| Southern alma mater of Olympian Lolo Jones, for short | 53 |
| Director Jacquet of "March of the Penguins" | 53 |
| Donizetti's ''___ di Lammermoor'' | 53 |
| His last film was "Plan 9 from Outer Space" | 53 |
| Rainer who played O-Lan in "The Good Earth" | 53 |
| "Two-horned queen of the stars," per Horace | 53 |
| Composer/actor John in a bunch of Jim Jarmusch movies | 53 |
| Loretta who recorded "Van Lear Rose" (2004) | 53 |
| "You Ain't Woman Enough" singer Loretta | 53 |
| "Coal Miner's Daughter" subject Loretta | 53 |
| ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' subject | 53 |
| Fairy queen mentioned in "Romeo and Juliet" | 53 |
| "The Trouble With Being Myself" singer Gray | 53 |
| "___ Goes to Jail" (2009 Tyler Perry movie) | 53 |
| Series set at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce agency | 53 |
| Birthplace of Plácido Domingo and Penélope Cruz | 53 |
| Heroine of Menotti's opera "The Consul" | 53 |
| Wise guys featured in this puzzle's theme answers | 53 |
| "___ nui loa" (Hawaiian words of gratitude) | 53 |
| Record-holder for most Emmy nominations without a win | 53 |
| Its positions are labeled North, South, East and West | 53 |
| Gustav who composed "The Song of the Earth" | 53 |
| Eight milkers in "The 12 Days of Christmas" | 53 |
| Where holiday delays are common, with "the" | 53 |
| Disneyland street that ends at Sleeping Beauty Castle | 53 |
| One that most people would prefer to put off meeting? | 53 |
| First song on Genesis's "Genesis" album | 53 |
| "That's all right, ___" (Elvis refrain) | 53 |
| "Last of the Red Hot ___" (Tucker nickname) | 53 |
| "___ Feel Like a Woman" (Shania Twain song) | 53 |
| Suffix with "Wrestle" or "Beatle" | 53 |
| Suffix with "Beatle" or "Wrestle" | 53 |
| A "nail technician" used to be called a ___ | 53 |
| "A revolution is not a dinner party" writer | 53 |
| "A revolution is not a dinner party" leader | 53 |
| Rooney of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" | 53 |
| Wellington __, New York Giants co-owner for 45+ years | 53 |
| Wilhelmina's assistant, on "Ugly Betty" | 53 |
| 1909 Physics Nobelist for work in wireless telegraphy | 53 |
| She portrayed Lois in the "Superman" movies | 53 |
| __ Hooch, "A League of Their Own" infielder | 53 |
| Dancer Graham given the Presidential Medal of Freedom | 53 |
| They may be preferred "shaken, not stirred" | 53 |
| Sports announcer Albert who says "Yesssss!" | 53 |
| "Mississippi ___" (Denzel Washington drama) | 53 |
| "Mississippi ___" (Denzel Washington movie) | 53 |
| Member of an organization in many conspiracy theories | 53 |
| The "them" in "Let them eat cake" | 53 |
| Lincoln player in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" | 53 |
| First-ever singer with a Greatest Hits album, in 1958 | 53 |
| Discovered Discover's limit, with "out" | 53 |
| ''There's no I in team,'' for one | 53 |
| "Workin' for ___" (Lynyrd Skynyrd song) | 53 |
| Don of old radio's "The Breakfast Club" | 53 |
| Golden Arches sandwich that resurfaces every so often | 53 |
| Roman numeral that translates to a 4-digit palindrome | 53 |
| "Paint ___ Birmingham" (Tracy Lawrence hit) | 53 |
| Song that ends "all alone and feeling blue" | 53 |
| "A Prayer for Owen ___" (John Irving novel) | 53 |
| "O Du, ___ holder Abendstern" (Wagner aria) | 53 |
| Historical role in Spielberg's "Munich" | 53 |
| Man's name that's Latin for "honey" | 53 |
| "The Passion of the Christ" director Gibson | 53 |
| "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" singer Carter | 53 |
| "The ____ of the Wedding" (McCullers novel) | 53 |
| 2000 film told largely in reverse chronological order | 53 |
| "___ Floss for the Globe" Urban Dance Squad | 53 |
| "Paysage de ___" (Gustave Courbet painting) | 53 |
| "You've Made ___ Very Happy" (1969 hit) | 53 |
| Company whose ads have "Peanuts" characters | 53 |
| Band with the 2008 single "Time to Pretend" | 53 |
| Actress Wasikowska of "Alice in Wonderland" | 53 |
| '-- pleasures and palaces though we may roam' | 53 |
| "The ___ on the Floss" (George Eliot novel) | 53 |
| Alan Alexander, whose son was named Christopher Robin | 53 |
| Drew's nemesis on "The Drew Carey Show" | 53 |
| Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could Read My ___" | 53 |
| One who's always a step ahead of you, so it seems | 53 |
| Oscar-winning actress in "Mighty Aphrodite" | 53 |
| "Maid of the ___" (Niagara Falls tour boat) | 53 |
| ''Good Will Hunting'' campus, briefly | 53 |
| A century after the Wright brothers' first flight | 53 |
| "The Godfather" crowd, with "the" | 53 |
| Aaron Spelling show ''The ___ Squad'' | 53 |
| Hairstyles that resemble the plumes on Trojan helmets | 53 |
| "Got My ___ Working" (Muddy Waters classic) | 53 |
| When "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" aired: Abbr. | 53 |
| "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" woman | 53 |
| "___ Lisa Overdrive" (William Gibson novel) | 53 |
| Crime-fighting accessory owned by rock drummer Keith? | 53 |
| Her "Collected Poems" won the 1952 Pulitzer | 53 |
| Rita who won an Oscar for "West Side Story" | 53 |
| "The summer __ is bright and fresh": Bryant | 53 |
| "Sweet is the breath of ___ . . . ": Milton | 53 |
| "Anyone who disagrees with me," in a saying | 53 |
| Subject of the book "The American Leonardo" | 53 |
| Word with "detector" or "picture" | 53 |
| Apt challenger of this puzzle's circled locations | 53 |
| "Philadelphia" or "Chicago," e.g. | 53 |
| "Chicago" or "Philadelphia," e.g. | 53 |