| __ candle | 9 |
| Pax _____ | 9 |
| Pax ___ (uneasy peace) | 22 |
| Pax ___ (1st and 2nd centuries A.D., roughly) | 45 |
| Pax ___ | 7 |
| Pax __ | 6 |
| Pax -- (uneasy peace) | 21 |
| Curia __: Papal offices | 23 |
| Curia ___ (body assisting the pope) | 35 |
| Alla ___ (pasta style) | 22 |
| Type of firework | 16 |
| Sort of firework | 16 |
| Producer of shooting stars | 26 |
| Item for July 4 | 15 |
| Fourth-of-July sight | 20 |
| Love story | 10 |
| Wine and dine, perhaps | 22 |
| Steel work | 10 |
| St. Valentine's forte | 25 |
| Novel genre | 11 |
| Many a chick flick theme | 24 |
| Language group | 14 |
| Jennifer Crusie's genre | 27 |
| Italian insects? | 16 |
| Hawthorne's "The Blithedale ___" | 46 |
| Gothic __ | 9 |
| Cartland genre | 14 |
| Barbara Taylor Bradford's genre | 35 |
| Author Nora Roberts's genre | 31 |
| Spanish or Italian, e.g. | 24 |
| Sicilian, for example | 21 |
| Catalan, e.g. | 13 |
| Contents of an Italian indictment? | 34 |
| Actress Ruth's credit card purchases? | 41 |
| Mars and Mercury | 16 |
| Jupiter and Mars, e.g. | 22 |
| Birthplace of Elie Wiesel | 25 |
| Bucharest's land | 20 |
| Where Transylvania is | 21 |
| Where the Danube ends | 21 |
| Transylvanian Alps location | 27 |
| Its capital is Bucharest | 24 |
| Eastern European nation | 23 |
| Country on the Black Sea | 24 |
| Bucharest's country | 23 |
| Where to spend a leu | 20 |
| Where to find Ploesti | 21 |
| Where the Prut flows | 20 |
| Wallachia and Moldavia, today | 29 |
| Transylvanian Alps setting | 26 |
| The Danube flows along its southern border | 42 |
| Nadia's land, to Nadia | 26 |
| Nadia Comaneci's homeland | 29 |
| Modern home of ancient Walachia | 31 |
| Land where the Danube flows | 27 |
| Hungary neighbor from which lots of spam comes | 46 |
| Home of Transylvanians | 22 |
| Dracula's home | 18 |
| Country with a blue, yellow and red flag | 40 |
| Country in Europe | 17 |
| Cluj's country | 18 |
| Cluj is its second-most populous city | 37 |
| Carpathian Mountains country | 28 |
| Bucharest setting | 17 |
| Schnozz varieties | 17 |
| Prominent schnozzes | 19 |
| High bridge sites | 17 |
| Superlatively Halloweenlike | 27 |
| Sharp Italian cheese | 20 |
| Ray whom everybody loves | 24 |
| Gratable cheese | 15 |
| Swiss alternative | 17 |
| Lovable Ray | 11 |
| Grated cheese | 13 |
| Barone portrayer | 16 |
| Sharp, hard cheese | 18 |
| Sharp pasta topper | 18 |
| Roasted asparagus topper | 24 |
| Ray on "Everybody Loves Raymond" | 42 |
| Product of ewe's milk | 25 |
| Oft-grated cheese | 17 |
| It's often grated | 21 |
| It's made of ewe's milk | 31 |
| Grated cheese choice | 20 |
| Cheese on pasta | 15 |
| Cheese often used in Caesar salads | 34 |
| Big cheese on TV | 16 |
| Peter I, II or III | 18 |
| Russian royal | 13 |
| Russian dynasty | 15 |
| Winter Palace family name | 25 |
| Royal house until the early 20th century | 40 |
| Nicholas II's surname | 25 |
| Nicholas II's house | 23 |
| Nicholas II's dynasty | 25 |
| Former Russian dynasty | 22 |
| "Friends, ___, countrymen" | 36 |
| Paul's longest letter | 25 |
| Caesar's subjects | 21 |
| Book after Acts | 15 |