| "No ifs, ands or ---" | 31 |
| Prominent hill of the Southwest | 31 |
| Yellow-skinned autumn vegetable | 31 |
| Life's work of an old goat? | 31 |
| Tear-resistant synthetic rubber | 31 |
| Purchase something sight unseen | 31 |
| Word before "beware!" | 31 |
| "Toy Story" character | 31 |
| Some drawers in a laundry room? | 31 |
| "The Good Earth" wife | 31 |
| NYC theater district, for short | 31 |
| How nail-biters are usually won | 31 |
| Nicer "Good riddance" | 31 |
| Automatic advances at Wimbledon | 31 |
| "No alcohol provided" | 31 |
| Admiral who explored Antarctica | 31 |
| How times tables may be learned | 31 |
| They're committed to memory | 31 |
| Justinian the Great's realm | 31 |
| Agcy. watching over sky traffic | 31 |
| James who played Sonny Corleone | 31 |
| 'Brian's Song' star | 31 |
| "Misery" costar James | 31 |
| ''Misery'' star | 31 |
| Star at a French film festival? | 31 |
| TV game show, 'Cash --' | 31 |
| One with a checkered existence? | 31 |
| Musical set at the Kit Kat Club | 31 |
| Item for Scottish Games thrower | 31 |
| Passengers' area in a plane | 31 |
| Stay-at-home's restlessness | 31 |
| Rainy day restlessness, perhaps | 31 |
| Conveyances around the Bay Area | 31 |
| Site in a whistle-stop campaign | 31 |
| Early explorer of North America | 31 |
| Discoverer of Nova Scotia: 1497 | 31 |
| Discoverer of American mainland | 31 |
| Truck drivers' compartments | 31 |
| Even the greatest men hail them | 31 |
| Confectioner's raw material | 31 |
| Kid's Halloween candy, e.g. | 31 |
| Apt rhyme for "stash" | 31 |
| They have thorns in their sides | 31 |
| He's probably not Mr. Right | 31 |
| Pulitzer-winning columnist Herb | 31 |
| French city heavily hit in 1944 | 31 |
| He should have heeded Calpurnia | 31 |
| Tossed greens, egg and croutons | 31 |
| Pousse-___ (multicolored drink) | 31 |
| Moslem's long-sleeved tunic | 31 |
| Lovebirds' place, sometimes | 31 |
| Bird's place of confinement | 31 |
| Batting practice safety feature | 31 |
| "Nor iron bars a ___" | 31 |
| "High Hopes" lyricist | 31 |
| "Be My Love" lyricist | 31 |
| It's raised during a ruckus | 31 |
| Wouk's mutinied minesweeper | 31 |
| "Educating Rita" star | 31 |
| "Alfie" actor Michael | 31 |
| Wouk work, with "The" | 31 |
| Africa's most populous city | 31 |
| The City of a Thousand Minarets | 31 |
| Marie Antoinette's dessert? | 31 |
| Like old mud on one's shoes | 31 |
| ''Silent'' prez | 31 |
| Silent _____ (20's moniker) | 31 |
| 1920's White House nickname | 31 |
| Prereq for many physics classes | 31 |
| NASCAR Hall of Famer Yarborough | 31 |
| Home to a Colombian drug cartel | 31 |
| Self-styled world salsa capital | 31 |
| Home to this puzzle's theme | 31 |
| Film based on a Neil Simon play | 31 |
| ''Sooey!'' e.g. | 31 |
| A can of soda might contain one | 31 |
| Ripken and Ripken, Jr., for two | 31 |
| System for Chico and Stanislaus | 31 |
| MIT rival, despite the distance | 31 |
| New Jersey home of Walt Whitman | 31 |
| ___ Yards (home of the Orioles) | 31 |
| Succeeded, with "off" | 31 |
| "I ___, I saw . . . " | 31 |
| Impersonated at a costume party | 31 |
| Animal designed by a committee? | 31 |
| The Kennedy years, figuratively | 31 |
| "Ships of the desert" | 31 |
| Small part played by a big name | 31 |
| Small role for a Hollywood star | 31 |
| Appeared, as a radio-show guest | 31 |
| Cinephiles often watch for them | 31 |
| Recovered from a knockout punch | 31 |
| Steel Reserve malt liquor rival | 31 |
| Hunter's pattern, for short | 31 |
| Topic for Susan Sontag, notably | 31 |
| Firewood at a Maryland retreat? | 31 |
| Where kitschy clothes are sold? | 31 |
| "The Stranger" author | 31 |
| "Caligula" playwright | 31 |
| "The Stranger" writer | 31 |