| First tight end in the Football Hall of Fame | 44 |
| Bette Midler's "___ Las Vegas" | 44 |
| '82 Van Halen album "___ Down" | 44 |
| Like some home improvement projects, briefly | 44 |
| Inits. for Lowe's or Home Depot shoppers | 44 |
| Figures at many a wedding reception, briefly | 44 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Run-___ | 44 |
| Kind of evidence gathered in "CSI" | 44 |
| It may be used against you in a court of law | 44 |
| "Who's your daddy?" resolution | 44 |
| They're ordered in many courtroom dramas | 44 |
| Only one of the Seven Dwarfs to wear glasses | 44 |
| They often provide illumination in galleries | 44 |
| ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' car | 44 |
| Mother of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail, e.g. | 44 |
| "___ look like a guy with a plan?" | 44 |
| Porter's "Let's ___": 1928 | 44 |
| "Guest" at a child's tea party | 44 |
| Number to the left of a decimal point, maybe | 44 |
| "After all is said and ___ . . . " | 44 |
| Name sung after "Oh" in a 1959 hit | 44 |
| Flip side of "La Bamba" in '58 | 44 |
| "Go and catch a falling star" poet | 44 |
| English poet and clergyman: 1573–1631 | 44 |
| "Eat to live, but ___ live to eat" | 44 |
| Wouk's "___ Stop the Carnival" | 44 |
| Journey: "___ Stop Believin'" | 44 |
| "___ Explain," Billie Holiday song | 44 |
| "We're not going to go there!" | 44 |
| "I'd rather not talk about it" | 44 |
| "It's on the tip of my tongue" | 44 |
| Lauryn Hill "___ Wop (That Thing)" | 44 |
| "Camptown Races" refrain syllables | 44 |
| It may result from a long phone conversation | 44 |
| " ___ like Odysseus . . . ": Yeats | 44 |
| What bouncers show you, with "the" | 44 |
| "Knockin' on Heaven's ___" | 44 |
| "All ___ open to courtesy": Fuller | 44 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le Coq ___" | 44 |
| ''Explorer'' of kids' TV | 44 |
| Show affection (with ''on'') | 44 |
| "Ant for ant ___ long": Theocritus | 44 |
| "___ any here know me?": King Lear | 44 |
| Thus spake Edgar Bergen, with "in" | 44 |
| "No ___!" ("Of course!") | 44 |
| Wall Street barometer (with "the") | 44 |
| Sensible, and alternate title of this puzzle | 44 |
| Grade that describes this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| ''Masterpiece Theatre'' fare | 44 |
| One might say "y'all" with one | 44 |
| Rapper with the 2011 album "Detox" | 44 |
| "Forgot About ___" (1999 rap song) | 44 |
| "___ Day" (hip-hop single of 1993) | 44 |
| Rapper who mentored Kendrick Lamar, casually | 44 |
| "___ Day" (hit rap single of 1993) | 44 |
| Subject of a painting by Picasso or Rousseau | 44 |
| Most of ''The Wizard of Oz'' | 44 |
| Stallone's ''Judge ___'' | 44 |
| Number of stripes on the flag of Deutschland | 44 |
| Bob's 'Price Is Right' successor | 44 |
| Host of "Whose Line Is it Anyway?" | 44 |
| Only player to win an MVP in the ABA and NBA | 44 |
| Nefarious character played by Joseph Wiseman | 44 |
| Fictional villain whose given name is Julius | 44 |
| Many members of prestigious faculties: Abbr. | 44 |
| Joanne of "All the King's Men" | 44 |
| Joanne of "The Pride of St. Louis" | 44 |
| "Next, I'm off to the ___ ..." | 44 |
| What to do when told to "beat it!" | 44 |
| ___ Lane, home of London's Theatre Royal | 44 |
| Winehouse "Tears ___ on Their Own" | 44 |
| "Marriage à la Mode" playwright | 44 |
| Award won by Patton in WWI and again in WWII | 44 |
| Subj. of the book "Spring Forward" | 44 |
| ''The Lost Weekend'' subject | 44 |
| Chapman of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" | 44 |
| Political nickname based on a middle initial | 44 |
| First-act finale in "La Bohème" | 44 |
| 1982's "Ebony and Ivory," e.g. | 44 |
| "I should've thought of that!" | 44 |
| Cause of a post-bender fender-bender?: Abbr. | 44 |
| "The Count of Monte Cristo" author | 44 |
| Made simpler (with ''down'') | 44 |
| Classic 1965 novel set on the planet Arrakis | 44 |
| Abe's "The Woman in the _____" | 44 |
| "Crooning" author John Gregory ___ | 44 |
| Kirsten of the "Spider-Man" movies | 44 |
| "Knight, Death and Devil" engraver | 44 |
| Windy weather phenomenon in the Great Plains | 44 |
| "Sands of Iwo Jima" director Allan | 44 |
| One who's definitely not in the in-crowd | 44 |
| "Blowin' in the Wind" composer | 44 |
| ___ per centimeter (surface tension measure) | 44 |
| "The Gold Bug" author's inits. | 44 |
| A cricket has one below each front leg joint | 44 |
| It's used when looking for the right key | 44 |
| Aviation editor of Cosmopolitan in the 1920s | 44 |
| Man addressed as ''My Lord'' | 44 |
| "My Name Is ___" (former NBC show) | 44 |
| ''My Name is ___'' (TV show) | 44 |