| Hero who debuted in Black Mask magazine, 1929 | 45 |
| Capital largely surrounded by high clay walls | 45 |
| Southernmost capital on the Arabian Peninsula | 45 |
| Type of bank that plays a part in this puzzle | 45 |
| Sonny's wife in "The Godfather" | 45 |
| Court-appointed psychiatrist's conclusion | 45 |
| Competed on ''American Idol'' | 45 |
| California site of Seabiscuit's last race | 45 |
| Home to the Institute of American Indian Arts | 45 |
| Ron whose #10 was retired by the Chicago Cubs | 45 |
| ___ Tomé and PrÃncipe (equatorial land) | 45 |
| "___ Smile" (Hall & Oates song) | 45 |
| Title sister played by Shirley MacLaine, 1970 | 45 |
| Tegan's twin and songwriting collaborator | 45 |
| Rue of TV's "Less Than Perfect" | 45 |
| ''Hard Time'' author Paretsky | 45 |
| Subway rider during rush hour, metaphorically | 45 |
| He wrote "Words are loaded pistols" | 45 |
| "Being and Nothingness" philosopher | 45 |
| Carrier with the in-flight magazine Scanorama | 45 |
| One might say "Nevada" in Las Vegas | 45 |
| White House resident born in the 21st century | 45 |
| Emulated Humpty Dumpty and Little Miss Muffet | 45 |
| Didn't get eliminated from musical chairs | 45 |
| Saddam's lover, on "South Park" | 45 |
| Like Rushdie's ''Verses'' | 45 |
| Thai meat dish often served with peanut sauce | 45 |
| Paul Claudel play "The ___ Slipper" | 45 |
| "Nights in White ___" (Moody Blues) | 45 |
| Genre of Orwell's "Animal Farm" | 45 |
| "The Colbert Report" stock-in-trade | 45 |
| "Gulliver's Travels" and others | 45 |
| Japanese winner of the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize | 45 |
| Billy Bragg sings of a "Flying" one | 45 |
| "Humboldt's Gift" author Bellow | 45 |
| "Rules for Radicals" author Alinsky | 45 |
| Columnist Dan who coined "santorum" | 45 |
| Word with "whip" or "rip" | 45 |
| "Rome was not built in a day," e.g. | 45 |
| "I never ___ moor": Emily Dickinson | 45 |
| 'I -- film today (Beatles lyric) ...' | 45 |
| ___-Coburg- Gotha, former British royal house | 45 |
| ''Come to think of it . . .'' | 45 |
| "Something just crossed my mind..." | 45 |
| Request from a doctor with a tongue depressor | 45 |
| "__ to the flu": vaccination slogan | 45 |
| "Nay" or "sooth" follower | 45 |
| Berlin's "___ with Music": 1921 | 45 |
| Word after "he" and "she" | 45 |
| Opens up at the doctor's office, perhaps? | 45 |
| Fast-food chain founded by Italian immigrants | 45 |
| Longest-serving current Supreme Court justice | 45 |
| "You just won a cruise" email, e.g. | 45 |
| Sheridan's "The School for ___" | 45 |
| Villainous uncle in "The Lion King" | 45 |
| Beetle that was all the rage in ancient Egypt | 45 |
| Beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | 45 |
| Eats, with "up" or "down" | 45 |
| Like the "A" in a Hawthorne classic | 45 |
| What players do at the start of a game of tag | 45 |
| One usually includes an aria and a recitative | 45 |
| Bergman's "___ From a Marriage" | 45 |
| The American ___ (Phi Beta Kappa publication) | 45 |
| The "u" sound in "circus" | 45 |
| Two of the vowel sounds in "banana" | 45 |
| " . . . good-will ___!": Longfellow | 45 |
| Wolfing down burgers and fries while driving? | 45 |
| "Not with ___ but a whimper": Eliot | 45 |
| Cornelius Ryan book, or excessively condense? | 45 |
| Classic 1942 horror film, in old Addis Ababa? | 45 |
| Former congresswoman nicknamed Mother Courage | 45 |
| Longfellow's Evangeline and Gabriel, e.g. | 45 |
| Exotic antioxidant berry in some fruit juices | 45 |
| Trendy antioxidant berry in some fruit juices | 45 |
| "Pick ---" (magician's request) | 45 |
| Play at a faster tempo, on sheet music: Abbr. | 45 |
| They connect cooling units to rooms, in brief | 45 |
| Compound used in photographic film production | 45 |
| 'The Mind of --' (PBS cooking series) | 45 |
| "Yuletide carols being sung by ___" | 45 |
| Anti-aircraft gun's onomatopoeic nickname | 45 |
| "Have ___ and a smile" (old slogan) | 45 |
| John Kennedy Toole book about a desert union? | 45 |
| D. W. Griffith's "___ for Help" | 45 |
| What there's "nothin' like" | 45 |
| Nonpareil in a "South Pacific" song | 45 |
| How a prank may be done, after "on" | 45 |
| "___ the Races," Marx Brothers film | 45 |
| Complicate commercials for woodworking tools? | 45 |
| Either "2" in "2 + 2 = 4" | 45 |
| Why the bull calf didn't get the jewelry? | 45 |
| U.S. Vice President or Presidential candidate | 45 |
| Use of mediation and arbitration, say (abbr.) | 45 |
| "Call it __": "No winner" | 45 |
| TV role for which Tony Shalhoub won two Emmys | 45 |
| Palindromic plan for freshening part of a lab | 45 |
| 'Is that --?' ('Oh, really?') | 45 |
| "Fickle and restless as ___": Heine | 45 |
| Berlin's "___ With an Umbrella" | 45 |
| Comb stuck in the back of a certain hairstyle | 45 |