| The three of this puzzle's theme entries | 44 |
| The three on a bases-loaded triple | 34 |
| The Three Tenors conductor Zubin | 32 |
| The thrill one gets when using an inkwell? | 42 |
| The ThrustSSC holds the record for it | 37 |
| The Thunder's place, for short | 34 |
| The Tiber or Lake Como, for example? | 36 |
| The Tibetans call it Chomolungma | 32 |
| The Tigers of the Ohio Valley Conf. | 35 |
| The Tigers of the Southeastern Conference | 41 |
| The Tigers of the Southwestern Athletic Conf. | 45 |
| The time it takes mountains to rise | 35 |
| The time of many billions of lives | 34 |
| The time of psychedelic rock music, e.g | 39 |
| The time there might be five to ten | 35 |
| The tip of the iceberg might be used to make this | 49 |
| The Titanic's was Southampton | 33 |
| The toe of a geographical "boot" | 42 |
| The toe of an Asian "boot" | 36 |
| The toe of the Arabian Peninsula | 32 |
| The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, e.g. | 32 |
| The Tonight Show host 1957-62 | 33 |
| The Toronto Star and Baltimore Sun | 34 |
| The totality of those using the scale? | 38 |
| The Trans-Mongolian Railway crosses it | 38 |
| The Trans-Siberian Railroad crosses them | 40 |
| The Treaty of Versailles ended it | 33 |
| The trees in "Peanuts" ate them | 41 |
| The Tribe, on ESPN's BottomLine | 35 |
| The Trojans of the Pac-10, briefly | 34 |
| The Tropic of Cancer runs through it | 36 |
| The Trump who wrote "For Love Alone" | 46 |
| The truth about a popular Internet community? | 45 |
| The truth about Zeus, Apollo, etc.? | 35 |
| The turf in 'surf and turf' | 35 |
| The turf in "surf and turf" | 37 |
| The twenty in "drop and give me twenty" | 49 |
| The Twins retired his number in 1975 | 36 |
| The Twins, at Minneapolis's Target Field | 44 |
| The two dots in "naïve" | 36 |
| The two sides of Pac-Man's mouth, say | 41 |
| The U of "Law & Order: SVU" | 41 |
| The U to Quentin Tarantino's Q | 34 |
| The U.K. is in it, but Ire. is not | 34 |
| The U.K.'s largest clothing retailer | 40 |
| The U.N.'s ___ Hammarskjöld | 34 |
| The U.S. has won it only twice since 1993 | 41 |
| The U.S. minimum is $7.25 per hour | 34 |
| The U.S. Treasury is on their backs | 35 |
| The U.S., south of the U.S. border | 34 |
| The U.S.A.'s "uncle" | 34 |
| The U.S.S. Constitution has three | 33 |
| The U.S.S.R. had the first civilian one | 39 |
| The UAE has been a member of it since 1967 | 42 |
| The ultimate in Elizabethan theatre | 35 |
| The UN and AOL have theirs in NYC | 33 |
| The Unanswered Question composer | 35 |
| The underworld chase for author Deighton? | 41 |
| The unemployed bricklayer promised not to... | 44 |
| The United States has a great one | 33 |
| The United States, from Mexico: Sp. | 35 |
| The United States, in Nuevo Laredo | 34 |
| The United States, metaphorically | 33 |
| The United States, to Central Americans | 39 |
| The United States, to some prospective immigrants | 49 |
| The University of the South, familiarly | 39 |
| The upper Midwest's ___ Canals | 34 |
| The Upright Citizens Brigade, e.g. | 34 |
| The urge to go to a school dance? | 33 |
| The Urubamba river flows through them | 37 |
| The US declared it eradicated in 2005 | 37 |
| The USA's largest labor union | 33 |
| The use of cigarettes and cigars | 32 |
| The Used "___ It Away" | 32 |
| The Used "___ Your Own Throat" | 40 |
| The Used: "___ Your own Throat" | 41 |
| The value of an Egyptian sun god's bales? | 45 |
| The Vancouver Island marmot, for one | 36 |
| The Vandals of the Western Athletic Conference | 46 |
| The Vaselines song about being furry? | 37 |
| The Veils song about bad reviews? | 33 |
| The Velvet Underground & ___ | 32 |
| The Venerable ___ (old English historian) | 41 |
| The Venerable ___, English scholar | 34 |
| The Venerable ___, English theologian | 37 |
| The Venerable ____ English historian | 37 |
| The Verizon pitchman's query | 32 |
| The Veronicas "We ___" | 32 |
| The Veronicas "___ Apart" | 35 |
| The very beginning of an invention | 34 |
| The very latest, as of technology | 33 |
| The very rich may have private ones | 35 |
| The vice president breaks them in the Senate | 44 |
| The Victor Talking Machine Co. successor | 40 |
| The Village People were "In" this | 43 |
| The Village People's biggest hit | 36 |
| The Virgin Islands, e.g. (Abbr.) | 32 |
| The Virginia and the Monitor, e.g. | 34 |
| The voice of Princess Fiona in "Shrek" | 48 |
| The voices of Oberon, Rinaldo and Erda | 38 |