| Drops the equipment at the club before a gig | 44 |
| Dissolved, as bacteria exposed to antibodies | 44 |
| Documentary on many best movie lists of 2008 | 44 |
| Devices for amplifying electromagnetic waves | 44 |
| Dessert nicknamed "The Merciless"? | 44 |
| Dessert with candied fruit, nuts and liqueur | 44 |
| Did away with Homer's neighbor for good? | 44 |
| Defamatory remarks uttered on ocean cruises? | 44 |
| Dracula's least favorite sporting event? | 44 |
| Digits some people write with an extra slash | 44 |
| Did or didn't play a good round of golf? | 44 |
| Drive one's spouse to the couch, perhaps | 44 |
| David Byrne's career after Talking Heads | 44 |
| Donnie Darko's sister's dance troupe | 44 |
| Department for Detectives Stabler and Benson | 44 |
| Dr. Egon ___ ("Ghostbusters" role) | 44 |
| Director of "Being John Malkovich" | 44 |
| Drink for which "lymon" was coined | 44 |
| Doesn't stick to the straight and narrow | 44 |
| Dil Pickles's dad on "Rugrats" | 44 |
| Dowson's "Non ___ Qualis Eram" | 44 |
| Doyle's "The Adventure of ___" | 44 |
| D. H. Lawrence's first novel, colorfully | 44 |
| Drive-___[SEE NOTE ABOVE ABOUT HOW TO SOLVE] | 44 |
| Day when Corpus Christi is celebrated: abbr. | 44 |
| Disneyland bird show, the Enchanted ___ Room | 44 |
| Dr. Frank 'N' Furter portrayer Curry | 44 |
| Dickens character (and title of this puzzle) | 44 |
| Double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting | 44 |
| Detective famous for a "last case" | 44 |
| DiCaprio owned it in "The Aviator" | 44 |
| Dancer with John in "Pulp Fiction" | 44 |
| Dylan Thomas's "___ Milk Wood" | 44 |
| Dennis Haysbert series, with "The" | 44 |
| During an earthquake on the East Coast . . . | 44 |
| Dylan "Froggie ___ A Courtin'" | 44 |
| Drenched gangsters who are out of the woods? | 44 |
| Declaration of Independence's first word | 44 |
| Description of an 18th-century writing desk? | 44 |
| D. H. Lawrence's "___ in Love" | 44 |
| Designations for secret papers of 1790's | 44 |
| Dice game whose maximum score is 1575 points | 44 |
| Director of the last four Harry Potter films | 44 |
| Dr. Seuss's "king of the pond" | 44 |
| Dismissive term for chronic fatigue syndrome | 44 |
| Drag queen in "La Cage aux Folles" | 44 |
| Dr. Seuss's "If I Ran the ___" | 44 |
| Disappointed interjections from Dirk Nowitzki | 45 |
| Dylan "___ Rain's a-Gonna Fall" | 45 |
| Desired gift in "A Christmas Story" | 45 |
| Director of the last "MASH" episode | 45 |
| Dürer's "Paumgärtner ___" | 45 |
| Dickinson of ''Police Woman'' | 45 |
| Dog-owning wife in "101 Dalmatians" | 45 |
| Dustin's "The Graduate" co-star | 45 |
| Dot and Flik, in "A Bug's Life" | 45 |
| Dadaist who called himself both Hans and Jean | 45 |
| Daddy Warbucks henchman, with "The" | 45 |
| Deity featured on California's state seal | 45 |
| Down East city on the Penobscot River: 2 wds. | 45 |
| Drink a little here, drink a little there ... | 45 |
| Diamond quartet (and this puzzle's theme) | 45 |
| Dog in the comic strip "Stone Soup" | 45 |
| Doll line that features Yasmin, Cloe and Jade | 45 |
| Director of "It Happened One Night" | 45 |
| Director of ''Meet John Doe'' | 45 |
| Dessert often made with cream cheese frosting | 45 |
| Dante or Randal, in a 1994 Kevin Smith comedy | 45 |
| Director of "The Ladykillers," 2004 | 45 |
| Death Cab for Cutie "A Lack of ___" | 45 |
| Didi who played Frenchy in "Grease" | 45 |
| Displays at a St. Petersburg, Florida, museum | 45 |
| Delany of ABC's "Body of Proof" | 45 |
| Dippy __: original name of Disney's Goofy | 45 |
| Director of the epic film 'Cleopatra' | 45 |
| Did "Where or When" w/ The Belmonts | 45 |
| Drag queen singer from John Waters' films | 45 |
| Dumb girl in "Match Game" questions | 45 |
| De Matteo of "Desperate Housewives" | 45 |
| De Matteo of ''The Sopranos'' | 45 |
| Dunker with "the Tomahawk," to fans | 45 |
| Detergent with a glass in every box, long ago | 45 |
| Donizetti's "The _____ of Love" | 45 |
| Dane who composed the opera "Lamia" | 45 |
| Dutch engraver known for his mind-bending art | 45 |
| Dame Edith who was nominated for three Oscars | 45 |
| Dickens's "merry old gentleman" | 45 |
| David Bowie's first #1 single in the U.S. | 45 |
| Designer of the first working nuclear reactor | 45 |
| Death Cab for Cutie "Grapevine ___" | 45 |
| Do research on, as someone you met at a party | 45 |
| Dik Browne's "___ the Horrible" | 45 |
| Dynasty in which Confucianism became dominant | 45 |
| Drink whose name suggests its vitamin content | 45 |
| Dostoyevsky title character named Lev Myshkin | 45 |
| Disney president during the Pixar acquisition | 45 |
| Don Imus's nickname, with "the" | 45 |
| Digging ... or word after "digging" | 45 |
| Dr. Seuss's "If ___ the Circus" | 45 |
| Diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil | 45 |