| Frequent ad-libber on "The Steve Allen Show" | 54 |
| Comic with Poston and Knotts on "The Steve Allen Show" | 64 |
| 1950s-'60s "Man on the Street" comic Louis | 56 |
| 12/31, initially, or what is blacked out in this puzzle | 55 |
| "The Eyes of ___" (public TV science show) | 52 |
| "Bill ___ History of the United States" (1894 humor book) | 67 |
| Product first used commercially in toothbrush bristles | 54 |
| Team that won a world championship in its eighth yr. | 52 |
| Org. in 1950s-'60s TV's "Naked City" | 54 |
| Laura who wrote the song "Wedding Bell Blues" | 55 |
| String of letters found in this puzzle's longest Across answers | 67 |
| Org. with a National Historic Landmark building in lower Manhattan | 66 |
| Market found in seven of this puzzle's other entries | 56 |
| Newspaper partly owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim: Abbr. | 64 |
| "All the News That's Fit to Print" source, for short | 66 |
| "All the news that's fit to print" initials | 57 |
| Sch. with its annual commencement in Washington Square Park | 59 |
| Sch. that Theo Huxtable attended on "The Cosby Show" | 62 |
| A.L. player whose team logo includes an Uncle Sam hat | 53 |
| Hawaiian island where much of "Lost" was filmed | 57 |
| Pacific island on which much of "Lost" was filmed | 59 |
| Hawaiian island that has the highest population density | 55 |
| Charter ___ (tree on Connecticut's state quarter) | 53 |
| The Charter ___ (picture on Connecticut's State Quarter) | 60 |
| Charter ___, symbol on the Connecticut state quarter | 52 |
| "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole ___ tree" | 59 |
| "For ye shall be as an ___ . . ." (Isa. 1:30) | 55 |
| The Old ___ Bucket (Indiana-Purdue trophy, slangily) | 52 |
| Like "that moss-covered bucket which hangs in the well" | 65 |
| "The Old --- Bucket" (Samuel Woodworth poem) | 54 |
| Chaplin costar in ''The Great Dictator'' | 56 |
| Twelve ___ ("Gone With the Wind" plantation) | 54 |
| Kentucky ___ (annual Churchill Downs race for fillies) | 54 |
| "'Neath the ___" (Wellesley school song) | 54 |
| Reminiscent of vanilla, toast, chocolate, and coffee, as some wine | 66 |
| What you need to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"? | 53 |
| What Randy Travis will "Pick Up" before he rows | 57 |
| REO Speedwagon: "Throw away the ___, forever" | 55 |
| REO Speedwagon "Throw away the ___ forever" | 53 |
| W. Hemisphere gp. formed to defend against communism | 52 |
| Its logo has 35 flags on it, including the Stars and Stripes: Abbr. | 67 |
| "Don't Look Back In Anger" Britpop band | 53 |
| Commercial building with a conical roof, traditionally | 54 |
| ___ futures (commodity on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange) | 58 |
| "True Grit" or "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," e.g. | 67 |
| ''Shane'' or ''Stagecoach'' | 59 |
| "The Big Trail" or "The Big Stampede" | 57 |
| "The Big Trail" or "The Big Sombrero," e.g. | 63 |
| ''They Died with Their Boots On,'' e.g. | 55 |
| "Copper Canyon" and "Coroner Creek" | 55 |
| Warren of "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" | 57 |
| Novelist who wrote "The Gravedigger's Daughter" | 61 |
| Half of the "Rich Girl" duo, in 70's pop | 54 |
| Secret pledge in each of the four longest Across answers | 56 |
| ''Egad!'' or ''Drat!'' | 54 |
| Promising Kiss song off "The Elder," with "The"? | 68 |
| Kiss song that makes a pledge (with "The")? | 53 |
| ''Drat!'' and ''Egad!'' | 55 |
| Winner of the 2005 and 2007 Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album | 62 |
| U.S. president whose mother's first name was Stanley | 56 |
| Time's second African-American Person of the Year | 53 |
| Subject of the Shepard Fairey screenprint "Hope" | 58 |
| Subject of the David Remnick book "The Bridge" | 56 |
| Presidential candidate and author of "The Audacity of Hope" | 69 |
| President whose first name means "one who is blessed" | 63 |
| President who appointed Sotomayor to the Supreme Court | 54 |
| Politician who wrote "The Audacity of Hope" | 53 |
| One of two US presidents to win a Nobel Prize and a Grammy award | 64 |
| One of two presidents graduated from Harvard Law School | 55 |
| One of only two presidents with two Ivy League degrees | 54 |
| He announced Biden as his running mate with a text message | 58 |
| Harvard Law Review editor who went on to become president | 57 |
| First president whose name ends in a vowel other than E or Y | 60 |
| 2008 candidate with the slogan "Change we can believe in" | 67 |
| "This is our generation's Sputnik moment" speaker | 63 |
| Brit's honorary title won by J. K. Rowling and Hugh Laurie: Abbr. | 69 |
| Symbols marking spurious passages in old manuscripts | 52 |
| Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women | 69 |
| Midwest college town that was an Underground Railroad stop | 58 |
| College with the motto "Learning and labor" | 53 |
| ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' king | 54 |
| Olivier's ''Wuthering Heights'' co-star | 59 |
| Fairy king in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 55 |
| Character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 54 |
| "A Midsummer Night's Dream" fairy king | 52 |
| Like a competitor on ''The Biggest Loser'' | 58 |
| Qualified to appear on "The Biggest Loser" | 52 |
| Like Gwyneth Paltrow's character in "Shallow Hal" | 63 |
| Like contestants at the start of "The Biggest Loser" | 62 |
| Like a contestant auditioning to be on "The Biggest Loser" | 68 |
| Like "The Biggest Loser" contestants, initially | 57 |
| Groove Thing feat. Debbie Harry "Command and ___" | 59 |
| "Love is of two kinds; one commands, one ---" | 55 |
| ___-Wan Kenobi (character in "The Phantom Menace") | 60 |
| Theater award presented by "The Village Voice" | 56 |
| Shepard's "Fool for Love" won one: 1984 | 53 |
| Officer who played himself in "Alice's Restaurant" | 64 |
| David Byrne and Fatboy Slim won one for "Here Lies Love" | 66 |
| Award won in 2011 by "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" | 69 |
| Award named for the venue of its honorees' performances | 59 |