| Asset-freezing org. (CONTEST ALERT! My new all-skill, solve-at-home crossword contest benefiting the Alzheimer's Foundation of America is Sept. 30. First prize, $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn. |
| Finnish maestro ___-Pekka Salonen |
| A Prairie Home Companion" director; "it" game; performer Marilyn; PC key; ear part; mama's boy; grown boy; "Notes On 'Camp'" essayist; blue shade |
| Talladega" singer who goes by his middle name, not first name (Kenneth): 2 wds. |
| Item deemed by a hi-tech company president in 1977 to be unreasonable for home use |
| Girls" actress who's the daughter of actress Lindsay Crouse: 2 wds. |
| Famous wizard's home |
| 1984 top ten Duran Duran hit |
| 1964 Beatles song |
| Muppet roommates on "Sesame Street": 3 wds. |
| Questions idiot describing kindergarten (4) |
| Creatively-censored 4/28/10 New York Post headline about the foul-mouthed Senate/Wall Street hearings |
| Conversation is ___ in which a man has all mankind for his competitors": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark" actor who reportedly passed on the "Schindler's List" role that went to Liam Neeson: 2 wds. |
| Critically acclaimed crime drama since 2008: 2 wds. |
| Home run, in baseball slang |
| American Hustle" actress whose initials make her an "A-list" celebrity: 2 wds. |
| Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture |
| Actress who wore contact lenses she couldn't see through to play a blind woman in "All I See Is You": 2 wds. |
| A cottage in ___ . . . ": Godley |
| And I only am escaped alone to tell thee" writer |
| Actress who was the first female host of "Saturday Night Live": 2 wds. |
| Home of military craft |
| Actor who cross-dressed for his role in "Mrs. Doubtfire": 2 wds. |
| A plague o' ___ your houses!": Mercutio |
| Dick Doesn't Just Lobby for the Tobacco Companies--He's a Client" (rejected campaign ad, 2004) |
| A ___ lose youth for": Browning |
| Reality show about folk-dancing homemakers (with "The") |
| When asked how many slices his pizza should be cut into: "Better make it six. I ___" (Yogi Berra quote): 3 wds. |
| 1945 meeting place for Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt |