| What villains often insist damsels must pay? | 44 |
| First word of "Stairway to Heaven" | 44 |
| Complaint overheard in a restaurant (Part 1) | 44 |
| Posh place to stay in Piccadilly, familiarly | 44 |
| Headline about a lachrymose Queen Elizabeth? | 44 |
| It gets thrown up in a famous Christmas poem | 44 |
| "Lord, what fools ___ mortals be!" | 44 |
| "__ are the times that ...": Paine | 44 |
| " . . . stays ___ couriers . . . " | 44 |
| Chaucer's "___ Nun's Tale" | 44 |
| Rosamunde Pilcher novel made into a TV movie | 44 |
| Ace of Base song that was the #1 hit of 1994 | 44 |
| Tale of a frightening encounter with a lion? | 44 |
| Doyle's "The Adventure of ___" | 44 |
| " . . . and onions in ___": Divine | 44 |
| Porter's "In ___ of the Night" | 44 |
| New reality show about celebs on a pig farm? | 44 |
| "Turkey in ___," square-dance song | 44 |
| "Has It Come to This?" U.K. rapper | 44 |
| 1981 hit by Billy Squier best enjoyed alone? | 44 |
| Centerpiece of some kids' science models | 44 |
| Pain that definitively diagnoses an illness? | 44 |
| Short-term worker who causes utter disaster? | 44 |
| Film about Nick and Nora's underfed cat? | 44 |
| "It's a long way to ___" AC/DC | 44 |
| Human Development Report publisher, in brief | 44 |
| Talking Heads got "Sand" in theirs | 44 |
| Goldsmith's "___ of Wakefield" | 44 |
| D. H. Lawrence's first novel, colorfully | 44 |
| "___heart shall be called prudent" | 44 |
| Its pilot episode introduced The Smoking Man | 44 |
| "___ stumble that run fast": Shak. | 44 |
| "--- never believe this back home" | 44 |
| "___ never believe this back home" | 44 |
| She "beat the belles of Tennessee" | 44 |
| Pursuit for a mountaineering cryptozoologist | 44 |
| "___ never know what hit 'em!" | 44 |
| "___ Playing Our Song" (1979 song) | 44 |
| "__ here": "Poltergeist" | 44 |
| "At ___," Simon and Garfunkel song | 44 |
| Huey Lewis "Walking on a ___ Line" | 44 |
| "Let's Call the Whole ___ Off" | 44 |
| Official laptop computer of a San Diego pro? | 44 |
| Penalty against soft drinks under 16 ounces? | 44 |
| What many office buildings don't include | 44 |
| Wilbur's "Things of ___ World" | 44 |
| Second word in "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 44 |
| "_____ Is Spinal Tap" (1984 movie) | 44 |
| "___ Can't Be Love," 1938 song | 44 |
| "It's heavier than I thought!" | 44 |
| "The MAYor of Casterbridge" author | 44 |
| Mythological 2011 movie with Anthony Hopkins | 44 |
| Name in the etymology of "thunder" | 44 |
| 2011 superhero film starring Chris Hemsworth | 44 |
| Actress Birch of "American Beauty" | 44 |
| "Good things come to ___ who wait" | 44 |
| "___ Calloways" (1965 Disney film) | 44 |
| "Fix that scoreboard!": Psa. 139:2 | 44 |
| Number of Scrabble points for a B, C, M or P | 44 |
| "Sunrise, Sunset" is written in it | 44 |
| Group with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| Candy bar named for some literary characters | 44 |
| What tennis balls are packaged in, typically | 44 |
| Countdown finale and this puzzle's theme | 44 |
| "___ in Manila" (Ali/Frazier bout) | 44 |
| The unemployed bricklayer promised not to... | 44 |
| Drive-___[SEE NOTE ABOVE ABOUT HOW TO SOLVE] | 44 |
| Words before administering a needle, perhaps | 44 |
| Night to watch "The Office": Abbr. | 44 |
| Day when Corpus Christi is celebrated: abbr. | 44 |
| Rejected contemptuously, with "at" | 44 |
| Madras dress that's taken up by hitches? | 44 |
| "The Audience Is Listening" system | 44 |
| Herb mentioned in a Simon and Garfunkel song | 44 |
| Carrere of TV's "Relic Hunter" | 44 |
| River where Romulus and Remus were abandoned | 44 |
| "Twitch," minus every other letter | 44 |
| Mountain resort famous for its breath mints? | 44 |
| National Cherry Blossom Festival focal point | 44 |
| "...___ the affairs of men": Shak. | 44 |
| Most likely to pass a white-glove inspection | 44 |
| "Good ___ of great joy": Luke 2:10 | 44 |
| When broken, some people get happy, some sad | 44 |
| "The Banquet of Cleopatra" painter | 44 |
| They're often broken after being reached | 44 |
| The vice president breaks them in the Senate | 44 |
| A sports personality who sounds like a place | 44 |
| Disneyland bird show, the Enchanted ___ Room | 44 |
| "___ the Day I Die" (Garbage song) | 44 |
| --- Tuesday ("Voices Carry" group) | 44 |
| What Tommy would never do to pinball machine | 44 |
| Dr. Frank 'N' Furter portrayer Curry | 44 |
| Comic Meadows formerly of "S.N.L." | 44 |
| "The devourer of all things": Ovid | 44 |
| This was "out of joint" for Hamlet | 44 |
| "The wings of ___ black and white" | 44 |
| It's often punched at the end of the day | 44 |
| " . . . ___ Danaos . . . ": Virgil | 44 |
| It's often pushed back before taking off | 44 |
| Something New York and Los Angeles each have | 44 |