| Turow book about the first year of law school | 45 |
| "___ one hope . . . ": J. R. Lowell | 45 |
| Circumference of the track at Churchill Downs | 45 |
| Bridge opening showing 15-17 high card points | 45 |
| Rodgers and Hart's "Johnny ---" | 45 |
| Rodgers and Hart's "Johnny ___" | 45 |
| Basie's "_____ 'Clock Jump" | 45 |
| Situation before an inning-ending double play | 45 |
| Time in NYC when it's noon in New Orleans | 45 |
| Numbers on the diagonal of an identity matrix | 45 |
| "Let me just finish this thing ..." | 45 |
| Like George Herbert Walker Bush, as President | 45 |
| Words with ''buckle my shoe'' | 45 |
| "Come _____, the water's fine!" | 45 |
| "Step ___!" ("Speed up!") | 45 |
| "Step ___!" ("Hurry up!") | 45 |
| Harry Golden's "--- in America" | 45 |
| ''That's a new one ___!'' | 45 |
| "Down ___" (1967 Janis Joplin song) | 45 |
| "Gentle ___ Mind" (country classic) | 45 |
| Frequent visitor to the Beatles' sessions | 45 |
| "Sail ___ Union . . . ": Longfellow | 45 |
| "Give Peace a Chance" co-songwriter | 45 |
| "Yes, I'm a Witch" singer, 1992 | 45 |
| "Live Peace in Toronto 1969" singer | 45 |
| "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" cowriter | 45 |
| "Bed-In for Peace" participant Yoko | 45 |
| ''Double Fantasy'' songstress | 45 |
| "Walk" or "lead" finisher | 45 |
| Bruce Hornsby "___ Western Skyline" | 45 |
| Temporarily unable to play, in baseball lingo | 45 |
| ''Get Me to the Church ____'' | 45 |
| "I think you're ___ something!" | 45 |
| U2 "Luminous Times (Hold ___ Love)" | 45 |
| Sonic Dolls "Something to Hold ___" | 45 |
| Sonic Dolls "Something to Hang ___" | 45 |
| "Everyone needs a hand to hold ___" | 45 |
| ''Movin' ___'' (TV theme) | 45 |
| Little Richard's "___! My Soul" | 45 |
| "What wonderful fireworks!" squeals | 45 |
| Green-skinned dancer in "Star Wars" | 45 |
| "Papa-__-Mow-Mow": 1962 novelty hit | 45 |
| Starting digits under ''RHE'' | 45 |
| "You're gonna get in trou-ble!" | 45 |
| "Um ... did I really just do that?" | 45 |
| Bridget Riley's "Blaze 4," e.g. | 45 |
| "Behold, the heavens do ___": Shak. | 45 |
| Piece in the back of the front section, often | 45 |
| Word with "shop" or "sea" | 45 |
| Word on a store sign that's flipped daily | 45 |
| Tom Petty "Into the Great Wide ___" | 45 |
| Letters on a phone's "0" button | 45 |
| Philip Glass's "Akhnaten," e.g. | 45 |
| Paris Métro station next to a music center | 45 |
| Event at L.A.'s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion | 45 |
| Britten's "Billy Budd," for one | 45 |
| "The Tempest" or "Otello" | 45 |
| "Faust" or "Don Giovanni" | 45 |
| Concerns of the Glyndebourne Festival Society | 45 |
| Shakespearean character in a Millais painting | 45 |
| Shakespearean character who drowns in a brook | 45 |
| Painter called "The Cornish Wonder" | 45 |
| Memorable fishing pole carrier of '60s TV | 45 |
| Declines to participate, with "out" | 45 |
| ___ Dei ("The Da Vinci Code" group) | 45 |
| Jody's mother in "The Yearling" | 45 |
| Shakira album "___ Fixation Vol. 2" | 45 |
| How some temperatures - and tests - are taken | 45 |
| Setting for Camus' "The Plague" | 45 |
| Setting of Camus's "The Plague" | 45 |
| City captured by Allied forces, November 1942 | 45 |
| City about midway between Tangier and Algiers | 45 |
| "The Love for Three ___": Prokofiev | 45 |
| "___ Ben Jonson" (literary epitaph) | 45 |
| Mendelssohn's "Elijah," for one | 45 |
| Haydn's "The Creation," for one | 45 |
| Handel's "The Messiah," for one | 45 |
| Sphere, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 45 |
| Object in the right hand of the king of clubs | 45 |
| Ball borne by the nine longest Across answers | 45 |
| "Eat ___ eaten" (law of the jungle) | 45 |
| Common "Dungeons & Dragons" foe | 45 |
| ''Lord of the Rings'' baddies | 45 |
| "Ham on rye, hold the pickle," e.g. | 45 |
| "Live Free __": New Hampshire motto | 45 |
| ___ Ishii, character in "Kill Bill" | 45 |
| Treat that comes in a Golden Original variety | 45 |
| They're sometimes deep-fried at carnivals | 45 |
| Cookies that have their names printed on them | 45 |
| "So forget ___, eat Cool J cookies" | 45 |
| "Double Stuf Racing League" cookies | 45 |
| They may be found in prospectors' sectors | 45 |
| They're found in prospectors' sectors | 45 |
| Monteverdi opera partly set in the underworld | 45 |
| Monteverdi opera hero who descends into Hades | 45 |
| ___ grinder (sidewalk musician with a monkey) | 45 |
| "It must be him, ___ shall die ..." | 45 |
| "...___ will turn this car around!" | 45 |
| "... ___ will!" (threatening words) | 45 |
| Mysterious locale, once, with "the" | 45 |