| Ending for ''mock'' or ''cook'' | 63 |
| Ending for ''coal'' or ''opal'' | 63 |
| Edward's adoptive mother in the "Twilight" series | 63 |
| Eighth or ninth word in the "Star Wars" opening crawl | 63 |
| Electrical conductance unit (that's another unit backwards) | 63 |
| Emmy-winning role for Sally on “Brothers & Sisters” | 63 |
| Ending for ''ball'' or ''bass'' | 63 |
| Eight-time "Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade" cohost | 63 |
| Extinct carnivore whose name means "different lizard" | 63 |
| Emmy-winning supporting actor from "Boardwalk Empire" | 63 |
| Esmeralda's goat in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 63 |
| Extended Director's Cut Special Edition Gift Set purchasers | 63 |
| Evergreen shrub that's Spanish for "little apple" | 63 |
| Elizabeth's plaint after always losing to her royal sister? | 63 |
| Evergreen tree has critical condition that's contagious (7) | 63 |
| Energy source that may be 2 trillion times as bright as the sun | 63 |
| Eighth-most-common word, according to the Oxford English Corpus | 63 |
| Every month's 13th day, except March, May, July and October | 63 |
| Economist who wrote "The Theory of the Leisure Class" | 63 |
| Ending for ''peek'' or ''bug'' | 62 |
| Economist Smith who coined the term "invisible hand" | 62 |
| Edward James Olmos's "Battlestar Galactica" role | 62 |
| Ed who won the 2001 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award | 62 |
| Eddie ___ (cop who inspired "The French Connection") | 62 |
| Emilio who played Coach Bombay in "The Mighty Ducks" | 62 |
| Explode, and words needed to complete the four starred answers | 62 |
| English king who was the youngest son of William the Conqueror | 62 |
| Egyptian goddess worshiped as the archetypical wife and mother | 62 |
| English county whose flag is a white horse on a red background | 62 |
| Erstwhile heartthrob, to his erstwhile legion of swooning fans | 62 |
| E. S. ___, game company that popularized Yahtzee and Scribbage | 62 |
| Each of this puzzle's four longest answers begins with one | 62 |
| Elton John's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down ___" | 62 |
| Ending for ''sea'' or ''land'' | 62 |
| Ethan Hawke film that was made over the course of eleven years | 62 |
| Easy way of pulling in ... and a hint to the six circled words | 62 |
| Elvis Presley song with "Hound Dog" on its flip side | 62 |
| English jurist who wrote "De laudibus legum Angliae" | 62 |
| Element name derived from the Latin for "Copenhagen" | 62 |
| Element named for its discoverer's Scandinavian brithplace | 62 |
| Early 17th-century year in which Shakespeare's father died | 62 |
| Ellington standard whose title is Spanish for "lost" | 62 |
| Encounter shared by the four celebrity couples in this puzzle? | 62 |
| Eastern time slot for first-run "NYPD Blue" episodes | 62 |
| Entry in an annual international sports competition since 1851 | 62 |
| Eatery "just a half a mile from the railroad track" | 61 |
| Exclamation written in scripts as "(annoyed grunt)" | 61 |
| Eleniak of ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (1993) | 61 |
| Each of the four longest puzzle answers has two pairs of them | 61 |
| Estefan with a minority ownership share of the Miami Dolphins | 61 |
| Eric featured in "Monty Python's Personal Best" | 61 |
| European politician whose last name means "cabbage" | 61 |
| Exams with a "Logic Games" section, for some reason | 61 |
| Eugene O'Neill's daughter who married Charlie Chaplin | 61 |
| Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one | 61 |
| Expressed an opinion on "The Dan Patrick Show," say | 61 |
| Episodes of "Friends" and "Seinfeld," now | 61 |
| Event that is very difficult for new fathers, let me just say | 61 |
| Economic European carrier named after its founder Christopher | 61 |
| Electric car company named after an Serbian-American inventor | 61 |
| Era referred to in the United Kingdom as "naughty"? | 61 |
| Exams for students of '60s and '70s military history? | 61 |
| Eugene O'Neill's "___ for the Misbegotten" | 60 |
| Element whose name comes from Greek for "inactive" | 60 |
| Early Carolina governor for whom a county and city are named | 60 |
| Extricate from a financial predicament, with "out" | 60 |
| Erstwhile candidate Herman with the mantra "9-9-9" | 60 |
| Easy, and what this puzzle's theme answers literally are | 60 |
| Earth dwellers of the 8,028th century in a 19th-century book | 60 |
| Euripides play in which the title heroine never goes to Troy | 60 |
| Exam with sections known as "arguments," for short | 60 |
| Early 19th-century invention named after a Scottish engineer | 60 |
| Event whose MVPs have included George Mikan and Walt Frazier | 60 |
| El Mariachi player in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" | 60 |
| Entertainer accompanying a slide guitar and harmonica, maybe | 60 |
| Emergency case with a canteen and a knife for cutting cacti? | 60 |
| Encyclopedist and leading figure of the French Enlightenment | 60 |
| Early TV star with a biography titled "Schnozzola" | 60 |
| Extreme "___ (Don't Wanna Go to School Today)" | 60 |
| Elvis's "Can't Help Falling In Love," e.g. | 60 |
| Exterminate the bugs in Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.'s office? | 60 |
| Event in which Picabo Street won her only Olympic gold medal | 60 |
| Events during which it is inauspicious to eat duck or shrimp | 60 |
| Early vehicle for Marisa Tomei, as an extra in a health club | 60 |
| Emmy-winning drama four years in a row, with "The" | 60 |
| Endings of turns at Words With Friends, for the cheapskates | 59 |
| Evil "Star Trek" juggernaut, with "the" | 59 |
| Eugene who helped start the Industrial Workers of the World | 59 |
| English county that includes Dartmoor, Exeter, and Plymouth | 59 |
| Edward Cullen's adoptive mother in "Twilight" | 59 |
| Emile portrayer in Broadway's "South Pacific" | 59 |
| Embroidery slogan, and an alternative title for this puzzle | 59 |
| Edward G. Robinson's "Little Caesar" gangster | 59 |
| Ed ___ ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off" principal) | 59 |
| Egyptian dry measure equal to about five-and-a-half bushels | 59 |
| Epithet for the mouse in Burns's "To a Mouse" | 59 |
| English conspirator for whom a November observance is named | 59 |
| Eponym of a number series that begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... | 59 |
| E.H. tale re a visit to the Vatican? (with "The") | 59 |
| Epoch when the landmasses of North and South America joined | 59 |