| Aptly named Nevada border community known for its casinos | 57 |
| For W. Va., it's "Montani Semper Liberi" | 54 |
| ___ Island, home for part of the Gateway National Recreation Area | 65 |
| ___ Island, birthplace and longtime home of Cornelius Vanderbilt | 64 |
| Hit song for The Jacksons with guest vocalist Mick Jagger | 57 |
| Andy escapes from one in "The Shawshank Redemption" | 61 |
| Columbia, S.C., newspaper's security department? | 52 |
| Antebellum northerner (with ''free'') | 53 |
| "Woke up this morning, had them ___ blues" Allmans | 60 |
| Allmans "I woke up this morning, had them ___" | 56 |
| Louisiana's has a nesting pelican with three chicks | 55 |
| Ambassadors and such, or an appropriate title for this puzzle | 61 |
| Say ''Maine'' or ''Montana''? | 61 |
| Say something to which people reply "Duh!" | 52 |
| Where doctors discussing cholesterol medications meet in New York? | 66 |
| Waldorf's heckling parter, on "The Muppet Show" | 61 |
| One of the heckling critics on "The Muppet Show" | 58 |
| "Flowers on the Wall" group, the ___ Brothers | 55 |
| His #10 was the first number ever retired by the Montreal Expos | 63 |
| Record label whose house band was Booker T. & the M.G.'s | 64 |
| Record label for Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the MG's | 64 |
| Old record label's boat to reach isolated areas (if X=10)? | 62 |
| "Oh, won't you ___, just a little bit longer" | 59 |
| "Oh won't you ___, just a little bit longer" | 58 |
| "It is easier to ___ out than get out": Twain | 55 |
| "___ with flagons . . . ": Song of Solomon | 52 |
| Fourth-cen. Greek prelate called 'the Great' | 52 |
| Canonized monk also known as "The Venerable" | 54 |
| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" author's monogram | 65 |
| Child, jokingly, to some who don't want children: Abbr. | 59 |
| "Infections" inside this puzzle's theme entries | 61 |
| Chateau __ Michelle: world's largest Riesling producer | 58 |
| Word before "fast" and after "home" | 55 |
| ''The Man Who Loved Children'' author | 53 |
| It precedes "fast" and follows "home" | 57 |
| ''Bed'' or ''home'' ending | 58 |
| The "turf" part of "surf and turf" | 54 |
| "Why don't we ___ away into the night" | 52 |
| Bruce "It ___ something from down in your soul" | 57 |
| < Season record for which Rickey Henderson had this number | 61 |
| What comes out of an angry person's ears in cartoons | 56 |
| "___ Heat" (song from "The Pajama Game") | 60 |
| Vacationer's favorite song from "The Pajama Game"? | 64 |
| Speculative sci-fi genre with anachronistic technology | 54 |
| Makes temporarily nonfunctional, as a bathroom mirror | 53 |
| Turkey ___, baseball Hall-of-Famer from the Negro leagues | 57 |
| Negro League great Turkey ____, 2000 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee | 67 |
| Bear ___ (bank that collapsed in the 2008 global financial crisis) | 66 |
| Donkey was temporarily turned into one, in "Shrek 2" | 62 |
| Tahiti 80's Avenger-inspired "John ___" | 53 |
| ". . . as a __ that knows its rider": Byron | 53 |
| "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed __": Shak. | 52 |
| "Black ___ in the Hour of Chaos" (1989 Public Enemy single) | 69 |
| Shelby who wrote "The Content of Our Character" | 57 |
| Priebus's predecessor as Republican Party chairman | 54 |
| Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael | 53 |
| First African-American Republican National Committee chairman | 61 |
| "Mean Joe" Greene, for his entire professional career | 63 |
| 1989 Sally Field/Dolly Parton/Shirley MacLaine movie | 52 |
| Band that released "Pretzel Logic" in 1974 | 52 |
| ''Rikki Don't Lose That Number'' group | 58 |
| ''Merry Company on a Terrace'' artist | 53 |
| Black mother, peppermint father, genmaicha aunt, pekoe baby, etc.? | 66 |
| "...and cannot ___ middle course": Massinger | 54 |
| World No. 1 tennis player between Martina and Monica | 52 |
| Wallace ___, Pulitzer winner for "Angle of Repose" | 60 |
| "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" author William | 57 |
| Oscar-winning actor who played Napoleon, Mussolini and W. C. Fields | 67 |
| She wrote that "a rose is a rose is a rose" | 53 |
| Oakland-raised writer of "there is no there there" | 60 |
| Gertrude who wrote "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" | 65 |
| "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" writer | 55 |
| "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" author Gertrude | 64 |
| "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" writer | 53 |
| "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" author | 55 |
| Alley's 1985 "A Bunny's Tale" role | 52 |
| "O Rare Ben Johnson" is engraved (in error) on one | 60 |
| Stanley's love in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 58 |
| ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' character | 54 |
| Stanley yells out her name in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 66 |
| Mrs. Kowalski, in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 54 |
| Kim Hunter's role in "A Streetcar . . . " | 55 |
| Kim Hunter Broadway role created by Tennessee Williams | 54 |
| Brando's wail in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 57 |
| Brando's cry in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 56 |
| "How ___ Got Her Groove Back" (Terry McMillan novel) | 62 |
| Education-policy acronym for the four fields featured in this puzzle | 68 |
| You might think it's sexy when they're tongue-tied at the bar | 69 |
| Derives (from) [Heard about the AVCX? Subscribe at avxwords.com!] | 65 |
| Cooper's co-star in "The Wedding Night," 1935 | 59 |
| Wearer of #37, the first uniform number retired by the Mets | 59 |
| Position that's an anagram, appropriately, of "notes" | 67 |
| Weapons once produced extensively by the Royal Small Arms Factory | 65 |
| Word with ''forward'' or ''backward'' | 69 |
| Prefix with "father" and "brother" | 54 |
| Word with ''forward'' or ''up'' | 63 |
| Word before "mother" or "lively" | 52 |
| Word before "aside" or "aerobics" | 53 |
| "That's one small ___ for a man . . . ": Armstrong | 64 |
| "That's one small ___ for a man . . . " | 53 |