| Don who pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series | 55 |
| Dish in one of roughly three "Garfield" jokes | 55 |
| Director of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" | 55 |
| Degas's "Miss ___ at the Cirque Fernando" | 55 |
| Drama set at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce ad agency | 55 |
| Duck's instrument in "Peter and the Wolf" | 55 |
| Dr. King's "queen of American folk music" | 55 |
| Damien's horror film (with ''The'') | 55 |
| Durable synthetic originally called "Fiber A" | 55 |
| Dean's pal in Kerouac's "On the Road" | 55 |
| Day of the wk. ... or an exam usually taken on that day | 55 |
| Dutch explorer who lent his name to a sea and an island | 55 |
| Don Drysdale book "Once ___, Always a Dodger" | 55 |
| Definition you won't hear in English class (Part 1) | 55 |
| Daytime show is thus: a mainstream block of time (4, 5) | 55 |
| Double scoop that's part multicolored, part liqueur | 55 |
| Dom who voiced Pizza the Hutt in "Spaceballs" | 55 |
| Diamond "heists" executed by two base runners | 55 |
| Dick ___, co-creator of "Saturday Night Live" | 55 |
| Description of a balloon race lost due to lack of wind? | 55 |
| Disney's "Darby __ and the Little People" | 55 |
| Don't let '40s shortstop Marion play every day? | 55 |
| Delivers a romantic Valentine's Day surprise, maybe | 55 |
| Documentary about the making of an adult movie musical? | 55 |
| Don't tell him that standing up to the boss ___ ... | 55 |
| Don't feel pain riding London trolleys (palindrome) | 55 |
| Drink that prints facts on the inside of its bottlecaps | 55 |
| Discomforting noise to hear from an inflatable mattress | 55 |
| Display at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, for short | 55 |
| Dr. ___ Knowles ("Sons of Anarchy" character) | 55 |
| Deck divided into the major arcana and the minor arcana | 55 |
| Duke Ellington's ''Take ___ Train'' | 55 |
| Dashiell Hammett's last novel, with "The" | 55 |
| Dark-horse Oscar winner for "My Cousin Vinny" | 55 |
| Did or didn't participate in the Boy Scouts outing? | 55 |
| Day of the wk. that Microsoft releases software patches | 55 |
| Dear old dad the cosmetic surgeon always told me to ___ | 55 |
| Dog seen during "Family Ties" closing credits | 55 |
| Direction for "my beautiful balloon," in song | 55 |
| Dennis the Menace's neighbors, with "the" | 55 |
| Discipline that teaches "beginner's mind" | 55 |
| Dwellers along a tributary of the Little Colorado River | 55 |
| David Pirner of Soul Asylum in "Reality Bites" | 56 |
| Drivin' 'N' Cryin' "Build ___" | 56 |
| Disease for which riluzole received FDA approval in 1995 | 56 |
| DiFranco with the 2008 album "Red Letter Year" | 56 |
| Decoration for Gertrude's room in "Hamlet" | 56 |
| Dinner and a movie, say, with someone you don't know | 56 |
| Dog with "rough" and "smooth" breeds | 56 |
| Dennis's sister on "It's Always Sunny" | 56 |
| Dance to Donna Summer's "Last Dance," e.g. | 56 |
| Dunn's "__ Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters" | 56 |
| Daniel Decatur ___, minstrel who wrote "Dixie" | 56 |
| Davis who played Maggie in two "Matrix" movies | 56 |
| Daughter of Jessica and Chester Tate on "Soap" | 56 |
| Disney film first called "The Concert Feature" | 56 |
| Douglas's Oscar-winning "Wall Street" role | 56 |
| Drink made with crème de cacao and crème de menthe | 56 |
| Domain who legislative body was the Imperial Diet: Abbr. | 56 |
| Declaration from the "tag-ee" in a game of tag | 56 |
| Diane of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" | 56 |
| Director of 1995's "Sense and Sensibility" | 56 |
| Dyslexic TV host with a college degree in speech therapy | 56 |
| Designer of Penn Station's "Eclipsed Time" | 56 |
| Dylan's last name on "Beverly Hills 90210" | 56 |
| Dostoyevsky's "_____ From the Underground" | 56 |
| Dustin's role in ''Midnight Cowboy'' | 56 |
| Descartes, who said, "I think, therefore I am" | 56 |
| Digital pass-throughs that implement logical conjunction | 56 |
| Djibouti lake that is the lowest point on land in Africa | 56 |
| Degrees of separation from actor Kevin, in a parlor game | 56 |
| Dan and Virginia's story of a dark-colored predator? | 56 |
| David who played the title role in "Kill Bill" | 56 |
| Double scoop that's part sweet and chunky, part tart | 56 |
| Definite tip-off that Tarzan is your new baseball coach? | 56 |
| Disease that makes you say "aww" all the time? | 56 |
| Defense strategy that's not an option in some states | 56 |
| Difference between money coming in and money being spent | 56 |
| Disney's "Darby ___ and the Little People" | 56 |
| Device that keeps motors and generators running together | 56 |
| Deliverer of the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech | 56 |
| Description of work by the figures haunting this puzzle? | 56 |
| Daughter of Samantha and Darrin on "Bewitched" | 56 |
| Darth ___ (Mr. Potato Head "Star Wars" tie-in) | 56 |
| Director and star of the 1958 Best Foreign Language Film | 56 |
| Dance in which "you bring your knees in tight" | 56 |
| Don Ho hit (and what the O's in this grid represent) | 56 |
| Dessert name that’s Italian for “pick me up” | 56 |
| Dodger pitcher, A.L. Comeback Player of the Year in 1976 | 56 |
| Donna's portrayer on "Beverly Hills 90210" | 56 |
| Driver in a "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" gag | 56 |
| Driving convenience created by Mary Anderson (1866-1953) | 56 |
| Directive for owners of not-quite-domesticated polecats? | 56 |
| Danish tennis player Caroline who is currently ranked #1 | 56 |
| Dr. Seuss story about stubbornness, with "The" | 56 |
| Doubleday who almost certainly didn't invent baseball | 57 |
| DiFranco with the double album "Living in Clip" | 57 |
| Durant who co-wrote "The Story of Civilization" | 57 |
| Dale Evans's horse on "The Roy Rogers Show" | 57 |
| Defrocked villain on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" | 57 |