| Model hit in the face by a goose in 1999 | 40 |
| Long-maned model of romance cover fame | 38 |
| "The Fox and the Grapes," e.g. | 40 |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare," for one | 46 |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare," e.g. | 43 |
| "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," e.g. | 40 |
| "Jack and the Beanstalk," e.g. | 40 |
| ''The Fox and the Grapes,'' e.g. | 48 |
| Ade's "___ in Slang" | 34 |
| Title on a child's bookshelf | 32 |
| "Fox and Grapes" et al. | 33 |
| Something that's often made up | 34 |
| Site of this puzzle's thematic features | 43 |
| Helen's launched a large fleet | 34 |
| "___/Off" (1997 Travolta/Cage thriller) | 49 |
| ___ the music (accept consequences) | 35 |
| What criminal rocker did to music | 33 |
| Griffith-Neal 1957 film, with "A" | 43 |
| 1957 Elia Kazan film (with "A") | 41 |
| "Let's be honest ..." | 35 |
| "Let's cut the crap ..." | 38 |
| "Let's be honest!" | 32 |
| "Accept the situation!" | 33 |
| ''Accept the situation!'' | 41 |
| Some people are good at remembering them | 40 |
| Chaney's "thousand" | 33 |
| "The Three ___ of Eve" | 32 |
| Berlin-Hart play co-directed by Kaufman | 39 |
| Have the possibility of going to jail | 37 |
| It might not indicate true worth | 32 |
| What a "forever" stamp lacks | 38 |
| Part of a beauty treatment, perhaps | 35 |
| Thing that Sgt. Friday requested | 32 |
| "That's the ___, Jack!" | 37 |
| "On the Origin of Species," for one? | 46 |
| Allow for, with ''in'' | 38 |
| Where many jobs may be on the line | 34 |
| TV's "The ___ of Life" | 36 |
| They "flinch not": Browning | 37 |
| It's usually good to stick to them | 38 |
| "Just the ___, ma'am": Sgt. Friday | 48 |
| "Just the ___, ma'am" | 35 |
| It's in one year and out the other | 38 |
| It's here today, gone tomorrow | 34 |
| Thing in one year and out the other | 35 |
| The Macarena or Psy's horse dance, e.g. | 43 |
| The lambada or the macarena, e.g. | 33 |
| The "Macarena" dance was one | 38 |
| Mood rings or the Macarena, once | 32 |
| It's in one era, out the other | 34 |
| It's in one era . . . out the other | 39 |
| It's "in one era and . . . " | 42 |
| It goes in one era and out the other? | 37 |
| It goes in one era and out the other | 36 |
| “I Love the ’80s” topic | 35 |
| Goldfish swallowing in the 1920s, e.g. | 38 |
| Cabbage Patch Kids or Beanie Babies | 35 |
| Beanie Babies or the Hula-Hoop, e.g. | 36 |
| Lose support, as at campaign's end | 38 |
| Lose strength in the backstretch | 32 |
| Hair style on some old hip-hop album covers | 43 |
| Dropped back after a promising start | 36 |
| Ben Harper "The Will to Live" opener | 46 |
| Movie technique used at the start of a scene | 44 |
| Film's scene-starting effect | 32 |
| Volume-control devices, in recording | 36 |
| Becomes a whiter shade of pale, perhaps | 39 |
| They're in one year and out the other | 41 |
| They don't stay hot for very long | 37 |
| Twerking and Candy Crush Saga, for two | 38 |
| They're not hot for very long | 33 |
| They're "in" briefly | 34 |
| They don't stay hot for long | 32 |
| Rubik's Cube and troll dolls, once | 38 |
| Collecting Pokémon cards, and others | 39 |
| Big Mouth Billy Bass and things like that | 41 |
| Spenser's "The ___ Queene" | 40 |
| "The ___ Queene" (Spenser work) | 41 |
| Spenser's "The __ Queene" | 39 |
| Spenser's "___ Queene" | 36 |
| Shelley Duvall's "__ Tale Theatre" | 48 |
| Figure in an Edmund Spenser poem | 32 |
| "The ___ Queene": Spenser | 35 |
| "The __ Queene" (Spenser work) | 40 |
| "Oliver Twist" villain | 32 |
| "Oliver Twist" character | 34 |
| "Oliver Twist" criminal | 33 |
| Twisted character in “Oliver Twist” | 43 |
| Dickens's "merry old gentleman" | 45 |
| He became king of Saudi Arabia in 1982 | 38 |
| Need to retake in summer school, say | 36 |
| Received less than a passing grade | 34 |
| Didn't even come close to acing | 35 |
| Soft, transversely ribbed fabric | 32 |
| Gets an "F" for effort | 32 |
| "I'll Be Seeing You" songwriter | 45 |
| "April Love" composer Sammy | 37 |
| "I'll Be Seeing You" composer | 43 |
| "All's ___ in love and war" | 41 |
| Susceptible to sunburn, probably | 32 |