| Volcano in Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" | 69 |
| Van Morrison "Like a full force ___, I was lifted up again" | 69 |
| Verdon who was the first professional chef to work in the White House | 69 |
| Viral video series that manipulates broadcast journalists' voices | 69 |
| Voice heard in commercials with Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel | 69 |
| Variety headline about the MPAA's decision on a movie about salt? | 69 |
| Val's younger daughter in the comic strip "Stone Soup" | 68 |
| Vocalization technique involving resonance in the larynx and pharynx | 68 |
| Verdi's ''D'amor sull'ali rosee,'' e.g. | 67 |
| Video game company whose founder also founded Chuck E. Cheese's | 67 |
| Voice displeasure with heart transplant performed in car seat (5,2) | 67 |
| Voltaire satire that Leonard Bernstein turned into a musical comedy | 67 |
| Vice president after whom a U.S. city is thought to have been named | 67 |
| Vacationer's goal (and favorite Sly & the Family Stone hit) | 67 |
| Virgin Valley black fire ___ (Nevada's state precious gemstone) | 67 |
| Voice actress in Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" | 67 |
| Victoria's lasted longer than that of any other British monarch | 67 |
| Val and Joan's mother in the comic strip "Stone Soup" | 67 |
| Violent behavior due to excessive use of banned athletic substances | 67 |
| Vietnamese government branch in charge of the New Year celebration? | 67 |
| Vice president who said "nattering nabobs of negativism" | 66 |
| Venomous snakes lurking in each of the four longest puzzle answers | 66 |
| Villain who debuted in the "Star Wars Christmas Special" | 66 |
| Video game that focuses on a Nintendo icon's Italian heritage? | 66 |
| Virginia landmark, or a dental restoration that occurs on its own? | 66 |
| Villainous "Star Trek" collective, with "the" | 65 |
| View espoused in Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason" | 65 |
| Vowel with a vowel two before it and two after it in its alphabet | 65 |
| Van Gogh's "L'Église d'Auvers-sur- ___" | 65 |
| Verb in the classic "Mission: Impossible" opening scene | 65 |
| Very good report following a zoo gate mishap - or a very bad one? | 65 |
| Version of a song that's shorter or cleaner than the original | 65 |
| Venue for a memorable "When Harry Met Sally ..." scene | 64 |
| Verb conjugated as "suis" in the first person singular | 64 |
| Village on the Hudson River where painter Edward Hopper was born | 64 |
| Van ___ of "Double Team" and "Double Impact" | 64 |
| Vietnamese name of the Red River (with ''Song'') | 64 |
| VIPs at a printer convention in Prague one week, Paris the next? | 64 |
| Video game featuring Gloom-shrooms, Melon-pults and Cherry Bombs | 64 |
| Vacationer's favorite song from "The Pajama Game"? | 64 |
| Valedictorian's pride, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 64 |
| Verdi villain who sings "Era la notte, Cassio dormia" | 63 |
| Valenzuela and Piazza's manager during their rookie seasons | 63 |
| Video game franchise whose name translates to "devil" | 63 |
| Versions of films that, having been edited, are ready to screen | 63 |
| Vaudeville actor who got his nickname from the galoshes he wore | 63 |
| Von Trapp girl who's "sixteen going on seventeen" | 63 |
| Vintner Paul who would "sell no wine before its time" | 63 |
| Violinist Peña who was a founding member of the Eroica Trio | 62 |
| Vehicle to be raced in the Olympics for the first time in 2008 | 62 |
| Vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and lime juice, informally | 62 |
| Villain who says "For I am nothing, if not critical" | 62 |
| Van Gogh painting that sold for a record $53.9 million in 1987 | 62 |
| Veronese masterpiece "The Feast in the House of ___" | 62 |
| Villainous Norse god in the 2012 film "The Avengers" | 62 |
| Verne Troyer's role in the "Austin Powers" films | 62 |
| Van Gogh’s "___ Étoilée à St. Rémy" | 62 |
| Valley where the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is located | 62 |
| Virtual reality drug from a 90's William Shatner TV series | 62 |
| Video game starring a badly out-of-shape Nintendo protagonist? | 62 |
| Vargas Llosa novel "___ Julia and the Scriptwriter" | 61 |
| Victor Hugo’s “L’Art d’___ grand-père” | 61 |
| Vegetable used in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner casserole | 61 |
| Values that divide a statistical sample into four equal parts | 61 |
| Vitamin brand promoted as "Complete from A to Zinc" | 61 |
| Vermont ski resort [want more indie xwords? try avxwords.com] | 61 |
| Villainous organization in the 007 film "GoldenEye" | 61 |
| Valley that's the site of the Reagan Presidential Library | 61 |
| Vince ___ (John Travolta's "Pulp Fiction" role) | 61 |
| Verb with ''down'' or ''out'' | 61 |
| Vocalist featured on Jay-Z's "I Did It My Way" | 60 |
| Video game company that took its name from the board game Go | 60 |
| Verdi's "___ tu che macchiavi quell'anima" | 60 |
| Villain who says "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy" | 60 |
| Value of any Scrabble tile in the word "ordinates" | 60 |
| Video game about a PlayStation character who bombs his SATs? | 60 |
| Villainous laugh added to Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2012 | 60 |
| Vega who played Carmen Cortez in "Spy Kids" films | 59 |
| Verdi's "D'amor sull'ali rosee," e.g. | 59 |
| Verb in the first line of "The Lord's Prayer" | 59 |
| Villain who says "So you don't like spinach?" | 59 |
| Van Gogh painting that once sold for a record $53.9 million | 59 |
| Vehicle part that might feature a picture of Calvin pissing | 59 |
| Vacation spot far, far from Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde? | 59 |
| Verdi opera that had the working title "Violetta" | 59 |
| Vessel in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" | 59 |
| Value of a U.S. coronet head coin, minted from 1838 to 1907 | 59 |
| Vietnamese stateman who declined the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize | 59 |
| Villagers' tormentor in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 59 |
| Vocalist in the all-author band the Rock Bottom Remainders | 58 |
| Villainous member of the Serpent Society, in Marvel Comics | 58 |
| Vegetables whose genus shares its name with a Greek letter | 58 |
| Van Morrison song whose title is spelled out in the chorus | 58 |
| Variety show that featured "PFFT! You Was Gone!" | 58 |
| Volcano name that means ''bald'' in French | 58 |
| Village People single covered by the Pet Shop Boys in 1993 | 58 |
| Vice president who once famously mashed "potato" | 58 |
| Vacuum brand whose ads show it picking up a a bowling ball | 58 |
| Video game character who begins atop a psychedelic pyramid | 58 |
| Village People "It's fun to stay at the ___" | 58 |