| Host's question about party-crashing musician Blake? | 56 |
| Moderator of a panel including Joy, Elisabeth and Sherri | 56 |
| Billy and Robin's "Comic Relief" colleague | 56 |
| Villagers in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" | 56 |
| "___ you do it?" (interrogator's question) | 56 |
| Peace Nobelist called a "messenger to mankind" | 56 |
| "My ___ Relations" (1922 Buster Keaton comedy) | 56 |
| Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo's OS? | 56 |
| Driving convenience created by Mary Anderson (1866-1953) | 56 |
| Directive for owners of not-quite-domesticated polecats? | 56 |
| "If You Believe" musical, with "The" | 56 |
| Rapper with the 2010 #1 hit "Black and Yellow" | 56 |
| "___ him who believes in nothing": Victor Hugo | 56 |
| Almighty's "second mistake," per Nietzsche | 56 |
| Event that earned McKayla Maroney a silver medal in 2012 | 56 |
| "___ Daily" (Fairchild publication since 1910) | 56 |
| Santa Monica cemetery home to dozens of dead celebrities | 56 |
| Bette Midler's "Scenes From a Mall" costar | 56 |
| Schneider's "The Dukes of Hazzard" co-star | 56 |
| " . . . that worn-out ___ idly spoken": Lytton | 56 |
| The subject of this puzzle, on 5/1/31, the day it opened | 56 |
| " . . . walk and ___ not that they are": Shak. | 56 |
| Danish tennis player Caroline who is currently ranked #1 | 56 |
| 212 ___ (world record stat for typist Barbara Blackburn) | 56 |
| "Star Trek II" subtitle (with "The") | 56 |
| Gadget largely pooh-poohed by men until the 20th century | 56 |
| Org. protested in the 1999 "Battle of Seattle" | 56 |
| Billionaire Sam, or his late billionaire brother Charles | 56 |
| ___ Energy Center (home of the NHL's Minnesota Wild) | 56 |
| "Trust No One" TV series, with "The" | 56 |
| Group in a hit 2002 film with "divine secrets" | 56 |
| "___, though I walk through the valley . . . " | 56 |
| Charleston, West Virginia's airport is named for him | 56 |
| Word repeatedly sung after "She loves you ..." | 56 |
| When said three times, "Of course, obviously!" | 56 |
| The Cowardly Lion, e.g., among Dorothy's companions? | 56 |
| Streisand film about a Jewish girl masquerading as a boy | 56 |
| Word on Yoko Ono's 1966 "Ceiling Painting" | 56 |
| Start of an agreement that's not really an agreement | 56 |
| "That's right, Aunt Polly" from Tom Sawyer | 56 |
| Celebratory chant at Chicago's Grant Park on 11/4/08 | 56 |
| Subject of a onetime Nepali hunting license [true fact!] | 56 |
| Material for Voldemort's wand, in Harry Potter books | 56 |
| "Naked ___" (Oscar-nominated 1974 documentary) | 56 |
| Berra who said, "It gets late early out there" | 56 |
| "I'm smarter than the average ..." speaker | 56 |
| He said "It ain't over till it's over" | 56 |
| Name whose Japanese symbols mean "ocean child" | 56 |
| Norman Lear's "Good Times" co-producer Bud | 56 |
| Words with ''the wind beneath my wings'' | 56 |
| Firefall "___ that I've always dreamed of" | 56 |
| Lurch's catchphrase on "The Addams Family" | 56 |
| "That's the pot calling the kettle black!" | 56 |
| Carly Simon hit purportedly referring to one of her exes | 56 |
| "Goddamned corner of this goddamned table ..." | 56 |
| For many, they end while staring at Ryan Seacrest: Abbr. | 56 |
| Request to an Alaskan river to return to its headwaters? | 56 |
| Cousteau's ''deuxième prénom'' | 56 |
| Miss ___ ("Pee-Wee's Playhouse" character) | 56 |
| "New" currency replaced by the Congolese franc | 56 |
| Dr. Seuss story about stubbornness, with "The" | 56 |
| What Stripes is, in the movie "Racing Stripes" | 56 |
| Russian limousine (and backwards, a girl's nickname) | 56 |
| Former drink marketed as "zomething different" | 56 |
| Coors beverage that's Russian for "winter" | 56 |
| ___ Camp, historic Mormon expedition led by Joseph Smith | 56 |
| Name that comes from the Greek word for "life" | 56 |
| Fictional hero whose name is Spanish for "fox" | 56 |
| Alphabetically last Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees | 56 |
| "Fanfare for the Common Man" composer Copland | 55 |
| Hank whose home-run record was surpassed by Barry Bonds | 55 |
| ''Appalachian Spring'' composer Copland | 55 |
| Mag formerly titled ''Modern Maturity'' | 55 |
| Sports org. headquartered adjacent to Walt Disney World | 55 |
| Part of a capital's name meaning "flower" | 55 |
| "It's ___ plan that can't be changed" | 55 |
| Swedish group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest | 55 |
| Band whose final new album was "The Visitors" | 55 |
| Anecdotally, the most ubiquitous song of the last month | 55 |
| "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23" channel | 55 |
| Vigoda who makes frequent "Conan" appearances | 55 |
| "Let me buy you ___" (pub patron's offer) | 55 |
| "Bow down, archangels, in your dim __": Yeats | 55 |
| Adjective with "zero" or "disaster" | 55 |
| "Okay, you're ___" (taxi joke punch line) | 55 |
| Service found in the four longest Across answers herein | 55 |
| Makers of the Giant Rubber Band and Dehydrated Boulders | 55 |
| ''It'll be ___ day in Hades . . .'' | 55 |
| Activist group whose motto is "Silence=Death" | 55 |
| "We'll tak __ o' kindness yet": Burns | 55 |
| Old "Precision crafted performance" sloganeer | 55 |
| Org. that rates members of Congress on their liberalism | 55 |
| Computer language named after Lord Byron's daughter | 55 |
| "Honey catches more flies than vinegar," e.g. | 55 |
| ''Beggars can't be choosers,'' e.g. | 55 |
| "Let's Get Away From It All" lyricist Tom | 55 |
| Westernmost American island with commercial air service | 55 |
| John Cusack's "Hot Tub Time Machine" role | 55 |
| District attorney Schiff on "Law & Order" | 55 |
| Month in which Moses is said to have been born and died | 55 |