| Taking advantage of a conscience clause, e.g. | 45 |
| "The First Wives' Club" members | 45 |
| Rolling Stones "___ on Main Street" | 45 |
| "From whom we do ___ . . . ": Shak. | 45 |
| What to do when you have nothing left to say? | 45 |
| Chemical Brothers "___ Planet Dust" | 45 |
| Old cry before "Read all about it!" | 45 |
| Silversun Pickups have a "Lazy" one | 45 |
| ''His ___ Is on the Sparrow'' | 45 |
| "Bright ___" (Shirley Temple movie) | 45 |
| They're opened first on Christmas morning | 45 |
| ''Jane __'' (Brontë novel) | 45 |
| Israel's defense minister before Menachem | 45 |
| "Some Enchanted Evening" introducer | 45 |
| '50s agriculture secretary __ Taft Benson | 45 |
| Dickens's "merry old gentleman" | 45 |
| "I'll Be Seeing You" songwriter | 45 |
| ''Tout à __'' (completely) | 45 |
| Food whose name means "little sash" | 45 |
| TV show that earned Jane Wyman a Golden Globe | 45 |
| David Bowie's first #1 single in the U.S. | 45 |
| "A fickle food," to Emily Dickinson | 45 |
| Game being played in this puzzle's theme? | 45 |
| Larson's ''The ___ Side'' | 45 |
| "Tin Cans With Strings to You" band | 45 |
| Ending for "sea" or "way" | 45 |
| Film for which Frances McDormand won an Oscar | 45 |
| Classic kids' song (with "The") | 45 |
| "Animal" and "Sunnybrook" | 45 |
| Card game played in "War and Peace" | 45 |
| Gary Larson comic strip, with "The" | 45 |
| "I hope you got ___" Violent Femmes | 45 |
| Gleason's role in "The Hustler" | 45 |
| "Afternoon of a ---" (Debussy work) | 45 |
| Quarterback Brett with a record 464 TD passes | 45 |
| She played Joan in "Mommie Dearest" | 45 |
| Initials often jokingly redefined on T-shirts | 45 |
| "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" org. | 45 |
| Org. that once closely monitored Howard Stern | 45 |
| "Serving Up Safe Buffets" publisher | 45 |
| Prez who was in office for more than 12 years | 45 |
| "Grand Canyon Suite" composer Grofe | 45 |
| Eponym for a Batavia, IL particle physics lab | 45 |
| Designer of the first working nuclear reactor | 45 |
| Indie-pop band inspired by flowerless plants? | 45 |
| Animal that drives rabbits from their burrows | 45 |
| " . . . we happy ___ . . . ": Shak. | 45 |
| Canine name meaning "I am faithful" | 45 |
| "The Thunder From Down Under" Anton | 45 |
| Choice for one whose back is against the wall | 45 |
| "The round ___" (wastepaper basket) | 45 |
| Some college students can't go without it | 45 |
| "Network" actor Peter or a songbird | 45 |
| "The ___ Tree," Andersen fairy tale | 45 |
| Death Cab for Cutie "Grapevine ___" | 45 |
| What Alice Cooper told us to raise in '87 | 45 |
| "Prix" or "idee" follower | 45 |
| Its state flower is the orange blossom: Abbr. | 45 |
| The Chattahoochee R. forms part of its border | 45 |
| Recurring Stephen King antagonist Randall ___ | 45 |
| "Three ___" (Jasper Johns painting) | 45 |
| Cheap Trick power ballad, "The ___" | 45 |
| Butler's "The Way of All _____" | 45 |
| Michigan city that is the headquarters for GM | 45 |
| Smash Mouth song off "Fush Yu Mang" | 45 |
| It may get jammed under your windshield wiper | 45 |
| Two key points on an ellipse's major axis | 45 |
| He called Richie's mom "Mrs. C" | 45 |
| Word with "task" or "air" | 45 |
| How-to series with a distinctive yellow cover | 45 |
| Cattlemen's stop along the Chisholm Trail | 45 |
| Levi Stubbs's group, with "the" | 45 |
| Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. __" | 45 |
| Assault with a grenade, as a superior officer | 45 |
| NIN song for the weak (with "The")? | 45 |
| "Happily Divorced" actress Drescher | 45 |
| ___ Allison, colleague of puppeteer Tillstrom | 45 |
| "George of the Jungle" star Brendan | 45 |
| Frawley's role in "I Love Lucy" | 45 |
| "___ Jacques" (children's song) | 45 |
| Say "What to do? What to do?," e.g. | 45 |
| When "77 Sunset Strip" aired: Abbr. | 45 |
| It's "Black" once a year: Abbr. | 45 |
| Common occasion for leaving work early: Abbr. | 45 |
| 'Do that one would rarely wear a hat with | 45 |
| Erich who wrote "The Art of Loving" | 45 |
| Black key that's the first of a threesome | 45 |
| "What's Opera, Doc?" antagonist | 45 |
| Grammy winners with a period after their name | 45 |
| "This might interest you," in memos | 45 |
| "I feel I should tell you," briefly | 45 |
| Actor from Wellsville, N.Y.: 1885–1969 | 45 |
| El ___, bandit of "The Fantasticks" | 45 |
| "Buffalo _____" (old song favorite) | 45 |
| Mitchell's "The Circle ______" | 45 |
| Indians called him the "Great Soul" | 45 |
| "Our ___" (Spanky, Alfalfa, et al.) | 45 |
| "The Ballad of Reading ___" (Wilde) | 45 |
| ''The Ballad of Reading ___'' | 45 |
| Wilde's "Ballad of Reading ___" | 45 |