| ___-time (fourth-dimensional continuum) | 39 |
| Movies like "Star Wars," e.g. | 39 |
| Like "the house of tomorrow" | 38 |
| Period that started with Sputnik | 32 |
| Modern and technologically advanced | 35 |
| Parts of a theoretical continuum | 32 |
| "Fly Me to the Moon" and others? | 42 |
| Mel Brooks "Star Wars" parody | 39 |
| What an astronaut puts on a boo-boo? | 36 |
| Video player pause control, often | 33 |
| Typewriter part that sounds way out | 35 |
| It may be used often in a long sentence | 39 |
| Garbage scow that docked with Mir? | 34 |
| Bill at the "Star Wars" cantina? | 42 |
| Out-of-touch sort, among the stars? | 35 |
| One "out" in la la land | 33 |
| They're not rocket scientists | 33 |
| Brilliant thinkers they're not | 34 |
| Popular program in Huntsville, Ala. | 35 |
| Destination for would-be astronauts | 35 |
| Astronaut's quarters, in the early days | 43 |
| Out of touch, with "out" | 34 |
| Momentarily let one's attention wander | 42 |
| Nuclear splitting in the cosmos? | 32 |
| "Register early; ___ limited" | 39 |
| 1996 movie starring Michael Jordan | 34 |
| 1996 live-action/animated comedy | 32 |
| 1996 hybrid animation/live-action film | 38 |
| "Crimes of the Heart" star | 36 |
| "In the Bedroom" Oscar nominee | 40 |
| "In the Bedroom" actress | 34 |
| "Coal Miner's Daughter" star | 42 |
| Lemmon's "Missing" costar | 39 |
| "In the Bedroom" actress, 2001 | 40 |
| Field that governs the use of the moon, e.g. | 44 |
| ___ Sprockets, George Jetson's employer | 43 |
| "Star Wars" or "Alien" | 42 |
| "Endeavour" or "Atlantis" | 45 |
| Rubber band for braces adjustment | 33 |
| Orthodontic device for separating teeth | 39 |
| Exploration competition started by Sputnik | 42 |
| Becomes inattentive, with "out" | 41 |
| "Star Wars" and the like | 34 |
| The Enterprise or the Millennium Falcon | 39 |
| Epcot's "giant golf ball" | 39 |
| "Atlantis" or "Endeavour" | 45 |
| Text layout specification, literally | 36 |
| One of "The Usual Suspects" | 37 |
| He was one of "The Usual Suspects" | 44 |
| "American Beauty" Best Actor winner | 45 |
| 'The Usual Suspects' actor | 34 |
| Phrase from "America the Beautiful" | 45 |
| Material used to repair Sheetrock | 33 |
| Apt to, um ... sorry, what was I saying? | 40 |
| Bogart's "Maltese Falcon" role | 44 |
| Tool for this puzzle's title | 32 |
| Sam of "The Maltese Falcon" | 37 |
| Miles Archer's partner of fiction | 37 |
| Marilyn Manson song about a playing card? | 41 |
| Jack that's one-eyed and lacks a heart | 42 |
| Hammett's hard-boiled sleuth | 32 |
| "They Can Only Hang You Once" sleuth | 46 |
| "The Showbiz Show" host David | 39 |
| "Maltese Falcon" detective | 36 |
| "Black bird" pursuer of fiction | 41 |
| Toads with a useful pedal extremity? | 36 |
| Sam ___ (words on a tec's door) | 35 |
| James of "Boston Legal" | 33 |
| Star of "The Blacklist" | 33 |
| Star of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" | 44 |
| James who played a wolf in "Wolf" | 43 |
| James of “Bad Influence” | 32 |
| James of "sex, lies and videotape" | 44 |
| James of 'The Blacklist' | 32 |
| "Secretary" star James | 32 |
| "Brat Pack" actor, James | 34 |
| "Boston Legal" Emmy winner James | 42 |
| Card game sometimes played with jokers | 38 |
| Egg noodle associated with Baden-Württemberg | 47 |
| This means "little strings" | 37 |
| Food that's twirled before eaten | 36 |
| ''Little strings'' | 34 |
| Shock jock who loves Italian food? | 34 |
| Wolfgang Puck's flagship restaurant | 39 |
| Algerian soldier in the French Army | 35 |
| Warren ___, baseball's winningest lefty | 43 |
| Hall-of-Famer Warren with 363 wins | 34 |
| Winningest southpaw in major-league history | 43 |
| Warren of baseball's Hall of Fame | 37 |
| Lefty who won the 1957 Cy Young Award | 37 |
| Hall of Fame lefty with 363 wins | 32 |
| Braves pitcher who won the 1957 Cy Young Award | 46 |
| Welty's "Music from ___" | 38 |
| Where an emirate once ruled in Europe | 37 |
| The rain here falls mainly on the plain | 39 |
| ''The rain in ___ falls . . .'' | 47 |
| Onetime colonial power in the Philippines | 41 |
| Country that owns the Canary Islands | 36 |
| Costa Brava and Costa del Sol setting | 37 |
| "For Whom the Bell Tolls" setting | 43 |