| "New" currency replaced by the Congolese franc | 56 |
| Dr. Seuss story about stubbornness, with "The" | 56 |
| What Stripes is, in the movie "Racing Stripes" | 56 |
| Russian limousine (and backwards, a girl's nickname) | 56 |
| Former drink marketed as "zomething different" | 56 |
| Coors beverage that's Russian for "winter" | 56 |
| ___ Camp, historic Mormon expedition led by Joseph Smith | 56 |
| Name that comes from the Greek word for "life" | 56 |
| Fictional hero whose name is Spanish for "fox" | 56 |
| Alphabetically last Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees | 56 |
| "Fanfare for the Common Man" composer Copland | 55 |
| Hank whose home-run record was surpassed by Barry Bonds | 55 |
| ''Appalachian Spring'' composer Copland | 55 |
| Mag formerly titled ''Modern Maturity'' | 55 |
| Sports org. headquartered adjacent to Walt Disney World | 55 |
| Part of a capital's name meaning "flower" | 55 |
| "It's ___ plan that can't be changed" | 55 |
| Swedish group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest | 55 |
| Band whose final new album was "The Visitors" | 55 |
| Anecdotally, the most ubiquitous song of the last month | 55 |
| "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23" channel | 55 |
| Vigoda who makes frequent "Conan" appearances | 55 |
| "Let me buy you ___" (pub patron's offer) | 55 |
| "Bow down, archangels, in your dim __": Yeats | 55 |
| Adjective with "zero" or "disaster" | 55 |
| "Okay, you're ___" (taxi joke punch line) | 55 |
| Service found in the four longest Across answers herein | 55 |
| Makers of the Giant Rubber Band and Dehydrated Boulders | 55 |
| ''It'll be ___ day in Hades . . .'' | 55 |
| Activist group whose motto is "Silence=Death" | 55 |
| "We'll tak __ o' kindness yet": Burns | 55 |
| Old "Precision crafted performance" sloganeer | 55 |
| Org. that rates members of Congress on their liberalism | 55 |
| Computer language named after Lord Byron's daughter | 55 |
| "Honey catches more flies than vinegar," e.g. | 55 |
| ''Beggars can't be choosers,'' e.g. | 55 |
| "Let's Get Away From It All" lyricist Tom | 55 |
| Westernmost American island with commercial air service | 55 |
| John Cusack's "Hot Tub Time Machine" role | 55 |
| District attorney Schiff on "Law & Order" | 55 |
| Month in which Moses is said to have been born and died | 55 |
| "___ With Judy" (1948 Elizabeth Taylor movie) | 55 |
| System of a Down song off "Steal This Album!" | 55 |
| " . . . stingeth like an ___": Proverbs 23:32 | 55 |
| City dubbed "the political capital of Africa" | 55 |
| African capital whose name means "new flower" | 55 |
| "It's___!" ("Let's do it!") | 55 |
| ''Let's Make __'' (game-show oldie) | 55 |
| One-named singer with "19" and "21" | 55 |
| Sportswear company whose logo is three parallel stripes | 55 |
| "Tremendous" or "stupendous": abbr. | 55 |
| "We're Madly for ___" (old campaign song) | 55 |
| Ackbar is one in "Return of the Jedi" (abbr.) | 55 |
| ___ Systems Incorporated (San Jose-based software firm) | 55 |
| Classic whodunit, "The List of ___ Messenger" | 55 |
| Pursuit of Happiness hit "I'm an ____Now" | 55 |
| What "buying a vowel" contains, appropriately | 55 |
| Prefix with "dynamic" or "nautical" | 55 |
| Prefix with "nautical" or "dynamic" | 55 |
| Lead-in for "ballistics" or "space" | 55 |
| Insurance giant represented by a "spokesduck" | 55 |
| Chopin's "Polonaise in ___ Major, Op. 53" | 55 |
| It has roughly 15% of the world's population: Abbr. | 55 |
| Hairstyle that's rarely seen on blonds and redheads | 55 |
| AVERAGE ONE IN RUSSIA IS 200, COME LIVE HERE IT IS FINE | 55 |
| "A Death in the Family" Pulitzer winner James | 55 |
| "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" author Philip | 55 |
| ''Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'' writer | 55 |
| ''Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'' author | 55 |
| Eternal, and a hint to this puzzle's phonetic theme | 55 |
| Like Mozart when he did his first European concert tour | 55 |
| "Milton, a name to resound for ___": Tennyson | 55 |
| "It was 20 years ___ today ..." (the Beatles) | 55 |
| '00 Vertical Horizon hit "You're ___" | 55 |
| "The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat" | 55 |
| "You Can't Get a Man With ___," 1946 song | 55 |
| The first Norwegian band with a number 1 song in the US | 55 |
| Melville's "grand, ungodly, god-like man" | 55 |
| "Thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!" crier | 55 |
| "___ beginning maketh a good ending": Heywood | 55 |
| "Holding Out for ___" (1984 Bonnie Tyler hit) | 55 |
| "Been through the desert on ___ with no name" | 55 |
| ''Selected Poems'' Pulitzer poet Conrad | 55 |
| 'Je t'--' (French for 'I love you') | 55 |
| 'Je t'--' (Fifi's 'I love you') | 55 |
| " . . . hame to my ___ countree!": Cunningham | 55 |
| "It ___ over till it's over" (Yogi Berra) | 55 |
| "___ Misbehavin'" (Waller, Brooks, Razaf) | 55 |
| " . . . affright the ___ at Agincourt?" Shak. | 55 |
| "Fresh __": Mannheim Steamroller album series | 55 |
| 1977 Steely Dan album that spent 52 weeks in the top 40 | 55 |
| Cleanser with the motto "Stronger than dirt!" | 55 |
| Singer/actress Karen of Broadway's "Nine" | 55 |
| Breed of the dog Evita, in the musical "Rent" | 55 |
| Battle depicted in ''The Last Command'' | 55 |
| Charlie's brother on "Two and a Half Men" | 55 |
| "The George & ___ Show" (old talk series) | 55 |
| Target of Stiller and Murphy in "Tower Heist" | 55 |
| Actor in Broadway's "Glengarry Glen Ross" | 55 |
| It may be represented by "XXX" in the funnies | 55 |