| Excursion financed with a bad check? | 36 |
| Knapsack for a popular torch singer? | 36 |
| Unauthorized Nancy Reagan biographer | 36 |
| 2011 NBA draft lottery pick Thompson | 36 |
| One whose instincts are never right? | 36 |
| Made one's presence known, maybe | 36 |
| It'll put you down for the count | 36 |
| Measure for sailing short distances? | 36 |
| Lardner's "You ___ Al" | 36 |
| Original "Star Trek" actor | 36 |
| "Star Trek" regular Walter | 36 |
| Horst ___, German president, 2004-10 | 36 |
| New York Times science reporter Gina | 36 |
| Upscale variety of coffee or chronic | 36 |
| King in the Super Mario Bros. series | 36 |
| Near-worthless Russian currency unit | 36 |
| Related to the word of god, in a way | 36 |
| "Elephant Boy" co-director | 36 |
| Legit "Lakmé" composer? | 36 |
| Adversaries in a Hoffman/Streep film | 36 |
| "Scruples" novelist Judith | 36 |
| Pulitzer Prize journalist Arthur ___ | 36 |
| 1970s ABC News co-anchor, Howard ___ | 36 |
| Arcturus or Pollux, to an astronomer | 36 |
| Pollux or Arcturus, to an astronomer | 36 |
| Peak on the Pakistani-Chinese border | 36 |
| Coleridge's "___ Khan" | 36 |
| Harold's friend, in a 2004 movie | 36 |
| Literally, "golden orange" | 36 |
| Mila of 'That '70s Show' | 36 |
| Composer of "Street Scene" | 36 |
| Mr. Mister song named after a prayer | 36 |
| When doubled, one of the Teletubbies | 36 |
| Skaters, before heading onto the ice | 36 |
| Part of the holiday check-out snarl? | 36 |
| Name for Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson | 36 |
| Ka ___ (southernmost Hawaiian point) | 36 |
| Ones who never make clerical errors? | 36 |
| Emotionally presented one's case | 36 |
| Cardinal number (fifth power of ten) | 36 |
| "___ Rookh," T. Moore work | 36 |
| One shadowing an outgoing president? | 36 |
| Like the streets of Holmesian London | 36 |
| Finally reached, with "in" | 36 |
| Place where plumbers stay very busy? | 36 |
| Sign up talk-show host at town dump? | 36 |
| Verbally attack, with "at" | 36 |
| Item in Wonder Woman's wardrobe? | 36 |
| George Bailey does it for Mary Hatch | 36 |
| Not necessarily ranked by importance | 36 |
| "That's the ___ heard" | 36 |
| B and O, for presidents #43 and #44? | 36 |
| Final triumph after apparent failure | 36 |
| Something that may be asked from bed | 36 |
| Marquand novel, with "The" | 36 |
| Occasion to reserve a table for two? | 36 |
| Norman Chandler's paper, briefly | 36 |
| Seashore bird with a distinctive cry | 36 |
| Doesn't take something seriously | 36 |
| Oscar winner for "Henry V" | 36 |
| Vichy prime minister: 1942–44 | 36 |
| "Titus Andronicus" heroine | 36 |
| "The ___ ass" (Mr. Bumble) | 36 |
| Why an old dessert might be skipped? | 36 |
| Words before "on the line" | 36 |
| 'Now I -- down to sleep ...' | 36 |
| Former Alice in Chains singer Staley | 36 |
| Use Agamemnon's strategy at Troy | 36 |
| What bells on sheep are attached to? | 36 |
| "You can ___ horse . . . " | 36 |
| Job for a ballroom dance instructor? | 36 |
| Prepare the way, with "to" | 36 |
| Flowering plant also called plumbago | 36 |
| Potato products on sprouting plants? | 36 |
| Jacob's first wife and namesakes | 36 |
| Request at the butcher shop, perhaps | 36 |
| Salon jobs from apprentice stylists? | 36 |
| '-- the Blues' (Sinatra hit) | 36 |
| Start of an adult school course name | 36 |
| Remember a kvetch in one's will? | 36 |
| Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Dick | 36 |
| French President in F.D.R.'s day | 36 |
| "___ d'Or," 1909 opera | 36 |
| Article's start, to a journalist | 36 |
| "Anguished English" author | 36 |
| Green building certification letters | 36 |
| Oscar winner for "Shampoo" | 36 |
| They go before many important rights | 36 |
| Smooth and connected musical passage | 36 |
| Social gathering with the Rockettes? | 36 |
| Stoller's partner in songwriting | 36 |
| Frida ___, famed soprano from Berlin | 36 |
| "Windsor Beauties" painter | 36 |
| Star of "Of Thee I Sting"? | 36 |
| Poe girl, Irv of baseball, Zola girl | 36 |
| Opera based on a Beaumarchais comedy | 36 |
| The purpose of frames in eyeglasses? | 36 |
| "Get Shorty" author Elmore | 36 |
| Multitalented subject of this puzzle | 36 |
| Ancient name of an island off Cannes | 36 |