| Adverb disdained by English teachers | 36 |
| Actor Nick with an infamous mug shot | 36 |
| Actor Nick of "Affliction" | 36 |
| Alaskan city where the Iditarod ends | 36 |
| Actress in "Knots Landing" | 36 |
| Animal, vegetable, and mineral, e.g. | 36 |
| All Saints' Day starts it: Abbr. | 36 |
| Astronomer's sighting, sometimes | 36 |
| Alliance that includes Mex. and Peru | 36 |
| Award won three times by David Mamet | 36 |
| About 71% of the earth's surface | 36 |
| About 75% of the earth's surface | 36 |
| Animal whose name comes from Nahuatl | 36 |
| Alito's predecessor on the bench | 36 |
| Author of "Clash by Night" | 36 |
| A strong one could be found in a gym | 36 |
| America's second-busiest airport | 36 |
| A ship from the Middle East, perhaps | 36 |
| Added one's initials to, perhaps | 36 |
| Authentic looking word on some signs | 36 |
| Any hit by the Everly Brothers, e.g. | 36 |
| Alberta town or General Motors model | 36 |
| Actor on "thirtysomething" | 36 |
| Actor in "thirtysomething" | 36 |
| A. L. batting champ in 1964–5 | 36 |
| Abbr. followed by "!!!!!1" | 36 |
| Any nonzero number divided by itself | 36 |
| Artist who operates imaginepeace.com | 36 |
| Assn. most recently joined by Angola | 36 |
| Automaker with a lightning bolt logo | 36 |
| Actor, playwright and director Davis | 36 |
| Â Â Commuter map points: Abbr. | 36 |
| A place to play the ponies from afar | 36 |
| A translation for "cetera" | 36 |
| Answer from an agreeable Avignonnais | 36 |
| Agreeable answer from an Avignonnais | 36 |
| Admits (with ''to'') | 36 |
| Atherton's "Black ___" | 36 |
| Acne care brand owned by Mentholatum | 36 |
| A cadet might be asked to pick it up | 36 |
| Animal recently classified as a bear | 36 |
| Auld lang syne, with "the" | 36 |
| Archers of Loaf "Hate ___" | 36 |
| Amanda of "Igby Goes Down" | 36 |
| Assembles, with "together" | 36 |
| Absolute worst, with "the" | 36 |
| Arborist's preferred periodical? | 36 |
| Appliance at a theater snack counter | 36 |
| Attachment in classical architecture | 36 |
| Alternative to Travelocity or Orbitz | 36 |
| Architecture's Pritzker, for one | 36 |
| Any of six set to music by Bernstein | 36 |
| “The ___ Club” (old TV show) | 36 |
| A1: "___ already! Sheesh." | 36 |
| Abide, with ''with'' | 36 |
| Answer to many a farmer's prayer | 36 |
| Actor in "Notorious": 1946 | 36 |
| A great quantity are from California | 36 |
| Abbreviated vacation goal, sometimes | 36 |
| Air all of one's grievances, say | 36 |
| Au naturel (with "in the") | 36 |
| A-Rod's 156 led baseball in 2007 | 36 |
| Actor in "The Crying Game" | 36 |
| Agcy. that electrified rural America | 36 |
| Actor Stephen of The Crying Game | 36 |
| Author of "Peg Woffington" | 36 |
| Annual short-story awards since 1986 | 36 |
| A "Nicholas Nickleby" star | 36 |
| Australian Prime Minister Sir George | 36 |
| Air-conditioning on a hot day, maybe | 36 |
| A transfer might entail one, briefly | 36 |
| Alternative recording studio version | 36 |
| André the Giant's middle name | 36 |
| Actor Brad of "The Client" | 36 |
| An expense homeowners don't have | 36 |
| Aired "Leave it to Beaver" | 36 |
| Any "Seinfeld" episode now | 36 |
| Any "Friends" episode, now | 36 |
| Attempt to bypass a spam filter, say | 36 |
| Abbr. after some generals' names | 36 |
| Abbr. in many an officer's title | 36 |
| Any point on a mariner's compass | 36 |
| Acronym for fighting organized crime | 36 |
| At the peak of maturity, as an apple | 36 |
| Aid for the directionally-challenged | 36 |
| Adjective for some horses' coats | 36 |
| Aspiring musician's dream status | 36 |
| Athlete turned North Korean diplomat | 36 |
| Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu ___” | 36 |
| An emcee may ask a crowd to raise it | 36 |
| A studio apartment generally has one | 36 |
| Art ___, Steelers owner for 55 years | 36 |
| After sub, it's cloak-and-dagger | 36 |
| Author of Portnoy's Complaint | 36 |
| A kind of fur, or Nova Scotia island | 36 |
| Actor in "The Jungle Book" | 36 |
| Author of "The Unmade Bed" | 36 |
| Alcoholic beverage often served warm | 36 |
| Alternative title for this crossword | 36 |
| Artist's suffix with land or sea | 36 |