__ one's time: waits for a good chance | 42 |
__ one's game: performing below par | 39 |
__ of vantage: favorable position | 33 |
__ of hand (magician's forte) | 33 |
__ of Gloucester: "King Lear" character | 49 |
__ of appreciation (symbolic gifts) | 35 |
__ Nugget, Alaska's oldest newspaper | 40 |
__ Novello Award (British music prize) | 38 |
__ noire: literally, "black beast" | 44 |
__ Nkrumah (first Ghanaian president) | 37 |
__ Network (Canadian cable channel) | 35 |
__ Nashville: country record label | 34 |
__ Nashville: country music label | 33 |
__ Nashville (country record label) | 35 |
__ Mountains: south-central U.S. range | 38 |
__ Mountains: Mt. Narodnaya's range | 39 |
__ Mountains: Europe/Asia border range | 38 |
__ Mountains: Eurasian border range | 35 |
__ Mountains: central U.S. range | 32 |
__ Mountains: Central Asian range | 33 |
__ Mountain (Pennsylvania ski resort) | 37 |
__ moss (gardener's material) | 33 |
__ Moon, Baptist missionary to China (1873-1912) | 48 |
__ Montoya: "The Princess Bride" role | 47 |
__ monster (southwestern lizard) | 32 |
__ Monday: post-Thanksgiving event | 34 |
__ Mode, English band since the 1980s | 37 |
__ Miguel, largest of the Azores | 32 |
__ Men: "Who Let the Dogs Out" band | 45 |
__ masqué: dance with costumes | 33 |
__ Mason: asset management giant | 32 |
__ Marbles (British Museum exhibit) | 35 |
__ Manor: "Batman" setting | 36 |
__ Manor: "Batman" mansion | 36 |
__ mania, 17th-century Dutch phenomenon | 39 |
__ manager (cruise-ship executive) | 34 |
__ Major: Great Dog constellation | 33 |
__ Major (Big Dipper's locale) | 34 |
__ Major (Big Dipper's constellation) | 41 |
__ Major (Big Dipper constellation) | 35 |
__ mail (business' postal rate) | 35 |
__ Luft, daughter of Judy Garland | 33 |
__ loading (marathoner's ritual) | 36 |
__ List: Forbes best-companies feature | 38 |
__ List (political-action group) | 32 |
__ Lisa Vito: "My Cousin Vinny" role | 46 |
__ Line Railroad (Canadian Pacific line) | 40 |
__ lily (Utah's state flower) | 33 |
__ liberales: universidad course | 32 |
__ Lee Bunton, a.k.a. Baby Spice | 32 |
__ León: Monterrey's state | 33 |
__ lane (carpoolers' convenience) | 37 |
__ Laboratories, company that introduced Tylenol | 48 |
__ La Table: high-end cookware shop | 35 |
__ la Plata (Buenos Aires' river) | 37 |
__ l'Évêque: pale-yellow cheese | 42 |
__ Krabappel, Bart Simpson's teacher | 40 |
__ Kinte ("Roots" patriarch) | 38 |
__ Khan: Rita Hayworth's husband | 36 |
__ Khan: "The Jungle Book" tiger | 42 |
__ Khan ("Jungle Book" tiger) | 39 |
__ Julia, who played Gomez Addams | 33 |
__ Julia of "The Addams Family" | 41 |
__ Johnston, former fiancé of Bristol Palin | 46 |
__ Joe: ground-beef-on-a-bun concoction | 39 |
__ jar: static electricity storage device | 41 |
__ Jackson: rapper Ice Cube's birth name | 44 |
__ it in for: holds a grudge against | 36 |
__ Islands: Malay Archipelago group | 35 |
__ Islands: autonomous Danish province | 38 |
__ Islands (Caribbean financial center) | 39 |
__ Island: former immigration center | 36 |
__ Island, former immigration center | 36 |
__ Island, Florida city near Naples | 35 |
__ Island (immigrants' site) | 32 |
__ Island (immigrants' landing place) | 41 |
__ Island (former immigration center) | 37 |
__ Island (former immigrant stop) | 33 |
__ INSIDE (convenience-store sign) | 34 |
__ INSIDE (convenience store sign) | 34 |
__ Industries, one-time maker of slot cars | 42 |
__ in ''sleepy'' | 32 |
__ in ''Siberia'' | 33 |
__ in ''iodine'' | 32 |
__ II: 1961-'99 Moroccan king | 33 |
__ II, king who founded Borg (now Sarpsborg) | 44 |
__ House: Pennsylvania Ave. guest quarters | 42 |
__ Hill (San Francisco neighborhood) | 36 |
__ Heights: disputed Mideast territory | 38 |
__ Haynes, first AFL Player of the Year | 39 |
__ Gump Shrimp Co.: restaurant chain | 36 |
__ guard: bit of catchers' gear | 35 |
__ Grotto: ocean-themed Disney World play area | 46 |
__ Grissom, former "CSI" role | 39 |
__ Grande (part of Texas' border) | 37 |
__ Gorbachev, last first lady of the USSR | 41 |
__ gland: organ that secretes melatonin | 39 |
__ Girl: former teen fashion mag | 32 |
__ Genevieve: Missouri county or its seat | 41 |
__ Fring, "Breaking Bad" drug kingpin | 47 |