| "Lives of Girls and Women" author | 43 |
| "Dance of the Happy Shades" author | 44 |
| Part of Chagall's theater work | 34 |
| "The Last Judgment," e.g. | 35 |
| ''The Last Judgment,'' e.g. | 43 |
| Crime that might bring you bad luck? | 36 |
| It's difficult to see through | 33 |
| What pines do, Ã la Longfellow | 33 |
| "Anything that can go wrong will" | 43 |
| ''See It Now'' host | 35 |
| Where hangings are witnessed: Abbr. | 35 |
| Symbols for coefficient of friction | 35 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, e.g.: Abbr. | 39 |
| Coll. major for a future concert artist | 39 |
| Site of Sultan Qaboos's palace | 34 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen "Your Heart Is a ___" | 48 |
| Bodyguards or bouncers, in slang | 32 |
| "High performance" vehicle | 36 |
| Schwarzenegger's stock in trade | 35 |
| They're sometimes pulled at a gym | 37 |
| Source of an artist's inspiration | 37 |
| Artist's "visitor" | 32 |
| What writer's block may block | 33 |
| Ender of writer's block, perhaps | 36 |
| "Black Holes and Revelations" band | 44 |
| ''Le Louvre'', e.g. | 35 |
| Thalia, Urania, Terpsichore, etc. | 33 |
| Calliope and her sister goddesses | 33 |
| It might be served for breakfast at the Iditarod? | 49 |
| Eskimo's "giddyap!" | 33 |
| Like corn flakes sitting in milk | 32 |
| Shakespeare's "food of love" | 42 |
| You may need a staff to write it | 32 |
| Meredith Wilson's "The ___ Man" | 45 |
| "The speech of angels": Carlyle | 41 |
| "The ___ of the spheres" | 34 |
| "Concord of sweet sounds" | 35 |
| ''___ to my ears'' | 34 |
| Show often ending with a reprise | 32 |
| Rodgers & Hammerstein creation | 34 |
| "Li'l Abner," once | 32 |
| "Annie" or "Evita" | 38 |
| 'Cats' or 'Cabaret' | 35 |
| Delightful, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| Bouillabaisse ingredient, perhaps | 33 |
| Certain mollusk's protection | 32 |
| His obnoxious brother-in-law --- Gogh | 37 |
| "___ Got Lost" (The J. Geils Band) | 44 |
| It might be right under your nose | 33 |
| Groucho's was a greasepaint smear | 37 |
| Each answer to a starred clue is a type of this | 47 |
| Word from the Spanish for "stray beast" | 49 |
| "___ Sally" (1966 Wilson Pickett hit) | 47 |
| Wilson Pickett hit of the '60s | 34 |
| Old-fashioned remedy for chest colds | 36 |
| Home remedy for skin irritations | 32 |
| "There's no other explanation" | 44 |
| Manage to provide morning refreshment? | 38 |
| Contraction meaning "taboo" | 37 |
| "You __!" ("No!") | 37 |
| "You ___!" ("No!") | 38 |
| Words with "TV" in an old NBC slogan | 46 |
| Words with "TV" in an NBC slogan | 42 |
| Something that shouldn't be missed | 38 |
| Movie that's not to be missed | 33 |
| "Teenage ___ Ninja Turtles" | 37 |
| Become something else altogether | 32 |
| "Turn off the sound" button | 37 |
| Musician's device also called a sordino | 43 |
| It might be pressed when the phone rings | 40 |
| "Typical" band ___math | 32 |
| Like annoying commercials, sometimes | 36 |
| Makes an unsound decision about? | 32 |
| Philadelphia Orchestra conductor | 32 |
| Ormandy's successor in Philadelphia | 39 |
| Longtime La Scala music director | 32 |
| La Scala music director beginning 1986 | 38 |
| La Scala director who resigned in 2005 | 38 |
| Canine with a questionable lineage | 34 |
| Unlikely dog for a canine registry | 34 |
| Hershfield's Homeless Hector, e.g. | 38 |
| Hershfield's Homeless Hector | 32 |
| Dog that's a little of this, a little of that | 49 |
| Def Leppard producer Robert "___" Lange | 49 |
| Cross that's not well regarded | 34 |
| They're dispensed by the pound | 34 |
| Dogs like Hershfield's Homeless Hector | 42 |
| "Our ___ Friend" (Dickens novel) | 42 |
| Professionally managed investment type | 38 |
| Year in Ethelred the Unready's reign | 40 |
| Letters for the league's top performer | 42 |
| Top athlete in many a sport: Abbr. | 34 |
| Three-time title for Yogi Berra, in brief | 41 |
| Team's greatest asset, for short | 36 |
| Sportswriters' pick, for short | 34 |
| Seven-time award for Barry Bonds | 32 |
| NL award won by Barry Bonds a record seven times | 48 |
| NHL's Hart Memorial Trophy winner, e.g. | 43 |
| Michael Jordan, five times (abbr.) | 34 |
| League's top performer, briefly | 35 |