| Author of "Fair Stood the Wind for France" | 52 |
| Author of "Diplomacy for the Next Century" | 52 |
| Author of "D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study" | 60 |
| Author of "Comin' thro' the Rye": 1875 | 56 |
| Author of "Bible Power for Successful Living" | 55 |
| Author of "American Diplomacy: 1900–1950" | 58 |
| Author of "Alphabetizing Your Spice Rack for Dummies" | 63 |
| Author of "Alice's Adventures in the Wardrobe"? | 61 |
| Author of "A Death in the Family Portrait of a Lady"? | 63 |
| Author of "A Child's Christmas in the Magic Mountain"? | 68 |
| Author of ''The Principles and Practice of Medicine'' | 69 |
| Author of ''Murder in the White House'' | 55 |
| Author mentioned in the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" | 64 |
| Author Leon who was born on the day Joseph Conrad died | 54 |
| Author known for using lowercase letters in his poems | 53 |
| Author Isaac who sported enormous white mutton chops | 52 |
| Author in the 1950s "angry young men" movement | 56 |
| Author Gerritsen who created the characters Rizzoli and Isles | 61 |
| Author buried on the Phillips Academy campus in 1896 | 52 |
| Author and longtime professor of writing at Princeton | 53 |
| Author and former New York Times public editor Daniel | 53 |
| Authenticated "Death of a Salesman" manuscript? | 57 |
| Austrian physicist Ernst who has a speed unit named after him | 61 |
| Austrian physician whose work laid the foundation for hypnosis | 62 |
| Australian swimmer who won golds at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics | 62 |
| Australian Open champ before Steffi's three-year winning streak | 67 |
| Australian folk hero "Breaker" __, subject of a 1979 film | 67 |
| Australian city from where the band Tame Impala hails | 53 |
| Australian cartoon character who fears water, for short | 55 |
| Australian band with the 2008 #1 album "Black Ice" | 60 |
| Australian band with the 1987 album "Kick" | 52 |
| Australian Acacia product developed by Vic Cherikoff into a flavoring | 69 |
| Austen’s “handsome, clever, and rich” heroine | 57 |
| Auspicious Hindu symbol turned on its side by the Nazis | 55 |
| Auricle and canal extending to the tympanic membrane | 52 |
| Aunt ___ ("that time of the month" visitor) | 53 |
| Aunt who sings part of "The Farmer and the Cowman" | 60 |
| Aunt Bee's charge on "The Andy Griffith Show" | 59 |
| Augustine St. Clare's daughter, in an 1852 novel | 52 |
| August Wilhelm von ___, leader of German Romanticism | 52 |
| August commemoration that's a R.I. state holiday | 52 |
| Audubon's "The Birds of America," e.g. | 52 |
| Audrey II's demand in "Little Shop of Horrors" | 60 |
| Audrey Hepburn's "Wait Until Dark" costar | 55 |
| Auditor: You look relaxed. How are you? Taxpayer: __ (Tommy Roe) | 64 |
| Auden's ''The _____ of Anxiety'' | 52 |
| Auction site with a "human remains and body parts" policy | 67 |
| Auction site that explicitly forbids the selling of souls | 57 |
| Auberjonois of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" | 53 |
| Attribute of a liberal, in the eyes of a conservative | 53 |
| Attractive actor Bridges of "Diff'rent Strokes"? | 62 |
| Attractions at the Thanksgiving parade in old Pennsylvania? | 59 |
| Attorney with the autobiography "My Life on Trial" | 60 |
| Attorney Melvin, the ''King of Torts'' | 54 |
| Attorney Melvin known as "The King of Torts" | 54 |
| Attorney Gregory Lawson portrayer in "Flash of Genius" | 64 |
| Attorney general played by Ferrell on "SNL" | 53 |
| Attired for an ''Animal House'' scene | 53 |
| Attire that might have images of jumping sheep, informally | 58 |
| Attendees of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters | 54 |
| Attendee of the fictional Lowood Institution for girls | 54 |
| Attend an out-of-town "Boléro" performance? | 56 |
| Attend a national party in Nuuk without an invitation? | 54 |
| Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville" | 55 |
| Attained through struggle (with ''out'') | 56 |
| Attack on a Mideast land that's out of thin air? | 52 |
| Attachment to "nautics" or "dynamic" | 56 |
| Attachment to "chute" or "mount" | 52 |
| Attachment to ''smith'' or ''plane'' | 68 |
| Attachment to ''audio'' or ''biblio'' | 69 |
| Attachment for "trust" or "social" | 54 |
| Attachment for "skeptic" or "cynic" | 55 |
| Attachment for "rail" or "plane" | 52 |
| Attachment for ''science'' or ''bus'' | 69 |
| Attachment for ''men'' and ''cap'' | 66 |
| Attached to "Steel," it's a Hefty trash bag | 57 |
| Atreyu track off "Lead Sails Paper Anchor" | 52 |
| Atomically numerically equivalent ___ (useless simile) | 54 |
| Atomic ___ (Crayola color formerly called Chartreuse) | 53 |
| Atlantic-Pacific connector in the Southern Hemisphere | 53 |
| Atlantic City resort, informally, with "the" | 54 |
| Atlantic City resort, informally with "The" | 53 |
| Atlantic City hotel, informally, with "the" | 53 |
| Atlantic City hotel, familiarly, with "the" | 53 |
| Atlantic City casino, informally (with ''The'') | 63 |
| Atlantic City casino, familiarly (with ''the'') | 63 |
| Atlantic City casino, casually, with "The" | 52 |
| Atlanta suburb where Julia Roberts went to high school | 54 |
| Athletic equipment giant that sponsors golfer Rory McIlroy | 58 |
| Athletic boost "taken" by the four theme answers | 58 |
| Athletes' concern at the '68 Summer Olympics | 52 |
| Athlete's superstitious footwear from Reagan and Clinton? | 61 |
| Athlete with the autobiography "The Soul of a Butterfly" | 66 |
| Athlete with the all-time best-selling jersey in Premiership history | 68 |
| Athlete whose motto might be "the puck stops here"? | 61 |
| Athlete who wrote the children's book "Daddy and Me" | 66 |
| Athlete who posthumously won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1993 | 68 |
| Athlete Jim whose Native American name was Wa-Tho-Huk | 53 |
| Athlete feted with a New York City ticker-tape parade in 1998 | 61 |
| Athenian general killed during the Peloponnesian War | 52 |