| Actress Graff and "The L Word" creator Chaiken | 56 |
| Admiral Bobby who directed the N.S.A. under Jimmy Carter | 56 |
| Author of "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" | 56 |
| Actor Rob + actor Richard = something to put a truck in? | 56 |
| Actress who married the same man twice, in 1976 and 1989 | 56 |
| Author of a book "As Dictated to Barbara Bush" | 56 |
| Alfred ___ of 2004's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 56 |
| Ancient Greek sculptor famous for his athletes in bronze | 56 |
| Actor in the Best Picture winners of 1975, 1983 and 2006 | 56 |
| Amazed reaction to Saint Laurent's new fashion line? | 56 |
| Acted like the "Supermassive Black Hole" band? | 56 |
| Ask "Is this really diet soda?," for instance? | 56 |
| Administrative group that oversees pop music performers? | 56 |
| “___ Drives Me Crazy” (Fine Young Cannibals hit) | 56 |
| Avoiding part of your workout? (this one's a triple) | 56 |
| Allmans "I woke up this morning, had them ___" | 56 |
| Auto additives co. that hints at this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Adult ___ (Cartoon Network subchannel for older viewers) | 56 |
| A Supremes classic — as sung by a famous swinger? | 56 |
| Action series featuring Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin | 56 |
| Ancient area now covered by parts of Bulgaria and Turkey | 56 |
| “You might call me a cryptologist,” said the ___ | 56 |
| Actress who co-starred in "The Lincoln Lawyer" | 56 |
| Attend an out-of-town "Boléro" performance? | 56 |
| Adviser of Capt. Picard on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 56 |
| Also-ran for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination | 56 |
| “Once more ___ the breach...”: “Henry V” | 56 |
| Asian territory that abuts Europe in the board game Risk | 56 |
| Almighty's "second mistake," per Nietzsche | 56 |
| Alphabetically last Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees | 56 |
| Anecdotally, the most ubiquitous song of the last month | 55 |
| Adjective with "zero" or "disaster" | 55 |
| Activist group whose motto is "Silence=Death" | 55 |
| African capital whose name means "new flower" | 55 |
| Ackbar is one in "Return of the Jedi" (abbr.) | 55 |
| AVERAGE ONE IN RUSSIA IS 200, COME LIVE HERE IT IS FINE | 55 |
| Actor in Broadway's "Glengarry Glen Ross" | 55 |
| A: You're looking a bit pale. T: I'm __ (Elvis) | 55 |
| Actress Adams, star of 2007's "Enchanted" | 55 |
| “Secret ___” (where Anne Frank wrote her diary) | 55 |
| Abbr. in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" | 55 |
| Another term for a BOLO ("Be on the lookout") | 55 |
| Aldous Huxley's ''___ and Essence'' | 55 |
| Answer to the folk riddle "Big head, no hair" | 55 |
| Altogether it's worth the most bonus troops in Risk | 55 |
| Auto company whose name is Latin for "listen" | 55 |
| Anne Lindsay's ''_____ Robin Gray'' | 55 |
| Anatomical term that's Latin for "hollow" | 55 |
| Album with the hit song "I'm Every Woman" | 55 |
| Argentine "Hey!" that became a noted nickname | 55 |
| Abbott and Costello's "Here Come the ___" | 55 |
| Animated Morgendorffer partly based on Janeane Garofalo | 55 |
| Apt shortening for a city currently mired in bankruptcy | 55 |
| Almost any character on "The Big Bang Theory" | 55 |
| Alfred who won a Best Actor Tony for "Kismet" | 55 |
| Artist with the 1999 6x platinum album "2001" | 55 |
| A four-letter exclamation that wouldn't get bleeped | 55 |
| Astronaut Collins, first female Space Shuttle commander | 55 |
| Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville" | 55 |
| Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica," e.g. | 55 |
| Artist's name formed phonetically from his initials | 55 |
| Artist who rejuvenated his career with 1960s serigraphs | 55 |
| Abbreviation meaning "plus additional things" | 55 |
| Author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | 55 |
| Actress Carides of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 55 |
| Actress co-starring in TV's "Burn Notice" | 55 |
| Actor Alan of ''Gilligan's Island'' | 55 |
| Author of "Miracle Mongers and Their Methods" | 55 |
| Abbr. after "Cleveland" or "Shaker" | 55 |
| Actor-rapper with a reality show costarring Coco Austin | 55 |
| Author of "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" | 55 |
| Attachment for "skeptic" or "cynic" | 55 |
| Actor William of "The Greatest American Hero" | 55 |
| An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Casablanca" | 55 |
| Alison Krauss "Called my baby ___ last night" | 55 |
| Abbr. that starts with a different letter than its word | 55 |
| Actress Taylor of "The Notorious Bettie Page" | 55 |
| Ani DiFranco song off "Little Plastic Castle" | 55 |
| Actor/musician who hosted "Fishing with John" | 55 |
| Actor with the catchphrase "I pity the fool!" | 55 |
| Actress who played Maria in "West Side Story" | 55 |
| Armstrong who took a "giant leap for mankind" | 55 |
| Author of the story collection "Little Birds" | 55 |
| “... ___ blame the writings, but the men”: Pope | 55 |
| At times/Actress Sykes's halt to putting on weight? | 55 |
| A famous one begins "How sleep the brave ..." | 55 |
| Antepenultimate word of the Declaration of Independence | 55 |
| Airline that had a waiting list for future moon flights | 55 |
| Author of "Bible Power for Successful Living" | 55 |
| “The ___ is not to the swift ...”: Ecclesiastes | 55 |
| Angry yet optimistic investor (starring Robert De Niro) | 55 |
| Alberta's third-largest city, named after an animal | 55 |
| Author of a classic novel about treasure hunters: Abbr. | 55 |
| Auto with a "9" in almost all its model names | 55 |
| Alberto who won in the long run: N.Y.C., 1981–82 | 55 |
| Actress Mia of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 55 |
| Album whose cover prominently featured a zebra crossing | 55 |
| Audrey Hepburn's "Wait Until Dark" costar | 55 |
| Author of "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith" | 55 |
| Army group does away with their famous song? (careful!) | 55 |