| Gain an unfair advantage in a puppet show? | 42 |
| Does the expected amount of work | 32 |
| Use one's influence secretly | 32 |
| Take charge, like a director of a puppet show? | 46 |
| ___ someone's eyes (deceive) | 32 |
| Travolta/Thurman Best Picture nominee of 1994 | 45 |
| 1994 Best Original Screenplay winner | 36 |
| Two things of concern to a math-loving nurse? | 45 |
| Warthog in "The Lion King" | 36 |
| Scheme to inflate a stock's price, then sell | 48 |
| Hipster gas station attendant's shtick? | 43 |
| Fuel for Cinderella's coach? | 32 |
| 1989 Halloween-themed horror film | 33 |
| Halloween carving of a Yankee hero? | 35 |
| "Peanuts" Halloween setting | 37 |
| Cinnamon blend for a Thanksgiving recipe | 40 |
| Throwaway from a Halloween carving | 34 |
| Inquire into relatives' secrets? | 36 |
| What many factory workers must do in the morning | 48 |
| Paper strip for old computer data | 33 |
| What the angry factory worker did? | 34 |
| Stationery store items (with "hole") | 46 |
| Pugilists ... or stationery store items | 39 |
| Odd container for cattle herders? | 33 |
| If successful, they're laughed at | 37 |
| Start one's workday, perhaps | 32 |
| Strict observance of formalities | 32 |
| Sugar Ray Robinson's autobiography | 38 |
| Phil Donahue and Rush Limbaugh, e.g. | 36 |
| ___ Wars (Rome-Carthage conflicts) | 34 |
| Like the wars between Carthage and Rome | 39 |
| _____ Wars (Rome-Carthage conflicts) | 36 |
| ___ Wars (Rome/Carthage conflicts) | 34 |
| __ Wars (Rome/Carthage conflict) | 32 |
| Putting a child in timeout, e.g. | 32 |
| Indian state or Pakistani province | 34 |
| MTV's answer to "Candid Camera" | 45 |
| MTV show once hosted by Ashton Kutcher | 38 |
| MTV show hosted by Ashton Kutcher | 33 |
| Young ruffian's favorite rock group? | 40 |
| Jack-o-lanterns, in a manner o' speakin'? | 49 |
| Where to buy green hair dye and body chains? | 44 |
| Potentially disastrous neighbors #5 | 35 |
| Made a joke likely to be greeted with groans | 44 |
| Like many "knock-knock" jokes | 39 |
| Like "poultry in motion" | 34 |
| Like "Miró, Miró on the wall" | 45 |
| One who may treat homonyms as synonyms | 38 |
| Humor in its verse possible form? | 33 |
| Surrenders the football, in a way | 33 |
| They're often returned in autumn | 36 |
| For the outlook, look out for his look out! | 43 |
| Insects in a transformative stage | 33 |
| Amazon ants capture them to raise as slaves | 43 |
| Prequel to "Reservoir Dogs?" | 38 |
| Movie about the early life of Lassie? | 37 |
| "101 Dalmatians," e.g.? | 33 |
| Young boxer with a makeshift leash? | 35 |
| Some children's show characters | 35 |
| Entertainment you might have a hand in? | 39 |
| Entertainment requiring a hand or two | 37 |
| Teen dieter's target, perhaps | 33 |
| "Dogs Playing Poker" ante? | 36 |
| Lab that's not very big, e.g. | 33 |
| English composer of "Dido and Aeneas" | 47 |
| "King Arthur" composer Henry | 38 |
| The Boilermakers of the N.C.A.A. | 32 |
| Indie band The Pains of Being ___ | 33 |
| Thoroughbred, or Dracula's obsession? | 41 |
| All there is from crust to crust? | 33 |
| Killer source material for a comedian, say | 42 |
| "Blessed are the ___ heart" | 37 |
| Descendants through a single strain | 35 |
| " . . . of ___ ray serene" | 36 |
| " . . . a gem of ___ ray serene": Gray | 48 |
| Brand name accompanying a checkerboard logo | 43 |
| Compound whence caffeine is derived | 35 |
| 17th-century New England settler | 32 |
| It's symbolized by the color white | 38 |
| Poe's "The ___ Letter" | 36 |
| Like Poe's "Letter" | 33 |
| Poet Gelett Burgess wrote that he never saw one | 47 |
| Prince song about colorful plumbing? | 36 |
| Washington's profile is on it | 33 |
| Precipitation from a grape soda cloud? | 38 |
| Highly rhetorical shouts for attention? | 39 |
| Place "above the fruited plain" | 41 |
| Unlike its yellow cousin, it's best eaten raw | 49 |
| Vikings with an ornate playbook? | 32 |
| Electoral battleground, in modern parlance | 42 |
| Officer in charge of the stewards | 33 |
| Assistants at a Kate Spade factory? | 35 |
| What the Gorgon Stheno does in Greek myth? | 42 |
| Like Donald Trump's lips, half the time | 43 |
| "Lump" band, for short | 32 |
| "Dune Buggy" band, for short | 38 |
| Do business like a Velcro rival? | 32 |
| What a band's slot got, after rain | 38 |
| Airplane with the propeller at the back | 39 |
| "That awful elevator operator..." | 43 |