| Office item created by Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-80) | 53 |
| A drink was spilled all over her wallet and she had to ___ clean | 64 |
| 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' heroine Salander | 58 |
| "Please pay attention to me, madam," Ã la Mike Hammer | 66 |
| He tried to sell the Tower of Pisa, passing himself off as a... | 63 |
| Emily ___, Radner's "Never mind!" persona | 55 |
| COUNTRY GAL, petite, hopes to recapture what's been lost ... | 64 |
| "When I was a ___ ..." (storyteller's start) | 58 |
| It'll "do ya," according to a Brylcreem ad | 56 |
| Mischief-makers (you'll find seven of them in the answer grid) | 66 |
| Augustine St. Clare's daughter, in an 1852 novel | 52 |
| Comment about impressionist Rich when playing a packed house? | 61 |
| Member of Sherwood Forest's "merry band" | 54 |
| Hans Christian Andersen tale (with ''The'') | 59 |
| Sharpshooter Oakley when she was a charming young musician? | 59 |
| Saint-Exupéry-Borodin collaboration? (with "The") | 62 |
| Wallet-size photos of a children's story character? | 55 |
| "Tutti Frutti" singer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 65 |
| They involve winning all tricks except one, in bridge | 53 |
| Fire engine in a Catherine Kenworthy children's book | 56 |
| 1860s novel that is the basis for this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Imprisoned Chinese activist and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner | 61 |
| "___ little!" ("Have some fun!") | 52 |
| 1985 multi-venue charity concert for Ethiopian famine | 53 |
| The Who album featuring a 15-minute jam on "My Generation" | 68 |
| Advice to a young Knievel: "If you want to succeed, ___!" | 67 |
| "We yield our . . . ___ thy soft mercy": Shak. | 56 |
| Stanley's greeting: "Dr. ___, I presume" | 54 |
| 1989 #1 hit for Mike + The Mechanics, with "The" | 58 |
| Country singer-songwriter who wrote hits for Merle Haggard | 58 |
| "Leapin' ___!" (Orphan Annie's cry) | 53 |
| Female rocker with the 2003 hit "Why Can't I?" | 60 |
| "Me ___ Patricio" ("I am called Patrick") | 61 |
| Youngest male tennis player to be No. 1 in the ATP Rankings | 59 |
| Much of the Smurfs' theme song, and this puzzle's theme | 63 |
| The second part missing in the author's name ___ Vargas ___ | 63 |
| 'Hot Shots!'; 'The Fabulous Baker Boys' | 55 |
| "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Oscar winner | 60 |
| Where to hang out and buy overpriced drinks on Amtrak | 53 |
| Procedure in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" | 60 |
| Seafood dish with butter, served in a bed of NBC News dispatches? | 66 |
| Protective covering rolled out at a seafood restaurant? | 55 |
| Scottish body of water with beverage concentrate added? | 55 |
| He tried to sell Alcatraz, even drafting a contract with a... | 61 |
| Large stock transactions involving deadbolt securities? | 55 |
| Pre-vacation checklist item for a paranoid PC owner? | 52 |
| Like sound recordings that aren't sharp, for short | 54 |
| Word with "Run" in a 1976 sci-fi film title | 53 |
| Singer/dancer/actress once called the "Queen of Las Vegas" | 68 |
| 1970s-'80s NCAA college football record-holding quarterback Neil | 68 |
| Guy known for his "Auld Lang Syne" rendition | 54 |
| BORDERS/MATTEL merger headquartered on a famed San Francisco site | 65 |
| Subject of a nursery rhyme that has only eight different words | 62 |
| It's "falling down" in a children's song | 58 |
| First newspaper to send war correspondents, with "The" | 64 |
| Movie about sports stars who don't use deodorant? | 53 |
| "I wandered ___ a cloud . . . ": Wordsworth | 53 |
| It's billed as "the national beer of Texas" | 57 |
| Desolate title tree in a 1936 Fonda/MacMurray western | 53 |
| "Time" has one; "Tim" hasn't | 52 |
| "Cop Killer" rapper at the beach in Montauk? | 54 |
| Women were not allowed to wear them on the US Senate floor until 1993 | 69 |
| Cricket fielders positioned directly behind wicketkeepers | 57 |
| Bit of mischief that won't be noticed for years? | 52 |
| Actress with the autobiography "My Life in High Heels" | 64 |
| I narrowed it down to two suspects. Naturally, they both ___ ... | 65 |
| Song title followed by "in all the wrong places" | 58 |
| NASA's response to "How's business?" | 54 |
| "... because he wasn't making enough money as a ___." | 67 |
| Problem that grandma had after usin' poorly-made jars? | 58 |
| Singer with the 1999 #1 hit "If You Had My Love" | 58 |
| Marilyn Monroe's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" role | 62 |
| Ochoa who was the first #1-ranked golfer from Mexico | 52 |
| Old stories + a letter + stitch + reside + 2 letters = ? | 56 |
| Young Rooney backs N.M. town in quest for radio team | 52 |
| Get penalized, as for having an unplayed U in Scrabble | 54 |
| Crosses the international date line from east to west | 53 |
| Good news for a dieter, bad news for a London gambler | 53 |
| Larry McMurtry novel made into an Emmy-winning TV series | 56 |
| Poster heading accompanied by a picture of a boxer, perhaps | 59 |
| Specialist who doesn't know what he's doing? | 52 |
| TV moment that made Wired's Best Tech Moments of 2005 list | 62 |
| Excruciating airline inconvenience (the last straw!) | 52 |
| He designed a shirt, but wound up with a vest because he __ | 59 |
| Legendary group of ancient Israelites exiled by the Assyrians | 61 |
| Mozart's "Veni Sancte Spiritus" and others | 56 |
| Kidvid cult classic featuring the Sleestaks, to fans | 52 |
| "An' they talks a ___ lovin' . . . ": Kipling | 63 |
| Languorous person in the ''Odyssey'' | 52 |
| "That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted" | 58 |
| " . . . the ___ Te Deums of the Canterbury bells": Lowell | 67 |
| Longtime college football coach who is now an ESPN analyst | 58 |
| Standup comedian who wrote "Letters From an Adult Child" | 66 |
| Hit song for the Kingsmen with famously unintelligible lyrics | 61 |
| 1963 song investigated by the F.B.I. for supposedly obscene lyrics | 66 |
| 15th-century French king nicknamed "the Prudent" | 58 |
| Show on before "Fantasy Island," with "The" | 63 |
| Phrase from Virgil appropriate for Valentine's Day | 54 |
| Ad line that caused a Muppet to answer "You bet me do!"? | 66 |
| 1991 Jeff Daniels movie, or a 1976 hit song for Nazareth | 56 |