| Term for the Fed cranking up the economy too quickly | 52 |
| Term for the dropping of an initial letter, as in "possum" | 68 |
| Term for modern portmanteau words that describe male things | 59 |
| Term for each of the 15 asterisked theme answers in this puzzle | 63 |
| Term for a warrior that means "little war" | 52 |
| Teri of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | 54 |
| Teri Garr's role in "Young Frankenstein" | 54 |
| Terence Trent D'Arby "Wishing Well (___ Poem)" | 60 |
| Tequila brand that's Spanish for 'the bull' | 55 |
| Tenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series | 60 |
| Tennyson's "doves in immemorial _____" | 52 |
| Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break," e.g. | 52 |
| Tennyson poem which begins "Come into the garden" | 59 |
| Tennis star with marriages to Brooke Shields and Steffi Graf | 60 |
| Tennis star with 21 Grand Slam doubles titles [1962] | 52 |
| Tennis star who won each grand slam tournament except the French Open | 69 |
| Tennis star on Season 6 of "Dancing With the Stars" | 61 |
| Tennis star honored on Richmond's Monument Avenue | 53 |
| Tennis player Yannick whose son Joakim plays in the NBA | 55 |
| Tennis player with the most year-end #1 rankings, with 7 | 56 |
| Tennis player with the most consecutive titles at any tournament | 64 |
| Tennis player who won five consecutive Wimbledon championships | 62 |
| Tennis player Sanchez who was the #1 doubles player in 1989 | 59 |
| Tennis player nicknamed "The Bucharest Buffoon" | 57 |
| Tennis legend for whom the U.S. Open's stadium is named | 59 |
| Tennis great who, in 2014, won his ninth French Open title | 58 |
| Tennis great Lew who won three of the four majors in 1956 | 57 |
| Tennis champ who achieved the career Grand Slam in 2010 | 55 |
| Tenniel's "Alice in Wonderland" contribution | 58 |
| Tennessee's annual Head of the Hooch is a major one | 55 |
| Tennessee Williams's "27 Wagons Full of Cotton," e.g. | 67 |
| Tennessee county that was the setting of the Scopes trial | 57 |
| Tennessee county named for a jurist who co-founded Memphis | 58 |
| Tender offer, or what can be found seven times in this grid | 59 |
| Tendency to throw one's club after sinking a short stroke? | 62 |
| Tendency to overcompensate for a perceived shortcoming | 54 |
| Tendencies of a social group's behaviors and beliefs | 56 |
| Tempura vegetable also called "mountain asparagus" | 60 |
| Temptations "Just ___ (Running Away With Me)" | 55 |
| Tempo for Mozart's so-called "Elvira Madigan" music | 65 |
| Templeton of "Charlotte's Web," for one | 53 |
| Temple's dancing partner in "Captain January" | 59 |
| Temple of ___, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | 60 |
| Telly watchers' network, with ''the'' | 57 |
| Telltale sound after "I haven't had a drop to drink" | 66 |
| Telling non-P.C. jokes in public, for example, in the wrong sense? | 66 |
| Teller of a tale "full of sound and fury," per Macbeth | 64 |
| Tell-all that doesn't actually tell all that much? | 54 |
| Tell-all book where Popeye's girl admits she loved Bluto? | 61 |
| Tell-all baseball book about the Yankees, with "The" | 62 |
| Television advertising character played by Diane Amos | 53 |
| Telephone inventor Bell, informally | 55 |
| Telephone conversations on the web technology, for short | 56 |
| Tek ___ (fictional spy supposedly created by Stephen Colbert) | 61 |
| Teetotaling representative with an act named after him | 54 |
| Teenage Bottlerocket album that will completely wreck you? | 58 |
| Teen's response to a parent's "No" | 52 |
| Teen's response to "You need to shave"? | 53 |
| Teen's response to "What'd you do on the weekend?" | 68 |
| Teen magazine that had a "Dear Boy" column | 52 |
| Teen actress who plays Kayla on "Desperate Housewives" | 64 |
| Teegarden of TV's "Friday Night Lights" | 53 |
| Teddy bear's quality or, alternately, cooks vases in oil? | 61 |
| Ted, the Dolphins' first pick in the 2007 NFL draft | 55 |
| Ted with TV's old "Original Amateur Hour" | 55 |
| Ted Kluszewski's team when he won the 1954 N.L. home run title | 66 |
| Technotronic song about a sheep's personal trainer? | 55 |
| Technology for many an awkward-looking monster, briefly | 55 |
| Technology behind many graphic effects in movies (abbr.) | 56 |
| Techno-funk band with the 1991 hit "Unbelievable" | 59 |
| Techno-funk band with the 1991 #1 hit "Unbelievable" | 62 |
| Techno-funk band with the #1 hit "Unbelievable" | 57 |
| Techno artist behind "We Are All Made of Stars" | 57 |
| Techno artist behind "Everything Is Wrong" | 52 |
| Technique used to determine the composition of stars | 52 |
| Technique involving three layers of interlocking stones | 55 |
| Technical advisor with a cameo role in "The Hustler" | 62 |
| Tech's home renovation advice about a dark basement? | 56 |
| Tech giant with the catchphrase "You've got mail" | 63 |
| Teammate of Matsuzaka on Japan's 2009 World Baseball Classic team | 69 |
| Team with which Nolan Ryan made his major-league debut | 54 |
| Team with an inapt name since moving from New Orleans | 53 |
| Team whose worst shutout was a 22-0 loss to the Indians in 2004 | 63 |
| Team who lost to the Detroit Red Wings by a record 15-0 in 1944 | 63 |
| Team that's played in the same home park since 1912 | 55 |
| Team that won a world championship in its eighth yr. | 52 |
| Team that the only Cy Young-winning knuckleballer pitched for | 61 |
| Team that temporarily changed its name during the McCarthy era | 62 |
| Team that retired Sparky Anderson's No. 11 in 2011 | 54 |
| Team that lost to the Ducks in the 2007 NHL playoffs | 52 |
| Team that has a tankful of rays in the back of its ballpark | 59 |
| Team tennis competition whose current champs are the Czech Republic | 67 |
| Team seen in the "Ocean's Eleven" remake | 54 |
| Team scheduled to move to Queens's Citi Field in 2009 | 57 |
| Team originally owned by the Labatt's Brewing Company, familiarly | 69 |
| Team for which Darrell Griffith was Rookie of the Year | 54 |
| Team for which 1970 N.B.A. M.V.P. Willis Reed played | 52 |
| Team coached by one of two "Grumpy Old Men" | 53 |
| Teacher's question at the start of show-and-tell | 52 |
| Teacher accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act | 55 |