| " . . . were Paradise ___" | 36 |
| Minute Maid Park, formerly ___ Field | 36 |
| Scandalous newsmaker of 2001-'02 | 36 |
| Noted declarer of bankruptcy in 2001 | 36 |
| 2001 filer for Chapter 11 bankruptcy | 36 |
| 2000s symbol of corporate misconduct | 36 |
| 'iggins of "Fair Lady" | 36 |
| One-point "Scrabble" tiles | 36 |
| Rank on the U.S.S. Enterprise: Abbr. | 36 |
| Rank on "Star Trek": Abbr. | 36 |
| Naval academy grad's rank: Abbr. | 36 |
| Starting point of the Baja 1000 race | 36 |
| Some "Star Trek" personnel | 36 |
| Opposite of ''free'' | 36 |
| Belgian Surrealist: 1860–1949 | 36 |
| "The Lamp-Lighter" painter | 36 |
| Literally, "understanding" | 36 |
| Friendly international understanding | 36 |
| "___ Talking," Rivers book | 36 |
| Course between appetizer and dessert | 36 |
| Treebeard and others of Middle-earth | 36 |
| Tolkien's shepherds of the trees | 36 |
| Friends of Frodo from Fangorn Forest | 36 |
| List partner of avarice and gluttony | 36 |
| Singer formerly of the group Clannad | 36 |
| "Only Time" New Age singer | 36 |
| "OÃche Chiún" singer | 36 |
| "Amarantine" Grammy winner | 36 |
| Occurring 40 to 55 million years ago | 36 |
| Epoch that saw the advent of mammals | 36 |
| "We're hiring" letters | 36 |
| Longest division of time, in geology | 36 |
| Canon camera introduced in the 1980s | 36 |
| Govt. org. with a flower in its logo | 36 |
| Org. concerned with the BP oil spill | 36 |
| Org. concerned with greenhouse gases | 36 |
| It's concerned with Hg emissions | 36 |
| Sporting implement with a bell guard | 36 |
| It's hardly a cutting-edge sport | 36 |
| It's electrified at the Olympics | 36 |
| French-derived word with two accents | 36 |
| "Pointless" Olympic event? | 36 |
| Weapons that are hardly cutting edge | 36 |
| You won't get the point of these | 36 |
| Swords that don't cause injuries | 36 |
| F.D.A.-banned weight-loss supplement | 36 |
| Banned medicine used to treat asthma | 36 |
| "Hanging Up" director Nora | 36 |
| Seismologist's prefix for center | 36 |
| ''Beowulf,'' for one | 36 |
| Noyes's "Drake" is one | 36 |
| Like “The Lord of the Rings” | 36 |
| "Lawrence of Arabia," e.g. | 36 |
| "Gone With The Wind", e.g. | 36 |
| Like Dante's "Inferno" | 36 |
| They usually involve a lot of extras | 36 |
| "Cast-of- thousands" films | 36 |
| It may begin 'Here lies ...' | 36 |
| "Louis the Fat" and others | 36 |
| General Anthony Wayne, to Waynesboro | 36 |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius | 36 |
| Omar of 2004's "Alfie" | 36 |
| Actor Omar of "House M.D." | 36 |
| Brief options between 45s and albums | 36 |
| Sitcom pal of Barbarino and Horshack | 36 |
| Like a joule and a watt-second, e.g. | 36 |
| "The ___ of Good Feelings" | 36 |
| The Thatcher years, e.g., in Britain | 36 |
| Sports stat that's best when low | 36 |
| ''Flapper'' follower | 36 |
| Unsuccessful '70s-'80s cause | 36 |
| Stat that's good when under 3.00 | 36 |
| Silent ___ (time before the talkies) | 36 |
| It's amazing if it's under 2 | 36 |
| 1970's-80's cause, for short | 36 |
| "The --- of Good Feelings" | 36 |
| They're historically significant | 36 |
| President's tenures, so to speak | 36 |
| Two-term presidents' terms, e.g. | 36 |
| Prepare to change, as a wrong answer | 36 |
| One way to destroy recorded evidence | 36 |
| "Hoc ___ in votis": Horace | 36 |
| Clio : history :: ___ : lyric poetry | 36 |
| Word between I's in a palindrome | 36 |
| Preposition often seen in crosswords | 36 |
| "... was I ___ I saw Elba" | 36 |
| ''Look ___ ye leap'' | 36 |
| "Sweeney ___": T. S. Eliot | 36 |
| ''... ___ saw Elba'' | 36 |
| Riley's "___ Went Mad" | 36 |
| 1974 Top 10 hit with a Spanish title | 36 |
| "Tantum ___," hymn section | 36 |
| Descartes' "therefore" | 36 |
| "___ tu" (aria for Renato) | 36 |
| Roberts of "Runaway Train" | 36 |
| Idle of ''Spamalot'' | 36 |
| Dane of 'Grey's Anatomy' | 36 |
| Close of "Without a Trace" | 36 |
| "subUrbia" author Bogosian | 36 |
| ___ Idle of "Monty Python" | 36 |