| "As the crow flies" course | 36 |
| Major digital satellite service provider | 40 |
| Big name in satellite broadcasting | 34 |
| More desperate, as circumstances | 32 |
| Music unlikely to be played at a party | 38 |
| "O Captain! My Captain!," e.g. | 40 |
| Ships whose rudders don't touch water | 41 |
| Benedict of "The A-Team" | 34 |
| Weapon in old hand-to-hand fighting | 35 |
| Weapon in old hand-to-hand combat | 33 |
| Pitt, hero of many Clive Cussler novels | 39 |
| Long dagger with a straight blade | 33 |
| "Darling" actor Bogarde | 33 |
| "Boogie Nights" character Diggler | 43 |
| Important substance in immune development | 41 |
| Alice in Chains' magnum opus | 32 |
| Pigpen of ''Peanuts,'' for one | 46 |
| Adjective for Eastwood's Harry | 34 |
| "___ Harry," Eastwood film | 36 |
| Like Eastwood's "Harry" | 37 |
| How Swayze danced in a 1987 film | 32 |
| "___ Gertie from Bizerte" | 35 |
| Blue things that make some people turn red? | 43 |
| What one needs to spot this puzzle's theme? | 47 |
| Show a lack of respect, in slang | 32 |
| Journalist Francis and Singer Ross, to friends | 46 |
| It's "un-" related | 32 |
| Hannah Montana's channel, in TV listings | 44 |
| "The Big ___," 1990 film | 34 |
| Uses a parental control, perhaps | 32 |
| Renders inoperable, as a computer command | 41 |
| Prankster's item, and this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| What a charming personality might do | 36 |
| Apt rhyme for "charms" | 32 |
| Prevent from practicing, in a way | 33 |
| Flying ___ (Frisbee, generically) | 33 |
| Compact-__ player (audio device) | 32 |
| "Saturday Night Fever" music | 38 |
| "Saturday Night Fever" dance genre | 44 |
| 'Saturday Night Fever' venue | 36 |
| Music associated with the '70s | 34 |
| "Saturday Night Fever" setting | 40 |
| ''Saturday Night Fever'' music | 46 |
| Style that influenced the Scissor Sisters | 41 |
| “Saturday Night Fever” setting | 38 |
| Place for a revolving ball, maybe | 33 |
| Establishment with a revolving mirrored ball | 44 |
| Dance craze featuring The Hustle | 32 |
| 1970s music genre or where to dance to it | 41 |
| 1970's-80's musical craze | 33 |
| "Saturday Night Fever" set | 36 |
| "Saturday Night Fever" milieu | 39 |
| "___ Duck" (#1 hit of 1976) | 37 |
| 'Saturday Night Fever' setting | 38 |
| 'Saturday Night Fever' genre | 36 |
| ''Saturday Night Fever'' setting | 48 |
| ''Saturday Night Fever'' milieu | 47 |
| ''Saturday Night Fever'' extra | 46 |
| Tune heard in "Saturday Night Fever" | 46 |
| Studio 54 and The Limelight, e.g. | 33 |
| Popular hangouts in the late '70s | 37 |
| Establishments with mirrored balls | 34 |
| "In" spots of the '70s | 36 |
| '70s "scene" parts | 32 |
| Simpsons character in a leisure suit | 36 |
| Leisure-suited "Simpsons" character | 45 |
| "Speak now" at a wedding? | 35 |
| They're flipped in tiddledywinks | 36 |
| The chocolate parts of Oreos, e.g. | 34 |
| "___ of Tron" (1982 arcade game) | 42 |
| Something thrown at the Olympics | 32 |
| DirecTV subscriber's installation | 37 |
| What everyone brings to a potluck dinner | 40 |
| Spoon cohort, in a kids' rhyme | 34 |
| It fled with the spoon, in a nursery rhyme | 42 |
| Spoon companion, in a nursery rhyme | 35 |
| Serve, with ''out'' | 35 |
| It fled with the spoon, in a rhyme | 34 |
| Trait inconsistent with this puzzle's theme | 47 |
| Old-style kitchen washing receptacle | 36 |
| Len "The Hard ___ Approach" | 37 |
| "Slipped" backbone part | 33 |
| Spinal segment that may become slipped | 38 |
| You might need a lot of it for your files | 41 |
| Camper Van Beethoven "9 of ___" | 41 |
| Turn out from a princess's home | 35 |
| "...let nothing you ---" | 34 |
| "Ignore the red, white and blue" | 42 |
| One of the Dow Jones Industrials | 32 |
| Recordholder for most Academy Award nominations | 47 |
| ___ Channel ("Hannah Montana" airer) | 46 |
| Write out of one's will, perhaps | 36 |
| Refuse to acknowledge responsibility for | 40 |
| Writes out of the will, for example | 35 |
| Former British prime minister Benjamin | 38 |
| 19th-century British prime minister | 35 |
| Powerful friend of Queen Victoria | 33 |
| Only British prime minister of Jewish birth | 43 |
| Gladstone rival in 19th-century England | 39 |
| British prime minister before and after Gladstone | 49 |