| 'By the power vested ___ ...' |
| 'Exodus' hero |
| 'Lost' filming locale |
| 'Put ___ writing!' |
| 'Romanzero' poet |
| 'Smooth Operator' singer |
| 'The Allegory of Love' writer, 1936 |
| 'True' |
| '___ #1!' |
| *1962-67, 1971 |
| *1969 |
| *1973-85 |
| *1987-89 |
| *1995-2002 |
| *2006 |
| 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit |
| 2003 best-selling fantasy novel by teen author Christopher Paolini |
| A great deal |
| Aches |
| Alarming |
| Alexander Hamilton's last act |
| Alpha |
| Artist Watteau |
| Aside (from) |
| Attire with supersized pockets |
| Auditioned for 'American Idol' |
| Authorizes |
| Autumn birthstone |
| Baton Rouge sch. |
| Beethoven's third? |
| Bluesy Smith |
| Bond common to the answers to the six starred clues |
| Brief encounter? |
| Brings out |
| Butterfly experts, perhaps |
| Cable TV inits. |
| California's ___ Valley |
| Castle and Cara |
| Chairman's supporter? |
| Clinches |
| Commander |
| Composer of 'Dido and Aeneas' |
| Deviled things |
| Disapproving cry |
| Disco guy on 'The Simpsons' |
| Drs.' org. |
| Ecuador and Venezuela are in it |
| Edwards and others: Abbr. |
| End of a plumb line |
| Eye doctor's concern |
| Fights |
| Figures at many a wedding reception, briefly |
| First mate |
| Foyer item |
| French seas |
| Game played with a 40-card deck |
| Garbage hauler |
| German direction |
| Global currency org. |
| Gut course |
| Hanna-Barbera art |
| Homeland protection org. |
| How architects' models are built |
| Hungers |
| In song, 'Once you pass its borders, you can ne'er return again' |
| It can be fragile |
| It may give you a cold shoulder |
| It's full of holes |
| Italian town known for its embroidery |
| Jalopy |
| Kite flier's wish |
| Knee sock material |
| Kurchatov who oversaw the Soviet atomic bomb project |
| Lambs' kin |
| Law assignment |
| Layer |
| Least restrained |
| Lennon's mate |
| Like some video, to cable customers |
| Like some wrestling |
| Lou Bega's '___ No. 5' |
| Lowly one |
| Main mailbox locale: Abbr. |
| March 25, in the Christian calendar |
| Med. plans |
| Mexican beer |
| Moles' production |
| Muscle mag displays |
| N.B.A.'s ___ Ming |
| Name-drop, maybe? |
| Natl. Poetry Mo. |
| Nears, with 'on' |
| Neighborhood next to N.Y.C.'s East Village |
| New Jersey city, county or river |
| Night lights |
| Ocean menaces |
| Offering from St. Joseph |
| Old propaganda propagator |
| On |
| Ottoman V.I.P.'s |
| Phone co. employee |
| Piano players' hangouts |
| Plan for dinner |
| Plug in a travel kit |
| Powder site, maybe |
| Programme airer, with 'the' |
| Relating to a blood line |
| Residences, in slang |
| Rich soil |
| Rock guitarist once married to Goldie Hawn |
| Runners' locales |
| Second start? |
| Semitic deity |
| Shakes up |
| Ship-to-ship communication |
| Sign of approval |
| Singer Jones and others |
| Sneaky |
| Spearheaded |
| Speech pauses |
| Sub systems |
| Subj. for bilinguals |
| Suffix with billion |
| Suffix with urban |
| Surprisingly |
| Sweater flaw |
| Tennis star Mandlikova |
| Title for 48-Across and 3-Down |
| Univ. house |
| Ventured (forth) |
| Ward off |
| Warhol's '___ of Six Self-Portraits' |
| White-collared thrush: Var. |
| Willy Wonka's creator |
| Wood shaper |
| Writer born May 28, 1908 |
| [See instructions in Notepad] |
| ___ 9, first spacecraft to land softly on the moon |
| ___ buco |
| ___ Na Na |