| Alma-___ (capital replaced by Astana) | 37 |
| Alma mater of Vice President Alben Barkley | 42 |
| Alma mater of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon | 42 |
| Alma mater of Rodgers and Hammerstein | 37 |
| Alma mater of presidents #41, 42 and 43 | 39 |
| Alma mater of many British prime ministers | 42 |
| Alma mater of Lewis Black and Ben Stein | 39 |
| Alma mater of Laura Bush, briefly | 33 |
| Alma mater of Laura Bush (abbr.) | 32 |
| Alma mater of Jimmy Carter: Abbr. | 33 |
| Alma mater of George W. Bush and John Kerry | 43 |
| Alma mater of G. W. Bush's wife | 35 |
| Alma mater of football great Roger Staubach | 43 |
| Alma mater of five U.S. presidents | 34 |
| Alma mater of crossword legend Tyler Hinman | 43 |
| Alma mater of Bill and Hillary Clinton | 38 |
| Alma mater of Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk: Abbr. | 48 |
| Alma mater of 19 prime ministers | 32 |
| Alma mater of "The Group" | 35 |
| Alma mater for George Orwell and Ian Fleming | 44 |
| Alma mater for Buzz Aldrin and Kofi Annan: Abbr. | 48 |
| Alma mater for Bill and Hillary Clinton | 39 |
| Alma mater for Adm. Richard Byrd: Abbr. | 39 |
| Ally's roommate on "Ally McBeal" | 46 |
| Ally org. of Second Amendment Sisters | 37 |
| Ally of Athens in the Peloponnesian War | 39 |
| Ally of "The Breakfast Club" | 38 |
| Ally of "St. Elmo's Fire" | 39 |
| Alluring opponents of Austin Powers | 35 |
| Allures of actor Peter and family? | 34 |
| Allude to former bandmate in interview | 38 |
| Alloys' principal components | 32 |
| Alloy that's not so hard to spot? | 37 |
| Alloy of lead and tin used to coat auto gas tanks | 49 |
| Alloy for which Damascus was famous | 35 |
| Allows use of original track for sample | 39 |
| Allows to fluctuate, as an exchange rate | 40 |
| Allows to attack a certain vampire? | 35 |
| Allows fellow drummer snare usage | 33 |
| Allows commercial development in, perhaps | 41 |
| Allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages | 40 |
| Allowing some light to come through, maybe | 42 |
| Allowing no returns, on the court | 33 |
| Allowing no returns on a tennis court | 37 |
| Allowing no bullets to get through? | 35 |
| Allowing for the possibility that | 33 |
| Allowing for pets' comings and goings, maybe | 48 |
| Allowed to run, as JavaScript on a webpage | 42 |
| Allowed to come in, as foreign products | 39 |
| Allowed on public roads, unlike most ATVs | 41 |
| Allowed for the container weight | 32 |
| Allowed for a future possibility | 32 |
| Allowances once given by weighers of commodities | 48 |
| Allowance for waste after deduction for tare | 44 |
| Allow to fluctuate, as an exchange rate | 39 |
| Allow the other sex to be admitted | 34 |
| Allow something normally unallowed | 34 |
| Allow oneself to be data-mined, perhaps | 39 |
| Allow for, with ''in'' | 38 |
| Allow a sacred river to ask for divine guidance? | 48 |
| Allow a prisoner unlimited phone calls? | 39 |
| Allotment of a Tony Shalhoub TV series? | 39 |
| Alloted, with ''out'' | 37 |
| Allot, in this puzzle's theme | 33 |
| Allocation of some pork spending? | 33 |
| Allocated amounts that are guarded? | 35 |
| Allocated (with "out") | 32 |
| Allocate (with ''out'') | 39 |
| Allmans' comeback "___ Turns" | 43 |
| Allmans "___ Wastin' Time No More" | 48 |
| Allmans "Might be your man, ___ know" | 47 |
| Allman whose brother married Cher | 33 |
| Allman Brothers' "___ a Peach" | 44 |
| Allman Brothers "___ Peach" | 37 |
| Allman Bros. spinoff Gov't ___ | 34 |
| Allman Bros. "___ Peach" | 34 |
| Alliteratively named robot of sci-fi | 36 |
| Alliterative body part in a nursery rhyme | 41 |
| Allison of "The West Wing" | 36 |
| Allison Mack's "Smallville" role | 46 |
| Alligators' homes, in urban mythology | 41 |
| Alligator's South American relatives | 40 |
| Alligator's home, in urban myths | 36 |
| Alligator's home, in urban mythology | 40 |
| Alligator's cousin, slangily | 32 |
| Alligator ___ (underwater menace) | 33 |
| Alligator ___ (another name for an avocado) | 43 |
| Alligator shirt wearers, typically | 34 |
| Allies of the Trojans in the "Iliad" | 46 |
| Allied troops liberated it 11/42 | 32 |
| Allied supply route to China during W.W. II | 43 |
| Allied river objective in Dec. 1944 | 35 |
| Allied landing site of September 1943 | 37 |
| Allied jumping-off point of June 1944, briefly | 46 |
| Allied jumping-off point of July 1944 | 37 |
| Alliance that now includes Slovakia and Slovenia | 48 |
| Alliance that includes Mex. and Peru | 36 |
| Alliance that includes Arg., Mex., and Uru. | 43 |
| Alliance of those who attack from hiding? | 41 |
| Alliance HQ'd near the White House | 38 |