| Verdi's "Ernani! Ernani, involami," e.g. | 54 |
| Vic Morrow's role in "Blackboard Jungle" | 54 |
| Violent Femmes "I ___ before I had two feet" | 54 |
| Vessels seen in "Saving Private Ryan": Abbr. | 54 |
| Viktor Frankl's "___ Search for Meaning" | 54 |
| Vince's costar in "The Wedding Crashers" | 54 |
| Vegetable "ammunition" for a child's toy | 54 |
| Victor of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" | 54 |
| Visual gripper by Stephen King? (with "The") | 54 |
| Volume on permanent display at the Library of Congress | 54 |
| Version of a punching prank for a more refined palate? | 54 |
| Verse often beginning "There once was a ..." | 54 |
| Villainous group in the "Star Wars" universe | 54 |
| Van Halen "Come on baby, finish what ya ___" | 54 |
| Visual deception (with ''l'oeil'') | 54 |
| Video game console whose name sounds like two pronouns | 54 |
| Vigoda who makes frequent "Conan" appearances | 55 |
| Violet Crawley of "Downton Abbey," and others | 55 |
| Virgil described its "roar of frightful ruin" | 55 |
| Van Morrison's '74 album "Veedon ___" | 55 |
| Video game with the subtitle "Combat Evolved" | 55 |
| Vincent van Gogh's "Le ___ de Saint-Paul" | 55 |
| Video game that was an inspiration for "Lost" | 55 |
| Vermont Rep. Bernard ___, Congress's only Socialist | 55 |
| Vowel sound represented by an upside-down "e" | 55 |
| V.S. Naipaul's ''___ in the River'' | 55 |
| Venezuelan statesman known as "El Libertador" | 55 |
| Vincent of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" | 55 |
| Vehicles propelled by sails over a frozen body of water | 55 |
| Vice president who died on his 96th birthday, 5/16/1920 | 55 |
| Viral video in which a defendant gets a light sentence? | 55 |
| Vehicle that can sleep nearly a dozen college students? | 55 |
| Van Gogh's "Letters to His Brother _____" | 55 |
| Visitors get a rise out of this White House attraction? | 55 |
| Vocalist on "Pool It!" and "Justus" | 55 |
| Villain in the fourth highest-grossing film of all time | 55 |
| Verdi's "E il sol dell'anima," for one | 56 |
| Violinist's item, or what she might do after playing | 56 |
| Vacationer's favorite '70s album by The Trammps? | 56 |
| Verdi's "Fu la sorte dell' armi," e.g. | 56 |
| Velvet's older sister in "National Velvet" | 56 |
| Van Gogh's technique in "The Starry Night" | 56 |
| Vardalos of ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' | 56 |
| Val-d'___ (French départment named after a river) | 56 |
| Voice actress on Fox's "Sit Down, Shut Up" | 56 |
| Violation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics | 56 |
| Ventura County town who name means "the river" | 56 |
| Vice President Biden installed by the Shadow Government? | 56 |
| Venue for the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, in brief | 56 |
| Variety of music that almost purposely avoids mainstream | 56 |
| Villagers in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" | 56 |
| Vice president who dueled with Alexander Hamilton in 1804 | 57 |
| Video game company parodied in "Wreck-It Ralph" | 57 |
| Vannelli who had a hit with "I Just Wanna Stop" | 57 |
| Victor who played King Tut on TV's "Batman" | 57 |
| Virtually assembled group that performs confusing actions | 57 |
| Van Gogh painting in Don McLean's "Vincent" | 57 |
| Very weird Moranis, compared to slightly odd Springfield? | 57 |
| Vegetables whose skins may be cooked and eaten separately | 57 |
| Vocalist in the all-author band the Rock Bottom Remainders | 58 |
| Villainous member of the Serpent Society, in Marvel Comics | 58 |
| Vegetables whose genus shares its name with a Greek letter | 58 |
| Van Morrison song whose title is spelled out in the chorus | 58 |
| Variety show that featured "PFFT! You Was Gone!" | 58 |
| Volcano name that means ''bald'' in French | 58 |
| Village People single covered by the Pet Shop Boys in 1993 | 58 |
| Vice president who once famously mashed "potato" | 58 |
| Vacuum brand whose ads show it picking up a a bowling ball | 58 |
| Video game character who begins atop a psychedelic pyramid | 58 |
| Village People "It's fun to stay at the ___" | 58 |
| Vega who played Carmen Cortez in "Spy Kids" films | 59 |
| Verdi's "D'amor sull'ali rosee," e.g. | 59 |
| Verb in the first line of "The Lord's Prayer" | 59 |
| Villain who says "So you don't like spinach?" | 59 |
| Van Gogh painting that once sold for a record $53.9 million | 59 |
| Vehicle part that might feature a picture of Calvin pissing | 59 |
| Vacation spot far, far from Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde? | 59 |
| Verdi opera that had the working title "Violetta" | 59 |
| Vessel in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" | 59 |
| Value of a U.S. coronet head coin, minted from 1838 to 1907 | 59 |
| Vietnamese stateman who declined the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize | 59 |
| Villagers' tormentor in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 59 |
| Vocalist featured on Jay-Z's "I Did It My Way" | 60 |
| Video game company that took its name from the board game Go | 60 |
| Verdi's "___ tu che macchiavi quell'anima" | 60 |
| Villain who says "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy" | 60 |
| Value of any Scrabble tile in the word "ordinates" | 60 |
| Video game about a PlayStation character who bombs his SATs? | 60 |
| Villainous laugh added to Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2012 | 60 |
| Vargas Llosa novel "___ Julia and the Scriptwriter" | 61 |
| Victor Hugo’s “L’Art d’___ grand-père” | 61 |
| Vegetable used in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner casserole | 61 |
| Values that divide a statistical sample into four equal parts | 61 |
| Vitamin brand promoted as "Complete from A to Zinc" | 61 |
| Vermont ski resort [want more indie xwords? try avxwords.com] | 61 |
| Villainous organization in the 007 film "GoldenEye" | 61 |
| Valley that's the site of the Reagan Presidential Library | 61 |
| Vince ___ (John Travolta's "Pulp Fiction" role) | 61 |
| Verb with ''down'' or ''out'' | 61 |
| Violinist Peña who was a founding member of the Eroica Trio | 62 |