| The horse in "National Velvet" (with "The") | 63 |
| Floyd "But don't take a slice of my ___" | 54 |
| Dish that's a homonym for a number that relates to its shape | 64 |
| "National Velvet" horse, with "The" | 55 |
| Word that could follow the first word of the theme entries | 58 |
| Avenged Sevenfold "A Little ___ of Heaven" | 52 |
| Pirate's parrot's cry, in "Treasure Island" | 61 |
| Parrot's cry in ''Treasure Island'' | 55 |
| Jeremy's friend in the comic strip "Zits" | 55 |
| Luxury hotel along Manhattan's Central Park, with "the" | 69 |
| "The Worst ___ in London" ("Sweeney Todd" song) | 67 |
| Michelangelo sculpture famously vandalized in 1972 by Laszlo Toth | 65 |
| Artistic representation of the Lamentation of Christ | 52 |
| ''Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf'' singer | 63 |
| Obstinate, and what the other four longest puzzle answers are? | 62 |
| What might be used when a bomb is hurled on a field? | 52 |
| Alice in Chains "Gonna end up a big ole ___ a them bones" | 67 |
| Word with ''ten'' or ''hair'' | 61 |
| Word with ''ten'' or ''duck'' | 61 |
| "If you like ___ coladas ..." (Rupert Holmes lyric) | 61 |
| "Escape (The ___ Colada Song)" (#1 hit of 1979) | 57 |
| "Take me out among the rustling ___, till it shines" | 62 |
| Basis for the first commercially successful video game | 54 |
| Piece of sporting equipment that weighs a tenth of an ounce | 59 |
| Belarus city not far from the similarly-named capital | 53 |
| Larry Kroger's nickname in "Animal House" | 55 |
| " . . . the ___ frauds of friendship": Fielding | 57 |
| It's likened to a snake's eye, at the tables | 52 |
| Dickens's orphan in "Great Expectations" | 54 |
| Backup singer on "Midnight Train to Georgia" | 54 |
| Locale for finished works that haven't yet appeared | 55 |
| They're calling in ''Danny Boy'' | 52 |
| Maid of honor at William and Kate's 2011 wedding | 52 |
| It lost out to "A Little Night Music" for Best Musical | 64 |
| 1960's-70's backup group, with "the" | 54 |
| Irritate [solve the celeb puzzle series at avxwords.com] | 56 |
| University of ___, where Andrea Bocelli earned a law degree | 59 |
| NBA team that hosted the "Malice in the Palace" brawl | 63 |
| One may be shaved, though shaving the other also is standard practice | 69 |
| Dead Milkmen lyric "In the bottom of the bottomless ___" | 66 |
| "Enterprises of great ___ and moment": Hamlet | 55 |
| "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" singer | 53 |
| Sammy Hagar song that is the worst (with "The")? | 58 |
| Youngest British Prime Minister, or island in Hecate Strait | 59 |
| English prime minister dubbed “The Great Commoner” | 58 |
| Clooney's "Ocean's Eleven" co-star | 52 |
| Packers running back Elijah who scored two touchdowns in Super Bowl I | 69 |
| City at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers | 62 |
| "For ___ runneth soon in gentle hearts": Chaucer | 58 |
| "___ makes suffering contagious": Nietzsche | 53 |
| “___ is for the living, Envy is for the dead”: Mark Twain | 65 |
| Pope's name over half the time in the past 230 years | 56 |
| Film studio behind "Toy Story" and "Up" | 59 |
| Animation studio that made "The Incredibles" | 54 |
| Attire that might have images of jumping sheep, informally | 58 |
| It works as long as you don't know it shouldn't | 55 |
| "If at first you don't succeed" course of action | 62 |
| "There's some ill ___ reigns": Shakespeare | 56 |
| Participate in a fad in which a wooden board is mimicked | 56 |
| National headquarters of J.C. Penney, Dr Pepper and Frito-Lay | 61 |
| City that's headquarters for Pizza Hut and J. C. Penney | 59 |
| What Audrey II is, in "Little Shop of Horrors" | 56 |
| Something to do on Arbor Day (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 68 |
| Stevie Wonder sang about their "Secret Life" | 54 |
| Stevie Wonder "Journey Through the Secret Life of ___" | 64 |
| She wrote "Dying / Is an art, like everything else" | 61 |
| "The blood jet is poetry / There is no stopping it" poet | 66 |
| Philosopher who wrote the ''The Republic'' | 58 |
| Philosopher who said "Writing is the geometry of the soul" | 68 |
| He wrote "No human thing is of serious importance" | 60 |
| He wrote "Knowledge is the food of the soul" | 54 |
| Greek philosopher who wrote "The Republic" | 52 |
| Figure in Raphael's "The School of Athens" | 56 |
| Oliver of "The Imposters" and "Simon Birch" | 63 |
| " . . . stage, where every man must ___": Shak. | 57 |
| "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Romeo and Juliet" | 65 |
| "Not guilty by reason of mental defect," e.g. | 55 |
| ''Guilty'' or ''not guilty'' | 60 |
| Say "guilty" or "not guilty," say | 53 |
| ''Guilty'' and ''not guilty'' | 61 |
| Word repeated before "Me" in a Beatles hit | 52 |
| Answer to the parental question "What do we say?" | 59 |
| "Pretty" thing to say, with a cherry on top? | 54 |
| Said "Guilty" or "Not guilty," say | 54 |
| "Diamonds Are Forever" Bond girl O'Toole | 54 |
| Lining that keeps the lungs from rubbing against the ribs | 57 |
| Roman encyclopedist who died after the eruption of Vesuvius | 59 |
| Org. that officially recognized the State of Israel in 1993 | 59 |
| Gp. that originated at 1964's Arab League summit | 52 |
| Story line for "The Hunt for Red October"? | 52 |
| Like "algae" or "termini": Abbr. | 52 |
| Professor played by Christopher Lloyd in "Clue" | 57 |
| "Live Through This (Fifteen Stories)" Mighty Joe ___ | 62 |
| Construction device for figuring out if a fixture is level | 58 |
| ... in "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" ... | 66 |
| One who might advise you that a flush beats a full house? | 57 |
| "Criteria" is one; so is "crises" | 53 |
| Condition that involves mood swings and chocolate binges | 56 |
| Afternoons, briefly (and hint to this puzzle's theme) | 57 |
| Band profiled in Rolling Stone by Cameron Crowe at age 15 | 57 |