| Pitcher Lefty who helped popularize baseball in Japan | 53 |
| It starts "Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources" | 65 |
| Homeric inspiration for Joyce's "Ulysses" | 55 |
| Subject of the book "The Meaning of Everything," briefly | 66 |
| Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass | 63 |
| Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman" | 62 |
| Its "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pgs. | 56 |
| Brit. reference that added "uplink" in 2013 | 53 |
| Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr. | 67 |
| The "definitive record of the English language" | 57 |
| Subj. of the book "Treasure-House of the Language" | 60 |
| Subj. of the book "The Meaning of Everything" | 55 |
| Subj. of Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything" | 69 |
| Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman" | 64 |
| Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass | 53 |
| Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society | 62 |
| Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete | 55 |
| Its third edition is scheduled to be finished in 2037: Abbr. | 60 |
| Champs' prize on the UK game show "Countdown" | 59 |
| Book that tells you the meaning of "life": Abbr. | 58 |
| "The Professor and the Madman" topic, for short | 57 |
| Ref. books with almost two million quotations: Abbr. | 52 |
| Antipoverty agcy. created by LBJ (hidden in SHOE ORGANIZER) | 59 |
| Start of the last line of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 62 |
| ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' preposition | 56 |
| "___ the glad waters of the dark blue sea": Byron | 59 |
| ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' contraction | 56 |
| Word after "fight" in "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 68 |
| Whitman's "A Backward Glance ___ Travel'd Roads" | 66 |
| Preposition before ''ramparts'' in an anthem | 60 |
| "Thou knowst the ___-eager vehemence of youth" (Homer) | 64 |
| "That floats on high ___ vales and hills"--Wordsworth | 63 |
| "Quadrophenia" song "Love, Reign ___ Me" | 60 |
| ''Love, Reign ___ Me'' (hit by The Who) | 55 |
| The Beta Band's "Dance ___ the Border" | 52 |
| Start of the last line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 62 |
| Robert Burns's "Whistle ___ the Lave O't" | 59 |
| Fourteenth-to-last word before a baseball game begins | 53 |
| Contraction in ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' | 59 |
| "What is that which the breeze, ___ the towering steep ..." | 69 |
| "The voice that breath'd ___ Eden": Keble | 55 |
| "The Strife Is ___, the Battle Done" (church hymn) | 60 |
| "The Angel that presided ___ my birth" (William Blake) | 64 |
| "Sweetly singing ___ the plains" (carol lyric) | 56 |
| "Returning were as tedious as go ___": Macbeth | 56 |
| "Now __ the one half-world / Nature seems dead": Macbeth | 66 |
| "Not stepping __ the bounds of modesty": Juliet | 57 |
| "Give ___ the play" (line from "Hamlet") | 60 |
| "Come __ the sea, / Maiden with me": Thomas Moore | 59 |
| "Angels We Have Heard on High" contraction | 52 |
| "A voice flowed ___ my troubled mind": Shelley | 56 |
| "...a feeling of sadness comes ___ me": Longfellow | 60 |
| "___ the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave" | 63 |
| ''Star-Spangled Banner'' preposition | 52 |
| Discus great Al who won gold in four consecutive Olympics | 57 |
| "Greatest Love ___" (#1 Whitney Houston song) | 55 |
| Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search ___ Author" | 64 |
| P. D. James's "Death ___ Expert Witness" | 54 |
| "Confessions __ English Opium-Eater": 1821 De Quincey work | 68 |
| " . . . in the twinkling ___ eye": I Cor. 15:52 | 57 |
| ''They're ___!'' (racetrack cry) | 52 |
| "Orpheus in the Underworld" composer Jacques | 54 |
| "I'll give you $500 for this old car," e.g. | 57 |
| "I'm gonna make him an __ he can't refuse" | 60 |
| Kind of ''pool'' or ''park'' | 60 |
| Young rink employee who works exclusively outside the skating area? | 67 |
| Word with ''pay'' or ''play'' | 61 |
| National Council __ Raza: Hispanic civil rights group | 53 |
| Words after ''court'' or ''rule'' | 65 |
| "Think ___" ("The Phantom of the Opera" song) | 65 |
| "Think ___" ("Phantom of the Opera" song) | 61 |
| "Think ___" ("Phantom of the Opera" number) | 63 |
| "All __": 1984 film featuring an old song of the same name | 68 |
| "All ___" (Steve Martin/Lily Tomlin comedy) | 53 |
| ''All ___'' (pop standard since 1931) | 53 |
| Green Day "Well, it's just one ___ lies!" | 55 |
| Oscar Wilde's "A Woman --- Importance" | 52 |
| ''In days ___, when knights were bold . . .'' | 61 |
| "The beauty ___ men is the gray head": Proverbs | 57 |
| Thomas Moore poem "___ in the Stilly Night" | 53 |
| "Thy friendship __ has made my heart to ache": Blake | 62 |
| "So ___ have I invoked thee for my Muse": Shak. | 57 |
| "How ___times I repine for the days of the old" Dylan | 63 |
| "How ___ is the candle of the wicked put out!": Job 21:17 | 67 |
| "How ___ Has the Banshee Cried" (Thomas Moore poem) | 61 |
| "... the apparel __ proclaims the man": "Hamlet" | 68 |
| ". . . apparel __ proclaims the man": "Hamlet" | 66 |
| "_____ I had heard of Lucy Gray": Wordsworth | 54 |
| "___ in the Stilly Night" (Thomas Moore poem) | 55 |
| "___ in the Stilly Night" (Thomas Moore lyric) | 56 |
| "___ I had heard of Lucy Gray": Wordsworth | 52 |
| "__ I had heard of Lucy Gray . . .": Wordsworth | 57 |
| ''For loan __ loses both itself and friend'': Shak. | 67 |
| "If called by a panther, don't anther" poet Nash | 62 |
| "If called by a panther/Don't anther" poet Nash | 61 |
| ''I'm a Stranger Here Myself'' poet Nash | 60 |
| Poet Nash who rhymed "Bronx" with "thonx" | 61 |
| Nash who wrote "I don't mind eels / Except as meals" | 66 |
| Nash who wrote "Further Reflections on Parsley" | 57 |
| "You Can't Get There from Here" author Nash | 57 |