| Kasell of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" | 53 |
| Key in which "Chopsticks" is usually played | 53 |
| Killer ___ (green-skinned "Batman" villain) | 53 |
| Key of Haydn's "Symphony No. 12": Abbr. | 53 |
| Key of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl," e.g. | 53 |
| Key of Dvorák's "New World Symphony" | 53 |
| Katherine who withdrew from the 2008 Emmy competition | 53 |
| Kelly Clarkson was the first "American" one | 53 |
| Killers "It's ___ rock and roll for me" | 53 |
| Kamoze who sang "Here Comes the Hotstepper" | 53 |
| Korean automaker that began as a bicycle manufacturer | 53 |
| Kailua-___, Hawaii (setting of the Ironman Triathlon) | 53 |
| Kazan of ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' | 53 |
| Kiddie lit character who spoke for the Truffula Trees | 53 |
| Koh-i-___, once the world's largest known diamond | 53 |
| Kathleen who wrote "Through a Glass Darkly" | 53 |
| Kiss song that makes a pledge (with "The")? | 53 |
| Kingsley's "___ to the North-East Wind" | 53 |
| Katherine ___, 1983-89 Treasurer of the United States | 53 |
| Kissinger's "___ Restored . . . ": 1957 | 53 |
| Key of Saint-Saëns's "Danse macabre" | 53 |
| Ken who plays Señor Chang on "Community" | 53 |
| Kasabian "Lost Souls Forever" song, briefly | 53 |
| Kind of request in Burns's "To a Mouse" | 53 |
| Kyle and Kenny's friend on "South Park" | 53 |
| Katisha's range in "The Mikado," usually | 54 |
| Key of Schubert's "Trout" Quintet: Abbr. | 54 |
| Key of Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony | 54 |
| Key of Mendelssohn's "Scottish Symphony" | 54 |
| Kentucky college integrated since its founding in 1855 | 54 |
| Kate’s sister in “The Taming of the Shrew” | 54 |
| Kasell on "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!" | 54 |
| Key that's the key to the shortcuts in this puzzle | 54 |
| Key of Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand" | 54 |
| Katharine's role in "The Lion in Winter" | 54 |
| Key of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl": Abbr. | 54 |
| Key of Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata | 54 |
| Kitty Softpaws' voice in "Puss in Boots" | 54 |
| KEEPS SELFISHLY, AS UKRAINE HAD BEEN DOING WITH CRIMEA | 54 |
| Kipling uses it eight times in "Recessional" | 54 |
| Keyboardist Saunders who played with the Grateful Dead | 54 |
| Kris and Willie performed at his Kennedy Center Honors | 54 |
| Keanu Reeves's character in "The Matrix" | 54 |
| Kentucky ___ (annual Churchill Downs race for fillies) | 54 |
| King ___, Indian chief known to his tribe as Metacomet | 54 |
| Kansas "How long, to the ___ of know return" | 54 |
| Kyle ___, time traveller in "The Terminator" | 54 |
| Kelly who played Hayley on "All My Children" | 54 |
| Kelly who played Faith on "Hope & Faith" | 54 |
| Kind of puzzle suggested by this crossword's theme | 54 |
| Katniss's surname, in "The Hunger Games" | 54 |
| Kenyan ethnic group that Barack Obama, Sr. was part of | 54 |
| Key member of Jordan's "supporting cast" | 54 |
| Korean musician with the hit "Gangnam Style" | 54 |
| Kind of joke (exemplified by the theme of this puzzle) | 54 |
| Kenny's "We've Got Tonight" duettist | 54 |
| Kip who released "In the Heart of the Young" | 54 |
| Keith Richards-sung Stones jam "___ Tonight" | 54 |
| Kaa's sound in ''The Jungle Book'' | 54 |
| Kim Hunter Broadway role created by Tennessee Williams | 54 |
| Kind of tour Robin Williams did in Iraq in 2003: abbr. | 54 |
| Klingon officer in the "Star Trek" franchise | 54 |
| Key of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna": Abbr. | 55 |
| Kazakh-Uzbek "sea" long bordering on disaster | 55 |
| Karel ___, writer who coined the word "robot" | 55 |
| Kutcher's "What Happens in Vegas" co-star | 55 |
| Karate trainee in 2010's "The Karate Kid" | 55 |
| Kathryn of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" | 55 |
| Key often pressed frantically when the computer freezes | 55 |
| Kelly, Ruben, Fantasia, Carrie, Taylor, Jordan or David | 55 |
| Karen Kijewski's fictional private eye ___ Colorado | 55 |
| Kwik-E-___ ("The Simpsons" convenience store) | 55 |
| Keyboardist Saunders who collaborated with Jerry Garcia | 55 |
| Kabuki relative, and a hint to five puns in this puzzle | 55 |
| Kitchen gadget brand with a rotationally symmetric logo | 55 |
| Key of Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony: Abbr. | 55 |
| Key of Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata | 55 |
| Klepto's claim to Geraldine? (with "the") | 55 |
| Kicker Yepremian of the Dolphins' undefeated season | 55 |
| Kid's lunch food tainted by kickbacks and cronyism? | 55 |
| Katniss's TV lover, in "The Hunger Games" | 55 |
| Kate's groom in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 55 |
| Keys dumped in the TSA agent's tray at the airport? | 55 |
| Kim Hunter's role in "A Streetcar . . . " | 55 |
| King's problem in "The King's Speech" | 55 |
| Kumho product (admit it, you laughed at the brand name) | 55 |
| Kauai's Mount Wai'ale'ale, to say the least | 55 |
| Kimble's array, in TV's "The Fugitive" | 56 |
| Kirk ___, first actor to play Superman on the big screen | 56 |
| Kentucky college town with an annual Spoonbread Festival | 56 |
| Kevin Spacey portrayed him in "Beyond the Sea" | 56 |
| Key of Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus: Abbr. | 56 |
| Key of A. Dvorák's "New World Symphony" | 56 |
| King whose true height is the subject of much discussion | 56 |
| Kirk's "The Bad and the Beautiful" co-star | 56 |
| Kid's character who "speaks for the trees" | 56 |
| Kevin Henkes kids' book about a blanket-loving mouse | 56 |
| Kurt's "The Threepenny Opera" collaborator | 56 |
| Kristin Davis's role on "Sex and the City" | 56 |
| Kindhearted schoolteacher created by Charlotte Brontë | 56 |