| Writer's block à la Cole Porter? | 39 |
| Minimalist decorator's instruction? | 39 |
| Words from "Samson Agonistes" | 39 |
| " . . . ___ but their chains" | 39 |
| Vincent Price's favorite J.S. film? | 39 |
| Joe Satriani "___ This Earth" | 39 |
| Unprepared, as a sprinter in the blocks | 39 |
| "Visual" observation (Part 1) | 39 |
| Darden Smith "Two Dollar ___" | 39 |
| 'And -- word from our sponsor' | 39 |
| ''It's ___ never!'' | 39 |
| "Doogie Howser" star, to fans | 39 |
| Mathematical sequence of unknown length | 39 |
| Like Earth before the Manhattan Project | 39 |
| "The Pleasure Principle" Gary | 39 |
| "The Barber of Baghdad" tenor | 39 |
| 'Holder' of a brief explanation | 39 |
| Said three times, a Three Stooges laugh | 39 |
| Taken in strange compulsive cleaner (7) | 39 |
| Contents of some candy jar inverted (4) | 39 |
| Tie score after two games, as in tennis | 39 |
| When "S.N.L." wraps in N.Y.C. | 39 |
| "The Audacity to Win" subject | 39 |
| Structures like the Washington Monument | 39 |
| Smart investment for geometry students? | 39 |
| Ugandan president before and after Amin | 39 |
| Luxury craft crossing the Atlantic, say | 39 |
| Patricia who wrote "Woe Is I" | 39 |
| Nadya Suleman, mother of 14, familiarly | 39 |
| "Friday Night Lights" setting | 39 |
| Burgess translation of a Sophocles play | 39 |
| "Love, reign ___, rain on me" | 39 |
| "___ land of the free . . . " | 39 |
| "Monty Python's Life ___" | 39 |
| "Ports ___," Ibert opus: 1924 | 39 |
| "...long walk ___ short pier" | 39 |
| Skills needed for a business workplace? | 39 |
| Hit man's ''icing'' | 39 |
| Stones hit, "Get __ My Cloud" | 39 |
| Prohibition of Gulf of Mexico drilling? | 39 |
| Focus of "drill, baby, drill" | 39 |
| " . . . abusing ___ patience" | 39 |
| "Faith ___!" (words by Faber) | 39 |
| "Just the Two ___" (1981 hit) | 39 |
| "The Wonder ___" (Elvis tune) | 39 |
| "You have got to be kidding!" | 39 |
| "___ I Hate to Get Up . . . " | 39 |
| "___ Night" (Christmas carol) | 39 |
| "Come on, that's enough!" | 39 |
| It's grown for lubricating purposes | 39 |
| Grafton's "__ for Outlaw" | 39 |
| Japanese Prime Minister: 1934–36 | 39 |
| "I'm broke; it's ---" | 39 |
| "You've made your point!" | 39 |
| Like some conservative teaching methods | 39 |
| It's good when they're extended | 39 |
| Show tune sung by a stevedore named Joe | 39 |
| Central Park designer Frederick Law ___ | 39 |
| Former name of the cable network Versus | 39 |
| Pair that missed their prom to host SNL | 39 |
| Situated somewhere between two extremes | 39 |
| Spending no more than what was allotted | 39 |
| "Walk __": Dionne Warwick hit | 39 |
| "Walk ___" (1964 Warwick hit) | 39 |
| How some demo albums may be distributed | 39 |
| "I'm ___ twice shy, baby" | 39 |
| 2003 film "Érase una Vez" | 39 |
| Where you'll find rows of mansions? | 39 |
| Words under "E pluribus unum" | 39 |
| "At least that's a start" | 39 |
| Roses' count on Valentine's Day | 39 |
| The final drink that may truly be final | 39 |
| Words on a Victoria's Secret coupon | 39 |
| Minuscule amount on a nutritional label | 39 |
| It may make a band a "wonder" | 39 |
| 61.024 cubic inches of leather shorts = | 39 |
| With "of," in total agreement | 39 |
| What Madonna and Cher are each known by | 39 |
| "___ above all . . . ": Keble | 39 |
| Start of a popular children's rhyme | 39 |
| "___ fits all" (common label) | 39 |
| First felony conviction, in some states | 39 |
| Three words before "customer" | 39 |
| "Oliver!" choreographer White | 39 |
| Formation of words such as hiss or buzz | 39 |
| Where to find a single ornamental clip? | 39 |
| What today's conifer class will be? | 39 |
| ''Hop __'' (Seuss book) | 39 |
| Where much info can be found these days | 39 |
| Ninja-like, and this puzzle's theme | 39 |
| "--- Dooby" (Roy Orbison hit) | 39 |
| Words from a hit of The Five Stairsteps | 39 |
| "The Addams Family" adjective | 39 |
| Children's book by Frieda Wishinsky | 39 |
| Album that preceded "Britney" | 39 |
| One employing trompe l'oeil effects | 39 |
| Poker-hand sequence, such as 4, 5, 6, 7 | 39 |
| Words with ''business'' | 39 |
| Where union membership isn't needed | 39 |
| Faust and Méphistophélès, e.g. | 39 |