| Ronald who directed "The Poseidon Adventure" | 54 |
| Repeated words before "me" in a Beatles tune | 54 |
| Roles in "G.W.T.W." and "Scarlett" | 54 |
| Rolling Stone's pick for #1 song of 2007, by Jay-Z | 54 |
| Republic from which Montenegro gained its independence | 54 |
| Result of eating French fries at the ship's wheel? | 54 |
| Restaurant known as "America's Drive-In" | 54 |
| Roughly 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.1 seconds of mean time | 54 |
| Rich bowling alley owner's incentive to bowl well? | 54 |
| Reality show focused on breeding the best female goat? | 54 |
| Real estate mogul with a reality game show, familiarly | 54 |
| Retail event in a furniture store parking lot, perhaps | 54 |
| Richard Schiff's role on "The West Wing" | 54 |
| Rays' home field, familiarly, with "The" | 54 |
| Ruler whose more common spelling is rare in crosswords | 54 |
| Reason for a flood of calls to the police dept., maybe | 54 |
| River that crosses the border of Russia and Kazakhstan | 54 |
| R&B singer with the 2004 #1 song "Yeah!" | 54 |
| Retailer with a fashion show (with "Secret") | 54 |
| Runner-up to Stoudemire for 2002-03 Rookie of the Year | 54 |
| Rowdy ___ (Eastwood's role in "Rawhide") | 54 |
| Reply to "Take out the papers and the trash" | 54 |
| Robot whose noises were made on an ARP 2600 synthesizer | 55 |
| Racecourse setting for a "My Fair Lady" scene | 55 |
| Richard’s “The Night of the Iguana” co-star | 55 |
| R&B singer with the 2004 #1 hit "Goodies" | 55 |
| Rush's waves will do this, on "Spindrift" | 55 |
| Reggie White's team when he was named N.F.L. M.V.P. | 55 |
| Retirement account transaction that may incur a penalty | 55 |
| Rudy Giuliani's replacement on the Iraq Study Group | 55 |
| Runner Liddell featured in "Chariots of Fire" | 55 |
| Repeated, a shout before "Read all about it!" | 55 |
| Robert Browning's ''Rabbi Ben ___'' | 55 |
| Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers "___ Squad" | 55 |
| Rapper who's married to reality TV star Coco Austin | 55 |
| Repeated words shouted after "Who wants ...?" | 55 |
| Rachel McAdams's "Midnight in Paris" role | 55 |
| Rapper with the #1 hit "Empire State of Mind" | 55 |
| Richard who directed "A Hard Day's Night" | 55 |
| Reverend turns utility pipe into a service improvement? | 55 |
| Rapper who made the 2012 album "Life Is Good" | 55 |
| Resident of one of only seven states with no income tax | 55 |
| R&B artist with the 2006 #1 hit "So Sick" | 55 |
| REO Speedwagon: "Throw away the ___, forever" | 55 |
| Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete | 55 |
| Restricted pending disciplinary action, in the military | 55 |
| Rerun's buddy on "What's Happening!!" | 55 |
| Raja ___, "The Serpent and the Rope" novelist | 55 |
| Resort city that shares its name with a Duran Duran hit | 55 |
| Repeated word in Stones "Steel Wheels" opener | 55 |
| Rodgers's "There Is Nothin' Like ___" | 55 |
| Religious doctrine whose founder was born July 10, 1509 | 55 |
| Rufus ___, Daniel Webster's successor in the Senate | 55 |
| Rapper who did the 1998 album "Rhythm-al-ism" | 55 |
| Result from getting otolaryngological advice at a deli? | 55 |
| Refrigerator feature that may hold a carton's worth | 55 |
| Rocks surrounding a backyard pavilion in Massachusetts? | 55 |
| Rapper who co-starred in "Next Day Air," 2009 | 55 |
| Responses to "Has this been invented before?" | 55 |
| Rembrandt's ''The _____ of Europa'' | 55 |
| Rapper/singer Jackson, ex-girlfriend of Kevin Federline | 55 |
| Retail establishment with a mollusk feature as its logo | 55 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee category since 2000 | 55 |
| Replay option available to umps on a very limited basis | 55 |
| Restaurant touted as "America's Drive-In" | 55 |
| Radio personality who ran for New York governor in 1994 | 55 |
| Repeated word in "It's My Life" band name | 55 |
| Replacement that a vintner would be shocked to discover | 55 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doo-wop group from Baltimore | 55 |
| Repetitive new-wave duo with "Genius of Love" | 55 |
| Romantic plotter in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 55 |
| Robert Burns's "O, ___ on Parnassus Hill" | 55 |
| Road safety invention patented by Mary Anderson in 1905 | 55 |
| Robert Burns's "___ Wild Mossy Mountains" | 55 |
| Roulette number that loses on bets of both even and odd | 55 |
| Roberta of Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" | 56 |
| Racing legend who voices a character in "Cars" | 56 |
| Romney who supposedly has never worked a day in her life | 56 |
| Retired Chicago Bears coach called "Iron Mike" | 56 |
| Role first awarded to British actress Elizabeth Shepherd | 56 |
| Roberts' co-star in ''Pretty Woman'' | 56 |
| Romano's "Everybody Loves Raymond" co-star | 56 |
| Roman who wrote: "Persian luxury, boy, I hate" | 56 |
| Rapper with the album "O.G. Original Gangster" | 56 |
| Retailer with a "Democratic Design" philosophy | 56 |
| Rick calls her "kid" in "Casablanca" | 56 |
| Repeated word in "Bridging the Gap" song title | 56 |
| Resident flying out of Kansai International Airport, say | 56 |
| Roman poet who wrote "To be loved, be lovable" | 56 |
| Restore Our Future and the Red White and Blue Fund, e.g. | 56 |
| Russell's ''Cinderella Man'' co-star | 56 |
| Reply to "How many Senators are there, child?" | 56 |
| Result of the dog getting into the shoe closet, perhaps? | 56 |
| Retirement home residents (with ''the'') | 56 |
| Romanian composer George of the opera "Oedipe" | 56 |
| Receptacle for part of a soul, in the Harry Potter books | 56 |
| Roxette "___ been love, but it's over now" | 56 |
| Revolutionary War veteran who served as a U.S. president | 56 |
| R&B "drinking song" covered by Ray Charles | 56 |
| Renaissance composer of "Missa Papae Marcelli" | 56 |