| Carnival location, for short | 28 |
| South American vacation spot | 28 |
| Popular cruise port, briefly | 28 |
| Home of a Carioca, for short | 28 |
| Girl from Ipanema's home | 28 |
| Brazilian resort, familiarly | 28 |
| Birthplace of the bossa nova | 28 |
| 2007 Pan American Games host | 28 |
| 1947 Hope/Crosby destination | 28 |
| 1947 Hope-Crosby destination | 28 |
| Howard Hawks's last film | 28 |
| Los ___, Ecuadorean province | 28 |
| Ebro and Tagus, to Spaniards | 28 |
| Skid Row "___ Act" | 28 |
| Situation for rubber bullets | 28 |
| Read the ___ act (get tough) | 28 |
| Word after run or before gun | 28 |
| Prelude to a prison lockdown | 28 |
| One who's just too funny | 28 |
| Metaphor for a good scolding | 28 |
| Smashed windows and so forth | 28 |
| Protest participant, perhaps | 28 |
| They're a laugh a minute | 28 |
| "Let 'er ___!" | 28 |
| Halloween decoration letters | 28 |
| Fictional sleeper Van Winkle | 28 |
| Certain wardrobe malfunction | 28 |
| __ cord: parachute activator | 28 |
| Finished growing on the vine | 28 |
| Good enough to eat, in a way | 28 |
| Between green and black, say | 28 |
| Ethylene gas, agriculturally | 28 |
| College or city in Wisconsin | 28 |
| Steals, with "off" | 28 |
| It cuts wood along the grain | 28 |
| They cut wood with the grain | 28 |
| Dangerous swimming condition | 28 |
| "___ for Ricochet" | 28 |
| ___ d'agneau (lamb dish) | 28 |
| Show some respect to a judge | 28 |
| Faith healer's directive | 28 |
| Like a successful soufflé | 28 |
| It brings you to a new level | 28 |
| "The Sun Also ___" | 28 |
| "The Sun Also ---" | 28 |
| Classic Parker Brothers game | 28 |
| Underwriter's assessment | 28 |
| Investor's consideration | 28 |
| Board game of world conquest | 28 |
| What insurers insure against | 28 |
| Game played across the world | 28 |
| ___ capital (up-front money) | 28 |
| Italian dish cooked in broth | 28 |
| Romance novelist's award | 28 |
| Woman in a Beatles' song | 28 |
| Multiple award winner Moreno | 28 |
| Meter maid in a Beatles tune | 28 |
| Marriage or coronation, e.g. | 28 |
| Bar mitzvah or baptism, e.g. | 28 |
| Baptism or bar mitzvah, e.g. | 28 |
| Tradition-laden celebrations | 28 |
| PriestsÂ’ administrations | 28 |
| Matrimony, bar mitzvah, etc. | 28 |
| "Sounder" director | 28 |
| Jason of 'The Event' | 28 |
| Cracker with scalloped edges | 28 |
| ___ Brothers of comedic fame | 28 |
| Mississippi or Mersey: Abbr. | 28 |
| ___ Ridge, 1972 Derby winner | 28 |
| Derby winner ___ Ridge: 1972 | 28 |
| ___ Ridge (famed race horse) | 28 |
| Word in a Thomas Wolfe title | 28 |
| A paddlewheel may propel one | 28 |
| Part of a pair of Levi's | 28 |
| Hold, as one's attention | 28 |
| Ritzy European vacation area | 28 |
| -- Nabisco (old corporation) | 28 |
| "King Kong" studio | 28 |
| "Gunga Din" studio | 28 |
| "Suspicion" studio | 28 |
| "Notorious" studio | 28 |
| Famous movie studio initials | 28 |
| 19th-century literary inits. | 28 |
| Literary initials (See 93 A) | 28 |
| "Kidnapped" inits. | 28 |
| Abbr. in a boarding-house ad | 28 |
| Genetic transmitter, briefly | 28 |
| Molecule made of nucleotides | 28 |
| It's in all living cells | 28 |
| Transfer or messenger: abbr. | 28 |
| Ribonucleic acid, familiarly | 28 |
| Protein synthesis controller | 28 |
| It's stranded, for short | 28 |
| Genetic transmitters (Abbr.) | 28 |
| Genetic substance, for short | 28 |
| They might help hook up EKGs | 28 |
| Some pulse takers, for short | 28 |
| Some hospital workers: Abbr. | 28 |
| It has shoulders but no head | 28 |
| Sometimes it's not taken | 28 |