| Opera about an enslaved Ethiopian girl | 38 |
| Heather Headley title role on Broadway | 38 |
| One who might be left holding the bag? | 38 |
| Clay of "American Idol" fame | 38 |
| "American Idol" success Clay | 38 |
| Idol whose fans are known as Claymates | 38 |
| 'American Idol' runner-up Clay | 38 |
| "Voices Carry" vocalist Mann | 38 |
| "Bachelor No. 2" singer Mann | 38 |
| Phoenix Suns head coach beginning 1996 | 38 |
| '90s Phoenix Suns head coach Danny | 38 |
| "Hit 'em where they ___" | 38 |
| "___ No Sunshine" (1971 hit) | 38 |
| "___ We Got Fun?": 1921 song | 38 |
| "You ___ heard nothing yet!" | 38 |
| "Porgy and Bess" contraction | 38 |
| '-- a woman?': Sojourner Truth | 38 |
| Sauce that's a Scrabble vowel dump | 38 |
| "___ for the G String": Bach | 38 |
| Alter a magazine cover photo, in a way | 38 |
| Yorkshire river that flows to the Ouse | 38 |
| Having a higher ceiling and more light | 38 |
| ___ out (makes less stuffy, as a room) | 38 |
| Grafton's "__ for Alibi" | 38 |
| '-- for Alibi (Grafton novel)' | 38 |
| Electronics company bought out by Sony | 38 |
| ___-en-Provence, birthplace of Cezanne | 38 |
| First Steely Dan album to win a Grammy | 38 |
| ''From ___ to a King'' | 38 |
| "Stronger than dirt" product | 38 |
| Mythological name on a cleaning bottle | 38 |
| "This looks like ___ for..." | 38 |
| Letters linking real and assumed names | 38 |
| Basketball's Olajuwan, before 1991 | 38 |
| National Soccer Hall of Famer Michelle | 38 |
| "Rashomon" director Kurosawa | 38 |
| Where Alcoholics Anonymous was founded | 38 |
| Chef's "in the style of" | 38 |
| ___ provencale (with garlic or onions) | 38 |
| ___ plancha (grilled on a metal plate) | 38 |
| ___ king (how chicken might be served) | 38 |
| By the piece vs. by the plate, perhaps | 38 |
| Commodores "Three Times ___" | 38 |
| Mountain range of southwest Kyrgyzstan | 38 |
| Where Bowie fell, with "the" | 38 |
| Site where Davy Crockett met his maker | 38 |
| San Antonio site, with "the" | 38 |
| Mission where Davy Crockett was killed | 38 |
| Historic mission, with "the" | 38 |
| The "A" of Chester A. Arthur | 38 |
| The "A" in Chester A. Arthur | 38 |
| Actor Tudyk of "Suburgatory" | 38 |
| "Gallipoli" author Moorehead | 38 |
| The first "A" of A. A. Milne | 38 |
| Shepard who hit golf balls on the moon | 38 |
| Middle name of the 21st U.S. President | 38 |
| Josephine Tey investigator _____ Grant | 38 |
| Film composer Menken with eight Oscars | 38 |
| Artificial intelligence pioneer Turing | 38 |
| Actor Bates of "Georgy Girl" | 38 |
| ___ Trammell, 1984 World Series M.V.P. | 38 |
| "___ Unplugged" (1999 album) | 38 |
| Group co-founded by Bill W.'s wife | 38 |
| Gain __: get further ahead in the race | 38 |
| Shakespeare's "Poor me!" | 38 |
| First word of "Greensleeves" | 38 |
| Word from Hamlet while holding a skull | 38 |
| Shakespearean "What a shame" | 38 |
| ''D'oh!'' relative | 38 |
| ''Seward's Folly'' | 38 |
| "I loved ___ . . . ": Wither | 38 |
| Jessica of "Good Luck Chuck" | 38 |
| "Dark Angel" actress Jessica | 38 |
| Duchess of ___ (Goya portrait subject) | 38 |
| "Duchess of ___" (Goya work) | 38 |
| "Three Tall Women" dramatist | 38 |
| "The Goat" playwright Edward | 38 |
| Three-time Pulitzer winning playwright | 38 |
| He wasn't afraid of Virginia Woolf | 38 |
| A great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth | 38 |
| 2005-'07 attorney general Gonzales | 38 |
| Some collectors' "vinyl" | 38 |
| Lucifer Ornamental Yokum's creator | 38 |
| Giant of metal hailing from Pittsburgh | 38 |
| One of the authors in the game Authors | 38 |
| Baseball postseason semifinal, briefly | 38 |
| "Same Time, Next Year" actor | 38 |
| "To Kill a Clown" actor Alan | 38 |
| "Guys and Dolls" Tony winner | 38 |
| "Flash of Genius" actor Alan | 38 |
| Actor __ Ray of "Battle Cry" | 38 |
| "The Green Berets" performer | 38 |
| The "tan" in a black and tan | 38 |
| It could be part of one's inn take | 38 |
| Milton's ``nutbrown'' brew | 38 |
| Maugham's "Cakes and __" | 38 |
| It may be pale and drunk in dark rooms | 38 |
| It contains about 6% alcohol by volume | 38 |
| Green Day's is "Private" | 38 |
| Ginger ___ (Shirley Temple ingredient) | 38 |