| Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent | 68 |
| Staff members (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 53 |
| Dostoyevsky's "_____ From the Underground" | 56 |
| "I know __ the day be ours": "King Henry V" | 63 |
| "The fault . . . is ___ our stars . . . ": Shak. | 58 |
| Response to waiting too long for someone who's waiting? | 59 |
| Reply to "Who wants to clean up this mess?" | 53 |
| Likely response to "More monkey brain stew?" | 54 |
| Like fooling Mother Nature, in an old margarine commercial | 58 |
| Words with "your life!" or "a dare!" | 56 |
| ''__ your life!'' (''Forget it!'') | 66 |
| Charting soundtrack "The Hunchback of ___ Dame" | 57 |
| Relatives of AND's and OR's in Boolean logic | 52 |
| "Lay ___ for yourselves treasures . . . ": Matt. 6:19 | 63 |
| Schoolhouse Rock "A ___ is a Person, Place, or Thing" | 63 |
| ''Soup'' or ''salad'' | 53 |
| ''Cabbages'' and ''kings'' | 58 |
| Series with a "Secrets of the Sun" episode | 52 |
| PBS show with episodes about tornadoes and catacombs and the like | 65 |
| Milky Way phenomenon believed to occur almost weekly | 52 |
| Orwell's "1984" or Clarke's "2010" | 62 |
| Policy protecting against loss of electromotive force? | 54 |
| "___ ordo seclorum" (phrase on the back of a dollar bill) | 67 |
| Political grp. with a "Say It, Sister" blog | 53 |
| "Need You ___" (Grammy-winning Lady Antebellum album) | 63 |
| "___ we are engaged in a great civil war ...": Lincoln | 64 |
| At times/Actress Sykes's halt to putting on weight? | 55 |
| "Impossible!" and the theme of this puzzle | 52 |
| "Forget it!" (and a clue to this puzzle's theme) | 62 |
| 1987 Costner film, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Appropriately, he wrote "The Barrel-Organ" | 52 |
| "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" network | 52 |
| Station on which Will Shortz appears as Puzzlemaster | 52 |
| Station on which Will Shortz appears as "Puzzlemaster" | 64 |
| "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" channel | 52 |
| "All Things Considered" network, for short | 52 |
| Org. highlighted in "Bowling for Columbine" | 53 |
| Org. with the program "Refuse to Be a Victim" | 55 |
| Org. with an "Eddie Eagle" safety program for kids | 60 |
| Org. with a "Competitive Shooting" section on its website | 67 |
| Org. that's not coming off so well in this Trayvon Martin thing | 67 |
| Org. that's a topic in "Bowling for Columbine" | 60 |
| Org. that publishes the magazine Shooting Sports USA | 52 |
| Org. that operates a firearms museum in Fairfax, Va. | 52 |
| Org. that I kind of just can't write clues for anymore | 58 |
| Org. of which eight U.S. presidents have been members | 53 |
| Org. Giuliani was addressing when interrupted by a call from his wife | 69 |
| Lobbying gp. that offers personal protection classes | 52 |
| Grp. whose membership increased 10% after Sandy Hook | 52 |
| Grp. whose first presidential endorsement was for Reagan | 56 |
| FDR-created agency with the slogan "We do our part" | 61 |
| Brady Campaign foe in the fight for gun control (abbr.) | 55 |
| "Protecting people and the environment" agcy. | 55 |
| "Defending Our Nation. Securing the Future" org. | 58 |
| Their "motto" is "never say anything": Abbr. | 64 |
| Org. with a super-creepy "CryptoKids" program | 55 |
| Org. that's the subject of the book "The Puzzle Palace" | 69 |
| Org. that's the subject of the book "Body of Secrets" | 67 |
| Org. that Jinx worked for in "Die Another Day" | 56 |
| Intelligence gp. doing controversial domestic surveillance | 58 |
| Grp. with a "Cryptokids" section on their website | 59 |
| Gp. whose insignia consists of a bald eagle holding a key | 57 |
| Govt. org. whose logo depicts an eagle standing on a key | 56 |
| Group that includes the Secy. of State and the Secy. of Defense | 63 |
| Agcy. that supports research in economics and geology | 53 |
| Quintet who played the closing ceremonies of the 2002 Olymypics | 63 |
| Popular quintet that included two former Mouseketeers | 53 |
| Group with the 2000 #1 hit "It's Gonna Be Me" | 59 |
| Defunct boy band whose manager was recently indicted for fraud | 62 |
| Boy band whose name was derived from the members' last names | 64 |
| Boy band that had a member go on to play Sean Parker | 52 |
| Band with the highest first-week album sales in music history | 61 |
| Band with the 2000 album "No Strings Attached" | 56 |
| Band with the 2000 #1 hit "It's Gonna Be Me" | 58 |
| Anthem singers at the closing ceremony of the Salt Lake City Olympics | 69 |
| Federal org. with a "Safety Recommendations" Web page | 63 |
| Titian's ''Venus of Urbino,'' e.g. | 54 |
| Feature of Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass" | 60 |
| Duchamp's "___ Descending a Staircase" | 52 |
| "In Rainbows" Radiohead song for the buff? | 52 |
| The Graces in Raphael's "The Three Graces," e.g. | 62 |
| "Rapa ___" (1994 movie about Easter Island) | 53 |
| "Mahalo ___ loa" ("Thank you very much," in Maui) | 69 |
| Van Gogh’s "___ Étoilée à St. Rémy" | 62 |
| Pitcher LaLoosh's nickname in "Bull Durham" | 57 |
| U2 song about the aftermath of a "Spider-Man" injury? | 63 |
| Hook two balloons together at the end, bend slightly | 52 |
| Language family that includes Ute, Shoshone and Comanche | 56 |
| Susan Sarandon's "Dead Man Walking" role | 54 |
| One who tries to "solve a problem like Maria" | 55 |
| Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking," for one | 54 |
| Georgia Tech's Sam ___ School of International Affairs | 58 |
| Senate Armed Services Committee chairman after Goldwater | 56 |
| Politician Sam who was a Georgia senator for 24 years | 53 |
| Where Hamlet told Ophelia to "get thee to" | 52 |
| Word with ''hickory'' or ''health'' | 67 |
| McAuliffe's famous retort to the Nazis: Dec. 1944 | 53 |
| Village on the Hudson River where painter Edward Hopper was born | 64 |
| Where Billy the Kid was born, believe it or not: Abbr. | 54 |
| Nevada county in which part of Death Valley National Park is located | 68 |