| Possibly the first thing you'd touch in a dark room | 55 |
| Physicist who received 1958's Albert Einstein Award | 55 |
| Player of Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter films | 55 |
| Phish lyric "___ bouncing round the room ..." | 55 |
| Profanities (and a hint to this puzzle's anomalies) | 55 |
| Peanuts character with "naturally curly hair" | 55 |
| Popular Bach work for keyboard (1994, 1996, 1999, 2002) | 55 |
| Political group whose name means "enthusiasm" | 55 |
| Pay you receive as you're frogmarched out the door? | 55 |
| Philosopher associated with the “will to power” | 55 |
| Popular gifts that make a distinctive sound when shaken | 55 |
| Pianist Ruth's audience knows exactly when to clap? | 55 |
| Politician who launched "Citizens for McCain" | 55 |
| Protective covering rolled out at a seafood restaurant? | 55 |
| Portrayer of Lt. Rodriguez on "N.Y.P.D. Blue" | 55 |
| Play with no intermission and only a few scenes, likely | 55 |
| Painter Alice who was the subject of a 2007 documentary | 55 |
| Portia's maid in "The Merchant of Venice" | 55 |
| Person who's undergone a change, self-descriptively | 55 |
| Phrase often followed with "it's nothing" | 55 |
| Possible reply to "I have a question for you" | 55 |
| Pink Floyd "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" song | 55 |
| Praiseful essay about the grandaddy of all video games? | 55 |
| Punishment of having to wear a paper sign on your back? | 55 |
| Practices performed for one's health and well-being | 55 |
| Portmanteau for some larger-than-average mobile devices | 55 |
| Post-pink band formed from the ashes of the Sex Pistols | 55 |
| Pablo's wife in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | 55 |
| People who prefer to woo from the comfort of the couch? | 55 |
| Presidential candidate who wrote "No Apology" | 55 |
| Poem whose first, third and seventh lines are identical | 55 |
| Publicist covers my group's bakery container (5, 4) | 55 |
| Prenuptial press moniker for the late Princess of Wales | 55 |
| President Santos portrayer on "The West Wing" | 55 |
| Promo by the author of "Baby and Child Care"? | 55 |
| Person that a whale with a clogged blowhole might call? | 55 |
| Piece of work found in this puzzle's longer entries | 55 |
| President who went on to become a Supreme Court justice | 55 |
| Plummet ... or what this puzzle's theme answers do? | 55 |
| Pico de ___ (12,000-foot volcano on the Canary Islands) | 55 |
| Physicist who pioneered alternating current electricity | 55 |
| Penultimate song on "Abbey Road" (ironically) | 55 |
| Prefix with "dynamics" or "nuclear" | 55 |
| Poitier's "In the Heat of the Night" role | 55 |
| Picard's counselor on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 55 |
| Ponytailed pal of Lucy Van Pelt, in "Peanuts" | 55 |
| Portrayer of Deangelo Vickers on "The Office" | 55 |
| PBS station behind "Live From Lincoln Center" | 55 |
| Pair commemorated on North Carolina's state quarter | 55 |
| Programming language named for Lord Byron's daughter | 56 |
| Port whose harbor is in the crater of an extinct volcano | 56 |
| Prefix with "ballistic" or "dynamic" | 56 |
| Prefix with "magnetic" or "dynamics" | 56 |
| Pulitzer winner for "A Delicate Balance," 1967 | 56 |
| Portrayer of Baldwin's father on "30 Rock" | 56 |
| Portrayer of Senator Vinick on "The West Wing" | 56 |
| Physicist represented in the play "Copenhagen" | 56 |
| Pleading question said while pulling on Mom's sleeve | 56 |
| Pet that never eats or has ''accidents'' | 56 |
| Product once advertised as "Ice-cold sunshine" | 56 |
| Place where an insulting comment might "stick" | 56 |
| Painter of ''The Persistence of Memory'' | 56 |
| Product that produces a geyser when combined with Mentos | 56 |
| Prefix with "friendly" and "warrior" | 56 |
| Poe poem written at the time of the California Gold Rush | 56 |
| Poisoned husband in "Mourning Becomes Electra" | 56 |
| Part of Greenstreet's "Casablanca" costume | 56 |
| Part of a "Jack and the Beanstalk" exclamation | 56 |
| Pointer Sisters wanted a man with a "Slow" one | 56 |
| Prefix with "national" or "personal" | 56 |
| Period of human history that began about 3,000 years ago | 56 |
| Pacific island on which a memorable WWII photo was taken | 56 |
| Penn taking a break from acting to work for Barack Obama | 56 |
| Philosopher who asked "What is enlightenment?" | 56 |
| Pip at the start of "Great Expectations," e.g. | 56 |
| Poetry's ''rare and radiant maiden'' | 56 |
| Pirsig book subtitled "An Inquiry Into Morals" | 56 |
| Pete and Julie's cohort on "The Mod Squad" | 56 |
| Philosopher John who posited a theory of social contract | 56 |
| Peter who played Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon" | 56 |
| Prefix with "morning" or "afternoon" | 56 |
| Peter Gabriel "The Family and the Fishing ___" | 56 |
| Player for whom Giants Stadium, oddly, is the home field | 56 |
| Phrase on a menu that includes egg rolls and wonton soup | 56 |
| People who won't just let you live your life already | 56 |
| Props used in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" | 56 |
| Poem used in Beethoven's "Choral Symphony" | 56 |
| Phrase before "tear" or "shoestring" | 56 |
| Performer who's the descendant of a Japanese emperor | 56 |
| Playwright Joe who wrote "What the Butler Saw" | 56 |
| Prize that, surprisingly, contains a large amount of tin | 56 |
| Place where you might wager on the Belmont Stakes: Abbr. | 56 |
| Product once pitched by Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey | 56 |
| Proust's "Ë la Recherche du Temps ___" | 56 |
| Product name derived from the German word for peppermint | 56 |
| Pope's name over half the time in the past 230 years | 56 |
| Participate in a fad in which a wooden board is mimicked | 56 |
| Phantom's rival, in "Phantom of the Opera" | 56 |
| Part of a show that begins "Previously on ..." | 56 |
| President who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday | 56 |