| "... like rain upon the ___ grass" (Psalms) | 53 |
| Chris Noth's role on "Sex and the City" | 53 |
| Chris Noth's role in "Sex and the City" | 53 |
| 1957 R&B chart-topper inspired by a schoolteacher | 53 |
| 1957 hit song that begins "One, two, three" | 53 |
| Virginia Woolf's ''___ Dalloway'' | 53 |
| "Rocky III" and "The A-Team" star | 53 |
| Onetime bodyguard of Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson | 53 |
| It's billed as "The Place for Politics" | 53 |
| 1998 film character called Ping when dressed as a man | 53 |
| Best Actor for "The Story of Louis Pasteur" | 53 |
| Winona's role in "Great Balls of Fire!" | 53 |
| Nicholas of ___, patron saint of mariners and thieves | 53 |
| "Wi' tippenny, we fear __ evil": Burns | 53 |
| Simba's love in ''The Lion King'' | 53 |
| Disney's "World's Greatest Athlete" | 53 |
| Nobel-winning subject of "A Beautiful Mind" | 53 |
| "A bit of talcum / Is always walcum" writer | 53 |
| Baseballer with a "W" on his cap, for short | 53 |
| Wolff of TV's "The Naked Brothers Band" | 53 |
| Portman of ''The Darjeeling Limited'' | 53 |
| Gp. currently headed by ex-Danish PM Anders Rasmussen | 53 |
| Alliance whose flag is a compass on a blue background | 53 |
| " . . . you'll say a beggar ___": Shak. | 53 |
| Org. whose motto is "Where Amazing Happens" | 53 |
| Birthplace of James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson: Abbr. | 53 |
| "Great public schools for every child" org. | 53 |
| Patricia of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 53 |
| Actress Patricia of "The Subject Was Roses" | 53 |
| Word with "miss" or "catastrophe" | 53 |
| Originally, the greatest extent of the Ottoman Empire | 53 |
| " . . . ___, and trimly dress'd": Shak. | 53 |
| "___ Arizona Skies" (early John Wayne film) | 53 |
| William Hurt's ''Body Heat'' role | 53 |
| " . . . to each according to his ___": Marx | 53 |
| Geographical name from the Hebrew for "dry" | 53 |
| Beverage once sold "in all popular flavors" | 53 |
| Sam who played Dr. Grant in "Jurassic Park" | 53 |
| First word of Dante's ''Inferno'' | 53 |
| Journalist Bly who wrote about female factory workers | 53 |
| Prefix for "natal" or "classical" | 53 |
| Square hidden in each of the five long across answers | 53 |
| Cast of characters in "The Big Bang Theory" | 53 |
| Infamous Roman emperor who "fiddled around" | 53 |
| The Left Banke: "I Haven't Got the ___" | 53 |
| Video game system that originally came with Duck Hunt | 53 |
| Brand name that used to be spelled out in commercials | 53 |
| ''Under the __'' (Iris Murdoch novel) | 53 |
| More than 70% of its population lives in Clark County | 53 |
| "Mighty Lak' a Rose" composer Ethelbert | 53 |
| "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" actress Vardalos | 53 |
| Morticia, to Fester, on "The Addams Family" | 53 |
| Only member of both OPEC and the British Commonwealth | 53 |
| "And stay by my cradle till morning is ___" | 53 |
| Company with a current web ad featuring naked runners | 53 |
| Elton's love song hit off "Ice on Fire" | 53 |
| "Egypt was the gift of the ___" (Herodotus) | 53 |
| "The Secret of ___" ('82 animated film) | 53 |
| "Seduction of the Minotaur" author Anaïs | 53 |
| "Seduction of the Minotaur" writer Anaïs | 53 |
| "Children of the Albatross" author Anaïs | 53 |
| Noël Coward title woman "from Argentina" | 53 |
| Length equal to ''the whole'' shebang | 53 |
| "___ a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös" | 53 |
| "In the Still of the ___" (Boyz II Men hit) | 53 |
| ___ acid (corrosive liquid used in making explosives) | 53 |
| Longtime "All Things Considered" host Adams | 53 |
| "I Ain't Got ___" (Louis Armstrong hit) | 53 |
| "___ Does It Better" (1977 Carly Simon hit) | 53 |
| "Silent Night" and "Jingle Bells" | 53 |
| ''There's __ in 'team' '' | 53 |
| Genre that "The Dark Knight" owes a debt to | 53 |
| O'Flaherty's Gypo in "The Informer" | 53 |
| Jefferson portrayer in "Jefferson in Paris" | 53 |
| "If a tree falls in the forest and ___ ..." | 53 |
| Koh-i-___, once the world's largest known diamond | 53 |
| Logic gate that returns true if both inputs are false | 53 |
| "None shall slumber ___ sleep": Isaiah 5:27 | 53 |
| "Fear not, --- be dismayed" (II Chronicles) | 53 |
| Torvald's wife, in "A Doll's House" | 53 |
| "___ Hair Salon" (2004 Jenifer Lewis movie) | 53 |
| Kathleen who wrote "Through a Glass Darkly" | 53 |
| "___ Pretty Girl" (1995 Ani Difranco album) | 53 |
| Staff members (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 53 |
| Reply to "Who wants to clean up this mess?" | 53 |
| ''Soup'' or ''salad'' | 53 |
| Political grp. with a "Say It, Sister" blog | 53 |
| Org. highlighted in "Bowling for Columbine" | 53 |
| Org. of which eight U.S. presidents have been members | 53 |
| Agcy. that supports research in economics and geology | 53 |
| Popular quintet that included two former Mouseketeers | 53 |
| "Rapa ___" (1994 movie about Easter Island) | 53 |
| Politician Sam who was a Georgia senator for 24 years | 53 |
| McAuliffe's famous retort to the Nazis: Dec. 1944 | 53 |
| A.L. player whose team logo includes an Uncle Sam hat | 53 |
| Charter ___ (tree on Connecticut's state quarter) | 53 |
| What you need to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"? | 53 |
| REO Speedwagon "Throw away the ___ forever" | 53 |
| "Don't Look Back In Anger" Britpop band | 53 |
| Kiss song that makes a pledge (with "The")? | 53 |