| Actress Patricia of "The Subject Was Roses" | 53 |
| Agcy. that supports research in economics and geology | 53 |
| A.L. player whose team logo includes an Uncle Sam hat | 53 |
| Award for "The Curse of the Starving Class" | 53 |
| Arthur ___ Sulzberger, Jr. (New York Times publisher) | 53 |
| An example would be "Take my wife, please!" | 53 |
| Artist who still lives at the Dakota in New York City | 53 |
| Actor Peter of ''The Lion in Winter'' | 53 |
| Allen's successor on "The Tonight Show" | 53 |
| Actress Rosie of "White Men Can't Jump" | 53 |
| Author of "Save Your Job, Save Our Country" | 53 |
| Australian city from where the band Tame Impala hails | 53 |
| Apt starter for the first word of the longest answers | 53 |
| Actor Elliott of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" | 53 |
| Auberjonois of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" | 53 |
| Attorney general played by Ferrell on "SNL" | 53 |
| Abbott and Costello movie based on a Ziegfeld musical | 53 |
| Any member of the "Tonight Show" band, e.g. | 53 |
| Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" supporters | 53 |
| Apply to the skin, as on a mixed-up U.C.L.A. athlete? | 53 |
| African country known as the Land of a Thousand Hills | 53 |
| Ancient city whose name means "Gate of God" | 53 |
| Any of the three authors of "Pull My Daisy" | 53 |
| Actress with the iconic line "What a dump!" | 53 |
| Attribute of a liberal, in the eyes of a conservative | 53 |
| Author of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" | 53 |
| Arctic Monkeys' love affair (with "A")? | 53 |
| Aerosmith "Rock And A Hard Place (___ Cat)" | 53 |
| Advice to Perseus if he had a bat instead of a sword? | 53 |
| Author of "Why Women Should Rule the World" | 53 |
| Antelope named for the sound it makes when frightened | 53 |
| Alt-rock legends with the 2009 album "Farm" | 53 |
| Atlantic-Pacific connector in the Southern Hemisphere | 53 |
| Apparel for a host of "The Price is Right"? | 53 |
| A&E reality series featuring the Robertson family | 53 |
| Author of "The Fall of the Horse of Usher"? | 53 |
| And all these corny TV shows are brought to you by... | 53 |
| Admiral who was Nixon's Chief of Naval Operations | 53 |
| Adjusts the highs and lows on the 1's and 2's | 53 |
| Author of the book whose title is circled in the grid | 53 |
| Agreement between nations to stretch borders further? | 53 |
| Agreement between Charlotte Bronte and her publisher? | 53 |
| Archers of Loaf "White Trash Heroes" opener | 53 |
| Ask "Rabbit Redux" author for spare change? | 53 |
| Al ___, 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump | 53 |
| Author and longtime professor of writing at Princeton | 53 |
| Animated clown some claim is based on David Letterman | 53 |
| “Let’s Build Something Together” retailer | 53 |
| Anna who won an Oscar for "The Rose Tattoo" | 53 |
| Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries | 53 |
| Agriculture option that combines crops with livestock | 53 |
| A star of "Rashomon" and "Ugetsu" | 53 |
| At 41, Kipling was the youngest one ever in his field | 53 |
| “___ Dimittis” (canticle in the Book of Luke) | 53 |
| Added three zeros to the end of, in binary arithmetic | 53 |
| Author and former New York Times public editor Daniel | 53 |
| Another high body temperature at bedtime? [1985/1978] | 53 |
| A chef who won't cook with certain roots anymore? | 53 |
| Â Â What a scary Doris Day did on the film set? | 53 |
| “... and go to the campus dining hall to ___” | 53 |
| Ancient astronomer who wrote the "Almagest" | 53 |
| Asian region whose name means "five rivers" | 53 |
| Artist's expression for "Such is life"? | 53 |
| Aviarists love this "Blurred Lines" singer! | 53 |
| Actress who won a Tony for "Wonderful Town" | 53 |
| Archimedes' ___ (ancient water-transport machine) | 53 |
| A National Cartoonists Society award is named for him | 53 |
| Alexander ___, real-life prototype of Robinson Crusoe | 53 |
| Actress Ione who's the daughter of singer Donovan | 53 |
| Alternative to "champ" or "sport" | 53 |
| Ashford & Simpson lyric "___ as a rock" | 53 |
| Actress Braga of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" | 53 |
| Awful sound to hear while riding in a hot air balloon | 53 |
| Antebellum northerner (with ''free'') | 53 |
| Atlantic City resort, informally with "The" | 53 |
| Atlantic City hotel, informally, with "the" | 53 |
| Atlantic City hotel, familiarly, with "the" | 53 |
| “The ___ of Despereaux” (2004 Newbery winner) | 53 |
| Actress Balsam who was once married to George Clooney | 53 |
| After a rant, avoid saying you never meant to ___ ... | 53 |
| Appealing element in plotless movies, for some: Abbr. | 53 |
| Atomic ___ (Crayola color formerly called Chartreuse) | 53 |
| Athlete Jim whose Native American name was Wa-Tho-Huk | 53 |
| Add atop a refuse pile, after aiming out and missing? | 53 |
| AC/DC "Cause I'm ___, I'm dynamite" | 53 |
| Attired for an ''Animal House'' scene | 53 |
| Adjective for an ethnically marked character, perhaps | 53 |
| A long one is 12% "longer" than a short one | 53 |
| All the "Simpsons" characters, for instance | 53 |
| Aaron's "Beverly Hills, 90210" daughter | 53 |
| Actress Spelling after marrying baseball manager Joe? | 53 |
| Apple thrower in ''The Wizard of Oz'' | 53 |
| Arizona's Petrified Forest dates from this period | 53 |
| American Dialect Society's word of the year, 2009 | 53 |
| Author of "The Unfinished Revolution": 1979 | 53 |
| Actress Liv of ''Cries and Whispers'' | 53 |
| Actress whom Quentin described as "my muse" | 53 |
| Artist with the album "Vivaldi's Cello" | 53 |
| Alcopop brand that means "winter" in Polish | 53 |
| Émile who wrote "Truth is on the march" | 53 |