41 |
| 11th to 14th-dynasty Egyptian period | 36 |
| 12th-15th century European tongue | 33 |
| Department supervisor's diet? | 33 |
| Novel with the character Dorothea Brooke | 40 |
| Deserted spot, especially for one who is lost | 45 |
| Steeliest abs over 40 hours of work? | 36 |
| Junior high student laying shingles? | 36 |
| County in Conn., Mass., N.J.or Va. | 34 |
| Like some blows to the side of the head | 39 |
| Region from Libya to Afghanistan | 32 |
| Home of many early civilizations | 32 |
| Two weeks after New Year's Day | 34 |
| "Wind Beneath My Wings" singer | 40 |
| "From a Distance" Grammy winner Bette | 47 |
| A few hours after dawn, in verse | 32 |
| 1978 movie set in a Turkish prison | 34 |
| 1978 film that takes place in a Turkish prison | 46 |
| Time in the title of a 1965 Wilson Pickett hit | 46 |
| Oscar-nominated Woody Allen film | 32 |
| 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' for one | 48 |
| Robert De Niro film remake shown on late TV? | 44 |
| Steam bath enjoyed just before bedtime? | 39 |
| Obstacle encountered at 12 a.m.? | 32 |
| The Clash "___ Stevens" | 33 |
| Peak leaf-peeping time in Pennsylvania | 38 |
| "Silly" cricket position | 34 |
| Quick look at various melon liqueurs? | 37 |
| English major's assignment, at times | 40 |
| Students' objections to a big exam? | 39 |
| Manhattan district, in its place? | 33 |
| What the circled parts of this puzzle comprise | 46 |
| Breadbasket of sorts, with "the" | 42 |
| Its biggest city is Chicago, Ill. | 33 |
| It's about six months from the dog days | 43 |
| ___ Gies, Anne Frank's protector | 36 |
| Ill-fated Bush Supreme Court nominee Harriet | 44 |
| Harriet who lost her spot to Alito | 34 |
| Woody Allen comedy with a rhyming title | 39 |
| 1995 Woody Allen film with a Greek chorus | 41 |
| "___ not know she would . . . ": Shak. | 48 |
| Acceleration forces of Russian aircraft? | 40 |
| "The Grapes of Wrath" workers | 39 |
| Flies south for the winter, e.g. | 32 |
| "... the country's ___." | 38 |
| Mexican revolutionary ___ Hidalgo | 33 |
| Five-time Tour de France winner Indurain | 40 |
| Author ___ de Cervantes Saavedra | 32 |
| 2012 Triple Crown winner Cabrera | 32 |
| "Don Quixote" author ___ de Cervantes | 47 |
| ___ de ___, Quixote's creator | 33 |
| Tour de France winner, five straight years | 42 |
| Year in the reign of Henry II of Germany | 40 |
| Post-millennium "annum" | 33 |
| "Ferd'nand" cartoonist | 36 |
| Cartoonist who created Ferd'nand | 36 |
| 'Ferd'-nand' cartoonist | 35 |
| "Morning Joe" cohost Brzezinski | 41 |
| "Morning Joe" co-host Brzezinski | 42 |
| George nicknamed "Mr. Basketball" | 43 |
| 1949-51 N.B.A. top scorer George | 32 |
| Starting pitcher who was the 2000 NLCS MVP | 42 |
| "I, the Jury" private EYE | 35 |
| "I, the Jury" detective | 33 |
| Cowriter of "California Girls" | 40 |
| Monkee that wrote "Different Drum" | 44 |
| Inventor of the Marching Bands puzzle | 37 |
| Wires for sound, as a talk show guest | 37 |
| My Life With ____, 1993 Fox movie | 33 |
| Term of address for a noblewoman | 32 |
| ___ de Winter in "The Three Musketeers" | 49 |
| "The Book of Eli" actress | 35 |
| Adjective for a producing Jersey | 32 |
| " . . . ethereal ___, come": Thomson | 46 |
| "__ Pierce": Kate Winslet miniseries | 46 |
| Cain's "___ Pierce" | 33 |
| "I like only the ___ peppers" | 39 |
| Memorable Joan Crawford title role | 34 |
| 1941 James M. Cain novel in our library | 39 |
| ..."James M. Cain" by ___... | 38 |
| ___ minute (fast talker's rate?) | 36 |
| Longest reptile in the longest river? | 37 |
| Denver, the "___ City" | 32 |
| Official triple decker sandwich of Denver? | 42 |
| Group that no one on earth has ever joined | 42 |
| Home field of the Denver Broncos | 32 |
| Running specialists' outfits? | 33 |
| Subject of the first Playboy Interview | 38 |