| Athena's status [three consecutive identical letters] | 57 |
| At times/Actress Sykes's halt to putting on weight? | 55 |
| At the urban craps game, the governor played with __ | 52 |
| At the end of it, "my alien" would be a dangerous person | 66 |
| At lunch with friends she ___ of meat back and ordered seafood | 62 |
| At his death in 1848, he was the richest person in the U.S. | 59 |
| At a disadvantage heading into the second game of a series | 58 |
| At 41, Kipling was the youngest one ever in his field | 53 |
| At 184 feet below sea level, this is the lowest city in the USA | 63 |
| Astronomer who famously observed a supernova in 1572 | 52 |
| Astronomer Sandage, who codiscovered the first quasar | 53 |
| Astronaut ___ Bluford, the first African-American in space | 58 |
| Astronaut Wally, the first person to go into space three times | 62 |
| Astronaut Jemison, first African-American woman in space | 56 |
| Astronaut Collins, first female Space Shuttle commander | 55 |
| Astrologer with the autobiography "Answer in the Sky" | 63 |
| Astin who played Sam in "Lord of the Rings" films | 59 |
| Astin of ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy | 58 |
| Asteroid that gets nearer to the sun than any other body | 56 |
| Assn. with a "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list | 54 |
| Assisted through a tough time, with "over" | 52 |
| Assistant played by Charles Bronson in "House of Wax" | 63 |
| Assist (or interfere, depending on who you're asking) | 57 |
| Assignment that can't be entrusted to fractions or decimals? | 64 |
| Assassinated leader called "the Liberator" | 52 |
| Aspic-like meat dish named for an ingredient it doesn't have | 64 |
| Ask "Rabbit Redux" author for spare change? | 53 |
| Ask "Is this really diet soda?," for instance? | 56 |
| Asimov collection that includes the story "Robbie" | 60 |
| Asians featured in Eastwood's "Gran Torino" | 57 |
| Asian territory that abuts Europe in the board game Risk | 56 |
| Asian region whose name means "five rivers" | 53 |
| Asian mammal also called a "humped cattle" | 52 |
| Asian leader with a degree from a university named for his father | 65 |
| Asian fruit that smells so bad it's often banned from hotels | 64 |
| Asian country in which English is an official language | 54 |
| Asian city whose name means "place of the gods" | 57 |
| Asian capital whose name means "place of the gods" | 60 |
| Asia's first female president, elected in the Philippines | 61 |
| Ashton Kutcher's role on "That '70s Show" | 59 |
| Ashton Kutcher's 'That '70s Show' role | 54 |
| Ashley's sister, in "Gone With the Wind" | 54 |
| Ashley's sister in "Gone With the Wind" | 53 |
| Ashley who writes an advice column for the New York Post | 56 |
| Ashford & Simpson lyric "___ as a rock" | 53 |
| As a shortstop, he won the A.L. Gold Glove in 2002 and 2003 | 59 |
| Artoo projects a holographic image of her in "Star Wars" | 66 |
| Artistic suggestion of endessly shrinking mirror images | 55 |
| Artistic representation of the Lamentation of Christ | 52 |
| Artistic pseudonym derived from its owner's initials | 56 |
| Artist's name formed phonetically from his initials | 55 |
| Artist's expression for "Such is life"? | 53 |
| Artist with the quadruple platinum album "Shepherd Moons" | 67 |
| Artist with the autobiography "Things I Remember" | 59 |
| Artist with the album "Vivaldi's Cello" | 53 |
| Artist with the 2002 #1 hit "Lose Yourself" | 53 |
| Artist with the 1999 6x platinum album "2001" | 55 |
| Artist with a self-named museum in Montauban, France | 52 |
| Artist whose name is an anagram of "artisan" | 54 |
| Artist whose moniker is the pronunciation of his initials | 57 |
| Artist whose handwriting can be found on the walls of MOMA | 58 |
| Artist whose 1999 hit "Smooth" was #1 for 12 weeks | 60 |
| Artist who worked on Hitchcock's "Spellbound" | 59 |
| Artist who was the first to have a video with a billion YouTube views | 69 |
| Artist who still lives at the Dakota in New York City | 53 |
| Artist who said, "Take me, I am hallucinogenic" | 57 |
| Artist who rejuvenated his career with 1960s serigraphs | 55 |
| Artist who lives across from Central Park's Strawberry Fields | 65 |
| Artist who funded Manhattan's Strawberry Fields memorial | 60 |
| Artist who contributes to each of the starred entries, in a way | 63 |
| Artist who claimed to have engaged in cannibalism in 1904 | 57 |
| Artist Thomas ___, founder of the Hudson River School | 53 |
| Artist known for drawing "impossible objects" | 55 |
| Artist known by the French pronunciation of his initials | 56 |
| Article on a baby that's snatched up by a news anchor? | 58 |
| Article of clothing than an estimated 80% wear the wrong size | 61 |
| Article of apparel that's not made where you might think | 60 |
| Article before "Gatos" or "Lobos" | 53 |
| Arthur's nickname in "The Once and Future King" | 61 |
| Arthur ___ Sulzberger, Jr. (New York Times publisher) | 53 |
| Arthur ___ (British actor for whom a seafood chain is named) | 60 |
| Arthur Miller's ''All My _____'' | 52 |
| Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, with "The" | 69 |
| Arthur Miller drama set in Salem, with "The" | 54 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle character possibly modeled after Lillie Langtry | 66 |
| Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous With ___" | 54 |
| Art direction nominees Crowley and Ochipinti for "___" | 64 |
| Arrival time of Frank Miller's train, in a 1952 film | 56 |
| Array in mathematics with the same number of rows and columns | 61 |
| Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas | 69 |
| Aron Trask's brother in "East of Eden" | 52 |
| Aromatic, oily substance, such as the kind used in vinegars | 59 |
| Arnold Vinick's portrayer on "The West Wing" | 58 |
| Arnold Vinick portrayer on "The West Wing" | 52 |
| Army members who may be killed if they enter a private home | 59 |
| Army member in the Beatles' animated "Yellow Submarine" | 69 |
| Army group does away with their famous song? (careful!) | 55 |
| Armstrong who took a "giant leap for mankind" | 55 |
| Armenian-born photographer of Canada's rich and famous | 58 |
| Arm's-length pics of oneself with friends, in modern slang | 62 |