| Demand from one who wants to board the merry-go-round (3) | 57 |
| Diana with a record-setting swim around Manhattan in 1975 | 57 |
| Diana who recently attempted to swim from Florida to Cuba | 57 |
| Daughter of King Pastoria in Frank Baum's book series | 57 |
| Dish named for the queen consort of Italy's Umberto I | 57 |
| Dictionary source for each asterisked clue in this puzzle | 57 |
| Direct answer to "why can't you get it up?" | 57 |
| Drink made of ''the best stuff on earth'' | 57 |
| Dava ___, author of the best seller "Longitude" | 57 |
| Dreadful Shadows song about earth (with "The")? | 57 |
| Daylight source found in the seven longest Across answers | 57 |
| Duo with the 2003 hit "All the Things She Said" | 57 |
| Drifters "I climb way up to the ___ the stairs" | 57 |
| Dog who reveals he can speak in "Tik-Tok of Oz" | 57 |
| Director Boll of 2005's "Alone in the Dark" | 57 |
| Dancer Chmerkovskiy of "Dancing With the Stars" | 57 |
| Doctor's comment about famous-brand meds vs. generic? | 57 |
| Dramatist Peter who won a Tony for "Marat/Sade" | 57 |
| 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 |
| District attorney Schiff on "Law & Order" | 55 |
| Donna Reed's "From Here to Eternity" role | 55 |
| Dickinson of "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" | 55 |
| Dr. Seuss's "Bartholomew ___ the Oobleck" | 55 |
| Dessert made with chocolate, cherries and whipped cream | 55 |
| Deborah's "From Here to Eternity" co-star | 55 |
| Designer of a stained-glass window in the U.N. building | 55 |
| Dynasty that ruled China for eight and a half centuries | 55 |
| Drinks with the old slogan "Refresh yourself" | 55 |
| Do a semester's worth of studying in one night, say | 55 |
| Director of "Carrie" and "Scarface" | 55 |
| David's first wife in "David Copperfield" | 55 |
| Dr. ___ (villain inexplicably returning in a 2013 film) | 55 |
| DiCaprio, at the end of "Catch Me If You Can" | 55 |
| Donald of the Major League Baseball Players Association | 55 |
| Director/choreographer Bob of "All That Jazz" | 55 |
| Duke Ellington's "The ___ From Joe's" | 55 |
| Demographic for characters in "Reality Bites" | 55 |
| Disney song sung by six characters (if you count right) | 55 |
| Dramatic note in Verdi's "Di quella pira" | 55 |
| Darkness "Seemed Like a Good ___ at the Time" | 55 |
| Dante's and Virgil's destination, in literature | 55 |
| Dante sees him in ''The Divine Comedy'' | 55 |
| 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 |