| Bothering the host while he or she makes fresh salsa? | 53 |
| Business that requires union membership before hiring | 53 |
| Blog with the subhead "State of the Nation" | 53 |
| Bigger band that covered "Bits and Pieces"? | 53 |
| Baltimore rapper with "Lord Give Me a Sign" | 53 |
| Best Actor nominee for "American History X" | 53 |
| Baseball's 'Mr. Cub' adds to his savings? | 53 |
| Beatles "Revolver" classic for nice weather | 53 |
| Bad review of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"? | 53 |
| Best-selling author of "Good as Gold," 1979 | 53 |
| Broadway flop about an introduction to actor Bridges? | 53 |
| Baseball advice, "___ where they ain't" | 53 |
| Beatles flip side about plain Jane's best friend? | 53 |
| Boston attraction with a permanent Space Race exhibit | 53 |
| Belief that all things are made of a single substance | 53 |
| Boy band with the 2001 hit "All or Nothing" | 53 |
| Brand of peanut butter named for a literary character | 53 |
| Barrie's "Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" | 53 |
| Band formed by ex-Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten, for short | 53 |
| Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, with "The" | 53 |
| Beautifully illustrated report of a computer failure? | 53 |
| Band with the 1990 #9 hit "Silent Lucidity" | 53 |
| Boo ___, recluse in "To Kill a Mockingbird" | 53 |
| Black cat that packs grass and chants "Jah" | 53 |
| Baseball commissioner who introduced interleague play | 53 |
| Beatles command, baby, in "Twist and Shout" | 53 |
| Butcher's, baker's or candlestick maker's | 53 |
| Big ___ (country rapper with an A&E reality show) | 53 |
| Brand that has "Real Facts" on its products | 53 |
| Biblical king who built the first temple in Jerusalem | 53 |
| Braga of ''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' | 53 |
| Bonnie Tyler "Faster Than the ___ of Night" | 53 |
| Baffled "Jeopardy!" contestant's effort | 53 |
| Barrett who played on the first two Pink Floyd albums | 53 |
| Barrett profiled in "Songs in the Key of Z" | 53 |
| Biting thriller by Tom Clancy? (with "The") | 53 |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "___ Crossroads" | 53 |
| Busy area of Manhattan (and the theme of this puzzle) | 53 |
| Boss's holiday dinner dilemma in a tight economy? | 53 |
| Batman villain who makes decisions by flipping a coin | 53 |
| Baseball great known as "The Georgia Peach" | 53 |
| Boxer who has tattoos of Mao Tse-Tung and Che Guevara | 53 |
| Beginning for "violet" or "sound" | 53 |
| Bunker, to Stephanie on "All in the Family" | 53 |
| Bosox legend who won baseball's last triple crown | 53 |
| Band with the hit album "Close to the Edge" | 53 |
| Burns's "O Were My Love ___ Lilac Fair" | 53 |
| Beginning for "dynamic" or "space" | 54 |
| Baldwin of SNL's "Schweddy Balls" sketch | 54 |
| Baseball family dynasty that ended when Moises retired | 54 |
| Ben Franklin's mouse pal in "Ben and Me" | 54 |
| Bug film in which Gene Hackman voices General Mandible | 54 |
| Bruce Springsteen's nickname, with "The" | 54 |
| Bandit of "Smokey and the Bandit" and others | 54 |
| Boy who saw dead people in "The Sixth Sense" | 54 |
| Biblical figure who could read the writing on the wall | 54 |
| Bill Maher's film debut, in which he played a hack | 54 |
| Byrnes who played Vince Fontaine in "Grease" | 54 |
| Biblical place Talk Talk had the "Spirit of" | 54 |
| Band with the hit ''Livin' Thing'' | 54 |
| Band that wrote half the "Xanadu" soundtrack | 54 |
| Billy Crystal or Whoopi Goldberg for the Oscars, often | 54 |
| Byrne's "Strange Overtones" collaborator | 54 |
| Brian who composed the Microsoft Windows startup sound | 54 |
| Big, and word that is found in all three theme answers | 54 |
| Burnett of CNBC's "Squawk On the Street" | 54 |
| Brief relative of ''yada, yada, yada'' | 54 |
| Bean mentioned in "The Silence of the Lambs" | 54 |
| Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony is in it | 54 |
| Beatles album that included "Ticket to Ride" | 54 |
| Baggins portrayer in "The Lord of the Rings" | 54 |
| Beverage brand with a cartoon polar bear as its mascot | 54 |
| Breakfast chain with a Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity | 54 |
| Band with the 1988 #1 hit "Need You Tonight" | 54 |
| Bert who sang "If I Were King of the Forest" | 54 |
| Bush with the memoir "Spoken From the Heart" | 54 |
| Beck's "Flies" off "Mutations" | 54 |
| Bo wore one at his first appearance at the White House | 54 |
| Brotherhood depicted in "The Valachi Papers" | 54 |
| Blue character in ''Yellow Submarine'' | 54 |
| Broadway's ''Five Guys Named ___'' | 54 |
| Bobbettes song that begins "One, two, three" | 54 |
| Biography subtitled "The Invention of India" | 54 |
| Basketball team slated to move to Brooklyn, eventually | 54 |
| Brand that's a shortened description of its flavor | 54 |
| Band with the 10x platinum album "Nevermind" | 54 |
| Bond portrayer in 1967's "Casino Royale" | 54 |
| Brand formerly marketed as Philishave outside the U.S. | 54 |
| Book that comes with a map of The Marquesas and Tahiti | 54 |
| Briscoe's portrayer on "Law & Order" | 54 |
| Bree's husband on "Desperate Housewives" | 54 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer who batted left and threw right | 54 |
| Bird seen with Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of death | 54 |
| Birds whose heads can rotate 135 degrees left or right | 54 |
| Basis for the first commercially successful video game | 54 |
| Backup singer on "Midnight Train to Georgia" | 54 |
| Bob Marley's "Situation" gets this quick | 54 |
| Be overly optimistic with one's archeological work | 54 |
| Bolshoi's "Sleeping Beauty" looks fishy? | 54 |
| Baseball's Jackson, a.k.a. "Mr. October" | 54 |