| "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" setting | 54 |
| The Postal Service's "___ Great Heights" | 54 |
| Subject of a 2009 national tournament cheating scandal | 54 |
| ___ Sylvester (cheerleading coach on "Glee") | 54 |
| Ingenue's elderly beau bespeckles Della's mug? | 54 |
| Midyear reaction by those who forget their sunglasses? | 54 |
| Popular spectator sport that's not in the Olympics | 54 |
| Microsystems company forced to cut operating expenses! | 54 |
| Only Pacific Division NBA team not based in California | 54 |
| It made John Denver happy when it was on his shoulders | 54 |
| Where this puzzle's theme pairs would like to meet | 54 |
| Reality show focused on breeding the best female goat? | 54 |
| Economics has a "law" of these market forces | 54 |
| "Regarding the Pain of Others" author Sontag | 54 |
| Financial guru who wrote "Women & Money" | 54 |
| Former English World Cup manager ___-Gören Eriksson | 54 |
| Constellation next to the Dragon, with "the" | 54 |
| Team seen in the "Ocean's Eleven" remake | 54 |
| Word with "meatballs" or "massage" | 54 |
| 1979 Broadway hit set during the Industrial Revolution | 54 |
| Democratic way to decide which rocking device is best? | 54 |
| Change devices that divert trains to different tracks? | 54 |
| Annual Austin media festival, as it's often styled | 54 |
| "I Could Have Danced All Night" singer, 1956 | 54 |
| "The Playboy of the Western World" dramatist | 54 |
| Saucy health threat, according to the surgeon general? | 54 |
| Martial art whose name is a Korean-English portmanteau | 54 |
| "Enjoy," "Life Tastes Good," etc.? | 54 |
| Lake named for a native word for "big water" | 54 |
| ''Thy Neighbor's Wife'' author Gay | 54 |
| Actress who played Connie in "The Godfather" | 54 |
| Genre characterized by nonsensical chats and call-ins? | 54 |
| "Sarah, Plain and ___" (1986 Newbery winner) | 54 |
| "It's a kick in a glass" sloganeer, once | 54 |
| Excavation site in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 54 |
| "___ pis!" ("Too bad!," in France) | 54 |
| "That was Zen, this is ___" (philosophy pun) | 54 |
| "That was Zen, this is ___" (bumper sticker) | 54 |
| "State of the Heart" Rick Springfield album | 54 |
| "The Anderson ___" (1971 Sean Connery movie) | 54 |
| Meaning of "one on the city," in diner lingo | 54 |
| It had "well-kept acres," in a classic novel | 54 |
| '-- Theme' ('Gone With the Wind' tune) | 54 |
| "History of the Standard Oil Company" author | 54 |
| Lincoln & Weissmuller; Markey & O'Sullivan | 54 |
| ''Little Man ___'' (Jodie Foster film) | 54 |
| "Ode to the Confederate Dead" poet Allen ___ | 54 |
| TV show whose theme song was called "Angela" | 54 |
| Benefit of an unsuccessful stock trade, at filing time | 54 |
| Company that bought the naming rights to Boston Garden | 54 |
| "Fighting Irish" or "Crimson Tide" | 54 |
| First track off Scorpions' "Crazy World" | 54 |
| Word with "Georgia" and "Virginia" | 54 |
| The "I" of "How I Met Your Mother" | 54 |
| "Caddyshack" actor who's a board member? | 54 |
| Cross it (and dot your i's while you're at it) | 54 |
| ''. . . yellow polka dot bikini'' word | 54 |
| '00 Marilyn Manson song "Disposable ___" | 54 |
| Capital that was the scene of 2009 mass demonstrations | 54 |
| "How can you ___...?" (start of a conundrum) | 54 |
| Plea of a player drawing KILLJO- (1952, 1964 and 1990) | 54 |
| First video game with a selectable level of difficulty | 54 |
| Destiny of a person who can't get a full-time job? | 54 |
| Album with "Alive" and "Even Flow" | 54 |
| "The Things We Do for Love" rock group, 1977 | 54 |
| Melinda Caroll "___ the Garden of Your Mind" | 54 |
| Its clue reads "Unstable subatomic particle" | 54 |
| Late writer/philosopher/"psychonaut" McKenna | 54 |
| Garr of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | 54 |
| Portrayer of Susan on "Desperate Housewives" | 54 |
| Affliction of those with long layovers at the airport? | 54 |
| Word before "cotta" or "incognita" | 54 |
| ''Poor, Poor Pitiful Me'' singer Clark | 54 |
| The John ___ Radio Show (adult contemporary broadcast) | 54 |
| John who wrote the theme to "The NBA on NBC" | 54 |
| Bowie's scientist role in "The Prestige" | 54 |
| "Guarding ___" (1994 Shirley MacLaine movie) | 54 |
| "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" Crash ___ Dummies | 54 |
| It last was celebrated in Vietnam on February 14, 2010 | 54 |
| Holiday in which to say "Chuc mung nam moi!" | 54 |
| Ball that falls between an infielder and an outfielder | 54 |
| "The weekend can't get here fast enough" | 54 |
| "J to ___ L-O!" (Jennifer Lopez remix album) | 54 |
| "___ Carter" (Lil Wayne's fourth record) | 54 |
| "___ Carter III," best-selling album of 2008 | 54 |
| "Kisses Sweeter __ Wine": Jimmie Rodgers hit | 54 |
| "Hotter ___ July" (1980 Stevie Wonder album) | 54 |
| New York City nickname ... and this puzzle's title | 54 |
| Bogart/Bacall mystery about serious basement dampness? | 54 |
| Children's classic centered around a Gothic kiosk? | 54 |
| Final story in James Joyce's "Dubliners" | 54 |
| Adapted screenplay nominee Monahan for "___" | 54 |
| Real estate mogul with a reality game show, familiarly | 54 |
| 1891 Chekhov novella featuring pistols that never fire | 54 |
| "Shall I compare ___ to a summer's day?" | 54 |
| '81 Kiss bomb "Music from '___'" | 54 |
| Phrase at the bottom of California plates in the 1980s | 54 |
| Novel whose first sentence is "I am Ishmael" | 54 |
| 2011 Oscar-nominated film about African-American maids | 54 |
| What "I Got", in a 1998 Master P movie title | 54 |