| Ming who signed with the Rockets in 2002 | 40 |
| Material with which kittens have a ball? | 40 |
| Title syllables in a 1961 Lee Dorsey hit | 40 |
| Oslo Accords partner of Yitzhak and Bill | 40 |
| "Breaking Away" director Peter | 40 |
| ''The Dresser'' director | 40 |
| Whitman's "barbaric" sound | 40 |
| Sisterhood name in a Rebecca Wells novel | 40 |
| 1960s-'80s Red Sox great, informally | 40 |
| First person to travel faster than sound | 40 |
| When repeated, part of a Beatles refrain | 40 |
| Godhead "2000 ___ Human Error" | 40 |
| "Our hope for ___ come": Watts | 40 |
| "The Wild Swans at Coole" poet | 40 |
| "The Wanderings of Oisin" poet | 40 |
| Saudi Arabia's neighbor to the south | 40 |
| Inhabitant of a Middle Eastern peninsula | 40 |
| Item a Japanese may have a hankering for | 40 |
| " . . . enter ___": Matt. 10:5 | 40 |
| Matchmaker in "Fiddler . . . " | 40 |
| Gender-bending role for Barbra Streisand | 40 |
| ''So's __ old man!'' | 40 |
| "___ out!" (umpire's call) | 40 |
| "___ out!" (call at the plate) | 40 |
| San Francisco Bay's ___ Buena Island | 40 |
| __ Buena, town that became San Francisco | 40 |
| Seussian “king” undone by a burp | 40 |
| "Owner of a Lonely Heart" band | 40 |
| One of two definitive proposal responses | 40 |
| ''Yer darn tootin''' | 40 |
| Something "she didn't say" | 40 |
| Jon Anderson "Roundabout" band | 40 |
| Sammy Davis Jr's "--- Can" | 40 |
| "___ heard you the first time" | 40 |
| "__ Can": Sammy Davis Jr. book | 40 |
| Response to "Are you serious?" | 40 |
| "That's nothing new to me" | 40 |
| Tom's respectful reply to Aunt Polly | 40 |
| "That's right, Aunt Polly" | 40 |
| ''Of course, dear lady'' | 40 |
| ''Was that a ___ a no?'' | 40 |
| ''What is your answer?'' | 40 |
| Answer to "Take credit cards?" | 40 |
| "You're right, absolutely" | 40 |
| Wynonna's "Is It Over ___" | 40 |
| Bela, in "Son of Frankenstein" | 40 |
| Feminine principle of Chinese philosophy | 40 |
| Sumac of "Secret of the Incas" | 40 |
| Community athletic events sponsor: Abbr. | 40 |
| Jedi who was almost as old as Methuselah | 40 |
| "Salute to the sun" discipline | 40 |
| It makes some people bend over backwards | 40 |
| Stealer of "pic-a-nic" baskets | 40 |
| Farm tool with a crosspiece and a swivel | 40 |
| Cletus on "The Simpsons," e.g. | 40 |
| "Popular Songs" band ___ Tengo | 40 |
| He of "a lean and hungry look" | 40 |
| Neil Simon's "Lost in ___" | 40 |
| '-- -hoo!' ('Hey, you!') | 40 |
| Washington's "Walking Man" | 40 |
| Eddie _____, The Walking Man of baseball | 40 |
| "Yes, I'm looking at ___!" | 40 |
| "___ wanna take this outside?" | 40 |
| Response to "I promise I will" | 40 |
| "___ Have Broadway," 1906 song | 40 |
| What Cassius Clay said starting in 1964? | 40 |
| Start of the barber customer's reply | 40 |
| Start of a quote by Booker T. Washington | 40 |
| "__ Be Surprised": Berlin tune | 40 |
| 1973 Chicago single "Just ___" | 40 |
| Part of a memorable anti-drug commercial | 40 |
| Cahn-Styne's "___ My Girl" | 40 |
| "__ So Vain": Carly Simon song | 40 |
| "__ a Good Man, Charlie Brown" | 40 |
| Burger King's method of preparation? | 40 |
| Overwhelmed gift recipient's comment | 40 |
| Hives "Hate to Say I Told ___" | 40 |
| "So I'm not the only one?" | 40 |
| What this puzzle's theme entries are | 40 |
| Alpine song that goes up and down a lot? | 40 |
| Seat of California's Siskiyou County | 40 |
| River that was the scene of WWI fighting | 40 |
| ''Jan. 1 to now'' column | 40 |
| "The essence of coffee" coffee | 40 |
| Sales promotion for a versatile GMC SUV? | 40 |
| James's "Westworld" costar | 40 |
| Destination of the 3:10 train, in a film | 40 |
| Ladies' service org. since the 1850s | 40 |
| Efron of "High School Musical" | 40 |
| Galifianakis of "The Hangover" | 40 |
| "Rumble in the Jungle" setting | 40 |
| Country that gained independence in 1960 | 40 |
| __ Starkey, longtime drummer for The Who | 40 |
| "Code of the West" author Grey | 40 |
| Sound of an anti-mosquito device working | 40 |
| Frank of rockÂ’s Mothers of Invention | 40 |
| "Jazz From Hell" Grammy winner | 40 |
| Pitts of "The Gale Storm Show" | 40 |
| "La Cage Aux Folles" character | 40 |
| Lead character in "Zoolander"? | 40 |