| Japanese prime minister: 1941–44 | 39 |
| Japanese general Hideki's talisman? | 39 |
| Lee's "___ a Mockingbird" | 39 |
| German "Ready, Set, Go!" band | 39 |
| Location of bridges in a Michener title | 39 |
| "Lost in Translation" setting | 39 |
| Common target in Japanese monster films | 39 |
| Toy from the biggest city in the world? | 39 |
| Carpenters hit, "Goodbye ___" | 39 |
| ''Apartment available'' | 39 |
| "Is it a crime ___ too well?" | 39 |
| Kat "prefix," in celeb gossip | 39 |
| "Patriot Games" writer Clancy | 39 |
| "Arcadia" playwright Stoppard | 39 |
| Rationale for stealing artwork (Part 3) | 39 |
| 2011 Literature Nobelist Tranströmer | 39 |
| Oscar winner for playing Mona Lisa Vito | 39 |
| Marisa of "Parental Guidance" | 39 |
| "The Wrestler" actress Marisa | 39 |
| "Crazy, Stupid, Love" co-star | 39 |
| ..."Henry Fielding" by ___... | 39 |
| Rock opera that featured the Acid Queen | 39 |
| "Skip __ Lou": kids' song | 39 |
| Softened, with ''down'' | 39 |
| Unable to appreciate the symphony, e.g. | 39 |
| "An American in Paris" is one | 39 |
| Cruiserweight boxing champion James ___ | 39 |
| Collette of "The Sixth Sense" | 39 |
| "Mickey" one-hitter, __ Basil | 39 |
| Jealous suitor in "Pagliacci" | 39 |
| "Sixteen ___," Ernie Ford hit | 39 |
| Like a snake oil salesman's promise | 39 |
| "___ Handle," 1938 Gable film | 39 |
| What a poor workman blames, in a saying | 39 |
| Any "Metalocalypse" character | 39 |
| "The Facts of Life" character | 39 |
| "___ the mornin' to you!" | 39 |
| "___ the mornin' . . . !" | 39 |
| Best of the Billboard Hot 100 song list | 39 |
| Rationale for stealing artwork (Part 2) | 39 |
| When said three times, a 1970 war movie | 39 |
| Simchat ___ (Shemini Atzereth follower) | 39 |
| Sign at a bicycle shop or boardinghouse | 39 |
| "Silent All These Years" Amos | 39 |
| Outfielder Hunter with nine Gold Gloves | 39 |
| Hope-Crosby flick, "Road ___" | 39 |
| "Road ___" (Hope/Crosby film) | 39 |
| Singer Mel ("The Velvet Fog") | 39 |
| "Careless Hands" singer, 1949 | 39 |
| Phenomenon measured by the Fujita scale | 39 |
| "I Just Called __ I Love You" | 39 |
| Titular opera character who is a singer | 39 |
| Puccini tragedy based on play by Sardou | 39 |
| Opera that climaxes with a firing squad | 39 |
| Principal conductor at La Scala in 1898 | 39 |
| "We're off __ the Wizard" | 39 |
| Brit's ''Baloney!'' | 39 |
| Poitier's "___ With Love" | 39 |
| "___ With Love," Poitier film | 39 |
| A 1967 film directed by Joan Plowright? | 39 |
| Just ___ a bit (why I made this puzzle) | 39 |
| Result of putting two and two together? | 39 |
| Completely destroy a city on the Seine? | 39 |
| Magazine-subscription giveaway, perhaps | 39 |
| Start of a quip about a famous director | 39 |
| Hauling around, as a large shopping bag | 39 |
| Pooch in black-and-white and then color | 39 |
| Pooch from "The Wizard of Oz" | 39 |
| 1982 album featuring "Africa" | 39 |
| Bird on a Kellogg's Froot Loops box | 39 |
| With one's fingers in a skyscraper? | 39 |
| Refusing to bail out one's kid, say | 39 |
| ''Magical Mystery ___'' | 39 |
| Why Mickey and Goofy became astronauts? | 39 |
| Anagram of a word in the preceding clue | 39 |
| Women tend to wear them higher than men | 39 |
| Tuchman's "The Proud ___" | 39 |
| 1974 action movie, with "The" | 39 |
| "Shampoo" screenwriter Robert | 39 |
| Kind of "Soldier," to Britney | 39 |
| Consider briefly, with "with" | 39 |
| Movie with Robin Williams and LL Cool J | 39 |
| Being bad, in a way, on Halloween night | 39 |
| Where there's no free rides (Abbr.) | 39 |
| There's no free ride on these hwys. | 39 |
| Plays a sophomoric prank on, informally | 39 |
| Participates in some Halloween mischief | 39 |
| Festoons with certain tissue, for short | 39 |
| "Decorates" with Charmin, say | 39 |
| Bingham of ''Baywatch'' | 39 |
| Actress Bingham of "Baywatch" | 39 |
| Common liner note abbr. on a folk album | 39 |
| Where to find the colors in this puzzle | 39 |
| Native Americans' forced relocation | 39 |
| "LOVE ---" (O'Jays, 1973) | 39 |
| Black hair and almond-shaped eyes, e.g. | 39 |
| Target of a 2010 California dietary ban | 39 |
| "The Tender ___" (1955 movie) | 39 |
| "The Tender ___," Sinatra hit | 39 |
| Secret entrances under carpets, perhaps | 39 |