| Engelbert Humperdinck "___ the Lovin'" | 52 |
| Edith Wharton's "The ___ of Innocence" | 52 |
| Ed with the 1967 hit "My Cup Runneth Over" | 52 |
| Engagement in 1861 or 1862 (Manassas, to the C.S.A.) | 52 |
| English channel's nickname, with "the" | 52 |
| Eddie who inspired "The French Connection" | 52 |
| Elsie the cow's spouse, for whom a glue is named | 52 |
| Elton John "Club at the ___ of the Street" | 52 |
| Earn the right to say ''My mistake'' | 52 |
| Edward's adoptive mother in "Twilight" | 52 |
| Ernest Borgnine in "From Here to Eternity" | 52 |
| Eugene who wrote "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" | 52 |
| Ending for "theater" or "church" | 52 |
| Errant computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 52 |
| End of the ladder (and the end point of the journey) | 52 |
| Excited response to "Who wants ice cream?" | 52 |
| Ever ___ Morissette-Treadway (Alanis's new baby) | 52 |
| Ending for "capital" or "social" | 52 |
| Eddie who pitched on five World Series-winning teams | 52 |
| Exam with a reading comprehension section, for short | 52 |
| Ernest ___, winner of the first Pulitzer for fiction | 52 |
| Electronics giant located in a criminal environment? | 52 |
| Ella of ''Hail the Conquering Hero'' | 52 |
| Elton sang goodbye to a "Yellow Brick" one | 52 |
| Entertainments at which some people lose their seats | 52 |
| Empire State sch. with two NCAA hockey championships | 52 |
| Elongated region in the middle of the North Atlantic | 52 |
| Environmental problem addressed in the Clean Air Act | 52 |
| Event in R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" | 52 |
| Extracurricular group that likely includes few jocks | 52 |
| Explorer Vitus with a sea and strait named after him | 52 |
| Entertainers with something to get off their chests? | 52 |
| Edited 1977 horror film about both ends of a pencil? | 52 |
| Eugene ___, hero of "Look Homeward, Angel" | 52 |
| Ellie May Lester feature in "Tobacco Road" | 52 |
| Edited 1987 horror film about a volunteer organizer? | 52 |
| Exited the elevator to the high-ceilinged SoHo flat? | 52 |
| Either parent in "Heather Has Two Mommies" | 52 |
| Entertainer whose given names were Wladziu Valentino | 52 |
| Excruciating airline inconvenience (the last straw!) | 52 |
| Event for socializing with a celebrity on an island? | 52 |
| Early Greek biographer of "Parallel Lives" | 52 |
| Effort involving umbrellas and no-slip stair treads? | 52 |
| Edvard Munch painting (with ''The'') | 52 |
| Et ___ (abbr. meaning "and the following") | 52 |
| Ed Sullivan's ''really big ___'' | 52 |
| Eastern religion meaning "way of the gods" | 52 |
| Elisabeth who played the Karate Kid's girlfriend | 52 |
| Early Athenian who laid the groundwork for democracy | 52 |
| E. B. White's "The Trumpet of the ___" | 52 |
| Early TV news commentator famous for doing Timex ads | 52 |
| Eliot's "_____ Among the Nightingales" | 52 |
| Eat some cole slaw or potato salad with an advocate? | 52 |
| Employee unlikely to be invited to the holiday party | 52 |
| Electric inventions seen in "Frankenstein" | 52 |
| Employer of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley, once | 52 |
| Event whose finals are played in Arthur Ashe Stadium | 52 |
| Emil ___, 1948 and '52 Czech track gold medalist | 52 |
| End of an alphabet that begins Alpha, Bravo, Charlie | 52 |
| Electronics company purchased and then closed by Sony | 53 |
| England-Australia cricket prize, with "The" | 53 |
| Equipment for each of this puzzle's theme answers | 53 |
| Elaine ___, George W. Bush's only labor secretary | 53 |
| Either director of "No Country for Old Men" | 53 |
| Exasperated response to "How was your day?" | 53 |
| English county whose name referred to the East Saxons | 53 |
| Ernest who designed Washington's Corcoran gallery | 53 |
| English king crowned in 1100, who also ruled Normandy | 53 |
| Emily Dickinson's "thing with feathers" | 53 |
| Eric Cartwright's nickname on "Bonanza" | 53 |
| Evil grandmother on "Malcolm in the Middle" | 53 |
| Edward who wrote "The Owl and the Pussycat" | 53 |
| Either of two guests on "To Tell the Truth" | 53 |
| Employee of the fictional Wagner Company for 34 years | 53 |
| Eight milkers in "The 12 Days of Christmas" | 53 |
| Elton's love song hit off "Ice on Fire" | 53 |
| Esther Williams film, "___ Island With You" | 53 |
| Essay usually near the page with readers' letters | 53 |
| Eric Stratton's "Animal House" nickname | 53 |
| Eastwood's "In the Line of Fire" costar | 53 |
| Exterminator, or what an insect says when it sees one | 53 |
| Event where everyone in New Orleans naps in sunbeams? | 53 |
| English poet who wrote "A Book of Nonsense" | 53 |
| Endings for "differ" and "prefer" | 53 |
| Eve ___, "The Vagina Monologues" monologist | 53 |
| Estimates suggest there are an average of 100,000 ... | 53 |
| Exclamation that might be punctuated "??!?" | 53 |
| Euphemism used often on "The Newlywed Game" | 53 |
| Ex-Smiths (and current Modest Mouse) guitarist Johnny | 53 |
| Eloi portrayer in "The Time Machine" (1960) | 53 |
| Early dropout in the 2000 presidential race, politely | 53 |
| Ernie Kovacs's gorilla band, with "The" | 53 |
| Equine that originated in Italy's Campania region | 53 |
| Events crashed by this puzzle's uninvited guests? | 53 |
| Elizabethan property tax to benefit the disadvantaged | 53 |
| Elisabeth of ''Deconstructing Harry'' | 53 |
| Elmer holds one in "What's Opera, Doc?" | 53 |
| Exclamation after "Presto chango!," perhaps | 53 |
| Embrace more than just a family of Baroque composers? | 53 |
| Event won by Roger Federer for five consecutive years | 53 |