| "___ never know what hit 'em!" | 44 |
| "___ Playing Our Song" (1979 song) | 44 |
| "__ here": "Poltergeist" | 44 |
| "At ___," Simon and Garfunkel song | 44 |
| Huey Lewis "Walking on a ___ Line" | 44 |
| "Let's Call the Whole ___ Off" | 44 |
| Official laptop computer of a San Diego pro? | 44 |
| Penalty against soft drinks under 16 ounces? | 44 |
| What many office buildings don't include | 44 |
| Wilbur's "Things of ___ World" | 44 |
| Second word in "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 44 |
| "_____ Is Spinal Tap" (1984 movie) | 44 |
| "___ Can't Be Love," 1938 song | 44 |
| "It's heavier than I thought!" | 44 |
| "The MAYor of Casterbridge" author | 44 |
| Mythological 2011 movie with Anthony Hopkins | 44 |
| Name in the etymology of "thunder" | 44 |
| 2011 superhero film starring Chris Hemsworth | 44 |
| Actress Birch of "American Beauty" | 44 |
| "Good things come to ___ who wait" | 44 |
| "___ Calloways" (1965 Disney film) | 44 |
| "Fix that scoreboard!": Psa. 139:2 | 44 |
| Number of Scrabble points for a B, C, M or P | 44 |
| "Sunrise, Sunset" is written in it | 44 |
| Group with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| Candy bar named for some literary characters | 44 |
| What tennis balls are packaged in, typically | 44 |
| Countdown finale and this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| "___ in Manila" (Ali/Frazier bout) | 44 |
| The unemployed bricklayer promised not to... | 44 |
| Drive-___[SEE NOTE ABOVE ABOUT HOW TO SOLVE] | 44 |
| Words before administering a needle, perhaps | 44 |
| Night to watch "The Office": Abbr. | 44 |
| Day when Corpus Christi is celebrated: abbr. | 44 |
| Rejected contemptuously, with "at" | 44 |
| Madras dress that's taken up by hitches? | 44 |
| "The Audience Is Listening" system | 44 |
| Herb mentioned in a Simon and Garfunkel song | 44 |
| Carrere of TV's "Relic Hunter" | 44 |
| River where Romulus and Remus were abandoned | 44 |
| "Twitch," minus every other letter | 44 |
| Mountain resort famous for its breath mints? | 44 |
| National Cherry Blossom Festival focal point | 44 |
| "...___ the affairs of men": Shak. | 44 |
| Most likely to pass a white-glove inspection | 44 |
| "Good ___ of great joy": Luke 2:10 | 44 |
| When broken, some people get happy, some sad | 44 |
| "The Banquet of Cleopatra" painter | 44 |
| They're often broken after being reached | 44 |
| The vice president breaks them in the Senate | 44 |
| A sports personality who sounds like a place | 44 |
| Disneyland bird show, the Enchanted ___ Room | 44 |
| "___ the Day I Die" (Garbage song) | 44 |
| --- Tuesday ("Voices Carry" group) | 44 |
| What Tommy would never do to pinball machine | 44 |
| Dr. Frank 'N' Furter portrayer Curry | 44 |
| Comic Meadows formerly of "S.N.L." | 44 |
| "The devourer of all things": Ovid | 44 |
| This was "out of joint" for Hamlet | 44 |
| "The wings of ___ black and white" | 44 |
| It's often punched at the end of the day | 44 |
| " . . . ___ Danaos . . . ": Virgil | 44 |
| It's often pushed back before taking off | 44 |
| Something New York and Los Angeles each have | 44 |
| Meerkat in ''The Lion King'' | 44 |
| Shakespearean character ended in a deadlock? | 44 |
| Ingredient of some solders and some soldiers | 44 |
| '90s "New Yorker" editor Brown | 44 |
| Tony's bride, in a popular theater event | 44 |
| Fey who did a spot-on Sarah Palin impression | 44 |
| "I, ___" (1986 rock autobiography) | 44 |
| Community with its Christmas decorations up? | 44 |
| Dickens character (and title of this puzzle) | 44 |
| "Lucky Lady in the fifth," for one | 44 |
| Alfred directed her in "The Birds" | 44 |
| Literally, "pick me up" in Italian | 44 |
| Italian dessert sometimes made with espresso | 44 |
| It can be balanced and biased simultaneously | 44 |
| "Give me your ___ . . . ": Lazarus | 44 |
| '''Tain't'' rebuttal | 44 |
| "___ the season to be jolly . . ." | 44 |
| Memoir that preceded "Teacher Man" | 44 |
| Sister ship of the Olympic and the Britannic | 44 |
| ''Worship of Venus'' painter | 44 |
| Like the Marquis de Sade or the Duke of Earl | 44 |
| Co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1961 | 44 |
| Shakespeare's "___ Andronicus" | 44 |
| The Colosseum was completed during his reign | 44 |
| Shakespearean title role for Anthony Hopkins | 44 |
| "__ Andronicus" (Shakespeare play) | 44 |
| '80s "One Way Love" Latin trio | 44 |
| Teddy Pendergrass's "Love ___" | 44 |
| Times Square sign shown in lowercase letters | 44 |
| "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" channel | 44 |
| "Splatterday on Saturdays" station | 44 |
| "Splatterday on Saturdays" channel | 44 |
| "I've heard more than enough!" | 44 |
| Texter's "Don't go there!" | 44 |
| "Eww, I did not need to know that" | 44 |
| Erstwhile channel for country music, briefly | 44 |