| Dealer upcards disliked by blackjack players | 44 |
| "Go-to-guys" on the pitching staff | 44 |
| Disgusted comment after reading Der Spiegel? | 44 |
| Suffered from unaccustomed exercise, perhaps | 44 |
| Film about Santa enjoying his holiday cigar? | 44 |
| Regretting yesterday's activity, perhaps | 44 |
| "I'm the gypsy, the ___ queen" | 44 |
| ___ emma (before noon, to British signalmen) | 44 |
| Seller of anvils and rocket sleds to Wile E. | 44 |
| Teenager's bumps along the road of life? | 44 |
| ''. . . fever, starve ____'' | 44 |
| "It'll be ___ day in hell ..." | 44 |
| "I'm ___" (Friday declaration) | 44 |
| Symbol marking England's National Trails | 44 |
| Chicken Little's falling "sky" | 44 |
| Jane Smiley's "A Thousand ___" | 44 |
| When Juliet says "O happy dagger!" | 44 |
| When Hamlet's father's ghost appears | 44 |
| Start of ''Cymbeline,'' e.g. | 44 |
| When the ghost appears in "Hamlet" | 44 |
| Palindromic heroine of "The Piano" | 44 |
| Byron's "calculating" daughter | 44 |
| "Honesty is the best policy," e.g. | 44 |
| "A watched pot never boils" is one | 44 |
| "Let sleeping dogs lie" and others | 44 |
| Role in Haydn's "The Creation" | 44 |
| One of Ben's boys on "Bonanza" | 44 |
| Drew's "50 First Dates" costar | 44 |
| Bass in Haydn's "The Creation" | 44 |
| ___ and Steve (variation on a biblical pair) | 44 |
| Actress Amy of "Julie & Julia" | 44 |
| John Hersey's "A Bell for ___" | 44 |
| "...___ which will live in infamy" | 44 |
| "___ with Judy," old radio program | 44 |
| The Beatles' "___ in the Life" | 44 |
| Hyperactivity may be a sign of it, for short | 44 |
| Viper, and a clue to this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| Like shipping and handling, typically: Abbr. | 44 |
| "Lemon" or "lime" ending | 44 |
| George who wrote "Fables in Slang" | 44 |
| "Be ___ and ..." (request starter) | 44 |
| "Song of the South" song syllables | 44 |
| ''A Passage to India'' woman | 44 |
| Miss Quested of “A Passage to India” | 44 |
| Australian city where News Corp. was founded | 44 |
| Australia's "city of churches" | 44 |
| Big sister and dance partner of Fred Astaire | 44 |
| "Rolling in the Deep" singer, 2010 | 44 |
| Port city built around an old volcano crater | 44 |
| Sarah McLachlan hit covered by Avril Lavigne | 44 |
| Company named for its founder, Adolf Dassler | 44 |
| Dwight's opponent in '52 and '56 | 44 |
| '70s-'80s Illinois senator Stevenson | 44 |
| "Damn Yankees" co-composer Richard | 44 |
| Irene ___, figure in Sherlock Holmes stories | 44 |
| Perform in the Upright Citizens Brigade, say | 44 |
| Off With Their Heads "Hard to ___" | 44 |
| "And now, without further ___ ..." | 44 |
| ''Without further __ . . .'' | 44 |
| It was about nothing, in a 17th-century play | 44 |
| Battle of ___ Walls (Indian Wars engagement) | 44 |
| "Be ___" ("Help me out") | 44 |
| "Venus and ___" (Shakespeare poem) | 44 |
| "I may command where I ___": Shak. | 44 |
| "Shakespeare in the Park" scuffles | 44 |
| The Buckinghams hit, "Kind of ___" | 44 |
| Figure that generally drops with circulation | 44 |
| Facetious, half-serious, abstemious quintet? | 44 |
| Work that includes a visit to the underworld | 44 |
| "___ Flux" (Charlize Theron movie) | 44 |
| "___ Flux" (1990s animated series) | 44 |
| American Hockey League affiliate of the Wild | 44 |
| D.D.E.'s opponent in a presidential race | 44 |
| "___ Triplex," famous R.L.S. essay | 44 |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare" writer | 44 |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare" author | 44 |
| The Greek poet Babrius versified his stories | 44 |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare" source | 44 |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare" penner | 44 |
| "The Lion and the Mouse" moralizer | 44 |
| Mount St. Helens's counterpart in Sicily | 44 |
| "... to market, to buy __ pig ..." | 44 |
| ''... ___ worse than death'' | 44 |
| Insurance company whose logo contains a duck | 44 |
| Company whose phone number is 1-800-992-3522 | 44 |
| ___ Racing (insurance sponsored NASCAR team) | 44 |
| Schubert's "Mass in ___ major" | 44 |
| "The game is ___": Sherlock Holmes | 44 |
| "...Watson, come! The game is ___" | 44 |
| ''Heart of Darkness'' locale | 44 |
| Do seen on ''The Mod Squad'' | 44 |
| Aeschylus's "Seven ___ Thebes" | 44 |
| Spiritual leader of the Isma'ili Muslims | 44 |
| With one's jaw on the floor, so to speak | 44 |
| "What ___!" ("How fun!") | 44 |
| Author of the autobiography "Open" | 44 |
| Word before or after ''old'' | 44 |
| Increasingly touchy subject, as it increases | 44 |
| Jerry Lee Lewis "Middle ___ Crazy" | 44 |
| Even-__ (of similar height, as forest trees) | 44 |