| Embarrassing message you might hear about the next day | 54 |
| Early hip-hop group with "Strictly Business" | 54 |
| Exam material you really wouldn't want to memorize | 54 |
| Elvis instrument now in the Country Music Hall of Fame | 54 |
| Ellington's "__ Song Go Out of My Heart" | 54 |
| Emma Frost portrayer in "X-Men: First Class" | 54 |
| Edited 1977 horror movie about part of a citrus fruit? | 54 |
| Event whose followers are sometimes called bracketeers | 54 |
| Egyptian king credited with founding the First Dynasty | 54 |
| English physician James who gave his name to a disease | 54 |
| Evening after work set aside for a urinary tract exam? | 54 |
| Exclamation from George Costanza's relaxation tape | 54 |
| Effect of downgraded credit on a potential home buyer? | 54 |
| Emily Dickinson's "___ a Daisy Vanished" | 54 |
| Eponym of an annual award for best left-handed pitcher | 54 |
| Espionage novels heavy on futuristic gadgets, slangily | 54 |
| European cheese with a Protected Designation of Origin | 54 |
| Economics has a "law" of these market forces | 54 |
| Excavation site in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 54 |
| English "Rattus Norvegicus" punk forerunners | 54 |
| Employee who always agrees with the mint company boss? | 54 |
| Element of surprise in this puzzle's theme answers | 54 |
| Egbert Sousé portrayer in "The Bank Dick" | 54 |
| Electronics company purchased and then closed by Sony | 53 |
| England-Australia cricket prize, with "The" | 53 |
| Equipment for each of this puzzle's theme answers | 53 |
| Elaine ___, George W. Bush's only labor secretary | 53 |
| Either director of "No Country for Old Men" | 53 |
| Exasperated response to "How was your day?" | 53 |
| English county whose name referred to the East Saxons | 53 |
| Ernest who designed Washington's Corcoran gallery | 53 |
| English king crowned in 1100, who also ruled Normandy | 53 |
| Emily Dickinson's "thing with feathers" | 53 |
| Eric Cartwright's nickname on "Bonanza" | 53 |
| Evil grandmother on "Malcolm in the Middle" | 53 |
| Edward who wrote "The Owl and the Pussycat" | 53 |
| Either of two guests on "To Tell the Truth" | 53 |
| Employee of the fictional Wagner Company for 34 years | 53 |
| Eight milkers in "The 12 Days of Christmas" | 53 |
| Elton's love song hit off "Ice on Fire" | 53 |
| Esther Williams film, "___ Island With You" | 53 |
| Essay usually near the page with readers' letters | 53 |
| Eric Stratton's "Animal House" nickname | 53 |
| Eastwood's "In the Line of Fire" costar | 53 |
| Exterminator, or what an insect says when it sees one | 53 |
| Event where everyone in New Orleans naps in sunbeams? | 53 |
| English poet who wrote "A Book of Nonsense" | 53 |
| Endings for "differ" and "prefer" | 53 |
| Eve ___, "The Vagina Monologues" monologist | 53 |
| Estimates suggest there are an average of 100,000 ... | 53 |
| Exclamation that might be punctuated "??!?" | 53 |
| Euphemism used often on "The Newlywed Game" | 53 |
| Ex-Smiths (and current Modest Mouse) guitarist Johnny | 53 |
| Eloi portrayer in "The Time Machine" (1960) | 53 |
| Early dropout in the 2000 presidential race, politely | 53 |
| Ernie Kovacs's gorilla band, with "The" | 53 |
| Equine that originated in Italy's Campania region | 53 |
| Events crashed by this puzzle's uninvited guests? | 53 |
| Elizabethan property tax to benefit the disadvantaged | 53 |
| Elisabeth of ''Deconstructing Harry'' | 53 |
| Elmer holds one in "What's Opera, Doc?" | 53 |
| Exclamation after "Presto chango!," perhaps | 53 |
| Embrace more than just a family of Baroque composers? | 53 |
| Event won by Roger Federer for five consecutive years | 53 |
| Explorer of North America's eastern coast in 1524 | 53 |
| Easy-to-recognize word in speech recognition programs | 53 |
| Elmo's orange friend on "Sesame Street" | 53 |
| Engelbert Humperdinck "___ the Lovin'" | 52 |
| Edith Wharton's "The ___ of Innocence" | 52 |
| Ed with the 1967 hit "My Cup Runneth Over" | 52 |
| Engagement in 1861 or 1862 (Manassas, to the C.S.A.) | 52 |
| English channel's nickname, with "the" | 52 |
| Eddie who inspired "The French Connection" | 52 |
| Elsie the cow's spouse, for whom a glue is named | 52 |
| Elton John "Club at the ___ of the Street" | 52 |
| Earn the right to say ''My mistake'' | 52 |
| Edward's adoptive mother in "Twilight" | 52 |
| Ernest Borgnine in "From Here to Eternity" | 52 |
| Eugene who wrote "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" | 52 |
| Ending for "theater" or "church" | 52 |
| Errant computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 52 |
| End of the ladder (and the end point of the journey) | 52 |
| Excited response to "Who wants ice cream?" | 52 |
| Ever ___ Morissette-Treadway (Alanis's new baby) | 52 |
| Ending for "capital" or "social" | 52 |
| Eddie who pitched on five World Series-winning teams | 52 |
| Exam with a reading comprehension section, for short | 52 |
| Ernest ___, winner of the first Pulitzer for fiction | 52 |
| Electronics giant located in a criminal environment? | 52 |
| Ella of ''Hail the Conquering Hero'' | 52 |
| Elton sang goodbye to a "Yellow Brick" one | 52 |
| Entertainments at which some people lose their seats | 52 |
| Empire State sch. with two NCAA hockey championships | 52 |
| Elongated region in the middle of the North Atlantic | 52 |
| Environmental problem addressed in the Clean Air Act | 52 |
| Event in R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" | 52 |
| Extracurricular group that likely includes few jocks | 52 |
| Explorer Vitus with a sea and strait named after him | 52 |
| Entertainers with something to get off their chests? | 52 |
| Edited 1977 horror film about both ends of a pencil? | 52 |