| Words with dot, double, or defensive | 36 |
| Grofé's "___ Trail" | 36 |
| "Get Me to the Church ___" | 36 |
| ''I'm ___ you!'' | 36 |
| "I'm ___ you, buster!" | 36 |
| ''___ of Old Smoky'' | 36 |
| Having one's day in court, maybe | 36 |
| Obligation (or where it might fall?) | 36 |
| "____, Christian Soldiers" | 36 |
| Lionel Ritchie "Stuck ___" | 36 |
| Punched-in-the-solar-plexus reaction | 36 |
| Response to ''Pow!'' | 36 |
| Body blow reaction, in a comic strip | 36 |
| Sock-in-the-gut responses, in comics | 36 |
| Exclamation before "Look!" | 36 |
| "___ That Kiss," 1931 song | 36 |
| Jabba's Twi'lek dancing girl | 36 |
| Chinese for "black dragon" | 36 |
| ''Pah-pah'' preceder | 36 |
| South Africa's _____ Paul Kruger | 36 |
| ___-Loompa (chocolate factory dwarf) | 36 |
| Wife of "The Little Tramp" | 36 |
| Moira's "Chaplin" role | 36 |
| Scoreboard perfection, for a pitcher | 36 |
| Queenside castle indicator, in chess | 36 |
| "___ Baby Baby," 1965 song | 36 |
| Type of pass, with "alley" | 36 |
| Losing line in a children's game | 36 |
| Exhibits in abundance, as confidence | 36 |
| Large, brilliantly colored food fish | 36 |
| Fish also called a Jerusalem haddock | 36 |
| South Australia's state gemstone | 36 |
| NASA discovered them on Mars in 2008 | 36 |
| Outgrowth of geometrical abstraction | 36 |
| It's usually nonrepresentational | 36 |
| Genre that plays tricks on your eyes | 36 |
| In the work already mentioned: Abbr. | 36 |
| Grp. including Nigeria and Venezuela | 36 |
| Gp. headquartered in Vienna, Austria | 36 |
| Assn. most recently joined by Angola | 36 |
| "Fuelling Prosperity" grp. | 36 |
| Columns with notable slants, briefly | 36 |
| Automaker with a lightning bolt logo | 36 |
| Both pros and amateurs may be in one | 36 |
| Creed "With Arms Wide ___" | 36 |
| Responded to a dentist's request | 36 |
| It's beyond the three-mile limit | 36 |
| "Dido and Aeneas," for one | 36 |
| "The Magic Flute," for one | 36 |
| Where the Marx Bros. spent the night | 36 |
| "The Magic Flute", for one | 36 |
| "Die Walküre," e.g. | 36 |
| Verdi's "Otello," e.g. | 36 |
| Tough "Jeopardy!" category | 36 |
| Spear-carrier's genre, sometimes | 36 |
| It literally means "works" | 36 |
| Impresario's production, perhaps | 36 |
| Bizet's "Carmen," e.g. | 36 |
| "Lulu" or "Zaza" | 36 |
| "Lucrezia Borgia," for one | 36 |
| 'Fidelio' or 'Faust' | 36 |
| ''Fidelio,'' for one | 36 |
| "Marriage of Figaro", e.g. | 36 |
| Theatergoer's collapsible topper | 36 |
| One whose working days are numbered? | 36 |
| "H.M.S. Pinafore," for one | 36 |
| "The Student Prince," e.g. | 36 |
| Shock jock Gregg Hughes, on XM Radio | 36 |
| The "O" of the OWN Network | 36 |
| Talk show for 25 seasons, familiarly | 36 |
| Garland __: former Texas music venue | 36 |
| Photo ___ (journalists' desires) | 36 |
| Black ___ (some military activities) | 36 |
| Select, with ''for'' | 36 |
| Decide to take, with "for" | 36 |
| Decide to quit, with "out" | 36 |
| Choose, with ''for'' | 36 |
| "Are you a man ___ mouse?" | 36 |
| "Are you a man --- mouse?" | 36 |
| Jody's mother in The Yearling | 36 |
| "Are you a man --- mouse!" | 36 |
| Commentary on the Torah, for example | 36 |
| Trying period for a doctoral student | 36 |
| Exams during which students can talk | 36 |
| Short form for animal with long arms | 36 |
| Its peel makes a good slug repellent | 36 |
| Handel's 'Messiah,' e.g. | 36 |
| ''Messiah,'' for one | 36 |
| "Israel in Egypt," for one | 36 |
| It's about when you leave: Abbr. | 36 |
| Jerry of "Law & Order" | 36 |
| Kill ____ killed (law of the jungle) | 36 |
| What an electron occupies in an atom | 36 |
| Basketballs, but not footballs, e.g. | 36 |
| "Lord of the Rings" menace | 36 |
| "Lord of the Rings" baddie | 36 |
| Quint's boat in "Jaws" | 36 |
| Lolita of the Miami Seaquarium, e.g. | 36 |
| Largest member of the dolphin family | 36 |
| Black-and-white predator of the deep | 36 |