| Sports org. whose first signed athlete was Sheryl Swoopes | 57 |
| Sports league that used a red-white-and-blue ball: Abbr. | 56 |
| Sandler of "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" | 56 |
| Smith who wrote “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” | 56 |
| Sandler of “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” | 56 |
| Singer with the albums "19" and "21" | 56 |
| Sarah McLachlan hit from the album "Surfacing" | 56 |
| Sarah McLachlan "__ I do believe I failed you" | 56 |
| Sequence found in this puzzle's five longest answers | 56 |
| Steely Dan album whose cover was painted by Phil Hartman | 56 |
| State with the counties Tuscaloosa and Tallapoosa: Abbr. | 56 |
| Subject of the book "Loser and Still Champion" | 56 |
| Sportsman of the Century, per Sports Illustrated in 1999 | 56 |
| Setting for van Gogh's "The Night Café" | 56 |
| Sean who played the title role in "Rudy," 1993 | 56 |
| She played O'Shaughnessy opposite Bogart's Spade | 56 |
| Situation in which this puzzle's symptoms may appear | 56 |
| Something to wrap around one's neck ... or maybe not | 56 |
| Server of Norm, Cliff and Frasier, on "Cheers" | 56 |
| Singer with the first recording to sell a million copies | 56 |
| Snack in nearly every episode of "Wonder Pets" | 56 |
| Seaplane that made its first transpacific flight in 1935 | 56 |
| Syllable on a Valentine's Day card from Ralph Wiggum | 56 |
| Start for "of honor" or "of silence" | 56 |
| Sebastian who led London's bid for the 2012 Olympics | 56 |
| Songwriter with a statue in Manhattan's Duffy Square | 56 |
| Sam's co-host on a 1990s Sunday morning news program | 56 |
| Sheet music abbr. that indicates to get gradually louder | 56 |
| Snyder who won't change his football team's name | 56 |
| Singer portrayed by Spacey in "Beyond the Sea" | 56 |
| Sigourney's role in "Gorillas in the Mist" | 56 |
| Sigourney played her in "Gorillas in the Mist" | 56 |
| Strikeout-appropriate Red Sox nickname from 2007 to 2012 | 56 |
| Second baseman Bobby whose #1 was retired by the Red Sox | 56 |
| Singer who co-starred in "Joe's Apartment" | 56 |
| Stella __: cookie brand meaning "star of gold" | 56 |
| Subject of TV's "Life and Legend," 1955-61 | 56 |
| She played herself in "Swim Girl, Swim" (1927) | 56 |
| Suffix with "convention" or "racket" | 56 |
| Suffix with "racket" or "convention" | 56 |
| Susan of Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" | 56 |
| Student whose school motto is "Lux et veritas" | 56 |
| Said "later!" to "Yellow Brick Road" | 56 |
| So-called "Wheat Capital of the United States" | 56 |
| Subject of the 2005 book "Conspiracy of Fools" | 56 |
| Singer of the Oscar-nominated song "May It Be" | 56 |
| Slangy suffix with "smack" or "sock" | 56 |
| Start of a rhyming song title featuring a little Spanish | 56 |
| She played "Camille" and "Ninotchka" | 56 |
| Song from the same era as "Little Deuce Coupe" | 56 |
| Sound resulting from a synchronous diaphragmatic flutter | 56 |
| Someone who picks it up might soon be pushing up daisies | 56 |
| Surname appearing on Suri Cruise's birth certificate | 56 |
| Subject in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" | 56 |
| Series set at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital | 56 |
| Swimmer dubbed " the Thorpedo," to his friends | 56 |
| State that shares a 48-mile border with British Columbia | 56 |
| Stephen King called him "the Swiss watchmaker" | 56 |
| Setting of the 2007 animated film "Persepolis" | 56 |
| Sugar's Daddy ___ (controversial new Mattel product) | 56 |
| Store that often includes a Little Caesars Pizza Station | 56 |
| Smiths "A Rush and a Push and the ___ Is Ours" | 56 |
| Song written about George Harrison's wife (awkward!) | 56 |
| Salonga-Chien who won a Tony for "Miss Saigon" | 56 |
| She played Arthur's girlfriend in "Arthur" | 56 |
| Singer of the children's album "Camp Lisa" | 56 |
| She plagues ladies' lips with blisters, per Mercutio | 56 |
| She played Sally in "When Harry Met Sally ..." | 56 |
| Singer on the "Slumdog Millionaire" soundtrack | 56 |
| Shakespeare's "Othello, the ___ of Venice" | 56 |
| Subject of the 1934 "surgeon's photograph" | 56 |
| Scarlett Johansson's role in "Match Point" | 56 |
| Schubert's "Eine kleine Trauermusik," e.g. | 56 |
| Senate Armed Services Committee chairman after Goldwater | 56 |
| Secret pledge in each of the four longest Across answers | 56 |
| Subject of the David Remnick book "The Bridge" | 56 |
| Song words followed by "Terre de nos aïeux" | 56 |
| Song words before "We stand on guard for thee" | 56 |
| Silver company that shares its name with an Indian tribe | 56 |
| Source for the tune of "It's Now or Never" | 56 |
| Sch. that plays its home football games at The Horseshoe | 56 |
| Shirley Temple's ''___ Little Girl'' | 56 |
| Shortstop Smith who won 13 consecutive Gold Glove Awards | 56 |
| Simon & Garfunkel classic, "El Condor ___" | 56 |
| Sneaker brand endorsed by Walt "Clyde" Frazier | 56 |
| Sandwiches with corned beef, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese | 56 |
| South American city to be blamed, per a 1984 movie title | 56 |
| Spike gave her a debut in "Do the Right Thing" | 56 |
| Singer Bareilles with the 2007 hit "Love Song" | 56 |
| Subject of the 2004 documentary "Control Room" | 56 |
| Start of an excerpt from an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem | 56 |
| Subject of the 2004 book "Dancing Revelations" | 56 |
| Sandy who was national security adviser for Bill Clinton | 56 |
| She said "It's going to be a bumpy night"? | 56 |
| Sibling who's watched too much "Twilight"? | 56 |
| Software that includes accounting and inventory programs | 56 |
| Shows that can be racier than their network counterparts | 56 |
| She "sets my heart awhirl," in a 4 Seasons hit | 56 |
| Sitcom whose titular character attended Copeland College | 56 |
| Surgeon who pioneered the artificial human heart implant | 56 |