| Chris de Burgh "The Lady ___" | 39 |
| Poker-hand sequence, such as 9, 8, 6, 5 | 39 |
| To the extent that, with "as" | 39 |
| Like the problem of squaring the circle | 39 |
| Start of a remark about basic economics | 39 |
| Lennon hit appropriate for this puzzle? | 39 |
| How the witty surgeon left his patients | 39 |
| "The rule is not written ___" | 39 |
| Affording grounds for a certain premium | 39 |
| Outer protective covering, such as skin | 39 |
| Form of stream-of-consciousness writing | 39 |
| Winner of America's Cup: 1967, 1970 | 39 |
| Transcendentalist wellspring of insight | 39 |
| Change, as a fraction to its reciprocal | 39 |
| "___ Dalmatians," Disney film | 39 |
| Scheherazade's story-telling nights | 39 |
| Deighton's "The ___ File" | 39 |
| "___," said Tom automatically | 39 |
| "The exact statement was ..." | 39 |
| Mideast Olympic marathoner's claim? | 39 |
| "It's not news to me ..." | 39 |
| Which country's symbol is the harp? | 39 |
| Churchill subject, with "The" | 39 |
| Beverage with whiskey and whipped cream | 39 |
| " . . . sadly ___": S. Foster | 39 |
| Buctouche-born industrialist, K.C. ____ | 39 |
| Scientist who experienced a great fall? | 39 |
| Animator Freleng a.k.a. 'Friz', | 39 |
| "And ___ weary . . . ": Burns | 39 |
| Common parental "explanation" | 39 |
| "That which ___ today . . . " | 39 |
| "On a cloud ___ child": Blake | 39 |
| Has rented a cabin for the weekend, say | 39 |
| "___ Dead?" (Mark Twain play) | 39 |
| Cruise destination for impulsive sorts? | 39 |
| Long Island town with a weather station | 39 |
| "Pretty fishy, if you ask me" | 39 |
| Hall & Oates "Say It ___" | 39 |
| Fats Domino title "corrected" | 39 |
| Admiral who led the Pearl Harbor attack | 39 |
| " . . . our cause ___": Shak. | 39 |
| "The voice of the people ___" | 39 |
| "Can you hear me?" [tap, tap] | 39 |
| "Perhaps you're right..." | 39 |
| Pro wrestling's "Raw ___" | 39 |
| 30 Seconds to Mars "This ___" | 39 |
| "He knoweth the way that ___" | 39 |
| Works by Raphael and Michelangelo, e.g. | 39 |
| Doesn't take the standard deduction | 39 |
| Styx song "Don't Let ___" | 39 |
| "I can get ___ you wholesale" | 39 |
| Workplace tech support helper, slangily | 39 |
| "Cool ___" (New Edition song) | 39 |
| "What business is ___ yours?" | 39 |
| "Everything's gone wrong" | 39 |
| "Sure, I understand—not!" | 39 |
| All Saints "I Know Where ___" | 39 |
| Frazzled traffic reporter's comment | 39 |
| "Things are not looking good" | 39 |
| Song from "Red, Hot and Blue" | 39 |
| Announcer's phrase after a home run | 39 |
| "The program's starting!" | 39 |
| 'We can only do this as a pair' | 39 |
| "___ So Beautiful," 1932 song | 39 |
| "___ a dark and stormy night" | 39 |
| Why NASA couldn't land on the moon? | 39 |
| Temptations "I Wish ___ Rain" | 39 |
| "Was __ I saw yesterday ...?" | 39 |
| "That was normal for me once" | 39 |
| Russian ruler who renovated the Kremlin | 39 |
| Czar nicknamed "the Terrible" | 39 |
| Financier Kreuger called the Match King | 39 |
| The optometrist's zero-star review? | 39 |
| Composer Novello and German poet Gurney | 39 |
| Ramones "24 hours to go" song | 39 |
| Song from the Ed Sullivan Theater stage | 39 |
| "Kerosene Hat" Cracker ballad | 39 |
| Famous finger-pointer's declaration | 39 |
| "Wouldn't that be great?" | 39 |
| Tropical bird, also called lily trotter | 39 |
| "Heart of the Tin Man" author | 39 |
| V as in vehicular vacillation, visually | 39 |
| Popular tourist spot in western Wyoming | 39 |
| "Now we have Nicklaus at bat" | 39 |
| Maker of fabrics with intricate designs | 39 |
| "Mazes and Monsters" novelist | 39 |
| Adherents of a certain ascetic religion | 39 |
| "___ Women" (Neil Simon play) | 39 |
| He wrote "The Fire Next Time" | 39 |
| "The Apple of My Eye" author? | 39 |
| Cook for whom a culinary award is named | 39 |
| "You're Beautiful" singer | 39 |
| Author of "Why Not the Best?" | 39 |
| Arrow maker becomes aerospace scientist | 39 |
| Author of the Dave Robicheaux mysteries | 39 |
| He requested that his ashes leave Earth | 39 |
| Transmission disrupters[SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 39 |
| Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime entertainer | 39 |
| Saturday, "Piece of My Heart" | 39 |
| "Primal Scream" author Arthur | 39 |