| "Flowers for ___" (basis for the movie "Charly") | 68 |
| Vegan professor at Middle Tennessee State University | 52 |
| University of Tennessee commencement speaker in 2010 | 52 |
| 2007 Peace Nobelist with an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Grammy | 56 |
| "Take it from me, elections matter" speaker | 53 |
| Trumpeter nicknamed the "Round Mound of Sound" | 56 |
| Trumpeter nicknamed "The Round Mound of Sound" | 56 |
| Musician whose statue stands in New Orleans's French Quarter | 64 |
| Wynton Marsalis's first trumpet was a gift from him | 55 |
| Musician with the gold-selling album "Sugar Lips" | 59 |
| Jazz trumpet legend with a statue in New Orleans's French Quarter | 69 |
| Mailer's subject in ''The Fight'' | 53 |
| Loser of the ''Fight of the Century'' | 53 |
| Boxer known as the ''Louisville Lip'' | 53 |
| "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" boxer | 58 |
| Who said "It's not bragging if you can back it up" | 64 |
| Subject of the book "Loser and Still Champion" | 56 |
| Subject of the biography "King of the World" | 54 |
| Subject of the biography "Float Like a Butterfly" | 59 |
| Subject of the 1998 biography "King of the World" | 59 |
| Subject matter, with Cosell, of the book "Sound and Fury" | 67 |
| Sportsman of the Century, per Sports Illustrated in 1999 | 56 |
| Sports Illustrated's 1999 "Sportsman of the Century" | 66 |
| Sports Illustrated named him Sportsman of the Century in 1999 | 61 |
| Sports Illustrated named him Sportsman of the Century | 53 |
| Receiver of "Fighter of the Century" award | 52 |
| MacGraw of "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Love Story" | 67 |
| Kristofferson's costar in the TV movie "Freedom Road" | 67 |
| He's second to Jordan in Sports Illustrated covers | 54 |
| He's second to Jordan in Sports Illustrated cover appearances | 65 |
| He said "Champions aren't made in gyms" | 53 |
| He knocked out Liston in the first round on May 25, 1965 | 56 |
| He could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" | 61 |
| Frazier's "Thrilla in Manila" opponent | 52 |
| Chemical ___ (nickname for a member of Saddam's inner circle) | 65 |
| Boxer who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Games as Cassius Clay | 67 |
| Boxer who lost "The Drama in the Bahamas" in 1981 | 59 |
| Boxer who floated like a butterfly, stung like a bee | 52 |
| Athlete with the autobiography "The Soul of a Butterfly" | 66 |
| 1974 Fassbinder film subtitled "Fear Eats the Soul" | 61 |
| "The Martyrdom of ___" (classic Muslim work) | 54 |
| "The Bachelorette" bachelorette Fedotowsky | 52 |
| "My toughest fight was with my first wife" speaker | 60 |
| "It's not bragging if you can back it up" speaker | 63 |
| "It's not bragging if you can back it up" braggart | 64 |
| "I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong" speaker | 65 |
| "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" co-star Tatyana ___ | 55 |
| "Chemical" guy in the Iraqi playing card deck | 55 |
| "___, boom-ba-yay" (Rumble in the Jungle chant) | 57 |
| "___ Baba Goes to Town" (1937 Eddie Cantor film) | 58 |
| ''The Thousand and One Nights'' hero | 52 |
| ''The Soul of a Butterfly'' memoirist | 53 |
| It follows ''inter'' or ''et'' | 62 |
| "Doubt truth to be __": "Hamlet" | 52 |
| "America's Most Wanted" info, sometimes | 53 |
| ABC show that ended its fourth season with a car crash cliffhanger | 66 |
| "Gloria, I think they got the ___" Laura Branigan | 59 |
| Kimble's array, in TV's "The Fugitive" | 56 |
| Figure in the Beastie Boys song "Rhymin & Stealin" | 64 |
| "I was at my friend's all night," e.g. | 52 |
| "I was at home sleeping at the time," e.g. | 52 |
| ''I was out of town at the time,'' e.g. | 55 |
| Suspect's "I was home all night," e.g. | 52 |
| "I was stuck in traffic at the time," e.g. | 52 |
| "I was out of town at the time of the murder," e.g. | 61 |
| "I was home alone, asleep" isn't a very good one | 62 |
| "I was at a movie when the crime occurred," e.g. | 58 |
| "I was at a movie theater when it happened," e.g. | 59 |
| "I couldn't have done it because ...," e.g. | 57 |
| ''The dog ate my homework'' and the like | 56 |
| Clapton "Journeyman" rocker "No ___" | 56 |
| "I was home asleep at the time of the murder" and others | 66 |
| "I was at my girlfriend's at the time," and others | 64 |
| Sitcom with the catchphrase "Kiss my grits!" | 54 |
| Sitcom wife reprised by Gabrielle Union in a 2005 film | 54 |
| She asked "What IS an un-birthday present?" | 53 |
| Name referenced in Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" | 68 |
| Name in the Jefferson Airplane hit "White Rabbit" | 59 |
| Fictional girl to whom a hookah-smoking caterpillar gives advice | 64 |
| Fictional character who cried "Curiouser and curiouser!" | 66 |
| Character in Meyerbeer's "Robert the Devil" | 57 |
| "You're nothing but a pack of cards!" speaker | 59 |
| "To the moon, ___!" ("The Honeymooners" phrase) | 67 |
| "Three inches is such a wretched height to be" speaker | 64 |
| "I've had such a curious dream!" speaker | 54 |
| "Christopher Robin went down with ___": Milne | 55 |
| "But I don't want to go among mad people" speaker | 63 |
| Eatery where "you can get anything you want" | 54 |
| Eatery "just a half a mile from the railroad track" | 61 |
| Keys with the #1 hits "My Boo" and "Fallin'" | 68 |
| Keys of Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind" | 52 |
| "In the cunning, truth itself's ___": Pope | 56 |
| ''That's __!'' (''Not true!'') | 66 |
| "In the cunning, truth's itself ___": Pope | 56 |
| "I Just Can't Live __": Carrie Underwood song | 59 |
| "I Just Can't Live ___" (Carrie Underwood) | 56 |
| "I Just Can't Live ___" (Carrie Underwood song) | 61 |
| "I cannot tell ___!" (apocryphal Washington quote) | 60 |
| "And in the cunning, truth itself's ___": Pope | 60 |
| "A mixture of ___ doth ever add pleasure": Bacon | 58 |