| Rice whose characters suck | 26 |
| Rice who wrote of vampires | 26 |
| Granddaughter of Charles I | 26 |
| Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII | 26 |
| An aunt of little Beatrice | 26 |
| Treat with heat to toughen | 26 |
| Vampire-chronicling author | 26 |
| Big name in gothic fiction | 26 |
| Queen __ (Maryland county) | 26 |
| A couple of English queens | 26 |
| Writers Edwards and Sexton | 26 |
| "The Women" star | 26 |
| Bring into the city limits | 26 |
| MCMLVII and MCMLVIII, e.g. | 26 |
| Cinema's Hall of fame? | 26 |
| Sandy's orphaned owner | 26 |
| Miss Hannigan's charge | 26 |
| Daddy Warbucks' charge | 26 |
| 'Tomorrow' warbler | 26 |
| 'Tomorrow' musical | 26 |
| 'Little Orphan --' | 26 |
| Columnist for the lovelorn | 26 |
| "Domini" lead-in | 26 |
| Year in Caesar's reign | 26 |
| Comment on, as in a margin | 26 |
| Writers Radcliffe and Rule | 26 |
| Actresses Blyth and Miller | 26 |
| Like many award ceremonies | 26 |
| It includes mayo and julio | 26 |
| Like half of all terminals | 26 |
| Jumper-cable clip-on point | 26 |
| Cathode's vis-Ã -vis | 26 |
| "-" on a battery | 26 |
| They attract negative ions | 26 |
| Chooses by divine election | 26 |
| Breakdown of social values | 26 |
| Absence of societal values | 26 |
| Shortly, in Brit Lit claas | 26 |
| Shortly, in a stuck-up way | 26 |
| Quotation notation (abbr.) | 26 |
| Prolific author, for short | 26 |
| Oft-quoted author? (abbr.) | 26 |
| Like many limericks: Abbr. | 26 |
| In not too long, old-style | 26 |
| In a short time, old-style | 26 |
| "That's __!" | 26 |
| Many months in Mato Grosso | 26 |
| Enero-to-diciembre periods | 26 |
| Win by -- (barely triumph) | 26 |
| "Make ___ of it" | 26 |
| Aimee of the silver screen | 26 |
| Aimee of La Dolce Vita | 26 |
| T, on a test question, say | 26 |
| Part of Saturn's rings | 26 |
| Jug handle, in archaeology | 26 |
| Handle, to an archeologist | 26 |
| Handle for an ancient vase | 26 |
| Archaeologist's handle | 26 |
| Michael who played Cochise | 26 |
| Zone System inventor Adams | 26 |
| Adams who took great shots | 26 |
| Sierra Nevada photographer | 26 |
| National-park photographer | 26 |
| Sainted Italian theologian | 26 |
| Saint whose day is Apr. 21 | 26 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Cap | 26 |
| Williams of Happy Days | 26 |
| Williams in Happy Days | 26 |
| Provide an explanation for | 26 |
| They may be found in cribs | 26 |
| Fabled grasshopper rebuker | 26 |
| "Them!" creature | 26 |
| Unwanted guest in a pantry | 26 |
| Carpenter or army follower | 26 |
| "High Hopes" bug | 26 |
| Queen's servant, maybe | 26 |
| Prefix for arctic or eater | 26 |
| One with a small nest egg? | 26 |
| Myopic, workaholic crawler | 26 |
| Insect in one's pants? | 26 |
| Hill "carpenter" | 26 |
| He's often in the hole | 26 |
| Grasshopper's opposite | 26 |
| Fire or carpenter creature | 26 |
| Farm critter with six legs | 26 |
| Echidna's little snack | 26 |
| Creature with a tiny waist | 26 |
| Carpenter or fire follower | 26 |
| "Soldier" insect | 26 |
| South Frigid Zone boundary | 26 |
| Brightest star in Scorpius | 26 |
| Supergiant star in Scorpio | 26 |
| Red supergiant in Scorpius | 26 |
| Poker player's payment | 26 |
| Sometimes it's a penny | 26 |
| Prove that you want a hand | 26 |
| Prelude to a deal, perhaps | 26 |
| Give some money to the pot | 26 |
| Dealer's call, perhaps | 26 |
| A chip in the pot, perhaps | 26 |