| Spanish man's name that means "peaceful" | 54 |
| Singer who played Cyrano in "Cyrano de Bergerac" | 58 |
| Emmy-winning nature series narrated by David Attenborough | 57 |
| Heavenly body located at the vertex of the universe? | 52 |
| "Discover a world populated by Rhomboids and Ellipsoids!" | 67 |
| '01 Stevie Nicks hit "___ the Universe" | 53 |
| Powerful news story about...a mill's brown-bagging mandate? | 63 |
| Video game featuring Gloom-shrooms, Melon-pults and Cherry Bombs | 64 |
| Heartwarming scene in a war movie? [1986, 1992, 1978] | 53 |
| Don't let '40s shortstop Marion play every day? | 55 |
| Major League Baseball announcement recognizing top performance | 62 |
| Plotting, writing dialogue, designing sets and the like? | 56 |
| Opening-round game of the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament | 56 |
| 1972 Woody Allen film shown on Encore, appropriately? | 53 |
| Neil Diamond title words after "I am the tune" | 56 |
| Theatrical works featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, etc.? | 55 |
| & 97 I thought, All right, fine, I can ___ ... | 53 |
| Say "I didn't see any such sign!" e.g. | 52 |
| Someone called the station with an urgent request: "___" | 66 |
| Repeated words before "me" in a Beatles tune | 54 |
| Study in ethics that states happiness must be acquired indirectly | 65 |
| ___ v. Ferguson ("separate but equal" case) | 53 |
| "The Price Is Right" game with disks slid down a board | 64 |
| Epoch when the landmasses of North and South America joined | 59 |
| Figures out how the vegetable gardens will be arranged | 54 |
| Paid endorsement, in slang, and an apt title for this puzzle | 60 |
| Q: See title A: "One--but that's just an estimate" | 64 |
| Wedding invitation term that means "You may bring a guest" | 68 |
| Early Greek biographer of "Parallel Lives" | 52 |
| Greek biographer who wrote "Parallel Lives" | 53 |
| Order to Fido at historic site has a certain pop style | 54 |
| Pittsburgh stadium that was the site of the 2006 All-Star Game | 62 |
| In a ___, there's a volume of ___ that keeps it firm | 56 |
| Japanese packaged sweet that comes in a "Men's" variety | 69 |
| Headline about an online program that got squatters evicted? | 60 |
| "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" invaders? | 52 |
| Anakin Skywalker flew one in "Star Wars Episode I" | 60 |
| "I have bathed in the ___ the sea": Rimbaud | 53 |
| Someone who answers the author of "The Gold-Bug" | 58 |
| "Interested in verse? You should read 'The Bells'"? | 69 |
| "Red Roses for Me" group (with "The") | 57 |
| Auto company participating in parliamentary procedure? | 54 |
| Like the victims in "Arsenic and Old Lace" | 52 |
| Tactic to make something less desirable, in financial slang | 59 |
| Look in someone else's chest of drawers, say (United Kingdom) | 65 |
| Bottled water source located in Maine, not Eastern Europe | 57 |
| Animals that are nearly invisible to infrared detectors | 55 |
| Driver in the most favorable position at the start of a race | 60 |
| "Every Breath You Take" group, with "the" | 61 |
| What stand-up comics do to keep their material shiny? | 53 |
| One who says "Beg your pardon" after stepping on your toes? | 69 |
| "Man is by nature a ___ animal": Aristotle | 52 |
| Person used to increase a candidate's popularity, e.g. | 58 |
| Apt username for Dorothy, the Oktoberfest accordionist? | 55 |
| "Why did the chicken cross the road?," e.g., in Tijuana? | 66 |
| Get help of a sort on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 63 |
| "I will look on the bright side of things," said ___ | 62 |
| What did the mathematical pirate say when his bird flew away? | 61 |
| Stadium the Yankees sublet from the Giants from 1913 until 1922 | 63 |
| Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" attire | 54 |
| Like George Clooney in ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' | 69 |
| Gymnastics apparatus (with ''horse'') | 53 |
| Small spitz dogs named after a region in Germany, for short | 59 |
| Short-order cook who specializes in fried corn bread? | 53 |
| SUV that was a prize during "Survivor 2005" | 53 |
| Mail service made obsolete by the transcontinental telegraph | 60 |
| "Hail Sabbath! . . . the ___ day": J. Grahame | 55 |
| Elizabethan property tax to benefit the disadvantaged | 53 |
| Telling non-P.C. jokes in public, for example, in the wrong sense? | 66 |
| Apostolic title never used after being mistakenly skipped in 1276 | 65 |
| Widely used term declared "undignified" by John Paul II | 65 |
| "Any time you're around, just ___, ___" | 53 |
| Command to opium plants that they leave the Flower Kingdom? | 59 |
| Candy that, in urban legend, can be lethal when mixed with soda | 63 |
| Space opera starring Kanye as Jar Jar and Fergie as C-3PO? | 58 |
| Delivers a romantic Valentine's Day surprise, maybe | 55 |
| Magazine with the column "Jay Leno's Garage" | 58 |
| Early page in a children's 3-D book of the presidents? | 58 |
| Definite no-no for a French Orthodox Jewish vegetarian | 54 |
| What they called Shakespeare after that really bad haircut? | 59 |
| Type of government spending typified by the Bridge to Nowhere | 61 |
| German sports car with Clinton's youngest cabinet member? | 61 |
| Country singer dubbed 'The Thin Man From the West Plains' | 65 |
| ... PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, PORTERHOUSE STEAK, and PORTMANTEAU WORD | 68 |
| Building material first made in Dorsetshire, England | 52 |
| Term for each of the 15 asterisked theme answers in this puzzle | 63 |
| Cash-strapped college student's survival ploy #4 | 52 |
| Actress Parker known as "Queen of the Indies" | 55 |
| Proton feature? Favorable use of plastic? Whatever! I'm a PC | 64 |
| What the horse chef got on his new "oat cuisine"? | 59 |
| Sheriff's power? Latin militia? Whatever! I'm a PC | 58 |
| " . . . how sweet is love itself ___": Romeo | 54 |
| "But with God all things are ___": Matt. 19:26 | 56 |
| Census acronym that almost sounds like a line of disciples | 58 |
| Extreme worry that the price of stamps will keep rising? | 56 |
| State short forms strung together in 12 long answers in this puzzle | 67 |
| "At 9 A.M. breakfast will be supplied by ___" | 55 |
| STENOGRAPHER works for a studio's PR department? | 52 |
| Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history | 57 |
| How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published | 58 |