| Hindu musician's source material for improvisation | 54 |
| __ Cajun: University of Louisiana at Lafayette athlete | 54 |
| Quantrill's ___ (notorious Civil War bushwhackers) | 54 |
| Director of two of the U.S.' 10 top-grossing films | 54 |
| ___ Rao, "The Serpent and the Rope" novelist | 54 |
| Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous With ___" | 54 |
| Month during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset | 54 |
| "Blitzkrieg Bop" group, with "the" | 54 |
| Fortifications in "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 54 |
| Option for those who are anti-Russian and anti-French? | 54 |
| Wide receiver who doesn't study plant reproduction | 54 |
| Where cowboys once sang "Oh, give me a home" | 54 |
| "That ___ gift . . . common sense": Meredith | 54 |
| One who might use the curse word "bumbaclot" | 54 |
| Declare "good" or "excellent," say | 54 |
| Winston Smith's greatest fear, in "1984" | 54 |
| Joe's con man buddy in "Midnight Cowboy" | 54 |
| ''Quoth the ___, 'Nevermore''' | 54 |
| Shankar who played at the Concert for Bangladesh, 1971 | 54 |
| ''I Can't Stop Loving You'' singer | 54 |
| They're often caught while wearing little clothing | 54 |
| He's Dr. Lane in "Underworld: Awakening" | 54 |
| "The Cloister and the Hearth" author Charles | 54 |
| ''The Cloister and the Hearth'' author | 54 |
| "The Cloister and the Hearth" writer Charles | 54 |
| 'The Cloister and the Hearth' novelist Charles | 54 |
| "Where's the Rest of Me?" autobiographer | 54 |
| Bob Marley's "Situation" gets this quick | 54 |
| "Parks and ___" (Amy Poehler show, casually) | 54 |
| Star of the 1971 film "Mary, Queen of Scots" | 54 |
| Be overly optimistic with one's archeological work | 54 |
| Loser to "Chariots of Fire" for Best Picture | 54 |
| Film for which Warren Beatty won a Best Director Oscar | 54 |
| Bolshoi's "Sleeping Beauty" looks fishy? | 54 |
| "Big Girl in the Middle" co-author Gabrielle | 54 |
| Kyle ___, time traveller in "The Terminator" | 54 |
| Like gas tanks and many prescriptions, again and again | 54 |
| Baseball's Jackson, a.k.a. "Mr. October" | 54 |
| Descartes who said, "I think therefore I am" | 54 |
| Dennis's "Yours, Mine & Ours" costar | 54 |
| ___ Gallimard, protagonist of "M. Butterfly" | 54 |
| She played Irene in "Me, Myself & Irene" | 54 |
| Nicole's ''Cold Mountain'' co-star | 54 |
| Jim's costar in "Me, Myself & Irene" | 54 |
| "Walk Away ___" (1966 hit by the Left Banke) | 54 |
| "Crucifixion of St. Peter" painter Guido ___ | 54 |
| City that appropriately rhymes with "casino" | 54 |
| ''The Bathers'' painter Pierre Auguste | 54 |
| "La Loge" and "La Grenouillère" | 54 |
| Best Musical winner after "Sunset Boulevard" | 54 |
| Old car company with the slogan "Stands Pat" | 54 |
| The "20" in "Drop and give me 20!" | 54 |
| Sports Illustrated's 1984 co-Sportsman of the Year | 54 |
| Lovejoy's title on "The Simpsons": Abbr. | 54 |
| ___ Bridge, connecting Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx | 54 |
| When said three times, a crew member's fraternity? | 54 |
| River seen while "sur le pont d'Avignon" | 54 |
| Financial adviser Edelman with a syndicated radio show | 54 |
| Prepared, as potatoes for ... what exactly? Baby food? | 54 |
| Alan who plays Snape in "Harry Potter" films | 54 |
| Steppenwolf's ''Magic Carpet ___'' | 54 |
| "Harper Valley P.T.A." singer Jeannie C. ___ | 54 |
| "Can't Fight the Moonlight" singer LeAnn | 54 |
| Word between "lather" and "repeat" | 54 |
| Step between "lather" and "repeat" | 54 |
| "Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand" | 54 |
| Animated film that grossed almost $500 million in 2011 | 54 |
| 2002 Pearl Jam album with the hit "Save You" | 54 |
| Kelly who played Hayley on "All My Children" | 54 |
| Kelly who played Faith on "Hope & Faith" | 54 |
| "Goodbye Yellow Brick ___" (Elton John song) | 54 |
| Its nickname is "The Star City of the South" | 54 |
| ___ Colony (first English settlement in the New World) | 54 |
| "For bonny sweet ___ is all my joy": Ophelia | 54 |
| ''The Thousand and One Nights'' menace | 54 |
| ''The Travels of Marco Polo'' creature | 54 |
| Where you might hear "Ride 'em, cowboy!" | 54 |
| "The Man Who Fell to Earth" director Nicolas | 54 |
| Subject of the book "The Man Who Made Lists" | 54 |
| Subject of Randy Wyatt's play "Synonymy" | 54 |
| Leader with a coat of arms showing three fleurs-de-lis | 54 |
| Place to store your phone numbers (before smartphones) | 54 |
| His last words were "Thus with a kiss I die" | 54 |
| ''. . . yonder window breaks'' speaker | 54 |
| NBAer Artest who changed his name to Metta World Peace | 54 |
| 1998 De Niro film with a memorable wrong-way car chase | 54 |
| Ned who won the Pulitzer for his "Air Music" | 54 |
| Glass-encased item in "Beauty and the Beast" | 54 |
| Cincinnati Red who played his final game Aug. 17, 1986 | 54 |
| "Joy Comes in the Morning" novelist Jonathan | 54 |
| "Arrested Development" actress Portia de ___ | 54 |
| Pop duo on a 1991 postage stamp in their native Sweden | 54 |
| "Funny Honey" singer, in "Chicago" | 54 |
| Cohn played by Pacino in "Angels in America" | 54 |
| "The God of Small Things" novelist Arundhati | 54 |
| Former African territory __-Urundi (now two countries) | 54 |
| It reportedly took him a month to solve his own puzzle | 54 |
| Alanis lyric "Slap me with a splintered ___" | 54 |
| Tamblyn of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" | 54 |
| Director Meyer known as "King of the Nudies" | 54 |