| Extremely rare metal with atomic number 77 | 42 |
| Element often found in meteorites | 33 |
| Pleasant feeling, in reggae songs | 33 |
| Instrument also called a clarsach | 33 |
| Opened (or closed), as a shot on a set | 38 |
| Heady drink topped with whipped cream | 37 |
| Beverage with whiskey and whipped cream | 39 |
| Van Morrison album with The Chieftains | 38 |
| They may be smiling in a song, in Old Rome? | 43 |
| "Erin go bragh" is one | 32 |
| Material for tablecloths and doilies | 36 |
| James Joyce's correspondence? | 33 |
| James Joyce or Samuel Beckett, e.g. | 35 |
| Part of an underground spring crop | 34 |
| "Wild" flower of songdom | 34 |
| Hearty dish with mutton and potatoes | 36 |
| Gaelic fabric for suits or coats | 32 |
| Edna O'Brien or Sinéad O'Connor | 42 |
| Dublin-born writer and philosopher | 34 |
| Author of "The Sea, the Sea" | 38 |
| "The Good Apprentice" novelist | 40 |
| Dublin's country, in the Olympics | 37 |
| "Mother of the Soap Opera" Phillips | 45 |
| "Guiding Light" creator ___ Phillips | 46 |
| Displaced-persons org.: 1946–52 | 38 |
| "Sadly ___": S. Foster | 32 |
| " . . . sadly ___": S. Foster | 39 |
| " . . . dreary everywhere ___" | 40 |
| " . . . dreary ev'rywhere ___" | 44 |
| "Miami Vice"-era muscle car | 37 |
| Richie Rich's metallic, robotic maid | 40 |
| "Build it up with ___ steel . . . " | 45 |
| Rationality, metaphorically, to Max Weber | 41 |
| It's guaranteed to exonerate | 32 |
| Tough Jane in the first "SNL" cast? | 45 |
| Golfer's excuse for a bad chip shot? | 40 |
| Wellington nickname, with "the" | 41 |
| Wellington, with "the" | 32 |
| 1986 Louis Gossett Jr. film with three sequels | 46 |
| Speck in a magnetic field experiment | 36 |
| A magnet attracts it in a physics experiment | 44 |
| Cemetery entrance feature, at times | 35 |
| What a tyrant may rule with, figuratively | 41 |
| Nickname in 20th-century British leadership | 43 |
| One-time ventilator used in fighting polio | 42 |
| Negative pressure ventilator, familiarly | 40 |
| Heavy metal band named after a torture device | 45 |
| "The X Factor" heavy metal band | 41 |
| "The Number of the Beast" band | 40 |
| "Somewhere in Time" metal band | 40 |
| "A Matter of Life and Death" band | 43 |
| Nickname of the boxer in "The Hangover" | 49 |
| Musing's source, in the media | 33 |
| Hardware merchants, in Hampshire | 32 |
| Mining town of Michigan's Upper Peninsula | 45 |
| Idiom for a multitude of ongoing projects | 41 |
| Medications for some anemia patients | 36 |
| MONTPELIER erects a shrine to Vulcan | 36 |
| Rain protectors that would be very likely to rust | 49 |
| Pulitzer-winning William Kennedy novel | 38 |
| William Kennedy Pulitzer-winning novel | 38 |
| Material sometimes used in fence posts | 38 |
| Feature of New Orleans architecture | 35 |
| Drape that's so ugly it's kind of great? | 48 |
| "___ the wrong way today": Behn | 41 |
| Discount store offerings, for short | 35 |
| One concerned with how much money you make | 42 |
| Govt. workers concerned with returns | 36 |
| Reason #1 to chill at home this summer | 38 |
| "You can't beat me!" | 34 |
| "That was awesome of me!" | 35 |
| "Recognize and realize, fools!" | 41 |
| "___ To You" (Lady Antebellum song) | 45 |
| Melissa Etheridge's "___ for Life" | 48 |
| Beggar in the "Odyssey" | 33 |
| His pen name was Jonathan Oldstyle | 34 |
| Buctouche-born industrialist, K.C. ____ | 39 |
| Songwriter on the Unter den Linden? | 35 |
| 'Rich Man, Poor Man' author | 35 |
| Writer-biochemistry professor: 1920-92 | 38 |
| Writer who held 14 honorary doctorates | 38 |
| Author who coined the term "robotics" | 47 |
| "The Fashion Show" host | 33 |
| Scientist who experienced a great fall? | 39 |
| "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" | 46 |
| Violin legend's chance in a game? | 37 |
| "Joy to the World" composer | 37 |
| "The law ___": Dickens | 32 |
| Largest of the Galapagos Islands | 32 |
| Name meaning "gift of Isis" | 37 |
| Feminine-sounding man's name | 32 |
| Vanessa Redgrave role, 1968: 2 wds. | 35 |
| ___ Freleng, creator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck | 49 |
| Middle name of Sen. Joe Lieberman | 33 |
| Animator Freleng a.k.a. 'Friz', | 39 |
| ___ Sharp, founder of Four Seasons Hotels | 41 |
| "And ___ weary . . . ": Burns | 39 |
| "Our sufferance ___ to them": Shak. | 45 |
| Scholarly introduction to research | 34 |
| "No man ___ to his valet" | 35 |