| Talkers chew it and editors trim it | 35 |
| Something to live off, if you're resourceful | 48 |
| Part danced by Nijinsky in a Debussy classic | 44 |
| They put up a Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list | 44 |
| TV crime show starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | 43 |
| Org. led by Robert Mueller since 2001 | 37 |
| Hoover was its director for 48 years | 36 |
| Crime show based on a federal org. | 34 |
| Hoover's favorite J.S. film? | 32 |
| Org. that approves pharmaceuticals | 34 |
| 4 P.M.: "The Real Culprits" | 37 |
| Weekly since 1955, with "The" | 39 |
| Monetary policy maker, informally | 33 |
| Big bank held by this puzzle's long answers | 47 |
| Group of essays on the Constitution | 35 |
| National crime-fighters, familiarly | 35 |
| Garfield's response to most phone calls? | 44 |
| Notion about a way to get to Staten Island? | 43 |
| Rock nickname with numerous claimants | 37 |
| Bruce Willis sci-fi movie of 1997 | 33 |
| End of a Broadway run, figuratively | 35 |
| "Sit by ___and spin . . . " | 37 |
| Line from "Let It Snow! . . ." | 40 |
| No. 20 on the list (by John Grisham) | 36 |
| Best-selling novel featuring lawyer Mitch McDeere | 49 |
| 1991 best-selling legal thriller | 32 |
| With 59A, 18D and 18A, what these answers show | 46 |
| '-- Time Ever I Saw Your Face' | 38 |
| Bertolucci work, from the opposite end | 38 |
| Second part of what's hidden | 32 |
| Day for zoo's Mr. Fox and Miss Lyon | 39 |
| Start of a couch potato's quip | 34 |
| Cornettist Red Nichols' story | 33 |
| 'In the Still of the Night' quintet | 43 |
| Analyst's upgrade of an Alan Alda film? | 43 |
| Bernard Malamud Pulitzer winner, 1967 | 37 |
| 1967 Pulitzer-winning novel by Bernard Malamud | 46 |
| "They've rigged this whole thing!" | 48 |
| "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" band | 48 |
| "She Don't Use Jelly" band | 40 |
| 1986 David Cronenberg adaptation | 32 |
| " . . . like fire he meets ___ " | 42 |
| " . . . arm us 'gainst ___": Shak. | 48 |
| To Sandburg, it comes on little cat feet | 40 |
| Tomorrow's forecast? He didn't have ___ | 47 |
| This keeps people smoking, overeating, etc. | 43 |
| Analyst's upgrade of a Robert Donat film? | 45 |
| Title site in a Sondheim musical | 32 |
| To Heston, these are 2/5 as demanding | 37 |
| Exclusive set, to Ward McAllister | 33 |
| Journalists collectively (with back tax) | 40 |
| When Hancock signed the Declaration | 35 |
| "Reach Out I'll Be There" singers | 47 |
| "How to Save a Life" one-hit wonders | 46 |
| Rapper who digs filled pancakes? | 32 |
| Film about an astronaut's Halloween? | 40 |
| Unnominated film with a corny plot? | 35 |
| 1960s dance showcased on "Laugh-In" | 45 |
| Carpenter's patriotic lyric? | 32 |
| Word following grand or identity | 32 |
| "Property is ___!": Proudhon | 38 |
| Five-finger discounts, so to speak | 34 |
| "How Many Mics" rap group | 35 |
| TV drama featuring Dr. Richard Kimble | 37 |
| 1997 steelworkers-turned-dancers film | 37 |
| Early 1970s dance ... or some smelly soup? | 42 |
| Gangsters' foes, in old films | 33 |
| It shouldn't be dropped in front of kids | 44 |
| Compton rapper once under Dr. Dre's tutelage | 48 |
| Sherlock Holmes phrase, when on a case | 38 |
| Arresting expression for this crossword | 39 |
| Alternate name for hide-and-seek? | 33 |
| "Hail, hail, ___ all here!" | 37 |
| Big name in casual clothing since 1969 | 38 |
| Thing to mind, on train platforms | 33 |
| Store to "fall into," in old ads | 42 |
| Overcome a significant difference | 33 |
| Company with a recent failed logo change | 40 |
| Clothing retailer starting in 1969 | 34 |
| Clothing retailer beginning in 1969 | 35 |
| Casual clothing giant, as it was first known | 44 |
| Hemingway novel published in 1986 | 33 |
| Something to step on while driving | 34 |
| St. Louis Cardinals nickname in 1934 | 36 |
| Gide's "Strait Is ___" | 36 |
| 'Enemy at (2001 war film) --' | 37 |
| 1934 title role for Ginger Rogers | 33 |
| "Columbia, ___ of the Ocean" | 38 |
| Film for which Odets wrote the screenplay: 1936 | 47 |
| John Tyler's horse's reign? | 35 |
| '95 Springsteen album "___ Joad" | 46 |
| Present from "Green Acres" star? | 42 |
| What children on sugar may get a fit of | 39 |
| "Kissed ___ and made them cry" | 40 |
| "Bring on ___," Kaufman-Ryskind musical | 49 |
| 1955 musical version of "Cinderella" | 46 |
| New York NASCAR race track, to fans | 35 |
| Home of Lord Chamberlain's Men | 34 |
| Early ''Hamlet'' venue | 38 |
| Song c. 1780, with "For" | 34 |