| ''American Idol'' judge |
SIMON |
| ''High'' time |
NOON |
| ''Munich'' star Eric |
BANA |
| ''The Simpsons'' creator |
MATTGROENING |
| ''The Women'' star |
ANNETTEBENING |
| ''__ la vie!'' |
CEST |
| ''__ not what your country . . .'' |
ASK |
| 2009 is his bicentennial year |
POE |
| Abstract style |
OPART |
| Acquires |
GARNERS |
| Actress Tyler |
LIV |
| Aid partner |
ABET |
| Airline of Israel |
ELAL |
| Badminton barrier |
NET |
| Beams |
SMILES |
| Becomes inattentive, with ''out'' |
ZONES |
| Befit |
SUIT |
| Black Sea peninsula |
CRIMEA |
| Bob Marley's genre |
REGGAE |
| Bottom-of-barrel stuff |
DREGS |
| Brazilian airline |
VARIG |
| Calculator user |
ADDER |
| Cato, for one |
ROMAN |
| Chicago team, in headlines |
SOX |
| Combining, as resources |
POOLING |
| Compass reading |
ENE |
| Coop group |
HENS |
| Cowboy contests |
RODEOS |
| Dart's path |
ARC |
| Den mother |
LIONESS |
| Does a brake job |
RELINES |
| Doesn't prohibit |
ALLOWS |
| Epicure's delight |
EATING |
| Etc. relative |
ETAL |
| Fall flower |
ASTER |
| Fe |
IRON |
| Filmmaker Van Sant |
GUS |
| Forest fledgling |
OWLET |
| Garden intruders |
WEEDS |
| GE competitor |
AMANA |
| Geometry calculation |
AREA |
| Getting a bye |
EXEMPT |
| Go inside |
ENTER |
| Heidi of ''Project Runway'' |
KLUM |
| High point |
ZENITH |
| Hightails it |
GITS |
| Hold inside |
HOUSE |
| Hood's hideout |
LAIR |
| Hotel staffer |
VALET |
| Imitate |
APE |
| Indonesian island |
BALI |
| Indy legend |
ALUNSER |
| Infant bodysuit |
ONESIE |
| Ivy Leaguers |
ELIS |
| Jargon |
PATOIS |
| Jargon |
LINGO |
| Jefferson portraitist |
PEALE |
| Jefferson, notably |
DEIST |
| Kermit's cousins |
TOADS |
| Lacking punch |
BLAH |
| Lads |
BOYS |
| Life form |
BEING |
| Long-division word |
INTO |
| Lunges for |
GOESAT |
| M&M's rival |
REESES |
| Magnum __ |
OPUS |
| Make haste |
HIE |
| Metric prefix |
KILO |
| Midmorning |
TEN |
| More immense |
VASTER |