| "Zero-___ Society": Thurow | 36 |
| "The ___ of All Fears" (Clancy novel) | 47 |
| "Cogito, ergo ___": Descartes | 39 |
| "Cogito ergo ___": Descartes | 38 |
| ___ 41 ("All Killer No Filler" band) | 46 |
| Tree whose leaves were once smoked by Indians | 45 |
| Source of lacquer, varnish, or tannin | 37 |
| Source of lacquer, varnish or tannin | 36 |
| Shrub that produces a crimson-colored spice | 43 |
| Shrub that may cause a severe allergic reaction | 47 |
| "Fuego del Ande" singer | 33 |
| ''Poison'' shrub | 32 |
| ''Poison'' plant | 32 |
| South American singer/French writer | 35 |
| Shrubs with small, reddish fruit | 32 |
| Poisonous plants of the cashew family | 37 |
| Use an obsolete method of adding up numbers? | 44 |
| Indonesian island crossed by the Equator | 40 |
| Westernmost of the Sunda Islands | 32 |
| It's across the strait from Singapore | 41 |
| Island divided almost in half by the Equator | 44 |
| Island across the strait from Singapore | 39 |
| Dweller across the strait from Singapore | 40 |
| So-called "cradle of civilization" | 44 |
| Ancient region in present-day Iraq | 34 |
| Line from "Cuckoo Song" | 33 |
| News accounts of some ancient Mesopotamians? | 44 |
| Aquinas's "___ Theologica" | 40 |
| ___ cum laude (with highest honors) | 35 |
| Literally, "with highest praise" | 42 |
| "It adds up," Tom said ___ | 36 |
| Religious treatise by St. Thomas Aquinas | 40 |
| When Y&T found their "Girls" | 42 |
| What "one swallow maketh not" | 39 |
| " . . . O ___ swallow": Swinburne | 43 |
| Victoria's Secret seasonal line? | 36 |
| Seals & Crofts' forecast song | 37 |
| How students with the hottest grades graduate? | 46 |
| Like the puns in this puzzle? (mostly the latter) | 49 |
| Lovin' Spoonful #1 tune of '66 | 38 |
| It could help one make the grade | 32 |
| Remedy for failed courses, maybe | 32 |
| Plant also called star-of-Bethlehem | 35 |
| Repertory company productions in resort towns | 45 |
| When "the livin' is easy" | 39 |
| It's when the ``livin' is easy'' | 48 |
| Weeks welcomed by teachers and students | 39 |
| "The Flower Town in the Pines" | 40 |
| "It's gonna be a hot one," e.g.? | 46 |
| ... for an acrophobic wallflower? | 33 |
| Get-togethers for governmental leaders | 38 |
| Call forth, as one's courage | 32 |
| Gordon ___ (Sting's real name) | 34 |
| Diplomat Welles: 1892–1961 | 33 |
| Gordon ___ (Sting's name at birth) | 38 |
| Fort ___ (where Billy the Kid was gunned down) | 46 |
| Diplomat-author Welles: 1892–1961 | 40 |
| Contact sport with a purification ritual | 40 |
| Sport with a referee called a gyoji | 35 |
| What a yokozuna is a grand champion of | 38 |
| Sport with wrestlers called rikishi | 35 |
| Sport with a pre-match mat-salting ritual | 41 |
| Sport whose top ranking is yokozuna | 35 |
| Sport whose athletes have round bodies | 38 |
| Sport where salt is thrown about | 32 |
| Sport that takes place in a ring called a dohyo | 47 |
| Sport that includes salt throwing | 33 |
| Sport in which the referee carries a fan | 40 |
| Sport in which beanpoles don't stand a chance | 49 |
| Athlete hoping not to be thrown out | 35 |
| "Super Duper ___" (anime series) | 42 |
| Japanese wrestler's injury treater? | 39 |
| Concludes one's remarks (with "up") | 49 |
| Total, male offspring, require, first letter? | 45 |
| Fort where the Civil War started | 32 |
| South Carolina county or its seat | 33 |
| Early South Carolina senator Thomas | 35 |
| Earth's source of heat and light | 36 |
| Weezer: "Island in The ___" | 37 |
| It's the hottest thing around | 33 |
| What Floyd "Set the Controls" for | 43 |
| Weezer's "Island" is in it | 40 |
| Weezer "Island in the ___" | 36 |
| U.K. tabloid, with "The" | 34 |
| The Sabbath, to Christians: Abbr. | 33 |
| Soundgarden "Black Hole ___" | 38 |
| Las Vegas newspaper, with "the" | 41 |
| It's often blocked on beaches | 33 |
| Heat that's high and outside | 32 |
| Globe : Boston :: ___ : Baltimore | 33 |
| Eddie Vedder "Hard ___" | 33 |
| Center of the universe for a heliocentrist | 42 |
| Baltimore daily, with "the" | 37 |
| Appropriate center for this puzzle | 34 |
| Apollo's chariot "passenger" | 42 |
| "Yes, Virginia,..." newspaper | 39 |
| "The ___ Also Rises": Hemingway | 41 |
| " . . . this ___ of York": Shak. | 42 |
| " . . . and Juliet is the ___": Romeo | 47 |
| Resnick's "___ Shadow" | 36 |