| Volume on permanent display at the Library of Congress | 54 |
| Version of a punching prank for a more refined palate? | 54 |
| Verse often beginning "There once was a ..." | 54 |
| Villainous group in the "Star Wars" universe | 54 |
| Van Halen "Come on baby, finish what ya ___" | 54 |
| Visual deception (with ''l'oeil'') | 54 |
| Video game console whose name sounds like two pronouns | 54 |
| Vinick portrayer in ''The West Wing'' | 53 |
| Vinick portrayer on ''The West Wing'' | 53 |
| Virginia Woolf's "___ of One's Own" | 53 |
| Venetian who explored for England in the 15th century | 53 |
| Van Morrison: "His Band and the Street ___" | 53 |
| Volume that requires lots of preparations to compile? | 53 |
| Vic who sang "On the Street Where You Live" | 53 |
| Vision of sugar-plums dancing in one's head, e.g. | 53 |
| Vice president during Roosevelt's first two terms | 53 |
| Video game whose slogan is "Combat Evolved" | 53 |
| Vowel sound in "phone" and "home" | 53 |
| Virginia Woolf's ''___ Dalloway'' | 53 |
| Video game system that originally came with Duck Hunt | 53 |
| Villa ___, gold-mining center in 19th-century Georgia | 53 |
| Van ___ Boys (gang in a "Seinfeld" episode) | 53 |
| Virginia setting for the Associated Press convention? | 53 |
| Vacuum cleaner-like "Teletubbies" character | 53 |
| Video game that takes place in an Escheresque pyramid | 53 |
| Velvet Underground ode to an ironic English novelist? | 53 |
| Vietnamese holiday that falls in late January in 2009 | 53 |
| Van Gogh's "Letters to His Brother ___" | 53 |
| Von ___ family ("The Sound of Music" group) | 53 |
| Vegan professor at Middle Tennessee State University | 52 |
| Voice type that figures into this puzzle's theme | 52 |
| Van Gogh's ''The Bedroom at __'' | 52 |
| Volcanic stuff that's slowed air traffic of late | 52 |
| Violinist Leopold or his comic-actor grandson Mischa | 52 |
| Viv on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," e.g. | 52 |
| Voice actor Castellaneta of "The Simpsons" | 52 |
| Vision of sugarplums dancing in one's head, e.g. | 52 |
| Verdi's ''___ tu che macchiavi'' | 52 |
| Verdi aria that translates to "It was you" | 52 |
| Volcano described in Virgil's "Aeneid" | 52 |
| Van Gogh painting that set an auction record in 1987 | 52 |
| Venti's equivalent in regular coffeeshops: Abbr. | 52 |
| Victoria Williams' benefit "Sweet ___" | 52 |
| Vanessa the florist in ''Bee Movie'' | 52 |
| Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the ___" | 52 |
| Vast expanse (and a fitting setting for this puzzle) | 52 |
| Vehicular rescue device trademarked by Hale Products | 52 |
| Vietnamese official who declined a Nobel Peace Prize | 52 |
| Van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece," for one | 52 |
| Vermont tourist town, home to the Trapp Family Lodge | 52 |
| Victim in a 1932 mystery novel, with "the" | 52 |
| Vince Gill's "Tryin' ___ Over You" | 52 |
| Vanessa's "High School Musical" costar | 52 |
| Vigoda who has outlived all of the original Ramones | 51 |
| View the Notepad or read the Across clues for help. | 51 |
| Voices that aren't sopranos or tenors or basses | 51 |
| Voice of Puss in Boots in "Shrek" sequels | 51 |
| Victims in Wells's "The Time Machine" | 51 |
| Victor's "Samson and Delilah" co-star | 51 |
| Voice mail message opener, if you know someone well | 51 |
| Voicer of Po in the "Kung Fu Panda" films | 51 |
| Verne Troyer character in "Austin Powers" | 51 |
| Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the __" | 51 |
| Vermeer's "The Girl with --- Earring" | 51 |
| Voldemort's portrayer in the Harry Potter films | 51 |
| Vagrants' area changes into children's line | 51 |
| Von Trapp girl who's "16 going on 17" | 51 |
| Valentino title role (with ''the'') | 51 |
| Violinist's stroke indicated by a "V" | 51 |
| Van Gogh's "View of ___ with Irises" | 50 |
| Voice of the difficult homeowner in "Up" | 50 |
| Vanessa Williams "Save the ___ for Last" | 50 |
| Vaudeville's ___ Foy and the Seven Little Foys | 50 |
| Valley ___, redundantly named California community | 50 |
| Very few people live for a million of these: Abbr. | 50 |
| Vinton #1 hit "There! ___ Said It Again" | 50 |
| Voicer of Sideshow Bob on "The Simpsons" | 50 |
| Vermeer's ''Woman With a ___'' | 50 |
| Virginia Madsen's role in "Sideways" | 50 |
| Van Halen's "Somebody Get __ Doctor" | 50 |
| Very cool, in 50's slang, with "the" | 50 |
| Valley of the Temples Memorial Park island setting | 50 |
| Vienna State Opera music director starting in 2002 | 50 |
| Video store section behind saloon doors, sometimes | 50 |
| Victorian novelist ("Barchester Towers") | 50 |
| Viola's alter ego in "Twelfth Night" | 50 |
| Visitor at the beginning of "The Hobbit" | 50 |
| Volume I of a Churchill opus, with "The" | 50 |
| Villainous surname in the Super Mario Bros. series | 50 |
| Voice of the car in "My Mother, the Car" | 50 |
| Villagers' lights, in "Frankenstein" | 50 |
| Verne __, Mini-Me portrayer in Austin Powers films | 50 |
| Variety headline after the 1929 stock market crash | 50 |
| Vice president with a "Jr." in his name | 49 |
| Van Druten's ''I ___ Camera'' | 49 |
| Vice president who graduated from Princeton at 16 | 49 |
| Virtuous wife in Jonson's "Volpone" | 49 |
| Vampire played by Julie Benz on "Buffy" | 49 |
| Verdugo of ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' | 49 |
| Velvet Underground vocalist filmed by Andy Warhol | 49 |