| Common girls lacking finish at the end of December (8) | 54 |
| "A little ___ do ya" (1950s-'60s slogan) | 54 |
| Peter Parker's newspaper in "Spider-Man" | 54 |
| Publication that is the key to this puzzle's theme | 54 |
| Denzel Washington's "Man on Fire" costar | 54 |
| Major point on the Oregon Trail (with "The") | 54 |
| Sophie B Hawkins "___ Wish I Was Your Lover" | 54 |
| Beverly of "National Lampoon's Vacation" | 54 |
| Olu ___ (jazz musician who is rapper Nas's father) | 54 |
| Says "Your great idea will never work," e.g. | 54 |
| Director of "Rififi" and "Topkapi" | 54 |
| Richard ___ (original host of "Family Feud") | 54 |
| "A ___ Pigs Would Die," Robert N. Peck novel | 54 |
| Really impress an audience at a New York concert hall? | 54 |
| They rate zero on the "credit-ability" scale | 54 |
| "___ remember'd kisses . . . ": Tennyson | 54 |
| If it's regular, each of its angles is 144 degrees | 54 |
| Fortified position offering protection from enemy fire | 54 |
| "Pyromania" and "Hysteria" rockers | 54 |
| Part of the next-to-last line of the Lord's Prayer | 54 |
| Necessary sense for a driver (with an up-front charge) | 54 |
| Unappealing theme restaurant based on a hit CGI movie? | 54 |
| One-named R&B singer with "Feel So High" | 54 |
| The Penguin's player in "Batman Returns" | 54 |
| Rap group with the 2006 #1 hit "Laffy Taffy" | 54 |
| Gilded Age philanthropist known for his large appetite | 54 |
| Instruction on preparing a tiny Thanksgiving side dish | 54 |
| Comic strip character with an upwardly curving necktie | 54 |
| "Chapel of Love" group, with "the" | 54 |
| 1,000 years before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I | 54 |
| DDS alternative (they essentially mean the same thing) | 54 |
| Engine type, in mechanic shorthand (anagram of OH, DC) | 54 |
| "Light My Fire" band appearing at Microsoft? | 54 |
| ''In the Still of the Night,'' for one | 54 |
| Lowercase letter illustrated six times in this puzzle? | 54 |
| < Season record for which Earl Webb had this number | 54 |
| How L.L.Bean prioritizes its winter jacket ads, maybe? | 54 |
| The Mamas & the Papas' 'California --' | 54 |
| What the dry cleaner might say after losing a garment? | 54 |
| New Orleans bluesman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 54 |
| Dwight Gooden's nickname, based on many strikeouts | 54 |
| Website with the slogan "Simplify your life" | 54 |
| Embarrassing message you might hear about the next day | 54 |
| Battleship coordinate at the middle right of the board | 54 |
| Public transportation to New York's Yankee Stadium | 54 |
| New York City transport from the Bronx to Coney Island | 54 |
| "___ spiro, spero" (motto of South Carolina) | 54 |
| Dancer Gregory's nickname when shootin' hoops? | 54 |
| He said "Everybody wants to get into da act" | 54 |
| "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" musician | 54 |
| Ones performing a folk legend's tunes in Michigan? | 54 |
| "__-mite!": "Good Times" catchword | 54 |
| Former Montreal baseballer working for interpreter (9) | 54 |
| "New Kid in Town" band appearing at a rodeo? | 54 |
| Business transactions free from government regulation? | 54 |
| What Hannibal Lecter might do to those who bother him? | 54 |
| Transitional zones between different plant communities | 54 |
| 1975 seminal green movement novel by Ernest Callenbach | 54 |
| Country singer Arnold and reggae singer Grant, for two | 54 |
| Role that earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar | 54 |
| Aristotle's "best provision for old age" | 54 |
| ''Early Sunday Morning'' artist Hopper | 54 |
| Author/illustrator who used the pseudonym Ogdred Weary | 54 |
| 1949 Emmy winner for Most Outstanding Live Personality | 54 |
| Where the Stephen King fan club meets in Pennsylvania? | 54 |
| "30 Rock" acronym about entertainment awards | 54 |
| Research journal for Middle-earth gastroenterologists? | 54 |
| Competitor of "The 5th Wheel," in reality TV | 54 |
| Quick Draw McGraw alter ego with a guitar for a weapon | 54 |
| ''The Magic Kingdom'' novelist Stanley | 54 |
| California town whose name means "the river" | 54 |
| Member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke | 54 |
| Only person to win Oscars for acting and screenwriting | 54 |
| Dropped "The Simpsons" from the TV schedule? | 54 |
| Minstrel show figure who banters with the interlocutor | 54 |
| Words with "an era" and "the line" | 54 |
| Haydn used two in "The Philosopher" Symphony | 54 |
| What you may be saying after reading the theme answers | 54 |
| Early hip-hop group with "Strictly Business" | 54 |
| Originator of the phrase "Pandora's box" | 54 |
| ''Give My Regards to Broadway'' ending | 54 |
| 1974 hit song that starts "Como una promesa" | 54 |
| Joanie Cunningham portrayer, in 1970's-80's TV | 54 |
| Name shared by two brothers in the Hockey Hall of Fame | 54 |
| First N.H.L. player to score over 70 goals in a season | 54 |
| George's mother on "Seinfeld" and others | 54 |
| Ragtime musician who was the subject of a 1978 musical | 54 |
| Longfellow poem subtitled "A Tale of Acadie" | 54 |
| Katniss's surname, in "The Hunger Games" | 54 |
| Only coach to win both N.F.L. and A.F.L. championships | 54 |
| Textbook provided by a publisher to faculty for review | 54 |
| Two-term governor and three-term senator from Nebraska | 54 |
| Good news for concert producers, bad news for speeders | 54 |
| Reach as far as, as property vis-Ã -vis its boundary | 54 |
| Exam material you really wouldn't want to memorize | 54 |
| Visual gripper by Stephen King? (with "The") | 54 |
| Sign meaning "Let this be our little secret" | 54 |
| Poet who made radio broadcasts in support of Mussolini | 54 |
| Quality that may keep a broadcaster from working in TV | 54 |
| 1953 dystopian novel in which books have been outlawed | 54 |