| Kunta Kinte's "given" name, in "Roots" | 62 |
| Kiddie lit housekeeper Bedelia who's not good with idioms | 61 |
| Katharine Lee ___, "America the Beautiful" lyricist | 61 |
| Kind of ''card'' or ''stick'' | 61 |
| Kathryn of ''Law and Order: Criminal Intent'' | 61 |
| Kicker Mann who played for the Lions and Raiders in the 1970s | 61 |
| Kind of hands that are "the devil's playthings" | 61 |
| Ken who wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" | 61 |
| Katherine Kelly ___ of "The Bold and the Beautiful" | 61 |
| Knight's address in the "Game of Thrones" books | 61 |
| Kate who was the 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model | 61 |
| Keats's "foster-child of silence and slow time" | 61 |
| Kurt who wrote the music for "The Threepenny Opera" | 61 |
| Kipling's "When _____ Last Picture Is Painted" | 60 |
| Kipling's "limpin' lump o' brick-dust" | 60 |
| Kind of ''pool'' or ''park'' | 60 |
| Kristin ___, six-time swimming champion at the 1988 Olympics | 60 |
| Katniss's fellow tribute in "The Hunger Games" | 60 |
| Kindly (but ill-fated) guardian in the Lemony Snicket series | 60 |
| Kids' classic subtitled "A Life in the Woods" | 59 |
| Kris Kristofferson "The Silver Tongued ___ and I" | 59 |
| Kiss "___, everybody's gonna move their feet" | 59 |
| Keats's "Bards of Passion and of Mirth," e.g. | 59 |
| Kirstie's ex-co-star who's also her current co-star | 59 |
| Kid that makes you shoot fireballs, a la Super Mario Bros.? | 59 |
| Kel's former counterpart, now an "SNL" staple | 59 |
| Keg for a "Concentration" player? (trade 1 and 9) | 59 |
| Katherina or Bianca, in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 59 |
| Klingon officer on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' | 59 |
| Koko who communicates through American Sign Language, e.g. | 58 |
| Keynote speaker at the 1984 Democratic National Convention | 58 |
| Key of Beethoven's ''Eroica Symphony'' | 58 |
| Knievel who once endured a 29-day coma after a failed jump | 58 |
| Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g. | 58 |
| Kathy Kinney's role on "The Drew Carey Show" | 58 |
| Keats' "Bards of Passion and of Mirth," e.g. | 58 |
| Kentucky Derby winner the year after I'll Have Another | 58 |
| Kevin Spacey proclamation from "American Beauty" | 58 |
| Kind of secret represented by each two-letter puzzle clue? | 58 |
| King Kong competing on "Dancing with the Stars"? | 58 |
| Kirk's partner in the first televised interracial kiss | 58 |
| Key for the theme song to "Ghostbusters": Abbr. | 57 |
| Kid-lit character with a long face, in more ways than one | 57 |
| Kind of club that's a hint to this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Kutcher's character on "That '70s Show" | 57 |
| Kind of meeting in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" | 57 |
| Keanu Reeves character, in ''The Matrix'' | 57 |
| Kinsey Millhone mystery ''___ for Noose'' | 57 |
| Kathleen E. Woodiwiss book, or stopped hibernating early? | 57 |
| Kebabs and souvlaki sold outside a noted historical site? | 57 |
| Knight ___ (media company purchased by McClatchy in 2006) | 57 |
| Keats's "unravish'd bride of quietness" | 57 |
| 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 |
| Kitten Garfield routinely threatens to ship to Abu Dhabi | 56 |
| Kevin Costner's anagrammatic lament about his videos | 56 |
| 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 |
| 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 |