| "How can you ___...?" (start of a conundrum) | 54 |
| Plea of a player drawing KILLJO- (1952, 1964 and 1990) | 54 |
| First video game with a selectable level of difficulty | 54 |
| Destiny of a person who can't get a full-time job? | 54 |
| Album with "Alive" and "Even Flow" | 54 |
| "The Things We Do for Love" rock group, 1977 | 54 |
| Melinda Caroll "___ the Garden of Your Mind" | 54 |
| Its clue reads "Unstable subatomic particle" | 54 |
| Late writer/philosopher/"psychonaut" McKenna | 54 |
| Garr of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | 54 |
| Portrayer of Susan on "Desperate Housewives" | 54 |
| Affliction of those with long layovers at the airport? | 54 |
| Word before "cotta" or "incognita" | 54 |
| ''Poor, Poor Pitiful Me'' singer Clark | 54 |
| The John ___ Radio Show (adult contemporary broadcast) | 54 |
| John who wrote the theme to "The NBA on NBC" | 54 |
| Bowie's scientist role in "The Prestige" | 54 |
| "Guarding ___" (1994 Shirley MacLaine movie) | 54 |
| "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" Crash ___ Dummies | 54 |
| It last was celebrated in Vietnam on February 14, 2010 | 54 |
| Holiday in which to say "Chuc mung nam moi!" | 54 |
| Ball that falls between an infielder and an outfielder | 54 |
| "The weekend can't get here fast enough" | 54 |
| "J to ___ L-O!" (Jennifer Lopez remix album) | 54 |
| "___ Carter" (Lil Wayne's fourth record) | 54 |
| "___ Carter III," best-selling album of 2008 | 54 |
| "Kisses Sweeter __ Wine": Jimmie Rodgers hit | 54 |
| "Hotter ___ July" (1980 Stevie Wonder album) | 54 |
| New York City nickname ... and this puzzle's title | 54 |
| Bogart/Bacall mystery about serious basement dampness? | 54 |
| Children's classic centered around a Gothic kiosk? | 54 |
| Final story in James Joyce's "Dubliners" | 54 |
| Adapted screenplay nominee Monahan for "___" | 54 |
| Real estate mogul with a reality game show, familiarly | 54 |
| 1891 Chekhov novella featuring pistols that never fire | 54 |
| "Shall I compare ___ to a summer's day?" | 54 |
| '81 Kiss bomb "Music from '___'" | 54 |
| Phrase at the bottom of California plates in the 1980s | 54 |
| Novel whose first sentence is "I am Ishmael" | 54 |
| 2011 Oscar-nominated film about African-American maids | 54 |
| What "I Got", in a 1998 Master P movie title | 54 |
| It's frequently in peril in science fiction flicks | 54 |
| One debuting on "America's Most Wanted"? | 54 |
| What made that intersection so dangerous, Mr. Kipling? | 54 |
| Opera house that opened with "Faust" in 1883 | 54 |
| "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" singers | 54 |
| What "we go 'round," in a kids' song | 54 |
| 1999 sitcom about a hockey player-turned-social worker | 54 |
| Fox series whose theme song was "California" | 54 |
| Stop-motion animated Fox series featuring Eddie Murphy | 54 |
| 2003 spy thriller starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell | 54 |
| "_____ a Small Hotel" (Rodgers and Hart hit) | 54 |
| "___ are the times ..." (Thomas Paine quote) | 54 |
| Character played by Joan Collins on "Batman" | 54 |
| Behavior guidelines for a former TV host's family? | 54 |
| English "Rattus Norvegicus" punk forerunners | 54 |
| What's promising about a K-K-Q-Q-J-J-7 rummy hand? | 54 |
| L.A. nightclub where many future stars got their start | 54 |
| "To __ own self be true": "Hamlet" | 54 |
| "Drink to me only with ___ eyes": Ben Jonson | 54 |
| ''Drink to me only with ___ eyes ...'' | 54 |
| Alpert's "__ Guy's in Love With You" | 54 |
| "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" poet | 54 |
| Chris Hemsworth's role in "The Avengers" | 54 |
| "For ___ Who Think Young" (1964 beach movie) | 54 |
| Woodward's 1957 Oscar winner, with "The" | 54 |
| "Pirate Jenny" musical, with "The" | 54 |
| "Reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic" | 54 |
| Good news for a pitcher, bad news for labor management | 54 |
| "Comin' ___ the Rye" (Robert Burns poem) | 54 |
| When round one of a PGA Tour event is typically played | 54 |
| People who walk nervously during loud, stormy weather? | 54 |
| Lovey's hubby on "Gilligan's Island" | 54 |
| Play with a segment called "Reclaiming Cunt" | 54 |
| Employee who always agrees with the mint company boss? | 54 |
| "The ___ stayeth for no man": William Camden | 54 |
| Helped through a difficult time, with "over" | 54 |
| Team that retired Sparky Anderson's No. 11 in 2011 | 54 |
| "A ___ to every purpose . . . ": Eccles. 3:1 | 54 |
| Element of surprise in this puzzle's theme answers | 54 |
| She played Ginger on "Gilligan's Island" | 54 |
| Name on Rolling Stone's "Immortals" list | 54 |
| Point of Grant Wood's "American Gothic"? | 54 |
| Characteristic of the "musically challenged" | 54 |
| ''Take Lucky Lady in the fifth,'' e.g. | 54 |
| It might be given to a waiter or a police investigator | 54 |
| Trying to look taller, informally, with "on" | 54 |
| Literally, it's Italian for "pick-me-up" | 54 |
| Not counting fas and las, word after "holly" | 54 |
| Comment about something that's ne'er been hip? | 54 |
| ___-willow, part of a ''Mikado'' song | 54 |
| Shakespearean title character or New Testament epistle | 54 |
| "Whoopee ___-Yo" (traditional cowboy ballad) | 54 |
| Female rap trio with the #1 hit "Waterfalls" | 54 |
| "I didn't need to know that," informally | 54 |
| "I don't need to hear that!," informally | 54 |
| "Ew, I didn't need that mental picture!" | 54 |
| AC/DC song with the lyric "I'm dynamite" | 54 |
| Retail event in a furniture store parking lot, perhaps | 54 |
| ___ Hall (estate in “The Wind in the Willows”) | 54 |