| Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" | 66 |
| Certain "easy-access" female undergarments | 52 |
| Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, with "The" | 69 |
| Arthur Miller drama set in Salem, with "The" | 54 |
| Wanted: Diamond salesman less likely to treat customers kindly | 62 |
| Renaissance period wind instrument with an upward curving end | 61 |
| Drink cooler ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle's answer | 69 |
| Court rules patient has right to deny treatment: 1990 | 53 |
| 1993 Aerosmith hit with the lyric "Love is sweet misery" | 66 |
| 1992 movie featuring a much-publicized twist, with "The" | 66 |
| Single for Julie London in 1955 and Justin Timberlake in 2002 | 61 |
| Le Gallienne's "The ___ the Little Peoples" | 57 |
| Response to ''Dairy prices are rising'' (Part 2) | 64 |
| Where "marmalade" might represent "represent" | 65 |
| Group produced by Phil Spector, with "the" | 52 |
| TV show whose theme song is "Baba O'Riley" | 56 |
| Drama whose theme song is "Baba O'Riley" | 54 |
| Novelist who died on the same day as John F. Kennedy | 52 |
| Deceased writer whose work was the basis for a hit 2005 film | 60 |
| Author with a fan site called "Into the Wardrobe" | 59 |
| "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" writer | 55 |
| Author of "Alice's Adventures in the Wardrobe"? | 61 |
| Gp. that poached two members from Buffalo Springfield | 53 |
| Georg Solti's Windy City employer, 1969-91: abbr. | 53 |
| Medieval defenses that could contain murder-holes and crenels | 61 |
| Local subway that runs along NYC's Eighth Avenue | 52 |
| When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first appear, in "Hamlet" | 69 |
| 1980s Christian rocker Rick, formerly of The Outlaws | 52 |
| The ___ Institute of America (school in Hyde Park, New York) | 60 |
| Child actor with a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band | 61 |
| Lamp base, in French (from the French for "ass") | 58 |
| Tendencies of a social group's behaviors and beliefs | 56 |
| Strategy to reunite the cast of "Happy Days"? | 55 |
| Actress Kaley ___ of "The Big Bang Theory" | 52 |
| "We'll tak a ___ kindness . . . ": Burns | 54 |
| Drink that "we'll tak' ... yet for auld lang syne" | 68 |
| Something damned with faint praise, in British lingo | 52 |
| Try-before-you-buy opportunities at knickknack stores? | 54 |
| "Come see the view, for all you nosy types!" | 54 |
| Palance's Oscar-winning role in "City Slickers" | 61 |
| 1935 film whose title refers to Shirley Temple's hair style | 63 |
| Two favorite things for a dance-party-loving cassis producer? | 61 |
| "And ___ be he that moves my bones": Shak. | 52 |
| Outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause | 55 |
| Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done | 61 |
| "Why lift a finger for anything else?" sloganeer | 58 |
| "Quit trying to make a paper doll by ripping the paper!" | 66 |
| Butts ahead of people waiting - or gives up waiting? | 52 |
| ___ River (after translation, "Crooked River River") | 62 |
| Peruvian city with the highest ultraviolet light level on Earth | 63 |
| Ph.D. position researching "Gossip Girl"? (text) | 58 |
| Year that in Arabic numerals has all repeated digits | 52 |
| Like the Borg race in "Star Trek" spin-offs | 53 |
| Science comparing computers with man's nervous system | 57 |
| "Moonlighting" actress who leads from behind? | 55 |
| Louisiana's state tree (with ''bald'') | 58 |
| 1950 Jose Ferrer film shown on C-SPAN, appropriately? | 53 |
| "Sleight of hand" used to summon a Bohemian? | 54 |
| One familiar with snow has runner stuck in a type of rock (6) | 61 |
| Common girls lacking finish at the end of December (8) | 54 |
| Christine ___, heroine of "The Phantom of the Opera" | 62 |
| Christine ___, "The Phantom of the Opera" heroine | 59 |
| Christine ___, "The Phantom of the Opera" girl | 56 |
| Christine ___ (“The Phantom of the Opera” heroine) | 58 |
| "The Phantom of the Opera" heroine Christine ___ | 58 |
| "A little ___ do ya" (1950s-'60s slogan) | 54 |
| "Pore Jud Is ___" (Rodgers and Hammerstein song) | 58 |
| "Pore Jud Is ___..." ("Oklahoma!" song) | 59 |
| Peter Parker's newspaper in "Spider-Man" | 54 |
| Blog with the subhead "State of the Nation" | 53 |
| ___ Building (N.Y.C. landmark designed by Raymond Hood) | 55 |
| Publication that is the key to this puzzle's theme | 54 |
| Co-creator of the Reitwagen, the first internal-combustion motorcycle | 69 |
| One who turned Cinderella's pumpkin into pumpkin cheesecake? | 64 |
| Denzel Washington's "Man on Fire" costar | 54 |
| 2006 portrayer of Fern in 'Charlotte's Web' | 55 |
| "Charlotte's Web" actress on a hot day? | 53 |
| "Believe that you will succeed, and you will" speaker | 63 |
| Inductee in the inaugural year of the ... NASCAR Hall of Fame [2010] | 68 |
| Major point on the Oregon Trail (with "The") | 54 |
| "The ___" (1955 film about World War II bombers) | 58 |
| Purple-haired star of "The Royal Tour" on Broadway | 60 |
| Cross-dressing star of "The Royal Tour" on Broadway | 61 |
| Oscar's reaction to Dench in "Shakespeare in Love"? | 65 |
| Van ___ of "Double Team" and "Double Impact" | 64 |
| 1969 Luchino Visconti film, With ''The'' | 56 |
| Sophie B. Hawkins "___ Wish I Was Your Lover" | 55 |
| Sophie B Hawkins "___ Wish I Was Your Lover" | 54 |
| His first comedy album was "I Am Not Homer" | 53 |
| 2003 TV show in which amateurs competed with their feet | 55 |
| ... a few computer-programming students tapped out a ... | 56 |
| ... ___ (step to the sounds of "Hernando's Hideaway") | 67 |
| '07 "Memory Almost Full" McCartney hit | 52 |
| 1968 Sly and the Family Stone song calling for movement | 55 |
| 1978 Broadway revue that opens with "Hot August Night" | 64 |
| "Just call me ___" said Max, the mambo king | 53 |
| "Young and sweet, only seventeen" ABBA title girl | 59 |
| "Copenhagen: Insulted by clerk. But we wouldn't ___" | 66 |
| Yosemite Sam's cursing of Bugs Bunny's food? | 52 |
| Kin of "blasted" or "confounded" | 52 |