| 1983 song where the title character gets thanked a lot | 54 |
| Cohost of the first X Games (1995's Extreme Games) | 54 |
| Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the 20th Century | 54 |
| Attendees of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters | 54 |
| Woman of song "with a heart that was mellow" | 54 |
| "___ of the North" (1922 silent documentary) | 54 |
| Tendency to overcompensate for a perceived shortcoming | 54 |
| "Star Wars" actress who's a Harvard grad | 54 |
| The Mavs' Mark Cuban and the Nets' Jay-Z, e.g. | 54 |
| Ronald who directed "The Poseidon Adventure" | 54 |
| Facial hair that starts at the chin line and goes down | 54 |
| "He shall not ___ if he have his own": Shak. | 54 |
| Singer with the hit album "The Hungry Years" | 54 |
| They're produced in great quantities by supernovas | 54 |
| Skiers seem to love it, especially early in the season | 54 |
| Holder of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary | 54 |
| Singer with the platinum album "Pink Friday" | 54 |
| Honor shared by the four women featured in this puzzle | 54 |
| ''Have ___!'' (hero's reassurance) | 54 |
| Urban ordinance that might apply to a late-night party | 54 |
| Shortstop teammate of Derek on the 1999 A.L. All-Stars | 54 |
| Largish musical combo playing in its own concert hall? | 54 |
| "Ain't happening, and that's final!" | 54 |
| "Are you nervous?" response, a la Don Knotts | 54 |
| Best Picture also-ran to "Kramer vs. Kramer" | 54 |
| " . . . had ___ to shroud his head": Heywood | 54 |
| What Lysistrata promised, as long as the war continued | 54 |
| Favorable response to ''Do you mind?'' | 54 |
| Tell-all that doesn't actually tell all that much? | 54 |
| Good for a returning traveler, bad for a bridge player | 54 |
| "What can you say about the current period?" | 54 |
| "Billy Budd" and "Of Mice and Men" | 54 |
| A letter + smell + a letter + unbiased + a pronoun = ? | 54 |
| Inappropriate for on-the-job viewing, in Web shorthand | 54 |
| Somewhere between abysmal and fair, for a bad juggler? | 54 |
| "___ said!" ("End of discussion!") | 54 |
| "Green Eyes" singer Helen, in 40's music | 54 |
| City where "Friday Night Lights" takes place | 54 |
| "___ the ills o' life victorious": Burns | 54 |
| "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" band | 54 |
| "Queen ___" (Ella Fitzgerald's nickname) | 54 |
| Carol with the words "hear the angel voices" | 54 |
| Average place to buy a laptop? (Radiohead / Kraftwerk) | 54 |
| "That" something in an Arlen/Mercer standard | 54 |
| "Yesterday" and "Tomorrow" for two | 54 |
| Budding classicist's statement about future plans? | 54 |
| "__: The Final Conflict": 1981 horror sequel | 54 |
| Lunts' comedy title from "Twelfth Night" | 54 |
| . . . "O'ER THE LENT HERB" by P. Osborn? | 54 |
| Like the drummer for rock's Def Leppard, amazingly | 54 |
| Blood type historically considered the universal donor | 54 |
| How much of genius is inspiration, according to Edison | 54 |
| Step before "dead to me," to Stephen Colbert | 54 |
| In the area where "The Fantasticks" is a hit | 54 |
| Dorothy Lamour film, ''___ Merry Way'' | 54 |
| Two things heard at a well-received session by Mehmet? | 54 |
| Florida city developed by aviation's Glenn Curtiss | 54 |
| Word with ''business'' on a store sign | 54 |
| Like live events at which audience members may perform | 54 |
| Game in which the puzzle's long answers are pieces | 54 |
| What some of the letters in this puzzle seemingly have | 54 |
| " . . . that charms ___ or sight": Coleridge | 54 |
| In music, a full interval higher or lower than written | 54 |
| Movie about a female gunslinger (with "The") | 54 |
| He's second to Rabbit Maranville in career assists | 54 |
| Their names are hidden in eight answers in this puzzle | 54 |
| Two cats owned by soldiers behind small earthen walls? | 54 |
| Nighttime movie with Doris Day? (with "The") | 54 |
| Country where "The Hunger Games" takes place | 54 |
| Italian artist with the largest painting in the Louvre | 54 |
| Leader who claimed to have put a fatal curse on J.F.K. | 54 |
| English physician James who gave his name to a disease | 54 |
| One who uses Italian cheese as a race course obstacle? | 54 |
| Singer with the #1 hit "Don't Forbid Me" | 54 |
| "Watch on the Rhine" Best Actor Oscar winner | 54 |
| What you may have to do for goods bought by mail order | 54 |
| Evening after work set aside for a urinary tract exam? | 54 |
| Co-author of "Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends" | 54 |
| It has "amble" and "ramble" inside | 54 |
| Gym class locale known for its dancing almost failing? | 54 |
| “Actor Graves is head of household,” in Latin? | 54 |
| Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient of '93 | 54 |
| Marius ___, "the father of classical ballet" | 54 |
| Faddish '70s toy that came in a box with air holes | 54 |
| Alexander ___, Russian who popularized a chess opening | 54 |
| Carping? Nitpicking of Richard? Whatever! I'm a PC | 54 |
| Macedonian city where Brutus and Cassius were defeated | 54 |
| Nova Scotia county, or Island in Northumberland Strait | 54 |
| What you might get in an argument (with "a") | 54 |
| Cleaning product with an ingredient derived from trees | 54 |
| "The powerful scent of real clean" sloganeer | 54 |
| Key member of Jordan's "supporting cast" | 54 |
| Spanish man's name that means "peaceful" | 54 |
| Repeated words before "me" in a Beatles tune | 54 |
| Figures out how the vegetable gardens will be arranged | 54 |
| Order to Fido at historic site has a certain pop style | 54 |
| Auto company participating in parliamentary procedure? | 54 |
| Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" attire | 54 |
| Definite no-no for a French Orthodox Jewish vegetarian | 54 |
| " . . . how sweet is love itself ___": Romeo | 54 |