| Dance troupe with unconventional percussion items | 49 |
| Rock icons for 45 years (!), with "the" | 49 |
| Iggy Pop's backup group, with "The" | 49 |
| What "The Music" never did, to the Dead | 49 |
| Word with "cloud" or "cellar" | 49 |
| REO Speedwagon "Ridin' the ___ Out" | 49 |
| Rise of seawater that might accompany a hurricane | 49 |
| Rod Stewart "Every Picture Tells a ___" | 49 |
| Heavy brew, and a clue to this puzzle's theme | 49 |
| The Marx Brothers, in "Monkey Business" | 49 |
| "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" author | 49 |
| "Old Town Folks" author Harriet Beecher | 49 |
| Florida’s “Sunshine City,” familiarly | 49 |
| Martinique town destroyed by Mt. Pelée in 1902 | 49 |
| Former athlete Darryl's ice cream preference? | 49 |
| Monosyllabic word meaning "exaggerated" | 49 |
| Word with "steak" or "search" | 49 |
| Choice of any non-solid pool ball you'd like? | 49 |
| Disco ___ (character on "The Simpsons") | 49 |
| "Search for Tomorrow" character Bergman | 49 |
| Scarecrow's headful, according to his Oz song | 49 |
| Ophthalmic conditions known medically as hordeola | 49 |
| William who wrote "Sophie's Choice" | 49 |
| Rock group with the same name as a mythical river | 49 |
| Golf clubs tossed into the drink at Pebble Beach? | 49 |
| Sites of depictions of very normal American lives | 49 |
| Name for the T. rex at Chicago's Field Museum | 49 |
| Where the American Bar Association meets in Iowa? | 49 |
| Administrative executives, to lower-level workers | 49 |
| USS Excelsior captain in "Star Trek VI" | 49 |
| Like the puns in this puzzle? (mostly the latter) | 49 |
| Sport in which beanpoles don't stand a chance | 49 |
| Concludes one's remarks (with "up") | 49 |
| Frankie Carle signature song that became a #1 hit | 49 |
| Nickname for the starting hold'em hand of 7-7 | 49 |
| Sch. system with campuses in Geneseo and Fredonia | 49 |
| Prefix with "model" or "star" | 49 |
| It might keep your motherboard from getting fried | 49 |
| "Valley of the Dolls" author Jacqueline | 49 |
| "The Gutenberg Elegies" author Birkerts | 49 |
| Holden's "Sunset Boulevard" co-star | 49 |
| Eliot's "__ Among the Nightingales" | 49 |
| "Chimney" or "clean" follower | 49 |
| Walter Carlos album that popularized synthesizers | 49 |
| Off and on (and the key to unlocking this puzzle) | 49 |
| Iced rum cocktail that's stirred with a stick | 49 |
| Follower of "'N" or "lip" | 49 |
| “The Playboy of the Western World” author | 49 |
| 2005 George Clooney film about petroleum politics | 49 |
| Opera trimmed at both ends by erstwhile actor (9) | 49 |
| Moved from cell to cell in a spreadsheet, perhaps | 49 |
| Refined comestible used by pretty much every cook | 49 |
| One of the Ten Commandments, more likely than not | 49 |
| Like something communicated with a wink and a nod | 49 |
| Practice field item invented by Amos Alonzo Stagg | 49 |
| Western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad | 49 |
| Crunchy treats filled with fish, chicken, or beef | 49 |
| End of the first decade in the Christian calendar | 49 |
| Tonio's stage name in "I Pagliacci" | 49 |
| President who frequently got stuck in the bathtub | 49 |
| Island to which Gauguin went after leaving Europe | 49 |
| Language that gave us the word "tattoo" | 49 |
| Exercise system requiring harmony of yin and yang | 49 |
| What's between your legs when feeling ashamed | 49 |
| She wrote "My Father, Bertrand Russell" | 49 |
| Reverse course against one's better judgment? | 49 |
| Packer fan's angry cry after an interception? | 49 |
| Word after "risk" or "census" | 49 |
| Shakespeare's "The Winter's __" | 49 |
| Cream might tell one of "Brave Ulysses" | 49 |
| "Intimacy" Bloc Party song about claws? | 49 |
| Janowitz who wrote "Slaves of New York" | 49 |
| Zonker's is famous, in "Doonesbury" | 49 |
| Something that may be brought back from the beach | 49 |
| Jessica of ''Driving Miss Daisy'' | 49 |
| Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks" classic | 49 |
| "La Plume de Ma ___," 1958 Broadway hit | 49 |
| Tucker who sang "Strong Enough to Bend" | 49 |
| "The ___ of Physics" (1975 best seller) | 49 |
| Georgia O'Keeffe's "___ Pueblo" | 49 |
| Word with "deck" or "measure" | 49 |
| ''___ Road'' (Maeve Binchy novel) | 49 |
| ''Gone With the Wind'' plantation | 49 |
| Nikolai Gogol's ''___ Bulba'' | 49 |
| White Stripes "Sugar Never ___ So Good" | 49 |
| Commercial ploy pitting one brand against another | 49 |
| Part of an equitable trade, figuratively speaking | 49 |
| "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" Oscar nominee | 49 |
| Collegiate honor society of Bloomberg and Iacocca | 49 |
| "Rikki-Tikki-___" (Kipling short story) | 49 |
| "Fire and Rain" singer/songwriter James | 49 |
| Texas billionaire and alternative energy promoter | 49 |
| Florida baseball team, on some scoreboards: abbr. | 49 |
| Med. exam involving an injection into the forearm | 49 |
| “___ and Sympathy” (Robert Anderson play) | 49 |
| One of the Jacksonville Jaguars's team colors | 49 |
| Rihanna song title meaning "I love you" | 49 |
| New Jersey town near the George Washington Bridge | 49 |
| " . . . ___ passion to tatters": Hamlet | 49 |
| " . . . like a ___ in the sky": Carroll | 49 |