| He conducted the world premiere of "Pagliacci" | 56 |
| First word of the Beach Boys' hit "Kokomo" | 56 |
| Longtime "One Life to Live" patriarch Buchanan | 56 |
| "Solid ___ rock" (Ashford & Simpson lyric) | 56 |
| "____ Gavotte" ("My Fair Lady" song) | 56 |
| "Self is __ boundless and measureless": Gibran | 56 |
| According to predictions in the show "Medium"? | 56 |
| One-named R&B singer with "Always on Time" | 56 |
| Like the Irkutsk and Yakutsk territories on a Risk board | 56 |
| "___ not what your country can do for you ..." | 56 |
| The Dead Trees "My Friend Joan, She Never ___" | 56 |
| ''Handy'' form of communication, briefly | 56 |
| Lion in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | 56 |
| Lion in Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" | 56 |
| Yo La Tengo "I Can Hear the Heart Beating ___" | 56 |
| "Don't Tell ___" (1989 Replacements album) | 56 |
| ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' animal | 56 |
| ''... jawbone of an ___'' (Judges 15:16) | 56 |
| Banderas's "The Mambo Kings" co-star, 1992 | 56 |
| Sean who played the title role in "Rudy," 1993 | 56 |
| She played O'Shaughnessy opposite Bogart's Spade | 56 |
| Nancy ___, first female member of the British Parliament | 56 |
| Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur: ___ of the Christ" | 56 |
| Imperial Walker from "The Empire Strikes Back" | 56 |
| "This is only ___" (part of an old TV message) | 56 |
| Org. Wayne LaPierre called "jack-booted thugs" | 56 |
| Figure of Greek myth with a statue at Rockefeller Center | 56 |
| 1957 novel with the working title "The Strike" | 56 |
| "From ___ Z-Z-Z-Z" (1953 Looney Tunes cartoon) | 56 |
| "We are less than __ in this universe": Gandhi | 56 |
| Car company whose name means "listen" in Latin | 56 |
| Bogey's co-star in "The Barefoot Contessa" | 56 |
| "OMG! that Pomeranian is wearing a life vest!" | 56 |
| Animal visitor to Paris in a classic children's book | 56 |
| Yeast cake highlighted in a "Seinfeld" episode | 56 |
| Hint for understanding this puzzle's starred answers | 56 |
| English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage | 56 |
| Extricates from a sticky situation, with "out" | 56 |
| Bob Loblaw portrayer on "Arrested Development" | 56 |
| His statue stands outside of the Philadelphia Art Museum | 56 |
| "___ Ha'i," "South Pacific" song | 56 |
| Eric who played Nero in 2009's "Star Trek" | 56 |
| Language family from which "zombie" originates | 56 |
| "You couldn't hit the broad side of a __!" | 56 |
| Language in which "hello" is "kaixo" | 56 |
| "America the Beautiful" poet Katharine Lee ___ | 56 |
| Outdoor meals with hamburgers or hot dogs, say, in brief | 56 |
| Brief cause for celebration, and this puzzle's title | 56 |
| "When I grow up to ___ man" (Beach Boys lyric) | 56 |
| "California Saga/The ___ of Eagles" Beach Boys | 56 |
| Word before "of nails" or "of roses" | 56 |
| "Fawlty Towers" producer, with "the" | 56 |
| ''Life's ___ Good'' (Joe Walsh tune) | 56 |
| "Molto ___" ("very good," in Verona) | 56 |
| "Molto ___" ("excellent" in Italian) | 56 |
| "It's what's hot in pain relief" brand | 56 |
| "Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes ___" | 56 |
| Kentucky college town with an annual Spoonbread Festival | 56 |
| "It ain't over till it's over" speaker | 56 |
| “I never said most of the things I said” speaker | 56 |
| Tina's former life partner on "The L Word" | 56 |
| Greene who wrote "Summer of My German Soldier" | 56 |
| "___ of Roses" (1995 adult contemporary album) | 56 |
| Bobby Darin song title, with ''the Sea'' | 56 |
| Nickname shared by Benazir Bhutto and Benjamin Netanyahu | 56 |
| Movie for which Tom Hanks got his first Oscar nomination | 56 |
| Cartoonist Keane who draws "The Family Circus" | 56 |
| Announcement made with a greeting card featuring a stork | 56 |
| Mel whose epitaph reads "That's all folks" | 56 |
| "Big" or "small" hold'em payment | 56 |
| Situation in which this puzzle's symptoms may appear | 56 |
| Dinner and a movie, say, with someone you don't know | 56 |
| 1987 rom-com with Bruce Willis in his first leading role | 56 |
| Something to wrap around one's neck ... or maybe not | 56 |
| Kevin Spacey portrayed him in "Beyond the Sea" | 56 |
| Coach with the most NCAA Division I basketball victories | 56 |
| Author of the memoir "One Soldier's Story" | 56 |
| Last nonincumbent running mate of an incumbent president | 56 |
| His last film was "The Harder They Fall," 1956 | 56 |
| Physicist represented in the play "Copenhagen" | 56 |
| 1928 orchestral work originally commissioned by a dancer | 56 |
| Cleanser brand that "hasn't scratched yet" | 56 |
| Cleaning brand that "hasn't scratched yet" | 56 |
| Nursery rhyme character who "fell fast asleep" | 56 |
| Hands-on electronic game that kinda groans when you lose | 56 |
| Violinist's item, or what she might do after playing | 56 |
| Any of five that begin this puzzle's longest answers | 56 |
| Overcoming stiltedness, as with introductions in a group | 56 |
| "Every ___ You Take" (hit tune for the Police) | 56 |
| Jane Fonda's Oscar-winning role in "Klute" | 56 |
| One who says "loo" instead of "john" | 56 |
| Jean ___, 1969 Oscar-winning title role for Maggie Smith | 56 |
| Former baseball team that played at Sportsman's Park | 56 |
| Country that calls itself the "Abode of Peace" | 56 |
| "Oh, before I forget..." in Internet shorthand | 56 |
| Late NFL star and "Police Academy" actor Smith | 56 |
| “___ Vista Social Club” (1999 music documentary) | 56 |
| '-- giorno!' (Italian's 'Good day!') | 56 |
| "Turn! Turn! Turn!" band, with "The" | 56 |
| It's widely hailed as a convenient way to get around | 56 |