| Annual awards announced in New York's East Village | 54 |
| Any of Apu's children, on "The Simpsons" | 54 |
| Alex Paterson & Thomas Fehlmann ambient house band | 54 |
| Â Â Temple University team, with "the" | 54 |
| Animation studio that made "The Incredibles" | 54 |
| Actress ___ Dawn Chong of "The Color Purple" | 54 |
| Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous With ___" | 54 |
| Alan who plays Snape in "Harry Potter" films | 54 |
| Animated film that grossed almost $500 million in 2011 | 54 |
| Alanis lyric "Slap me with a splintered ___" | 54 |
| Agatha Christie's "A Pocket Full of ___" | 54 |
| Author who wrote that "hell is other people" | 54 |
| Architect known as "The Father of Modernism" | 54 |
| Author of "The Closing of the American Mind" | 54 |
| Atomically numerically equivalent ___ (useless simile) | 54 |
| Annual horse race, one that sounds ominous to Dracula? | 54 |
| Above-average grade, or alternate title for the puzzle | 54 |
| Aging effect that art forgers can't well duplicate | 54 |
| Attend a national party in Nuuk without an invitation? | 54 |
| Arthur Miller drama set in Salem, with "The" | 54 |
| Aristotle's "best provision for old age" | 54 |
| Author/illustrator who used the pseudonym Ogdred Weary | 54 |
| Arizona's capital, after being taken over by deer? | 54 |
| Alcoholic beverage that comes in Grape and Grape MaXed | 54 |
| Architect who designed Barcelona's Sagrada Familia | 54 |
| Advice to a man who is planning his wedding by himself | 54 |
| Alanis: "You've washed your ___ of this" | 54 |
| Abstract sculptor whose work is seen at Lincoln Center | 54 |
| Annoying bureaucratic procedures predate changes (3,4) | 54 |
| Arab country suffering from an outbreak of poison ivy? | 54 |
| A: Chicken Teriyaki. Q: Who is the sole surviving ___? | 54 |
| Ambiguous headline about attorneys' pro bono work? | 54 |
| Ang with two Best Director Oscars (or Spike with none) | 54 |
| Approve of a Bond Doctor's evildoings on Facebook? | 54 |
| Émile who authored a mathematical physics treatise | 54 |
| Attendees of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters | 54 |
| A letter + smell + a letter + unbiased + a pronoun = ? | 54 |
| Average place to buy a laptop? (Radiohead / Kraftwerk) | 54 |
| “Actor Graves is head of household,” in Latin? | 54 |
| Alexander ___, Russian who popularized a chess opening | 54 |
| Auto company participating in parliamentary procedure? | 54 |
| Ancient Greek astronomer with an Earth-centered theory | 54 |
| A really upset person may have one that's been hit | 54 |
| Advance copies of movies that are sent to award voters | 54 |
| Artist whose name is an anagram of "artisan" | 54 |
| Asian country in which English is an official language | 54 |
| Atlanta suburb where Julia Roberts went to high school | 54 |
| “___ is the breath of art”: Frank Lloyd Wright | 54 |
| An offer to "en1arge your m@nhood," probably | 54 |
| All-female "Horror Wrestling" band Drain ___ | 54 |
| Aptly titled 1996 Tom Arnold dud, with "The" | 54 |
| Annual Austin media festival, as it's often styled | 54 |
| Actress who played Connie in "The Godfather" | 54 |
| Album with "Alive" and "Even Flow" | 54 |
| Affliction of those with long layovers at the airport? | 54 |
| Adapted screenplay nominee Monahan for "___" | 54 |
| Alpert's "__ Guy's in Love With You" | 54 |
| AC/DC song with the lyric "I'm dynamite" | 54 |
| “The Lord of the Rings” character ___ Bombadil | 54 |
| Anger about an opponent's excellent Scrabble move? | 54 |
| Atlantic City resort, informally, with "the" | 54 |
| Allegro non ___ (lively, but not too lively, in music) | 54 |
| Architectural style named after a British royal family | 54 |
| Author Leon who was born on the day Joseph Conrad died | 54 |
| Amer. military force that may be called to active duty | 54 |
| Anderson who directed "The Royal Tenenbaums" | 54 |
| Anecdotally, the most ubiquitous song of the last month | 55 |
| Adjective with "zero" or "disaster" | 55 |
| Activist group whose motto is "Silence=Death" | 55 |
| African capital whose name means "new flower" | 55 |
| Ackbar is one in "Return of the Jedi" (abbr.) | 55 |
| AVERAGE ONE IN RUSSIA IS 200, COME LIVE HERE IT IS FINE | 55 |
| Actor in Broadway's "Glengarry Glen Ross" | 55 |
| A: You're looking a bit pale. T: I'm __ (Elvis) | 55 |
| Actress Adams, star of 2007's "Enchanted" | 55 |
| “Secret ___” (where Anne Frank wrote her diary) | 55 |
| Abbr. in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" | 55 |
| Another term for a BOLO ("Be on the lookout") | 55 |
| Aldous Huxley's ''___ and Essence'' | 55 |
| Answer to the folk riddle "Big head, no hair" | 55 |
| Altogether it's worth the most bonus troops in Risk | 55 |
| Auto company whose name is Latin for "listen" | 55 |
| Anne Lindsay's ''_____ Robin Gray'' | 55 |
| Anatomical term that's Latin for "hollow" | 55 |
| Album with the hit song "I'm Every Woman" | 55 |
| Argentine "Hey!" that became a noted nickname | 55 |
| Abbott and Costello's "Here Come the ___" | 55 |
| Animated Morgendorffer partly based on Janeane Garofalo | 55 |
| Apt shortening for a city currently mired in bankruptcy | 55 |
| Almost any character on "The Big Bang Theory" | 55 |
| Alfred who won a Best Actor Tony for "Kismet" | 55 |
| Artist with the 1999 6x platinum album "2001" | 55 |
| A four-letter exclamation that wouldn't get bleeped | 55 |
| Astronaut Collins, first female Space Shuttle commander | 55 |
| Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville" | 55 |
| Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica," e.g. | 55 |
| Artist's name formed phonetically from his initials | 55 |
| Artist who rejuvenated his career with 1960s serigraphs | 55 |
| Abbreviation meaning "plus additional things" | 55 |
| Author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | 55 |