| Aging consequence, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| “Bernice Bobs ___ Hair” (Fitzgerald short story) | 56 |
| “It Can’t Happen ___” (Sinclair Lewis novel) | 56 |
| Animal more closely related to the mongoose than the dog | 56 |
| Actor Holm who voiced Skinner in "Ratatouille" | 56 |
| Asteroid that gets nearer to the sun than any other body | 56 |
| Achille ___ (cruise ship that was a 1985 terrorism site) | 56 |
| Astronaut Jemison, first African-American woman in space | 56 |
| Annie Reed portrayer in "Sleepless in Seattle" | 56 |
| Arizona town where the Chicago Cubs hold spring training | 56 |
| Actress Wasikowska of "The Kids Are All Right" | 56 |
| Arizona county with a national monument of the same name | 56 |
| Architectural term that literally means "ship" | 56 |
| Actress Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 56 |
| Actor Nick with an especially unflattering 2002 mug shot | 56 |
| Arrival time of Frank Miller's train, in a 1952 film | 56 |
| Awards for playwrights Breuer and Durang: 1979–80 | 56 |
| Animal some believe to be the source of the unicorn myth | 56 |
| Agatha Christie's "_____ at End House'' | 56 |
| Actress ___ de Rossi of "Arrested Development" | 56 |
| Alice's foil in ''The Honeymooners'' | 56 |
| Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of "King Lear" | 56 |
| Author of "Comin' thro' the Rye": 1875 | 56 |
| Actress who always looks like she just sucked on a lemon | 56 |
| “The Flying Dutchman” painter Albert Pinkham ___ | 56 |
| Alice In Chains "Nothing ___: Best of the Box" | 56 |
| Antwerp International Airport's code on luggage tags | 56 |
| “When class is over they all inevitably ___ ...” | 56 |
| “You might call me a psychologist,” said the ___ | 56 |
| All Time Low "The Irony of ___ on a Lifesaver" | 56 |
| Architect who was a founding member of the Royal Society | 56 |
| Albee's 1967 Pulitzer Prize play, with "A" | 56 |
| Actor from "Caprica" and "NYPD Blue" | 56 |
| A 1969 rock anthem — as sung by a famous swinger? | 56 |
| Author whose landmark work began as "Catch-18" | 56 |
| Airport serving Iguacu Falls, for short (in VINAIGRETTE) | 56 |
| Actress Graff and "The L Word" creator Chaiken | 56 |
| Admiral Bobby who directed the N.S.A. under Jimmy Carter | 56 |
| Author of "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" | 56 |
| Actor Rob + actor Richard = something to put a truck in? | 56 |
| Actress who married the same man twice, in 1976 and 1989 | 56 |
| Author of a book "As Dictated to Barbara Bush" | 56 |
| Alfred ___ of 2004's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 56 |
| Ancient Greek sculptor famous for his athletes in bronze | 56 |
| Actor in the Best Picture winners of 1975, 1983 and 2006 | 56 |
| Amazed reaction to Saint Laurent's new fashion line? | 56 |
| Acted like the "Supermassive Black Hole" band? | 56 |
| Ask "Is this really diet soda?," for instance? | 56 |
| Administrative group that oversees pop music performers? | 56 |
| “___ Drives Me Crazy” (Fine Young Cannibals hit) | 56 |
| Avoiding part of your workout? (this one's a triple) | 56 |
| Allmans "I woke up this morning, had them ___" | 56 |
| Auto additives co. that hints at this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Adult ___ (Cartoon Network subchannel for older viewers) | 56 |
| A Supremes classic — as sung by a famous swinger? | 56 |
| Action series featuring Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin | 56 |
| Ancient area now covered by parts of Bulgaria and Turkey | 56 |
| “You might call me a cryptologist,” said the ___ | 56 |
| Actress who co-starred in "The Lincoln Lawyer" | 56 |
| Attend an out-of-town "Boléro" performance? | 56 |
| Adviser of Capt. Picard on "Star Trek: T.N.G." | 56 |
| Also-ran for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination | 56 |
| “Once more ___ the breach...”: “Henry V” | 56 |
| Asian territory that abuts Europe in the board game Risk | 56 |
| Almighty's "second mistake," per Nietzsche | 56 |
| Alphabetically last Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees | 56 |
| Anecdotally, the most ubiquitous song of the last month | 55 |
| Adjective with "zero" or "disaster" | 55 |
| Activist group whose motto is "Silence=Death" | 55 |
| African capital whose name means "new flower" | 55 |
| Ackbar is one in "Return of the Jedi" (abbr.) | 55 |
| AVERAGE ONE IN RUSSIA IS 200, COME LIVE HERE IT IS FINE | 55 |
| Actor in Broadway's "Glengarry Glen Ross" | 55 |
| A: You're looking a bit pale. T: I'm __ (Elvis) | 55 |
| Actress Adams, star of 2007's "Enchanted" | 55 |
| “Secret ___” (where Anne Frank wrote her diary) | 55 |
| Abbr. in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" | 55 |
| Another term for a BOLO ("Be on the lookout") | 55 |
| Aldous Huxley's ''___ and Essence'' | 55 |
| Answer to the folk riddle "Big head, no hair" | 55 |
| Altogether it's worth the most bonus troops in Risk | 55 |
| Auto company whose name is Latin for "listen" | 55 |
| Anne Lindsay's ''_____ Robin Gray'' | 55 |
| Anatomical term that's Latin for "hollow" | 55 |
| Album with the hit song "I'm Every Woman" | 55 |
| Argentine "Hey!" that became a noted nickname | 55 |
| Abbott and Costello's "Here Come the ___" | 55 |
| Animated Morgendorffer partly based on Janeane Garofalo | 55 |
| Apt shortening for a city currently mired in bankruptcy | 55 |
| Almost any character on "The Big Bang Theory" | 55 |
| Alfred who won a Best Actor Tony for "Kismet" | 55 |
| Artist with the 1999 6x platinum album "2001" | 55 |
| A four-letter exclamation that wouldn't get bleeped | 55 |
| Astronaut Collins, first female Space Shuttle commander | 55 |
| Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville" | 55 |
| Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica," e.g. | 55 |
| Artist's name formed phonetically from his initials | 55 |
| Artist who rejuvenated his career with 1960s serigraphs | 55 |
| Abbreviation meaning "plus additional things" | 55 |
| Author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | 55 |