| Country that skips every other letter in the starred answers | 60 |
| Country that split into North and South in July 2011 | 52 |
| Country that won medals only in cross-country skiing in Torino | 62 |
| Country that's been independent for more than 350 years | 59 |
| Country that's nearly 25 times as long as its average width | 63 |
| Country where "The Hunger Games" takes place | 54 |
| Country where everyone drives the same color automobile? | 56 |
| Country whose capital is just north of the Tropic of Cancer | 59 |
| Country whose flag has two blue stripes and a Magen David | 57 |
| Country whose flag is a red circle on a white background | 56 |
| Country whose flag reads "Ordem e Progresso" | 54 |
| Country whose flag says "God is great" 22 times | 57 |
| Country whose flag's stripes are red, white and black | 57 |
| Country whose leader has competed in five Winter Olympics | 57 |
| Country whose name is an anagram of another country's capital | 65 |
| Country whose name is occasionally used as an exclamation? | 58 |
| Country whose name means "he that strives with God" | 61 |
| Country whose name means "Land of the Aryans" | 55 |
| Country whose name sounds like a Jamaican exclamation | 53 |
| Country with a da Vinci drawing on its one-euro coin | 52 |
| Country with a euro bearing an image of Mozart (abbr.) | 54 |
| Country with a euro bearing the image of King Albert II (abbr.) | 63 |
| Country with an exclave surrounded by the United Arab Emirates | 62 |
| COUNTRY WITH FEWER MEDALS THAN RUSSIA AT SOCHI, ALSO FEWER REAL MEN | 67 |
| Country with modern Africa's first female head of state | 59 |
| Country with the most all-time medals in Olympic baseball | 57 |
| Country with the national anthem "Jana Gana Mana" | 59 |
| Country with the westernmost point in mainland South America | 60 |
| Country with which the U.S. goes to war in "Wag the Dog" | 66 |
| Country's "All Roads Lead to You" Steve | 53 |
| Countrymen who kick off their rainy season with a Rocket Festival | 65 |
| Course in which to conjugate "amo, amas, amat ..." | 60 |
| Court case involving a British tennis player and a rake? | 56 |
| Court plea that accepts punishment without admitting guilt | 58 |
| Court rules patient has right to deny treatment: 1990 | 53 |
| Court rules suspects must be read their rights: 1966 | 52 |
| Cousin ___ Iacono of "The Jimmy Kimmel Show" | 54 |
| Cousteau's ''deuxième prénom'' | 56 |
| Coverage provider for you to discover four other places herein | 62 |
| Covered with a matted, moist growth, as a forest floor | 54 |
| Cowardly Lion portrayer in "The Wizard of Oz" | 55 |
| Cowboy and baseball great make a "Rogers" sandwich | 60 |
| Cowboy star Lash, who taught Harrison Ford how to use a bullwhip | 64 |
| Cowboy who sang the title song from "High Noon" | 57 |
| Cowboys Hall of Famer Bob who was part of the Doomsday Defense | 62 |
| Coworker of Don, Roger, and Lane on "Mad Men" | 55 |
| Coworker of Val in the comic strip "Stone Soup" | 57 |
| Cowriter and singer of "In The Midnight Hour" | 55 |
| Cows' reactions to having their hair and makeup done? | 57 |
| Cozy inn whose abbreviation is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 64 |
| Cracker box: "Slide finger under flap and loosen gently"... | 69 |
| Cracker brand that sounds like a greeting to a prostitute | 57 |
| Cracker factory employee or winter road worker, perhaps | 55 |
| Cracker with the slogan "Get Your Own Box" | 52 |
| Cracks about the coxswain, from the other end of the boat? | 58 |
| Craft for ''paddlin' Madelin' home'' | 60 |
| Craft that held the longest single-human spaceflight | 52 |
| Cram three shirts and an inhaler in a duffel bag, if you're me | 66 |
| Cramming student takes Vivarin, gets charged with ... | 53 |
| Crash Test Dummies "___ & Coffeespoons" | 53 |
| Crash Test Dummies: "Sittin' on a Tree ___" | 57 |
| Crazy Eyes or Taystee on "Orange Is the New Black," e.g. | 66 |
| Crazy situation in "The King's Speech"? | 53 |
| Cream "Anyone for ___, wouldn't that be nice?" | 60 |
| Cream-filled chocolate snacks once produced by Hostess | 54 |
| Creator of 1867's "Grand Caricaturama" | 52 |
| Creator of Forbes' "most valuable fictional character" | 68 |
| Creator of the (current) world's fastest supercomputer | 58 |
| Creator of TV's island that "wasn't just an island" | 69 |
| Creator of Watson, a memorable 2011 "Jeopardy!" winner | 64 |
| Creature in Dr. Seuss's "If I Ran the Zoo" | 56 |
| Creature in Scottish mythology (hidden in HOPE CHEST) | 53 |
| Creature reportedly seen in West Virginia in the 1960s | 54 |
| Creature sleeping "in the jungle, the mighty jungle" | 62 |
| Creature suggested by this puzzle's circled letters | 55 |
| Creature whose back is NOT filled with water but, rather, fat | 61 |
| Creature whose genus name and English name are the same | 55 |
| Creature whose tail makes up half its body's length | 55 |
| Creature with the scientific name Troglodytes troglodytes | 57 |
| Creature wrapped around the four longest Across answers | 55 |
| Creatures that can carry fifty times their body weight | 54 |
| Credence Clearwater Revival song about a California city | 56 |
| Credit company with a "Priceless" ad campaign | 55 |
| Credits date for "Cinderella" or "All About Eve" | 68 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival song about a California city | 57 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival song named for a California town | 61 |
| Crenshaw's farm tool or "Zoolander" star? | 55 |
| Cricket fielders positioned directly behind wicketkeepers | 57 |
| Crime of one who's had one for the road, perhaps (abbr.) | 60 |
| Crime-fighting accessory owned by rock drummer Keith? | 53 |
| Criminal Jodi who was convicted of first-degree murder in May 2013 | 66 |
| Criminal organization in "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." | 60 |
| Criminal Robert nicknamed "The Birdman of Alcatraz" | 61 |
| Cringeworthily racist "Lone Ranger" depiction | 55 |
| Critic who gave "Police Academy" zero stars | 53 |
| Critic who was a regular on "The Gong Show" | 53 |
| Critic who wrote "When the Lights Go Down" | 52 |
| Critic's complaint about the new restaurant "Godot"? | 66 |
| Critic's complaint about the new restaurant "Moon"? | 65 |
| Critic's positive review of drummer Keith of the Who? | 57 |