| Like the M4 carbine, for the US Armed Forces | 44 |
| Smacked someone when they least expected it? | 44 |
| "___ waters are sweet": Prov. 9:17 | 44 |
| Mick Jagger and fellas, with "the" | 44 |
| "Honky Tonk Women" band, for short | 44 |
| Saint Stephen's punishment for blasphemy | 44 |
| Former world heavyweight champion, to Roget? | 44 |
| The ____ (Central Saskatchewan city to some) | 44 |
| ''___! In The Name Of Love'' | 44 |
| "___ the World . . . ": 1969 movie | 44 |
| One's featured on "60 Minutes" | 44 |
| Fox's dining companion in an Aesop fable | 44 |
| "The Minister's Wooing" writer | 44 |
| "The Minister's Wooing" author | 44 |
| State capital home to the Xcel Energy Center | 44 |
| Home to "A Prairie Home Companion" | 44 |
| One finishing a marathon in eight hours, say | 44 |
| What brainy California baseball players get? | 44 |
| "Also sprach Zarathustra" composer | 44 |
| "Petrouchka" composer's family | 44 |
| Doesn't stick to the straight and narrow | 44 |
| Like a team that wins four, then loses three | 44 |
| "Sophie's Choice" Oscar winner | 44 |
| No. 1 Cherry ___, where G.W. lived in N.Y.C. | 44 |
| Rough place to grow up, with "the" | 44 |
| Godsmack song that will put the pressure on? | 44 |
| Cause of gray hair and worry lines, some say | 44 |
| Someone called "Slim," most likely | 44 |
| Modiste's notable outfit for a stripper? | 44 |
| Group with only members of the violin family | 44 |
| Group with members of the violin family only | 44 |
| What eight of this puzzle's answers have | 44 |
| " . . . ___ than lions": II Samuel | 44 |
| Pastries (literally, "whirlpools") | 44 |
| Stars often stand for them on a flag (abbr.) | 44 |
| John, Paul, and George, but not Ringo: Abbr. | 44 |
| Joan Osborne's "Relish" opener | 44 |
| Counter-Reformation figure canonized in 1622 | 44 |
| So-called "Little Flower of Jesus" | 44 |
| Site of a Univ. of the Virgin Islands campus | 44 |
| "The Simpsons" character Disco ___ | 44 |
| Dil Pickles's dad on "Rugrats" | 44 |
| Nickname for an "L.A. Law" partner | 44 |
| "The Simpsons" leisure suit wearer | 44 |
| Pencil that's obviously seen better days | 44 |
| ''Star Trek'' phaser setting | 44 |
| What many people don't want to be out of | 44 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers "Freaky ___" | 44 |
| Three Coins in the Fountain composer Jule | 44 |
| An oath on it was once held to be inviolable | 44 |
| "The flood of deadly hate": Milton | 44 |
| Pope Paul VI's "Ecclesiam ___" | 44 |
| Basketball's "sixth man," e.g. | 44 |
| ___ Bay, former U.S. base in the Philippines | 44 |
| Residential area of California [think Chevy] | 44 |
| "You're Only Old Once!" author | 44 |
| "Deliverance" ends with one: Abbr. | 44 |
| Holst's "The Planets," for one | 44 |
| "Presidential" hotel accommodation | 44 |
| Applicant for the job of "husband" | 44 |
| Dowson's "Non ___ Qualis Eram" | 44 |
| Use an obsolete method of adding up numbers? | 44 |
| Island divided almost in half by the Equator | 44 |
| So-called "cradle of civilization" | 44 |
| News accounts of some ancient Mesopotamians? | 44 |
| "Song ___ Blue" (Neil Diamond hit) | 44 |
| House part that gets flooded on a clear day? | 44 |
| Many planets are thought to have two of them | 44 |
| Los Angeles locale of a Lloyd Webber musical | 44 |
| John who served as GHWB's Chief of Staff | 44 |
| "From my books ___ of sorrow": Poe | 44 |
| "Stop the Insanity!" author Powter | 44 |
| 'Britain's Got Talent' sensation | 44 |
| It's often served with ginger and wasabi | 44 |
| Eating record #4 (141 pieces in six minutes) | 44 |
| Classic oldie "Wake up Little ___" | 44 |
| Burmese politician/activist Aung San ___ Kyi | 44 |
| Author of "The Courage to Be Rich" | 44 |
| Man's name meaning "young man" | 44 |
| Language from which "safari" comes | 44 |
| Language that "Kwanzaa" comes from | 44 |
| Participated in the first leg of a triathlon | 44 |
| Where the Gators play home games, familiarly | 44 |
| Camp ___ ("Beetle Bailey" setting) | 44 |
| Natalie Portman movie, "Black ___" | 44 |
| Spenser's bird "of goodly hue" | 44 |
| Many people in the same place, on Foursquare | 44 |
| "Camel News Caravan" host, 1949-56 | 44 |
| They're often packed away for the summer | 44 |
| Best parts of the tennis racket, in Uppsala? | 44 |
| "If They Could See Me Now" musical | 44 |
| Increase one's offer, as in negotiations | 44 |
| What struggling band does instead of sinking | 44 |
| Like some high-quality chocolate and watches | 44 |
| "West Side Story" fight scene prop | 44 |
| Lead role on TV's "Providence" | 44 |
| "The Madcap Laughs" singer Barrett | 44 |
| Slender women, named for air spirits of myth | 44 |
| "Sufferin' succotash!" speaker | 44 |
| French art movement of the late 19th century | 44 |