| Van ___ (Ohio county or its seat) | 33 |
| Archaic form of "to be" | 33 |
| Opera title character who shoots himself | 40 |
| Massenet opera based on a work of Goethe | 40 |
| "Rushmore" director Anderson | 38 |
| "Scream" director Craven | 34 |
| "Fantastic Mr. Fox" director Anderson | 47 |
| "Moonrise Kingdom" director Anderson | 46 |
| ''Scream'' director Craven | 42 |
| Communism battler, with "the" | 39 |
| Bentley of "American Beauty" | 38 |
| "Bottle Rocket" director Anderson | 43 |
| First name in horror film directing | 35 |
| "The Life Aquatic" director Anderson | 46 |
| Nightmare on Elm Street director Craven | 42 |
| He directed Neve in "Scream" | 38 |
| Four-time All-Pro Patriots receiver Welker | 42 |
| Craven who directed "Swamp Thing" | 43 |
| Brice on "Mr. Belvedere" | 34 |
| Bentley of "Ghost Rider" | 34 |
| Anderson who directed "Rushmore" | 42 |
| Anderson who created the Tenenbaums | 35 |
| America, Europe, et al., with "the" | 45 |
| All-Pro Patriots receiver Welker | 32 |
| Actor Bentley of "The Hunger Games" | 45 |
| 2007 NFL pass receptions co-leader Welker | 41 |
| "The Hunger Games" actor Bentley | 42 |
| "Scream" director Craven | 35 |
| "Fantasic Mr. Fox" director Anderson | 46 |
| River into which the Fulda flows | 32 |
| River found in "sewer" | 32 |
| German river that flows to the North Sea | 40 |
| German river flowing to the North Sea | 37 |
| "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" river | 43 |
| She uses a bird to sweep the house | 34 |
| Salon for Trump and his imitators? | 34 |
| Donald Trump's autobiography? | 33 |
| Anthem of the civil rights movement | 35 |
| Snipes of "Passenger 57" | 34 |
| Snipes of "White Men Can't Jump" | 46 |
| General Clark who ran for president in 2004 | 43 |
| Army general Clark who ran for president in 2004 | 48 |
| Actor Snipes of "Blade" | 33 |
| One who went to school in Middletown, Conn. | 43 |
| Member of a southern Md. ethnic group | 37 |
| Setting for many Thomas Hardy novels | 36 |
| Locale of many Thomas Hardy novels | 34 |
| Kingdom splintered by the Norman Conquest | 41 |
| Oil pitched by Florence Henderson | 33 |
| American League or National League division | 43 |
| Ex-Laker outlined on the NBA logo | 33 |
| Direction recommended by Horace Greeley | 39 |
| America and its allies, popularly | 33 |
| African American Studies scholar Cornel | 39 |
| The Rams' division in the NFC | 33 |
| Spengler's "Decline of the ___" | 45 |
| Pet Shop Boys "___ End Girls" | 39 |
| Part of the country where polls close later | 43 |
| Pacific states, with "the" | 36 |
| One side in an annual football game | 35 |
| Nathanael who wrote "Miss Lonelyhearts" | 49 |
| Masefield's "The ___ Wind" | 40 |
| Manchester-to-Liverpool direction | 33 |
| Kang's "East Goes ___": 1937 | 42 |
| It's been described as "Wild, wild" | 49 |
| Horace Greeley's suggested direction | 40 |
| Greeley's land of opportunity | 33 |
| Greeley's direction for young men | 37 |
| Former L.A. Laker silhouetted in the NBA logo | 45 |
| Expansion target, with "the" | 38 |
| Direction from Saskatchewan to Alberta | 38 |
| Countryman of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer | 40 |
| Cold war side, with "the" | 35 |
| Author of "Miss Lonelyhearts" | 39 |
| America, Europe, etc., with "the" | 43 |
| "The Wire" star Dominic | 33 |
| "The ___ Wind,"Masefield poem | 39 |
| "Old" 19th century region | 35 |
| "King of Wishful Thinking" direction? | 47 |
| "King of Wishful Thinking" band Go __ | 47 |
| ''The Day of the Locust'' author | 48 |
| ''Batman'' star Adam | 36 |
| City in SE Pennsylvania, ironically | 35 |
| Lewis and Clark got there in fall 1805 | 38 |
| Good location for a fault finder? | 33 |
| Author of "David Harum" | 33 |
| "The Great Gatsby" locale | 35 |
| 'The Great Gatsby' locale | 33 |
| Furniture store owned by Williams-Sonoma | 40 |
| Ending with nor' or sou' | 32 |
| Mississippi River vis-a-vis Mississippi | 39 |
| "Giant" and "Cimarron," e.g. | 48 |
| Dodgers/Diamondbacks' NL group | 34 |
| Canadians, vis-a-vis Cambodians, e.g. | 37 |
| Brunch order with diced peppers, onions and ham | 47 |
| "Gunsmoke" cast get-together? | 39 |
| Things that may be shot in stages? | 34 |
| "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" | 44 |
| 19th century communications pioneer | 35 |
| Where M.S.T. and P.S.T. can be found | 36 |