| U.S. status during the Cuban Missile Crisis | 43 |
| It's walked on, in an Annie Lennox song | 43 |
| Burke of "Dancing With the Stars" | 43 |
| The pitcher who took Sterno to a picnic ___ | 43 |
| Sal Romano portrayer on "Mad Men" | 43 |
| "A little dab'll do ya" brand | 43 |
| Vitamin whose name sounds like a bingo call | 43 |
| Rumanian region now shared with the Ukraine | 43 |
| ''Family Affair'' character | 43 |
| Songbirds in "The Rubáiyát" | 43 |
| "Buy buy buy" time on Wall Street | 43 |
| Allied supply route to China during W.W. II | 43 |
| Hamilton's dueling rival steals cattle? | 43 |
| Star in "The Young Savages": 1961 | 43 |
| Actor Steve of "The Big Lebowski" | 43 |
| One goes through these to get to the majors | 43 |
| "Turandot" composer Ferruccio ___ | 43 |
| Vintage skirt manufacturer's shakedown? | 43 |
| Throw back some beers through the back door | 43 |
| Expressions of affection made with the eyes | 43 |
| "Keep your opinions to yourself!" | 43 |
| ''Mind your own business!'' | 43 |
| Conversation-filled places in a restaurant? | 43 |
| "Here's a pleasant surprise!" | 43 |
| "Stop Making Sense" subject David | 43 |
| Article afterthought need not change (3, 4) | 43 |
| Subjects of some Toulouse-Lautrec paintings | 43 |
| Gift from Too Tall Jones to Xavier Roberts? | 43 |
| One who's bound to take you for a ride? | 43 |
| Prepared with tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs | 43 |
| What Elsie's child develops at the gym? | 43 |
| Seek immediate medical assistance, in a way | 43 |
| Where "operators are standing by" | 43 |
| Lando ___ ("Star Wars" character) | 43 |
| Fully-prepped material for a printer, maybe | 43 |
| They have notched collars and patch pockets | 43 |
| Sammy Davis Jr. song (with "The") | 43 |
| Pop stars depicted on soldiers' flasks? | 43 |
| "Murder in the Cathedral" setting | 43 |
| ''Enough with your jokes!'' | 43 |
| Pay-per-view option for can-do subscribers? | 43 |
| Start of a quote by economist Allan Meltzer | 43 |
| Teacher's fiat re spelling proper nouns | 43 |
| Lead character in "Jerry Maguire" | 43 |
| You can always identify a Republican by one | 43 |
| Building on the back of a fifty-dollar bill | 43 |
| Detroit's contribution to mag. revenues | 43 |
| Dating isotope that's half as accurate? | 43 |
| Cause for emergency vehicles or a tow truck | 43 |
| ___ Caverns (New Mexico tourist attraction) | 43 |
| "The Goodbye Kiss" author Massimo | 43 |
| "You're So Vain" singer Simon | 43 |
| Edie's role in "The Sopranos" | 43 |
| One of the two Andrews in a university name | 43 |
| 'It Must Be Him' singer goes green? | 43 |
| "Arsenic and Old Lace" star, 1944 | 43 |
| Where Pepe met Gaby, in "Algiers" | 43 |
| Artist known for her mother-and-child works | 43 |
| ''Mother and Child'' artist | 43 |
| Plants that are a natural source of cyanide | 43 |
| J.D. Salinger-inspired Guns and Roses song? | 43 |
| Coming-of-age classic, with "The" | 43 |
| Baseball's highest-paid pitcher in 1975 | 43 |
| Battery component termed by Michael Faraday | 43 |
| How newscasters obsoletely hype some events | 43 |
| Group of radio users making music together? | 43 |
| "See It Now" producer of 1950s TV | 43 |
| Last full year of St. Julius I's papacy | 43 |
| Fifties org. in charge of air-raid shelters | 43 |
| "Gossip Girl" author von Ziegesar | 43 |
| Comedian dubbed "The Entertainer" | 43 |
| Coins worth one-hundredth of the basic unit | 43 |
| Bell ___ (Montreal Canadiens' home ice) | 43 |
| Corporate bigwig's musical composition? | 43 |
| Michael of "Arrested Development" | 43 |
| Mutant-finding machine in "X-Men" | 43 |
| It's usually abbreviated "c." | 43 |
| Like powdered milk compared with whole milk | 43 |
| ''Man of a Thousand Faces'' | 43 |
| Intonations from the monastery locker room? | 43 |
| "Strangers and Brothers" novelist | 43 |
| Candy created in 1922 and named for a dance | 43 |
| A castle of Blackbeard overlooks its harbor | 43 |
| New York lake that flows into the Allegheny | 43 |
| Shouter of this puzzle's circled sounds | 43 |
| Bad-day-in-the-market headline for a dairy? | 43 |
| Its two halves can't run simultaneously | 43 |
| His nickname was "Dude President" | 43 |
| Animal that leaves when it's cared for? | 43 |
| ''My Kind of Town'' subject | 43 |
| Good name for a Windy City nudist festival? | 43 |
| Part of a line at O'Hare? [2002, 1976*] | 43 |
| Musical activity with clapping and flapping | 43 |
| It makes a high-pitched noise for attention | 43 |
| With "play," it's easy as pie | 43 |
| What may have a "no bull" policy? | 43 |
| Not a good thing to have in one's armor | 43 |
| " . . . hair of my ___ chin-chin" | 43 |
| What the Arctic Circle is, population-wise? | 43 |
| Product liability problems for Willy Wonka? | 43 |