| Airline investigative org. | 26 |
| Actor-director Elliott ___ | 26 |
| Atomic reactors, for short | 26 |
| Applesauce topper, perhaps | 26 |
| American humorist: 1850-96 | 26 |
| Alliance since 1948: Abbr. | 26 |
| Alliance for Progress grp. | 26 |
| A mirage may look like one | 26 |
| Adjective for some cereals | 26 |
| Author of "Them" | 26 |
| Appointer of Justice Kagan | 26 |
| Award for "Rent" | 26 |
| Atlantis cover, supposedly | 26 |
| Astronaut's instrument | 26 |
| Air freshener's target | 26 |
| Arch with a double-S shape | 26 |
| Author of Butterfield 8 | 26 |
| Allegheny plus Monongahela | 26 |
| A driver might dip into it | 26 |
| Any Edmonton hockey player | 26 |
| Alternative to watercolors | 26 |
| Animal with a striped rear | 26 |
| Animal with zebralike legs | 26 |
| Animal of the Congo Valley | 26 |
| Arkansawyer's neighbor | 26 |
| Any of several Norse kings | 26 |
| Adjective on a shoppe sign | 26 |
| Any song your parents like | 26 |
| Accolade for a bullfighter | 26 |
| Another word for margarine | 26 |
| A little bit of everything | 26 |
| Ancient native of S Mexico | 26 |
| Arabian Peninsula monarchy | 26 |
| Arabian Peninsula occupant | 26 |
| A neighbor of Saudi Arabia | 26 |
| Arabian peninsula resident | 26 |
| All-Star shortstop Vizquel | 26 |
| Actor/bridge master Sharif | 26 |
| Actor-bridge expert Sharif | 26 |
| Alpha's polar opposite | 26 |
| A middle name of Pétain | 26 |
| Atlanta's civic center | 26 |
| America's country code | 26 |
| A Chorus Line number | 26 |
| Academy Award winner Tatum | 26 |
| A stroke might indicate it | 26 |
| A thousand bucks, in slang | 26 |
| Approximately .264 gallons | 26 |
| A good deal of binary code | 26 |
| Achieved with a single try | 26 |
| Alternative to a steak fry | 26 |
| Airing after midnight, say | 26 |
| Accomplished at the locale | 26 |
| Approaching one's goal | 26 |
| “I’m ___ you!” | 26 |
| At the pinnacle of success | 26 |
| Alley Oop's girlfriend | 26 |
| Alley OopÂ’s girlfriend | 26 |
| Alley ___, basketball pass | 26 |
| Alley ___ (comics caveman) | 26 |
| Apt name for a gemologist? | 26 |
| Another October birthstone | 26 |
| All-comers' tournament | 26 |
| Allowing for contingencies | 26 |
| Admits the first customers | 26 |
| Ali Baba's magic words | 26 |
| Arabian Nights catchphrase | 26 |
| Aunt Bee's grandnephew | 26 |
| Andy's son in Mayberry | 26 |
| Andy Griffith's TV son | 26 |
| Abbr. in street directions | 26 |
| Acquire the film rights to | 26 |
| Apollo's was at Delphi | 26 |
| Administered by swallowing | 26 |
| Algeria's Gulf of ___ | 26 |
| Auburn-haired ape, briefly | 26 |
| Avail oneself of a rostrum | 26 |
| A lode off one's mine? | 26 |
| A load off one's mine? | 26 |
| Assayer's raw material | 26 |
| Azurite or malechite, e.g. | 26 |
| AssayerÂ’s raw material | 26 |
| Agatha Christie title word | 26 |
| Art that requires a folder | 26 |
| Annie, e.g., in the comics | 26 |
| AL home run leader of 2006 | 26 |
| Author of "1984" | 26 |
| A Universal Studios locale | 26 |
| Agency that led to the CIA | 26 |
| Ancient Rome's seaport | 26 |
| Ally of the Missouri, once | 26 |
| Army training place: Abbr. | 26 |
| Animated school bus driver | 26 |
| Animated school-bus driver | 26 |
| A jigger is bigger than it | 26 |
| “I’m __ here!” | 26 |
| Ab -- (from the beginning) | 26 |
| Arkansas' -- Mountains | 26 |
| Arkansas' __ Mountains | 26 |
| A high flier may fly in it | 26 |