| They're not actually delivered by the postal service | 56 |
| They're not literal, and this puzzle's title | 52 |
| They're officially honored on the third Friday in Sept. | 59 |
| They're often accompanied by "Hava Nagila" | 56 |
| They're often caught while wearing little clothing | 54 |
| They're often paired with gulls in maritime jokes | 53 |
| They're on the cover of every issue of "Penthouse" | 64 |
| They're pretty much all called Shamu, at SeaWorld | 53 |
| They're produced in great quantities by supernovas | 54 |
| They're pulled from the shell, in a Squeeze song title | 58 |
| They're regarded as reincarnated lamas in Tibetan tradition | 63 |
| They're removed in a process called "racking" | 59 |
| They're seen (if you're not careful) just above the beltline | 68 |
| They're sometimes arranged for DC visitors (# 27) | 53 |
| They're sought on "Dancing With the Stars" | 56 |
| They're suitable to be transplanted to another bed | 54 |
| They're too high when you're past the redline: Abbr. | 60 |
| They're usually placed in the middle of the table | 53 |
| They're usually required for admission to the bar | 53 |
| They're worth 4 points in bridge hand evaluation | 52 |
| TheyÂ’re found in six of this puzzleÂ’s squares | 53 |
| TheyÂ’re neither high-falutinÂ’ nor uncultured | 52 |
| Thickening starch once used by American Indians to heal wounds | 62 |
| Thin defense against the charge that "you're a nerd!" | 67 |
| Thin Lizzy: "I put ___ to paper but I was frightened" | 63 |
| Thin Lizzy: "___ I" off "Chinatown" | 55 |
| Thing a host might warn you not to touch, after "that" | 64 |
| Thing bestowed by a constitution or, with a comma, "OK" | 65 |
| Thing for which you may need to read assembly language? | 55 |
| Thing hidden in each of the movie names in this puzzle | 54 |
| Thing on the cover of "Dark Side of the Moon" | 55 |
| Thing plucked while saying "He loves me, he loves me not" | 67 |
| Thing seen on every episode of "60 Minutes" | 53 |
| Thing that a second-story man might use to break into a house? | 62 |
| Thing that goes bang - and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 60 |
| Thing that's often marked down at a department store? | 57 |
| Things at the heart of a 2008 financial crisis: Abbr. | 53 |
| Things both baseball players and criminals might show up in | 59 |
| Things computer nerds can't wait to get their hands on | 58 |
| Things folks develop from a steady diet of burgers and fries? | 61 |
| Things found below Long John Silver and Blackbeard's chests? | 64 |
| Things found in this puzzle's eight longest answers | 55 |
| Things found under the bridge in "Three Billy Goats Gruff"? | 69 |
| Things hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers | 56 |
| Things in common for Larry the Cable Guy and Guy Fieri | 54 |
| Things in need of explaining, and this puzzle's title | 57 |
| Things millions of people have received in history?: Abbr. | 58 |
| Things that are hard to walk on, and this puzzle's theme | 60 |
| Things that get longer and longer for procrastinators | 53 |
| Things that may be worn by someone sleeping with the fishes | 59 |
| Things that this puzzle's nine longest answers have | 55 |
| Things worn while eating mashed-up vegetables and such | 54 |
| Think nostalgically about one's long-haired days? | 53 |
| Third base coach's sign when the count is 3-0, typically | 60 |
| Third baseman Ron who started three 1970s All-Star Games | 56 |
| Third baseman who won 16 consecutive Gold Gloves, 1960-75 | 57 |
| Third baseman's domain, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 65 |
| Third most-populous English-speaking American nation | 52 |
| Third Puerto Rican inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame | 58 |
| Third tale-teller in "The Canterbury Tales" | 53 |
| Third word of "Around the World in Eighty Days" | 57 |
| Thirsty's wife and the next-door neighbor of Hi and Lois | 60 |
| Thirteenth in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series | 59 |
| This can follow the beginnings of the three longest entries | 59 |
| This crossword, literally for some, phonetically for all | 56 |
| This is "way down below the ocean, where I want to be" | 64 |
| This puzzle's perimeter entries are all types of them | 57 |
| This puzzle's theme found in the answers to five asterisked clues | 69 |
| This Speedwagon will "Keep On Loving You"? | 52 |
| This, in Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" | 59 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich story "Marjorie ___" | 52 |
| Thomas Gainsborough masterpiece, with "The" | 53 |
| Thomas Hardy book about a taxpayer's deductions for groceries? | 66 |
| Thomas Hardy novel "___ of the d'Urbervilles" | 59 |
| Thomas Hardy's "___ of the d'Urbervilles" | 59 |
| Thomas Huxley called it "common sense at its best" | 60 |
| Thomas Moore poem "___ in the Stilly Night" | 53 |
| Thomas Nelson Page's "In ___ Virginia" | 52 |
| Thomas on the Detroit Pistons during their "Bad Boys" era | 67 |
| Thomas who co-created "Free to Be... You and Me" | 58 |
| Thomas who drew Santa Claus and the Tammany Hall Tiger | 54 |
| Thomas who was the "father of the American cartoon" | 61 |
| Thomas ______ , first brewed in London Ontario in 1840 | 54 |
| Thompson of 1994's "The Little Rascals" | 53 |
| Thompson Square "Are You Gonna Kiss Me ___" | 53 |
| Thompson who played the mother in "Back to the Future" | 64 |
| Thong that's covered with flaws, among other things? | 56 |
| Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and ___ Rivers" | 62 |
| Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," for one | 53 |
| Thoreau's "___ on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" | 65 |
| Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San ___ Rey" | 59 |
| Thoroughfare past Mark Twain's New York burial place? | 57 |
| Thoroughfare where you can drive rings around other cars? | 57 |
| Those who put a lot of effort into social climbing, in modern lingo | 67 |
| Those who side with a famous name in crosswords/stunts? | 55 |
| Though not yet in force, one was adopted by the UN in 1996 | 58 |
| Thrashing about disrupted "Candlemas" (4,5) | 53 |
| Threaten a classic comedienne like a talk-show host? | 52 |
| Three days before the start of this year's March Madness | 60 |
| Three Dog Night's "___ the World Ends" | 52 |