| Round in a zookeeper's gun, slangily | 40 |
| Royal ___, site of several British Opens | 40 |
| Runners at the corners, say, in baseball | 40 |
| Raider in the battle of the St. Lawrence | 40 |
| Ringling star who balanced on one finger | 40 |
| Roberto Baggio or Gianluigi Buffon, e.g. | 40 |
| Range also known as the Great Stone Belt | 40 |
| Rte. that crosses Lake Michigan by ferry | 40 |
| Ruark's "Something of ___" | 40 |
| Result of a diplomacy failure, sometimes | 40 |
| REO Speedwagon "This Time ___" | 40 |
| Roger Daltrey band, with "The" | 40 |
| Reassure that one's joking, in a way | 40 |
| Religious woman in some personals, maybe | 40 |
| Remove from the books, as an unpaid debt | 40 |
| Rebel against Queen Mary: 1553–54 | 40 |
| Rock group with a blissful-sounding name | 40 |
| Response to "Are you serious?" | 40 |
| Response to "I promise I will" | 40 |
| River that was the scene of WWI fighting | 40 |
| Rock group with the hit "Legs" | 40 |
| River known in ancient times as Obringa | 39 |
| Rhyme scheme at the end of a villanelle | 39 |
| Rosanne Cash "Seven Year ___" | 39 |
| Result of using a StairMaster, possibly | 39 |
| Repeated lyric in "Java Jive" | 39 |
| Result of eating too much Italian food? | 39 |
| Reno, Ashcroft, and Gonzales, for short | 39 |
| Radames's beloved princess in opera | 39 |
| Rivers in England, France and Australia | 39 |
| Rickman of ''Die Hard'' | 39 |
| Ryan's 'Love Story' co-star | 39 |
| Range in "The Sound of Music" | 39 |
| Region between the Vosges and the Rhine | 39 |
| Ryan Adams "The Sun ___ Sets" | 39 |
| Role in "The Glass Menagerie" | 39 |
| Rush "He's ___ world man" | 39 |
| Righteous Babe Records founder DiFranco | 39 |
| Rahm Emanuel's talent agent brother | 39 |
| River in "The City of Lilies" | 39 |
| Richie, Potsie and Ralph hang out there | 39 |
| Robot in the Disneyland ride Star Tours | 39 |
| Race invoked by many white supremacists | 39 |
| Region of Greece containing the capital | 39 |
| Reaction to buttons and bugs' ears? | 39 |
| Religion with an apostrophe in its name | 39 |
| Religion founded in 19th-century Persia | 39 |
| Renoir's "The Blonde ___" | 39 |
| Renoir's "The ___ Bather" | 39 |
| Rhoda's sister on "Rhoda" | 39 |
| Request inside (or outside?) a wine bar | 39 |
| Roughly half of all N.B.A. M.V.P.'s | 39 |
| Rebecca's bar or word shouted there | 39 |
| Reason to get some cosmetic dental work | 39 |
| Ravel's "Daphnis and ___" | 39 |
| Relative of Waldorf or Caesar, on menus | 39 |
| Relationship involving one of two sides | 39 |
| Richard of "The Flamingo Kid" | 39 |
| Robert Smith band, with "The" | 39 |
| Radio's "A ___ wtih Judy" | 39 |
| Rat Pack member from Steubenville, Ohio | 39 |
| Recording label for Crosby and Lombardo | 39 |
| Record label named for an Asian capital | 39 |
| Ruby of "A Raisin in the Sun" | 39 |
| Remove deposits from, as a water heater | 39 |
| Robotic rock group popular in the 1980s | 39 |
| Ruler with a palace near St. Mark's | 39 |
| Ridd's love, in a Blackmore romance | 39 |
| Replacements "___ of Thunder" | 39 |
| Rapper who co-founded Beats Electronics | 39 |
| Reason to move forward annually?: Abbr. | 39 |
| Rhyming Chicago sandwich chain ___ Pita | 39 |
| Righteous Brothers "___ Tide" | 39 |
| Relating to early literature of Iceland | 39 |
| Rory Gallagher: "___ In Blue" | 39 |
| Richard of "The 300 Spartans" | 39 |
| Refrain in a song full of animal sounds | 39 |
| Rice Krispies' Snap, Crackle or Pop | 39 |
| Rembrandt's "Leprechaun"? | 39 |
| Root who won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize | 39 |
| Red "Sesame Street" character | 39 |
| Rosie O'Donnell's Muppet friend | 39 |
| Register for, with "in": var. | 39 |
| Reconstruction and the Roaring Twenties | 39 |
| Repeated film title role for Jim Varney | 39 |
| Regrettably, easily downloadable things | 39 |
| Requests to compare and contrast, maybe | 39 |
| Raison d'___ (patriot's phrase) | 39 |
| Refrain from "The King and I" | 39 |
| Riddick took the title from him in 1992 | 39 |
| Resign, after consulting with a lawyer? | 39 |
| Roadside litter and abandoned buildings | 39 |
| Result of reading the fine print, maybe | 39 |
| Readers often click with their articles | 39 |
| Reformer for whom a Bible book is named | 39 |
| Result of careful planning it's not | 39 |
| Reassuring letters for depositors, once | 39 |
| Roam aimlessly (with "about") | 39 |
| Right-hand staff symbol, in piano music | 39 |
| Ronny & the Daytonas sang about one | 39 |