| Gradual disappearance of an ancient dynasty? | 44 |
| Home of the NHL's Blackhawks, familiarly | 44 |
| Vehicles that may be under the Yuletide tree | 44 |
| Cat's favorite item in an Easter basket? | 44 |
| What happens when a tremor hits a malt shop? | 44 |
| K.J. __, first Korean to win on the PGA Tour | 44 |
| Intoxicant in a Japanese martial arts movie? | 44 |
| Novelist influenced by an early pharmacy job | 44 |
| Problem interior decorators mustn't have | 44 |
| Action star who served in the U.S. Air Force | 44 |
| Vernacular used at a South Carolina college? | 44 |
| Climbing Mt. Everest, for Sir Edmund Hillary | 44 |
| Sucker who's broken out in a cold sweat? | 44 |
| Wooden stick used as a percussion instrument | 44 |
| Like the penultimate scene in a movie, often | 44 |
| The prevailing weather conditions of an area | 44 |
| Star of film that is this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| They help you look formal with little effort | 44 |
| Prepare to share, as an article in the paper | 44 |
| "The Lux Show" star of 50's TV | 44 |
| DonÂ’t judge a book by its cover, but ... | 44 |
| What the roadrunner left behind, in cartoons | 44 |
| Saki's "The Chronicles of ___" | 44 |
| Key of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1: Abbr. | 44 |
| Two things involving peer pressure to drink? | 44 |
| Dog named for the bird it hunted, familiarly | 44 |
| Florida city with an I Dream of Jeannie Lane | 44 |
| It's close to one's goal in football | 44 |
| Moonshine equipment that's frozen solid? | 44 |
| Whether to attend Harvard, Yale or Stanford? | 44 |
| 2006 Olympics figure skating silver medalist | 44 |
| "I'm stranded and need a ride" | 44 |
| Rock Hudson/Gina Lollobrigida '60s flick | 44 |
| Velvet Underground: "Here She ___" | 44 |
| Soap for a member of Bill Haley's group? | 44 |
| Subject of a loser's postelection speech | 44 |
| Safety devices used during acts of congress? | 44 |
| "The Prince of Tides" novelist Pat | 44 |
| Give over to another for care or safekeeping | 44 |
| "___ wi' little . . . ": Burns | 44 |
| Jack Kerouac's tale of highway swindles? | 44 |
| One might be seen around a construction site | 44 |
| Person who doesn't jump on the bandwagon | 44 |
| "Alistair ___ America" (1973 book) | 44 |
| ... Skywalker's trendy hygiene products? | 44 |
| Buyer of "Gangsta's Paradise"? | 44 |
| Chrysler with "Corinthian leather" | 44 |
| "Sunglasses at Night" singer, 1984 | 44 |
| ___ Bay, Philippines (site of 1944 fighting) | 44 |
| "Shot" a baseball pitcher may take | 44 |
| Carnival food, as you might as well call it? | 44 |
| Deep gulches for which a famous dam is named | 44 |
| Amount deposited in a student's account? | 44 |
| Witness's reaction to tough questioning? | 44 |
| Take out an insurance policy for your snake? | 44 |
| Act I—"On a secret mission" | 44 |
| Temporary housing at an agricultural school? | 44 |
| Rascal in "The School for Scandal" | 44 |
| "The Little Rascals" schoolteacher | 44 |
| Newly appointed disciplinarian's measure | 44 |
| Legal proceeding involving Oscar the Grouch? | 44 |
| Like many kids' self-made greeting cards | 44 |
| Illegal use of someone else's Visa card? | 44 |
| Onetime center of Italian violin manufacture | 44 |
| The _______ 1984 Music Hall of Fame inductee | 44 |
| 1850s European war involving Canadian forces | 44 |
| '80s TV drama that starred Dennis Farina | 44 |
| Road sign warning of an upcoming highwayman? | 44 |
| Thornton's role in "The Alamo" | 44 |
| "--- Yellow" (Aldous Huxley novel) | 44 |
| Treacherous person (with "double") | 44 |
| Things to "see" in an encyclopedia | 44 |
| Course of medication for an inflamed throat? | 44 |
| What the royal electrician has in his vault? | 44 |
| Vote involved in a 15th wedding anniversary? | 44 |
| What the brain "floats" in (abbr.) | 44 |
| Writer who died about an hour before JFK did | 44 |
| Hill with one steep side and one gentle side | 44 |
| WARNING: Possible heart-related side effects | 44 |
| Interviewer's or pitcher's surprises | 44 |
| --- the chase (stop beating around the bush) | 44 |
| U.S. unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | 44 |
| Former "Hannah Montana" star Miley | 44 |
| Immortal pitcher with an award named for him | 44 |
| Founder of the Portuguese empire in the East | 44 |
| ___ Éireann (Irish legislative assembly) | 44 |
| The Kansas City Star and Baltimore Sun, e.g. | 44 |
| The Baltimore Sun and Kansas City Star, e.g. | 44 |
| ''She loves me not'' flowers | 44 |
| Lavi of 1967's "Casino Royale" | 44 |
| Helpful multiple-choice answer ... or is it? | 44 |
| Author of "The Meaning of Treason" | 44 |
| " . . . ___ the light of the moon" | 44 |
| "Romance languages interested her" | 44 |
| Of the writer of "Divina Commedia" | 44 |
| "___ Inferno" (Spencer Tracy film) | 44 |
| Dylan closer on "Empire Burlesque" | 44 |
| Samantha's "Bewitched" husband | 44 |
| ''Never on Sunday'' director | 44 |
| Best Actor winner at the 31st Academy Awards | 44 |