| Captain of the inaugural U.S. Ryder Cup team | 44 |
| Chinese dynasty preceding the Three Kingdoms | 44 |
| City discussed at the 1954 Geneva Conference | 44 |
| Creature that's part woman and part bird | 44 |
| Colorless gas with a pungent odor, for short | 44 |
| Charlton of "The Ten Commandments" | 44 |
| Celeste in ''All About Eve'' | 44 |
| Contest that may give the local team an edge | 44 |
| Chinese province known for its spicy cuisine | 44 |
| Candidate for People's Sexiest Man Alive | 44 |
| Company whose logo was designed by Paul Rand | 44 |
| Colds that don't go away for a long time | 44 |
| Craters of the Moon National Monument locale | 44 |
| College football's Famous __ Potato Bowl | 44 |
| Company that sells EFFEKTIV office furniture | 44 |
| Clanton and a "South Park" sibling | 44 |
| Caveat before a subjective statement, online | 44 |
| Comic author Thomas or Detroit Tiger Brandon | 44 |
| Castle seen in "The Whirl of Life" | 44 |
| Contraction that gives many spellers trouble | 44 |
| Cousin who's "altogether ooky" | 44 |
| Composer championed by Copland and Bernstein | 44 |
| C.J.'s boss on "The West Wing" | 44 |
| Composer known as "The March King" | 44 |
| Cola packaged in "battery bottles" | 44 |
| CONTROL's enemy on "Get Smart" | 44 |
| Country where Obama's half-brother lives | 44 |
| Composer of Broadway's "Sunny" | 44 |
| Chris of the "American Pie" series | 44 |
| Comedic actor Don of this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| Company in old TV ads for compilation albums | 44 |
| Christine of ''Swing Shift'' | 44 |
| Carlos Saavedra ___, 1936 Nobelist for Peace | 44 |
| Clubber __, nemesis in "Rocky III" | 44 |
| Coming up with a clever retort the next day? | 44 |
| Collin Raye's "___ Day Cowboy" | 44 |
| Current flowing in the direction of the wind | 44 |
| Christian equivalent of Muslims' Ramadan | 44 |
| Confident, ambitious, loyal sort, supposedly | 44 |
| City on a tributary of the Brahmaputra River | 44 |
| Claims to have a nonexistent girlfriend, say | 44 |
| Cosmetic used for a "cat eye" look | 44 |
| Community service club, with "the" | 44 |
| Civic group with more than 45,000 affiliates | 44 |
| Costar of "Marriage Italian-Style" | 44 |
| Connecticut town with a disease named for it | 44 |
| Cheese's partner, in a popular casserole | 44 |
| Computers that currently come with Mavericks | 44 |
| Cartoon character whose first name is Quincy | 44 |
| Chinese leader with appalling dental hygiene | 44 |
| Chinese leader of the "Long March" | 44 |
| Comic Maron with the "WTF" podcast | 44 |
| County on one side of the Golden Gate Bridge | 44 |
| Coolidge, Cleveland and Andrew Johnson, once | 44 |
| Code for Latin America's busiest airport | 44 |
| Co-star of Natalie in "Black Swan" | 44 |
| Critter "whacked" along the midway | 44 |
| Country once known as Portuguese East Africa | 44 |
| California's ___ Woods National Monument | 44 |
| Cole who sang "The Christmas Song" | 44 |
| Carter of ''Gimme a Break!'' | 44 |
| Captain in "The Mysterious Island" | 44 |
| Chuck __, only coach to win four Super Bowls | 44 |
| Carrying a lot of extra baggage, so to speak | 44 |
| Contents of Horace's "Carmina" | 44 |
| Comment from one taking a mud bath, probably | 44 |
| City across the Missouri from Council Bluffs | 44 |
| City that's home to the Henry Doorly Zoo | 44 |
| Count Basie's "___ Clock Jump" | 44 |
| Common situation near the start of an inning | 44 |
| Cave-dwelling princess in Donald Duck comics | 44 |
| Cry before saying "wasn't me!" | 44 |
| Creature whose penis or vagina is bifurcated | 44 |
| Co-producer of the film "Precious" | 44 |
| College town on Maine's Stillwater River | 44 |
| County name in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma | 44 |
| City where "The Scream" was stolen | 44 |
| Catherine who was Henry VIII's last wife | 44 |
| Chem. contaminant banned by the U.S. in 1979 | 44 |
| Clinton's first transportation secretary | 44 |
| Company car or key to the executive bathroom | 44 |
| Country with a vicuña on its coat of arms | 44 |
| Coin bearing a ring from the Aztec sun stone | 44 |
| Candy holder with a museum in Burlingame, CA | 44 |
| Covering on a Highlander's left shoulder | 44 |
| Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) | 44 |
| Conductor J. Williams's group, for short | 44 |
| Christina Aguilera: "Birds of ___" | 44 |
| Classic NES racing game "R.C. ___" | 44 |
| Course in which you might study B.F. Skinner | 44 |
| Cereal that lost to Quisp in a 1970s contest | 44 |
| Capital at the foot of the Pichincha volcano | 44 |
| Conductor Kubelik or baseball's Palmiero | 44 |
| Clarke's "Rendezvous with ___" | 44 |
| Composer of "Ma Mère l'Oye" | 44 |
| Changes from green to yellow to red, perhaps | 44 |
| Christopher of "Somewhere in Time" | 44 |
| Caine's co-star in "Deathtrap" | 44 |
| Cartoon character whose last name is Höek | 44 |
| Cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi | 44 |