| Variety show set in fictional Kornfield Kounty | 46 |
| Violinist instrumental in saving Carnegie Hall | 46 |
| Viper's voice in "Kung Fu Panda" | 46 |
| Villain in 2012's "The Avengers" | 46 |
| Verb with ''heaven and earth'' | 46 |
| Villain in the 2009 "Star Trek" film | 46 |
| Viking language (with ''Old'') | 46 |
| Victor Vasarely's "Zebras," e.g. | 46 |
| Voyager discovered its hexagonal cloud pattern | 46 |
| Video game based on H.P. Lovecraft's works | 46 |
| Vegetable that gives you an emotional release? | 46 |
| Verdi opera based on a Shakespearean character | 46 |
| Vigorous retort to "You aren't!" | 46 |
| Visible, as to a cameraman following an object | 46 |
| Villain in "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" | 46 |
| Vegas casino all decked out for Cinco de Mayo? | 46 |
| Voyage to see the world's great bedcovers? | 46 |
| View from New York's Grand Central Parkway | 46 |
| Virgil in "In the Heat of the Night" | 46 |
| Villain in "The Incredibles" [Italy] | 46 |
| Vigoda's role in "The Godfather" | 46 |
| Victim in a 1932 mystery, with "the" | 46 |
| Village People song with a letter-shaped dance | 46 |
| Velvet Underground "I'll Be ___" | 46 |
| Value-___ (term that may signal a price hike) | 45 |
| Villains in 1939's "Stagecoach" | 45 |
| Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" setting | 45 |
| Veronese's "The Wedding at ___" | 45 |
| Vehicle you get into after you finish driving | 45 |
| Victor Borge or Hans Christian Andersen, e.g. | 45 |
| Verdi's "Un di felice," for one | 45 |
| Victim of the '71 "rural purge" | 45 |
| Van Morrison's "___ the Mystic" | 45 |
| Van Gogh painting dominated by green and blue | 45 |
| Vonnegut book about a fun-loving frat clique? | 45 |
| Vegetarians don't chew it, they eschew it | 45 |
| Voltaire's "La ___ de César" | 45 |
| Victimized clay guy on "SNL" reruns | 45 |
| Virginia Woolf's "___ Dalloway" | 45 |
| Vegetable that's hard to eat with a knife | 45 |
| Velma's ''Chicago'' rival | 45 |
| Vince Lombardi's "___ Daylight" | 45 |
| Villainous uncle in "The Lion King" | 45 |
| Varsity sport in New York City public schools | 45 |
| Virginia-born Pulitzer Prize novelist of 1942 | 45 |
| Victor Herbert's "naughty" girl | 45 |
| Verdi's "___ giardin del bello" | 45 |
| Village with very little gardening equipment? | 45 |
| Vacuum shown lifting a bowling ball in TV ads | 45 |
| Vases of a "La Bohème" character | 45 |
| Victor Herbert operetta, with "The" | 45 |
| Von Stroheim, in "Sunset Boulevard" | 45 |
| Vonnegut's "The _____ of Titan" | 45 |
| Vehicles suitable for this puzzle's theme | 45 |
| Vehicles sometimes used on Arctic expeditions | 45 |
| Vince McMahon's short-lived sports league | 45 |
| Voltaire's "___ the Babylonian" | 45 |
| Viper, and a clue to this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| V. Herbert's "___ in the Dark" | 44 |
| Van Halen's "Live Without ___" | 44 |
| Victoria's "We ___ not amused" | 44 |
| Video game company founded by Nolan Bushnell | 44 |
| Villanova's athletic conference, briefly | 44 |
| Vivian on "The Fresh Prince," e.g. | 44 |
| Vacationer's favorite Elvis Presley hit? | 44 |
| Vice President in Jefferson's first term | 44 |
| Vegetable on a platter of hors d'oeuvres | 44 |
| Villain in the animated film "Rio" | 44 |
| Verdi's "La Forza ___ Destino" | 44 |
| Verdi aria that means "It was you" | 44 |
| Verdi work whose title character is a bandit | 44 |
| Vous ___ (René's "you are") | 44 |
| Volcano called Mongibello in its native land | 44 |
| Va. site of the U.S. Army Women's Museum | 44 |
| Victor Hugo's "___ of Ireland" | 44 |
| Vanity plate in a two-car household, perhaps | 44 |
| Villainous type in "The Lion King" | 44 |
| Very "original" rapper Vanilla ___ | 44 |
| Victor's wife, in "Casablanca" | 44 |
| Vexing problem when your arms are restrained | 44 |
| Vital and vulnerable targets, metaphorically | 44 |
| Venue for "American Idol" wannabes | 44 |
| Von Bondies "___ of Communication" | 44 |
| Virginia's Washington and ___ University | 44 |
| Veggie that looks like an overgrown scallion | 44 |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial architect Maya ___ | 44 |
| Virna of "How to Murder Your Wife" | 44 |
| Vice President John Garner's middle name | 44 |
| Van Patten role in TV's "Mama" | 44 |
| Vortex Mini Ultra Grip Football manufacturer | 44 |
| Version of a game also called mill or merels | 44 |
| Van Gogh's "Le Café de ___" | 44 |
| Visit "Brideshead Revisited" again | 44 |
| Vocal style that mimics an instrumental solo | 44 |
| Vehicles that may be under the Yuletide tree | 44 |
| Vernacular used at a South Carolina college? | 44 |
| Velvet Underground: "Here She ___" | 44 |
| Vote involved in a 15th wedding anniversary? | 44 |
| Vernacular that came into prominence in 1996 | 44 |
| Vehicle to transport mere parking violators? | 44 |