| "Go easy, Mr. Roper," said Tom ___ | 44 |
| Former German duchy known for a breed of dog | 44 |
| "On Golden ___" (Henry Fonda film) | 44 |
| Lyle Lovett lyric "If I had a ___" | 44 |
| Schemer called to mind by the Madoff swindle | 44 |
| Nanki-___ ("The Mikado" character) | 44 |
| ''The Color of Money'' theme | 44 |
| "Give me your tired, your ___ ..." | 44 |
| Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) | 44 |
| Conductor J. Williams's group, for short | 44 |
| "Th-th-that's all folks!' sayer | 44 |
| You might see packages getting handled in it | 44 |
| Files downloaded to a hidden folder, perhaps | 44 |
| De Rossi of "Arrested Development" | 44 |
| Pretend to be asleep (with "play") | 44 |
| Like many hospital patients getting visitors | 44 |
| "Oh, and another thing," on a ltr. | 44 |
| "Also, I almost forgot ...": Abbr. | 44 |
| Newspaper whose name means "truth" | 44 |
| World's most populous country, initially | 44 |
| Playwright's "moment of truth" | 44 |
| Imperative in an automated telephone message | 44 |
| Nine Inch Nails "___ Hate Machine" | 44 |
| Like Orbison's ''Woman'' | 44 |
| Christina Aguilera: "Birds of ___" | 44 |
| "Let us ___" (raiders' motto?) | 44 |
| “The possession of fools”: Herodotus | 44 |
| Word with "life" or "am" | 44 |
| Classic NES racing game "R.C. ___" | 44 |
| "No ___!" ("Certainly!") | 44 |
| David Auburn play that won the 2001 Pulitzer | 44 |
| Setting for the Königsberg bridge problem | 44 |
| Adulteress in "The Scarlet Letter" | 44 |
| ''Scarlet Letter'' character | 44 |
| "Don't do drugs" ad, for short | 44 |
| Spot that may be on the environment, briefly | 44 |
| "Take Time To Be A Dad Today" e.g. | 44 |
| "Out of the mouth of babes" source | 44 |
| Greek consonant whose first letter is silent | 44 |
| "___ Love You," Mercer-Jenkins hit | 44 |
| "Don't tell anyone, but . . ." | 44 |
| Sound before "Your fly's open" | 44 |
| Course in which you might study B.F. Skinner | 44 |
| Where stuggling U.K. singer/songwriters play | 44 |
| Expands, as the chest (with "out") | 44 |
| It's sometimes removed from orange juice | 44 |
| Appetizer assortment at a Chinese restaurant | 44 |
| "Oh __ and Radiant Heart" (Millet) | 44 |
| "I'll ___ a good word for you" | 44 |
| The color of really short grass on a course? | 44 |
| "Ginger ___" (1952 Newbery winner) | 44 |
| Pulitzer journalist killed in combat in 1945 | 44 |
| It's used to fire someone who's late | 44 |
| Saudi Arabia is the only nation adjoining it | 44 |
| Abbr. that a proof reader might come across? | 44 |
| Cereal that lost to Quisp in a 1970s contest | 44 |
| NFL Hall of Famer Otto Graham's position | 44 |
| Fast food entrées that really measure up? | 44 |
| "Star Wars" character ___-Gon Jinn | 44 |
| Capital at the foot of the Pichincha volcano | 44 |
| "In the Boom Boom Room" playwright | 44 |
| Wisconsin city originally named Port Gilbert | 44 |
| Wisconsin city between Milwaukee and Chicago | 44 |
| Like "Lady Chatterley's Lover" | 44 |
| Bouncing Souls "You're So ___" | 44 |
| Loopner portrayer on ''SNL'' | 44 |
| Original ''SNL'' cast member | 44 |
| Explorer for whom a Canadian strait is named | 44 |
| Edna Garrett portrayer on two old NBC series | 44 |
| 1988 Miss America winner Kaye Lani ___ Rafko | 44 |
| "The Facts of Life" star Charlotte | 44 |
| ___ Dawn Chong of "Quest for Fire" | 44 |
| The "so few" Churchill referred to | 44 |
| Conductor Kubelik or baseball's Palmiero | 44 |
| Not the most authoritative journalism source | 44 |
| Any Murdoch-owned newspaper, to progressives | 44 |
| " . . . the ___ rascal rudely ran" | 44 |
| Brand name with an accent on its last letter | 44 |
| Part of a cheerleader's routine, perhaps | 44 |
| Thor Heyerdahl's ill-fated papyrus craft | 44 |
| Third ___ (dangerous part of a subway track) | 44 |
| Director of the "Spider-Man" films | 44 |
| Word after "ppd." on a sports page | 44 |
| You might take it when you can't make it | 44 |
| Paul Scott work: "The ___ Quartet" | 44 |
| "What's Happening!!" character | 44 |
| British rule in India (with "The") | 44 |
| Sound heard through a stethoscope, sometimes | 44 |
| Clarke's "Rendezvous with ___" | 44 |
| Food for which there is a museum in Yokohama | 44 |
| Japanese adaptation of "King Lear" | 44 |
| Major gold-mining area, with "the" | 44 |
| "The Virtue of Selfishness" author | 44 |
| Smokey Robinson's music genre, for short | 44 |
| "You ___?" (butler's question) | 44 |
| Reverberated (and good word for this puzzle) | 44 |
| Word from the Sanskrit for "queen" | 44 |
| "St. George and the Dragon" artist | 44 |
| Band with the 1970 hit "Get Ready" | 44 |
| Of greatest interest to a bibliophile, maybe | 44 |