| U.S.-funded broadcaster, ___ Europe | 35 |
| Broadcaster behind the Iron Curtain | 35 |
| Broadcast organization since 1950 | 33 |
| Alternative rock band with four platinum albums | 47 |
| Cab drivers who love their Sirius? | 34 |
| One making waves in the news business? | 38 |
| Transmits a message to Pancho and pals? | 39 |
| Old-fashioned restraint with a built-in boom box? | 49 |
| Drastic means of restraining a shock jock? | 42 |
| Theme of this puzzle, in popular parlance | 41 |
| Contact a provisions room on a shortwave? | 41 |
| They're affected by the ionosphere | 38 |
| Element discovered by the Curies | 32 |
| The "r" of "pi r squared" | 45 |
| Line from the center to the perimeter of a circle | 49 |
| Figure that's squared in a common formula | 45 |
| 10, for the base 10 number system | 33 |
| Numbers taken as the base of a system of numbers | 48 |
| One letter changes a Gilda to a Rita | 36 |
| "Hair" co-writer James | 32 |
| "Hair" co-author James | 32 |
| One of the "Hair" writers | 35 |
| Maker of the V10K, the world's hardest watch | 48 |
| Maker of Anatom and Cerix watches | 33 |
| James who co-wrote "Hair" | 35 |
| They're carried out with detection kits | 43 |
| Like all the "Godfather" movies | 41 |
| German admiral: 1876–1960 | 32 |
| Tennis player Nadal's nickname | 34 |
| Popular nickname for tennis star Nadal | 38 |
| "The King of Clay," familiarly | 40 |
| Olympic track great Johnson, familiarly | 39 |
| Ben's role in "Pearl Harbor" | 42 |
| Ben Affleck's "Pearl Harbor" role | 47 |
| Ben Affleck, in "Pearl Harbor" | 40 |
| Author Raphael Gibbs, to his friends | 36 |
| "Life of Pi" actor Spall | 34 |
| Disposing of at a church fair, maybe | 36 |
| Mark on a Brit. military pilot's uniform | 44 |
| Post-tornado highway detritus, perhaps? [1974] | 46 |
| Where championship banners are hung | 35 |
| Places for retired basketball jerseys | 37 |
| Huck and Jim on the Mississippi, e.g. | 37 |
| Business that supplied Huck on his river trip? | 46 |
| Actor George . . . or some cable TV fare | 40 |
| Makin' mistakes on the sitar? | 33 |
| Piano bar tip for a Joplin tune? | 32 |
| Continue, as an uncontrolled fire | 33 |
| "___ Mopp" (Ames Brothers hit) | 40 |
| With irregularity and unevenness | 32 |
| Spacek's "___ Man" | 32 |
| Potential princes caught by LaMotta-De Niro? | 44 |
| '69 single off "The Band" album | 45 |
| 1950 #1 hit for the Ames Brothers | 33 |
| Ames Brothers tune with lots of spelling | 40 |
| "Hair" co-writer Gerome | 33 |
| Incongruous-sounding high-end stationery | 40 |
| What botanists call "Ambrosia" | 40 |
| Plants hated by hay-fever sufferers | 35 |
| The value of an Egyptian sun god's bales? | 45 |
| Richard's successor as Mayor of Chicago | 43 |
| Barack Obama Chief of Staff Emanuel | 35 |
| Richard's successor as Chicago mayor | 40 |
| First name of Chicago's first Jewish mayor | 46 |
| First name in the 2011 Chicago mayoral race | 43 |
| Emanuel who succeeded Mayor Daley | 33 |
| Emanuel nicknamed "Murder Mayor" | 42 |
| Democratic Illinois congressman Emanuel | 39 |
| Former Chief of Staff in the Obama White House | 46 |
| Chief of staff in the Obama White House | 39 |
| Chicago mayor (working at Arby's) | 37 |
| Sun-swallowing demon of Hindu myth | 34 |
| Made a surprise attack on an acorn cache? | 41 |
| Aggressive drug enforcement strategy? | 37 |
| Heyerdahl's second papyrus boat | 35 |
| Some 19th-century industrialists | 32 |
| Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt, for two | 43 |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould | 34 |
| Abraham Lincoln's construction project | 42 |
| Criticize harshly and repeatedly | 32 |
| What a tosspot fantasizes the clouds would do? | 46 |
| Colorful, torpedo-shaped swimmer | 32 |
| Cause calls to the S.P.C.A. shelter | 35 |
| "Pour pets from the skies" | 36 |
| Ritual before a fall, hopefully? | 32 |
| Measure that may be tried to end a drought | 42 |
| Desperate attempt to end a drought | 34 |
| Braves' ritual during a drought | 35 |
| A 1970 hit — as sung by a famous swinger? | 48 |
| Bret Michaels song about his daughter | 37 |
| Bret Michaels single about his daughter | 39 |
| 1936 and 1937 Best Actress Luise | 32 |
| First winner of consecutive Oscars | 34 |
| A star of "The Good Earth" | 36 |
| Garner's successor as Speaker | 33 |
| 19th-century African-American congressman Joseph | 48 |
| One prayed to during a dry spell | 32 |
| "The ___ Spain . . . " | 32 |
| "It's ___ violets" | 32 |
| Aftermath of a sausage explosion? | 33 |