| 'All Things Considered' airer |
NPR |
| 'Believe it ___!' |
ORNOT |
| 'Death in Venice' author |
MANN |
| 'Les Misérables' inspector |
JAVERT |
| 'Little Eyolf' playwright |
IBSEN |
| 'My Heart Will Go On' singer |
DION |
| 'The Alchemy of Finance' author George |
SOROS |
| 'The Color Purple' heroine |
CELIE |
| 'The Crying Game' character |
DIL |
| 'The Five Pennies' star |
KAYE |
| 'What services ___ thou do?': King Lear |
CANST |
| 1948 Pulitzer-winning cartoonist (50) |
RUBEGOLDBERG |
| 1970 Grammy winner for writing 'A Boy Named Sue' (25) |
SHELSILVERSTEIN |
| 1984 inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame (60) |
NEILDIAMOND |
| Advertiser's award |
CLIO |
| Applicant's goal |
JOB |
| Atkins diet no-no |
CARB |
| Bad-tempered |
PETULANT |
| Ballerina Pavlova |
ANNA |
| Baseball's Bando |
SAL |
| Baseless |
IDLE |
| Basement problem |
MILDEW |
| Beginning |
RISE |
| Beige |
ECRU |
| Best Director nominee for 'A Room With a View' (14) |
JAMESIVORY |
| Best-selling player |
IPOD |
| Big wheel at sea |
HELM |
| Blanche's sister |
STELLA |
| Bolshoi rival |
KIROV |
| Bow, say |
LEANOVER |
| Brothers' place |
ABBEY |
| Bumbling GIs |
SADSACKS |
| Buy off |
BRIBE |
| Bygone fleet |
SSTS |
| Captain Hook's toady |
SMEE |
| Cat in Disney's 'Peter and the Wolf' |
IVAN |
| Chain units |
STORES |
| Chess grandmaster Anatoly |
KARPOV |
| Comic member of the Grand Ole Opry cast for over 50 years (30) |
MINNIEPEARL |
| Comic novel of 1816 |
EMMA |
| Comment at the end of an exhausting day |
IMBEAT |
| Comment to the audience |
ASIDE |
| Controversial science project |
CLONING |
| Corin of 'Stargate SG-1' |
NEMEC |
| Cow catcher |
LASSO |
| Cracker topper |
BRIE |
| Cubicle fixture |
DESK |
| Deceives |
LIESTO |
| Decorate a copperplate |
ETCH |
| Decorator's asset |
TASTE |
| Deejay's collection |
DISCS |
| Different |
ELSE |
| Director Fritz and singer K.D. |
LANGS |
| Eight-time Academy Awards broadcast host (15) |
BILLYCRYSTAL |
| End for dull or drunk |
ARD |
| End of a New Year's Eve song |
SYNE |
| End-of-week cry |
TGIF |
| Exploding cigar sound |
BLAM |
| Feline's nine |
LIVES |
| Fish story |
YARN |
| Five-time Wimbledon champ |
BORG |
| For men only |
STAG |
| Ford in a Beach Boys song |
TBIRD |
| French legislature |
SENAT |
| Frodo's portrayer in 'The Lord of the Rings' (5) |
ELIJAHWOOD |
| Gen-___ (post-boom babies) |
XERS |
| Great time |
BLAST |
| Guadalajara gold |
ORO |
| Gulf VIPs |
EMIRS |
| Gushing reviews |
RAVES |
