| Singer with the 1965 hit "1-2-3" | 42 |
| "___ Paw" (Oscar-winning Disney short) | 48 |
| Send Rover over for the weekend? | 32 |
| Activity that's not without interest | 40 |
| War aid program passed by Congress in 1941 | 42 |
| Act of 1941, giving aid to Allies | 33 |
| Ken Ludwig farce that was nominated for Best Play | 49 |
| Absent-minded barber's request? | 35 |
| "Funeral in Berlin" author? | 37 |
| City planner of Washington, D.C. | 32 |
| Factor in employee recognition awards | 37 |
| Key to unlocking this puzzle's theme | 40 |
| Sentencing judge's prerogative | 34 |
| Defendant's hope, at sentencing | 35 |
| "What Is to Be Done?" proposition | 43 |
| ___ Tomb (Red Square attraction) | 32 |
| ___ Tomb (longtime Red Square attraction) | 41 |
| Red Square tourist attraction: 2 wds. | 37 |
| Weakly pronounced consonant, in phonetics | 41 |
| Opposite of fortis, in phonetics | 32 |
| "No More I Love You's" singer, 1995 | 49 |
| Real-life comic played in film by Dustin Hoffman | 48 |
| Grant's side, to a Frenchman | 32 |
| Poe girl, Irv of baseball, Zola girl | 36 |
| Poe's "radiant maiden" et al. | 43 |
| Talk show host's holiday songs? | 35 |
| Opera based on a Beaumarchais comedy | 36 |
| It's set in a castle near Seville | 37 |
| They're removed before taking photos | 40 |
| The purpose of frames in eyeglasses? | 36 |
| Festina --- (refusal to be hurried) | 35 |
| "Festina ___" (make haste slowly) | 43 |
| "Red pottage" in Genesis | 34 |
| Pope who created the Schism of 1054 | 35 |
| German pope who brought about the Great Schism | 46 |
| TV's "Life With Father" star | 42 |
| 1950s Screen Actors Guild president | 35 |
| St ___ (PQ address, or poet Cohen) | 35 |
| Ontario town, or entertainer Cohen | 34 |
| Lightweight champ: 1917–25 | 33 |
| Chico Marx's real first name | 32 |
| "Get Shorty" novelist Elmore ___ | 42 |
| "Get Shorty" author Elmore | 36 |
| 'The Big Bang Theory' character | 39 |
| Multitalented subject of this puzzle | 36 |
| He made the Mona Lisa smile: 3 wds. | 35 |
| Famed protégé of Lorenzo the Magnificent | 46 |
| Artist whose last name is a code | 32 |
| "St. John the Baptist" painter | 40 |
| Governor in "Much Ado" | 32 |
| Currency that replaced pounds in 1964 | 37 |
| New Jersey town bordering Teaneck | 33 |
| New Jersey borough next to Fort Lee | 35 |
| King who faught in the Battle of Thermopylae | 44 |
| November meteor shower, with "the" | 44 |
| Brezhnev and some shooting stars | 32 |
| Verdi heroine linked with Nick's wife | 41 |
| One of four preludes by Beethoven | 33 |
| Beethoven's "_____ Overture" | 42 |
| 1990's White House chief of staff | 37 |
| Tiger's successor, computerwise | 35 |
| Italian Romantic poet: 1798-1837 | 32 |
| "The Joys of Yiddish" author | 38 |
| He wrote "War and Peace" | 34 |
| "The Cossacks" novelist | 33 |
| Robert ____ ( Le Confesssional director) | 40 |
| Saber más que ___ (to be wide-awake) | 39 |
| Balzac's "___ Goriot" | 35 |
| Moloka'i residents, thanks to Father Damien | 47 |
| Reason to be shunned, in the Bible | 34 |
| Pennies : dollar :: ___ : drachma | 33 |
| Prefix meaning "slender" | 34 |
| Cause of a Peugeot's flat tire? | 35 |
| Ancient name of an island off Cannes | 36 |
| Great Russian poet: 1814–41 | 34 |
| Italian name for one of the Dodecanese | 38 |
| Stendahl's first masterpiece, colorfully | 44 |
| "The Phantom of the Opera" writer | 43 |
| "The Phantom of the Opera" author | 43 |
| "Syncopated Clock" composer | 37 |
| Stravinsky's "___ du Printemps" | 45 |
| "___ du Printemps": Stravinsky | 40 |
| "Gil Blas" author and family | 38 |
| French writer's two-under-par holes? | 40 |
| Early member of Clinton's cabinet | 37 |
| She's just not that into you (maybe) | 40 |
| Many characters on "The L Word" | 41 |
| Greek isle whose name might make kids giggle | 44 |
| Puccini's "Manon ___" | 35 |
| Focus of a Franglish lesson on grammar? | 39 |
| "American Beauty" hero | 32 |
| Grateful Dead bass guitarist Phil | 33 |
| Bassist Phil of the Grateful Dead | 33 |
| Harry Shearer's program on public radio | 43 |
| "She's a Fool" songstress | 39 |
| "Airplane!" actor Nielsen | 35 |
| Nielsen of "The Naked Gun" | 36 |
| Nielsen of "Naked Gun" films | 38 |
| Howard of "Gone With the Wind" | 40 |
| Maurice's "Gigi" co-star | 38 |