| "The King of Kings" director | 38 |
| Director of "Something Wild" | 38 |
| "Blue state" majority member | 38 |
| 2008 Denver conventioneers, informally | 38 |
| 2004 Boston conventioneers, informally | 38 |
| Response to "Gracias," maybe | 38 |
| Material for many an airbrushed jacket | 38 |
| Clothing material that may have rivets | 38 |
| Star of "The King of Comedy" | 38 |
| Robert of "Meet the Parents" | 38 |
| Richards once married to Charlie Sheen | 38 |
| ''Auntie Mame'' author | 38 |
| 1968 A.L. Cy Young Award winner McLain | 38 |
| "Rocky Mountain High" singer | 38 |
| ". . . which nobody can ___" | 38 |
| ''... nobody can ___'' | 38 |
| Washington in "Philadelphia" | 38 |
| Whittier war poem "Laus ___" | 38 |
| Where one might begin riding the rails | 38 |
| Portrayer of Crane and Sparrow on film | 38 |
| Weber's "___ Freischutz" | 38 |
| Van _____ Waals forces (physics topic) | 38 |
| 1983 pop hit "___ Kommissar" | 38 |
| "__ Spiegel" (German weekly) | 38 |
| Clear of vermin à la the Pied Piper | 38 |
| Free from government control, slangily | 38 |
| ''Jurassic Park'' star | 38 |
| Oscar nominee for "Nebraska" | 38 |
| "Citizen Ruth" actress, 1996 | 38 |
| Charlie Chan novelist Earl ___ Biggers | 38 |
| Two-time Tony-winning director McAnuff | 38 |
| "No pain, no gain" advocate? | 38 |
| "Justine" author Marquis ___ | 38 |
| "Like the ___ miss the rain" | 38 |
| They're often cluttered in offices | 38 |
| ''State Fair'' setting | 38 |
| "Law and Order" role (abbr.) | 38 |
| Hoopster who got in trouble at school? | 38 |
| Half a "Star Wars" character | 38 |
| He's in the details, it's said | 38 |
| Morning "diamonds" on a lawn | 38 |
| Abu ___ (United Arab Emirates capital) | 38 |
| Kerouac's "The ___ Bums" | 38 |
| "Lost" research project name | 38 |
| The reason AL pitchers don't swing | 38 |
| How to start a collect call, old-style | 38 |
| "Candle in the Wind" subject | 38 |
| John Cougar "Jack & ___" | 38 |
| It's often kept under lock and key | 38 |
| "The Holiday" costar Cameron | 38 |
| They're shaken, rattled and rolled | 38 |
| "Martin Chuzzlewit" novelist | 38 |
| Where success comes before work: Abbr. | 38 |
| "She ___ Say Yes," 1931 song | 38 |
| "I ___ think I had it in me" | 38 |
| Last word of New Hampshire's motto | 38 |
| New Brunswick town and French namesake | 38 |
| Daylight ___ (melodic death/doom band) | 38 |
| Practice "mind over platter" | 38 |
| Nuts and fruit, in part, for squirrels | 38 |
| Ones who've got something to lose? | 38 |
| Had hit "Believe" in '93 | 38 |
| Cool cat's "Comprehend?" | 38 |
| Choice between two equally bad options | 38 |
| "Joltin' Joe," for short | 38 |
| Roosevelt has been its head since 1946 | 38 |
| 10-year prison sentence, in gang slang | 38 |
| Adjusts for romantic effect, as lights | 38 |
| Adjusts lights, as for romantic effect | 38 |
| Meyer of "Starship Troopers" | 38 |
| Actress Meyer of "Saw" films | 38 |
| The "D" in jazz's Miss D | 38 |
| Oldie introduced by Ethel Waters: 1924 | 38 |
| Bill that once featured Saddam Hussein | 38 |
| Barry Levinson's directorial debut | 38 |
| Places like Mel's and Arnold's | 38 |
| "Den Afrikanske Farm" writer | 38 |
| "Babette's Feast" author | 38 |
| Green critter in the Sinclair gas logo | 38 |
| Area under a bishop's jurisdiction | 38 |
| Type of semiconductor or electron tube | 38 |
| "My Heart Will Go On" singer | 38 |
| "Runaround Sue" singer, 1961 | 38 |
| It may scrape the bottom of the barrel | 38 |
| Big ___ (group of stars in Ursa Major) | 38 |
| Music unlikely to be played at a party | 38 |
| "Saturday Night Fever" music | 38 |
| “Saturday Night Fever” setting | 38 |
| 'Saturday Night Fever' setting | 38 |
| Spinal segment that may become slipped | 38 |
| Former British prime minister Benjamin | 38 |
| One-time coach of "Da Bears" | 38 |
| Catchword in ''Ghost'' | 38 |
| One with her own dressing room, surely | 38 |
| Midler's "___ Las Vegas" | 38 |
| Nobody's-going-to-help-you letters | 38 |
| Flagship fashion store on Madison Ave. | 38 |
| "Who's your daddy?" test | 38 |
| Places where some evidence is analyzed | 38 |
| 2012 event to be held in Charlotte, NC | 38 |