| Actor who often said, "Sorry about that, Chief" | 57 |
| Actress Mildred of "Death of a Salesman" (1951) | 57 |
| Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine | 57 |
| Athena's status [three consecutive identical letters] | 57 |
| A1: "They're probably ___ him as we speak." | 57 |
| A1: "Right. They're a couple of ___ types." | 57 |
| Asians featured in Eastwood's "Gran Torino" | 57 |
| An Emmy winner for "Love Among the Ruins": 1975 | 57 |
| Archaeologist Louis + actress Farrah = job for a plumber? | 57 |
| Abandoned after falling into a swimming pool while drunk? | 57 |
| Actor Sam of Broadway's "The Sunshine Boys" | 57 |
| Authenticated "Death of a Salesman" manuscript? | 57 |
| “Peter, Paul and ___” (1969 children’s album) | 57 |
| Anthropomorphic vacuum cleaner on "Teletubbies" | 57 |
| Antique Louisville Slugger or derogatory name for grandma | 57 |
| Actress Annie who voiced Bo Peep in "Toy Story" | 57 |
| Agatha Christie's "The Mysterious Mr. ____" | 57 |
| Actor in "The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg" | 57 |
| Attached to "Steel," it's a Hefty trash bag | 57 |
| Activity in which people are not playing with a full deck | 57 |
| Actress Locke of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" | 57 |
| Aptly named Nevada border community known for its casinos | 57 |
| Al who sought the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination | 57 |
| Air from Borodin's "Polovtsian Dance No. 2" | 57 |
| Aggressive, competitive person from Taiwan's capital? | 57 |
| Any of seven Chinese puzzle pieces that can form a square | 57 |
| Aerosmith lyric "Sleeping late and smoking ___" | 57 |
| Anne Brontë's "The ___ of Wildfell Hall" | 57 |
| Air conditioner brand that's "hard to stop" | 57 |
| Assist (or interfere, depending on who you're asking) | 57 |
| Alma mater of puzzlemakers Mike Nothnagel and yours truly | 57 |
| Actor Rhames of the "Mission: Impossible" films | 57 |
| Any one of the concentric circles in a ripple, in physics | 57 |
| Anteater's sound effect in the comic "B.C." | 57 |
| Alphabetically first member of the Baseball Hall of Fame | 56 |
| Attachment to "nautics" or "dynamic" | 56 |
| Author of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" | 56 |
| Author of "Other People" and "Money" | 56 |
| Author in the 1950s "angry young men" movement | 56 |
| “Things fall ___; the centre cannot hold”: Yeats | 56 |
| According to predictions in the show "Medium"? | 56 |
| Animal visitor to Paris in a classic children's book | 56 |
| “I never said most of the things I said” speaker | 56 |
| Announcement made with a greeting card featuring a stork | 56 |
| Author of the memoir "One Soldier's Story" | 56 |
| Any of five that begin this puzzle's longest answers | 56 |
| “___ Vista Social Club” (1999 music documentary) | 56 |
| Any of T. S. Eliot's "practical" creatures | 56 |
| Agent Scully's first name on "The X-Files" | 56 |
| A "clothing refresher" used to be called a ___ | 56 |
| Ashley who writes an advice column for the New York Post | 56 |
| Annual "Movie Yearbook" author since the 1990s | 56 |
| Adams in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" | 56 |
| Attained through struggle (with ''out'') | 56 |
| Actor Sitka who appeared in numerous Three Stooges films | 56 |
| Actress Durance who plays Lois on "Smallville" | 56 |
| Artistic pseudonym derived from its owner's initials | 56 |
| Artist known by the French pronunciation of his initials | 56 |
| Actor Rupert of "My Best Friend's Wedding" | 56 |
| Â Â Musical with the song "Rainbow Tour" | 56 |
| Angle (and a three-word hint to this puzzle's theme) | 56 |
| Acceleration unit named after a famous Italian physicist | 56 |
| Americans who reached adulthood in the '80s, briefly | 56 |
| Angelina Jolie biopic about a heroin-addicted supermodel | 56 |
| Aging consequence, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| “Bernice Bobs ___ Hair” (Fitzgerald short story) | 56 |
| “It Can’t Happen ___” (Sinclair Lewis novel) | 56 |
| Animal more closely related to the mongoose than the dog | 56 |
| Actor Holm who voiced Skinner in "Ratatouille" | 56 |
| Asteroid that gets nearer to the sun than any other body | 56 |
| Achille ___ (cruise ship that was a 1985 terrorism site) | 56 |
| Astronaut Jemison, first African-American woman in space | 56 |
| Annie Reed portrayer in "Sleepless in Seattle" | 56 |
| Arizona town where the Chicago Cubs hold spring training | 56 |
| Actress Wasikowska of "The Kids Are All Right" | 56 |
| Arizona county with a national monument of the same name | 56 |
| Architectural term that literally means "ship" | 56 |
| Actress Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 56 |
| Actor Nick with an especially unflattering 2002 mug shot | 56 |
| Arrival time of Frank Miller's train, in a 1952 film | 56 |
| Awards for playwrights Breuer and Durang: 1979–80 | 56 |
| Animal some believe to be the source of the unicorn myth | 56 |
| Agatha Christie's "_____ at End House'' | 56 |
| Actress ___ de Rossi of "Arrested Development" | 56 |
| Alice's foil in ''The Honeymooners'' | 56 |
| Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of "King Lear" | 56 |
| Author of "Comin' thro' the Rye": 1875 | 56 |
| Actress who always looks like she just sucked on a lemon | 56 |
| “The Flying Dutchman” painter Albert Pinkham ___ | 56 |
| Alice In Chains "Nothing ___: Best of the Box" | 56 |
| Antwerp International Airport's code on luggage tags | 56 |
| “When class is over they all inevitably ___ ...” | 56 |
| “You might call me a psychologist,” said the ___ | 56 |
| All Time Low "The Irony of ___ on a Lifesaver" | 56 |
| Architect who was a founding member of the Royal Society | 56 |
| Albee's 1967 Pulitzer Prize play, with "A" | 56 |
| Actor from "Caprica" and "NYPD Blue" | 56 |
| A 1969 rock anthem — as sung by a famous swinger? | 56 |
| Author whose landmark work began as "Catch-18" | 56 |
| Airport serving Iguacu Falls, for short (in VINAIGRETTE) | 56 |