| "Will you marry me?," e.g. | 36 |
| They're at the top of their game | 36 |
| What a stuck-up person may be called | 36 |
| He wrote "Swann's Way" | 36 |
| "Swann's Way" novelist | 36 |
| Person authorized to act for another | 36 |
| Beantown tower, with "the" | 36 |
| "The Scarlet Letter" woman | 36 |
| Hawthorne's "A" wearer | 36 |
| Richard of "Silver Streak" | 36 |
| Smokey the Bear spot, e.g., in brief | 36 |
| Non-revenue-generating ad, for short | 36 |
| "Lamp unto my feet" source | 36 |
| The shortest one has only two verses | 36 |
| Any of six set to music by Bernstein | 36 |
| Warmup for college hopefuls, briefly | 36 |
| Hurdle before senior year, for short | 36 |
| Exam with a Critical Reading section | 36 |
| They're for H.S. juniors to take | 36 |
| "___ Love You," Mercer hit | 36 |
| "___ Love You," Mercer air | 36 |
| ___ phenomena (ESP, telepathy, etc.) | 36 |
| Greek letters shaped like pitchforks | 36 |
| Relative of ''ahem'' | 36 |
| Sibilant "Check this out!" | 36 |
| TV series with sleuths Shawn and Gus | 36 |
| "I totally had you going!" | 36 |
| Makes nervous (with "out") | 36 |
| Grps. concerned with class struggle? | 36 |
| "Harper Valley" and others | 36 |
| Club central to a Jim Bakker scandal | 36 |
| “The ___ Club” (old TV show) | 36 |
| Fittingly, the traffic cop wore a... | 36 |
| Its first football shoe was the ATOM | 36 |
| Reebok innovation of the early 1990s | 36 |
| "Canoe row a boat?" is one | 36 |
| "Sanity clause" and others | 36 |
| You can pitch it and later strike it | 36 |
| ___ platter (Polynesian menu choice) | 36 |
| U.N. beachhead during the Korean War | 36 |
| It may be used to get things started | 36 |
| "Polly, ___ the kettle on" | 36 |
| A1: "___ already! Sheesh." | 36 |
| Leader who spent 15 years in the KGB | 36 |
| Russian leader's music treatise? | 36 |
| Abide, with ''with'' | 36 |
| He wrote "Brave Men": 1944 | 36 |
| Location from which the phoenix rose | 36 |
| Subject of many Arab Spring protests | 36 |
| Company that once had a koala mascot | 36 |
| Nation bordering the Gulf of Bahrain | 36 |
| Host country of the 2006 Asian Games | 36 |
| British monarch beginning in '52 | 36 |
| "The Ultimate Beauty Tool" | 36 |
| They might be used to remove mascara | 36 |
| Risky thing to try in figure skating | 36 |
| Makeup of some gems and wristwatches | 36 |
| The St. Lawrence R. flows through it | 36 |
| "The Caine Mutiny" captain | 36 |
| Wicked "Snow White" figure | 36 |
| Shoe people are always asking about? | 36 |
| Calculation for an express delivery? | 36 |
| One of five born together (informal) | 36 |
| One place to buy Isaac Mizrahi stuff | 36 |
| David Small, in Harry Kemelman books | 36 |
| Some graduates of Yeshiva University | 36 |
| Sticks and Bones playwright David | 36 |
| Participated in a three-legged event | 36 |
| Cartoon series "Speed ___" | 36 |
| Like Emile Zola’s “Nana” | 36 |
| Containing double entendres, perhaps | 36 |
| "Far out!" to a physicist? | 36 |
| Development of Appleton, Page et al. | 36 |
| Milieu of "The Answer Man" | 36 |
| Singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey ___ | 36 |
| Korean-American author Chang-___ Lee | 36 |
| ''Norma ___'' (1979) | 36 |
| "A Yank in the ___" (1941) | 36 |
| Org. concerned with national defence | 36 |
| '50s-'60s decathlete Johnson | 36 |
| "Survivor" vessel, perhaps | 36 |
| Rotterdam post-punk band Rats on ___ | 36 |
| "Elite Syncopations," e.g. | 36 |
| Not the most prestigious publication | 36 |
| Many a tune in "The Sting" | 36 |
| "The Entertainer," for one | 36 |
| O'Hara novel, with "A" | 36 |
| Type of loose overcoat or its sleeve | 36 |
| Horatio Alger's 'before' | 36 |
| Baby blankets, often, by high school | 36 |
| "Feed our kids well" brand | 36 |
| "Ole!" north of the border | 36 |
| "Drag Me to Hell" director | 36 |
| 'A Simple Plan' director Sam | 36 |
| Word heard in spring and before fall | 36 |
| What Phil Collins wishes it would do | 36 |
| Classic play based on a Maugham tale | 36 |
| Answer to many a farmer's prayer | 36 |
| Dorm V.I.P. having to move his king? | 36 |
| It's on Washington's quarter | 36 |