| "I took ___ to search for God": Carman | 48 |
| "___ is a miniature eternity": Emerson | 48 |
| Tendency for one's mind to wander, for short | 48 |
| Contributes (or creates this puzzle's theme) | 48 |
| "The County Chairman" playwright, 1903 | 48 |
| ''The College Widow'' playwright | 48 |
| "Be __ ...": start of a polite request | 48 |
| "A Passage to India" woman ___ Quested | 48 |
| ''A Passage to India'' character | 48 |
| British singer with "Someone Like You" | 48 |
| "Let's Cook It Right" author Davis | 48 |
| City where some believe Cain and Abel are buried | 48 |
| Created for a specific purpose, like a committee | 48 |
| #3 hit from the 1997 album "Surfacing" | 48 |
| "That's not in the script!" evoker | 48 |
| Software company that makes InDesign and Acrobat | 48 |
| Lead role in producers Max and Leo's musical | 48 |
| "Be ___" ("Help me sweetie") | 48 |
| "I ___ Mi Amor" (Color Me Badd #1 hit) | 48 |
| "I _____ Him" (1963 hit by the Angels) | 48 |
| Old actress Renée of "La Bohème" | 48 |
| "Advanced medicine for pain" sloganeer | 48 |
| Tool whose blade is at right angles to the shaft | 48 |
| Whence "The descent into Hell is easy" | 48 |
| Member of a hockey team with a plane on its logo | 48 |
| "Space" or "nautical" prefix | 48 |
| "The Rich Man and the Tanner" fabulist | 48 |
| "Familiarity breeds contempt" fabulist | 48 |
| Velázquez's "The Lady With ___" | 48 |
| Diego Velázquez’s “Lady With ___” | 48 |
| It pays you cash when you get hurt and miss work | 48 |
| Key of Chopin's "Heroic Polonaise" | 48 |
| '... friend who never made --': Tennyson | 48 |
| "The game's ___" (Sherlock Holmes) | 48 |
| Part of a ''Jeopardy!'' category | 48 |
| "Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's ___" | 48 |
| "It's ____!" ("Groovy!") | 48 |
| "The African Queen" screenwriter James | 48 |
| "The Night of the Hunter" screenwriter | 48 |
| "The African Queen" scriptwriter James | 48 |
| ''A Death in the Family'' author | 48 |
| ''A Death in the Family'' writer | 48 |
| Steve of "The Sarah Silverman Program" | 48 |
| Philip with a 1975 best seller on C.I.A. secrets | 48 |
| James who co-wrote "The African Queen" | 48 |
| Co-screenwriter of "The African Queen" | 48 |
| Arthur and his family in "Hoop Dreams" | 48 |
| "Ain't She Sweet?" composer Milton | 48 |
| ''... for children of all ___!'' | 48 |
| Like a "Dancing With the Stars" winner | 48 |
| ''Once more,'' to Li'l Abner | 48 |
| Film about a corrida participant put to pasture? | 48 |
| Word in the first line of the Gettysburg Address | 48 |
| "Four score and seven years ___ . . ." | 48 |
| Kingsley novel ''Two Years ___'' | 48 |
| Kingsley's ''Two Years ___'' | 48 |
| All Those Years ___" (George Harrison song) | 48 |
| "A long time ---, in a galaxy far ..." | 48 |
| "A long time ___, in a galaxy far ..." | 48 |
| Indian city that's the site of the Taj Mahal | 48 |
| "The ___ of the skeleton": T. S. Eliot | 48 |
| "Janie's Got ___" (Aerosmith song) | 48 |
| ''I'm still standing here!'' | 48 |
| "Now you're speaking my language!" | 48 |
| "Yes ... that's the spot ... yes!" | 48 |
| ''Oh, give me ___, where . . .'' | 48 |
| ''Give ___ - don't pollute'' | 48 |
| "All in ___ and copper sky": Coleridge | 48 |
| Verdi opera commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt | 48 |
| 2000 Broadway show featuring music by Elton John | 48 |
| ''. . . good for what ___ you'' | 48 |
| Program with a "Buddy List," for short | 48 |
| Je t'__: Pierre's "I love you" | 48 |
| "Darling, je vous ___ beaucoup . . . " | 48 |
| Singer Mann with a "Big Lebowski" role | 48 |
| Prepares to shoot water in the clown's mouth | 48 |
| Celtics President of Basketball Operations Danny | 48 |
| "It __ over till it's over": Berra | 48 |
| Gershwin's "It ___ Necessarily So" | 48 |
| Allmans "___ Wastin' Time No More" | 48 |
| "It ___ Me Babe" (hit for the Turtles) | 48 |
| "I __ Marching Anymore" (protest song) | 48 |
| ''Is You Is or Is You __ . . .'' | 48 |
| Word with "raid" or "strike" | 48 |
| Word with "raid" or "filter" | 48 |
| Something to go down at the end of an engagement | 48 |
| Album with the 1978 hit "Deacon Blues" | 48 |
| Work for which Steely Dan won their first Grammy | 48 |
| "If you're ever in ___, here I am" | 48 |
| Allowing for pets' comings and goings, maybe | 48 |
| William H. Bonney, ___ "Billy the Kid" | 48 |
| "...but you can call me...", initially | 48 |
| He succeeded to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1989 | 48 |
| Ohio city where Alcoholics Anonymous was founded | 48 |
| City whose daily newspaper is the Beacon Journal | 48 |
| "When I was ___ . . . ": W. S. Gilbert | 48 |
| "___-in His Lamp" (Bugs Bunny classic) | 48 |
| Cop who brings back the genie when he goes AWOL? | 48 |
| It was once called Mission San Antonio de Valero | 48 |
| One of the men on "Two and a Half Men" | 48 |