| System for determining the top NCAA football team | 49 |
| "Like, take my bongos, man ... please"? | 49 |
| Beyoncé song about a lovely string instrument? | 49 |
| "Get a load of the big cat over there!" | 49 |
| "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" actor | 49 |
| "Drink to me only with thine eyes" poet | 49 |
| Floyd __ Field, NYC's first municipal airport | 49 |
| "Let independence ___ boast": Hopkinson | 49 |
| "Symphonie Fantastique" composer Hector | 49 |
| Close-knit group at a popular island destination? | 49 |
| Jeeves's boss __ Wooster, in Wodehouse novels | 49 |
| Academy Award that's the theme of this puzzle | 49 |
| Key of Schumann's "Spring" Symphony | 49 |
| Having the warp and weft 45° to the horizontal | 49 |
| CBS sitcom about physicists, with "The" | 49 |
| Former 6'9" N.B.A.'er Hayes, to fans | 49 |
| Tom Bodett's "Clear Shot" structure | 49 |
| What's really important, with "the" | 49 |
| Main character of "Slaughterhouse-Five" | 49 |
| Site of Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis's last home | 49 |
| Vision "pair"/clothing "pair" | 49 |
| Device that measures emanations of carbon dioxide | 49 |
| ____, Manitoba (sounds like Fertile Saskatchewan) | 49 |
| Company that invented the portable electric drill | 49 |
| Injury found in this grid's upper-left corner | 49 |
| Insulted hurled at a boring Jerry Springer guest? | 49 |
| "THE LORD IS WITH THEE: ___": Luke 1:28 | 49 |
| 1982 single by Violent Femmes best enjoyed alone? | 49 |
| Debut solo album by a former Black Sabbath member | 49 |
| Gore going for more of an L.A. surfer chick look? | 49 |
| Forensic clues with scattered money from a shark? | 49 |
| Cantrell who did "Hit 'Em Up Style" | 49 |
| Flowery Veronica Lake film (with "The") | 49 |
| TV chef and author who dropped out of high school | 49 |
| Major recipient of TARP money, which it paid back | 49 |
| Kitchen device made from two saucepans, literally | 49 |
| Swimmer with three Olympic gold medals, to Roget? | 49 |
| Bad stand-up comic's inVestment of the 1940s? | 49 |
| Critique of the sound effects at a haunted house? | 49 |
| 1993 Danny Glover film based on a Percy Mtwa play | 49 |
| _____, Saskatchewan (sounds like Morden Manitoba) | 49 |
| Springsteen song recorded again for Nick at Nite? | 49 |
| Something that keeps young gardeners entertained? | 49 |
| Zach ___, "Garden State" actor/director | 49 |
| University thatÂ’s home to the Rose Art Museum | 49 |
| "The Godfather" actor's reputation? | 49 |
| Furniture mentioned in "Lay, Lady, Lay" | 49 |
| Bumping into someone you never want to see again? | 49 |
| "Cannonball" band, with "the" | 49 |
| "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" | 49 |
| Subtitle for a "Girls Gone Wild" video? | 49 |
| He played Uncle Bill on "Family Affair" | 49 |
| Offers breakfast to students before first period? | 49 |
| First cut on the album "Sticky Fingers" | 49 |
| Actor honored with a memorial statue in Hong Kong | 49 |
| Biopic featuring Gary Busey, with "The" | 49 |
| Beverage with "Beware the penguins" ads | 49 |
| Lack of concurrence about a snappy comeback line? | 49 |
| "You and me against the world" attitude | 49 |
| ''Pilgrim's Progress'' author | 49 |
| Tracy Bonham "The ___ of Being Upright" | 49 |
| Ives who sang "A Holly Jolly Christmas" | 49 |
| "The Buddy Holly Story" star and family | 49 |
| Surgeon General Steven Galson, to his detractors? | 49 |
| Contentious economic issue for the 112th Congress | 49 |
| Dieter's song while looking at a sweets table | 49 |
| Words before "nose" or "hair" | 49 |
| "Hanging __ Moment": 2001 Lifehouse hit | 49 |
| Why there are so many tree people in this puzzle? | 49 |
| What the president's advisors came down with? | 49 |
| Pass between the San Bernardinos and San Gabriels | 49 |
| One with ads in the back of an alternative weekly | 49 |
| Say "I'm too stupid to work today"? | 49 |
| Spiky device thrown in the road to puncture tires | 49 |
| Comic strip boy with a stuffed tiger named Hobbes | 49 |
| Card game at Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory? | 49 |
| Shrewd warm-up routine that captivates the crowd? | 49 |
| Word from the Italian for "wine cellar" | 49 |
| "A very riband in the ___ youth": Shak. | 49 |
| An amusement with a member of the parsley family? | 49 |
| "Element #6 Goes Out With Someone New!" | 49 |
| Character in "The Phantom of the Opera" | 49 |
| "Rock the ___" (hit song for The Clash) | 49 |
| ___.com (e-mail address for an old poetry reader) | 49 |
| Male singer for whom the Italians used to go nuts | 49 |
| Human resources director in a Scott Adams cartoon | 49 |
| "The Younger" and "the Elder" | 49 |
| "Always serve ___" (dog soiree advice?) | 49 |
| "The waitress will be heah soon. I ___" | 49 |
| Old N.Y.C. club said to be the birthplace of punk | 49 |
| " . . . fears that I may ___ be": Keats | 49 |
| "Barbershop" costar ___ the Entertainer | 49 |
| Author of "Gods, Graves & Scholars" | 49 |
| City of a quarter million founded on a ranch site | 49 |
| Book part of particular interest to British guys? | 49 |
| Sea monster of Greek myth able to make whirlpools | 49 |
| Marketer's popularity quotient for Limburger? | 49 |
| Images on so-called revolutionaries' t-shirts | 49 |
| Baseball team that gets drives in fare territory? | 49 |
| Cowardly "It's Tricky" hip-hoppers? | 49 |