| Muppet roommates on "Sesame Street": 3 wds. |
| Conversation is ___ in which a man has all mankind for his competitors": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Bring under control |
| A cottage in ___ . . . ": Godley |
| Actress who wore contact lenses she couldn't see through to play a blind woman in "All I See Is You": 2 wds. |
| A ___ lose youth for": Browning |
| Actor who cross-dressed for his role in "Mrs. Doubtfire": 2 wds. |
| A plague o' ___ your houses!": Mercutio |
| Actress who was the first female host of "Saturday Night Live": 2 wds. |
| Actor who played Superman on TV's "Lois & Clark": 2 wds. |
| An instructor of great sagacity": Emerson |
| And fly, __ evil intercept thy flight": Milton |
| Actress who played an assistant district attorney in 1996's "Primal Fear": 2 wds. |
| Almost anything can be improved with the addition of __": Jasper Fforde |
| And so on and so forth, briefly |
| Band best known for 1985's "Take on Me": Hyph. |
| And When __": Blood, Sweat & Tears hit |
| ...and the brass section kept ___ |
| Actor who served under the real-life US colonel he portrays in "12 Strong": 2 wds. |
| Fox News host who promotes his show as a "No-Spin Zone": 2 wds. |
| Actor who played an exotic dancer in 2012's "Magic Mike": 2 wds. |
| An' they talks ___ lovin' . . . ": Kipling |
| Bringing together |
| How I Met Your Mother" costar who voiced supervillain Vector in "Despicable Me": 2 wds. |
| Man delights ___": Hamlet |
| He fumbles up into ___ adieu": Shak. |
| And in the ___ silence of the tomb": Keats |
| The __ bites shrewdly; it is very cold": Hamlet |
| And so forth, for short |
| Shallow gully |