| 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. |
| 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 |
| Famous wizard's home |
| First word across in the first-ever crossword (1913) and the first of a dozen appearances of the word in this puzzle's grid, written word search-style (left, right, down, and diagonally) ... Can you f |
| J'accuse" author's first name |
| Home run, in baseball slang |
| Broadway's first Willy Loman |
| Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture |
| Actor's first course? |
| Home of military craft |
| Actress who was the first female host of "Saturday Night Live": 2 wds. |
| Reality show about folk-dancing homemakers (with "The") |
| First name that's feminine in English and masculine in Italian |
| Adam and Eve's first residence |
| Co-creator of the Reitwagen, the first internal-combustion motorcycle |
| A first name in whodunits |
| First word of a Beatles' album title |
| First thing Iowa State cheerleaders ask for? |
| CNN's home |
| Peter Pan's home |
| Home seller's need |
| Lions' home |
| Plato's hometown |
| First pitcher to have defeated all 30 major-league teams |
| Homeowner's payment |
| Homer that leaves people yawning? |
| Surprises unpleasantly, and a hint to each starred answer's first two + last two letters |
| Author Locke of the Harlem Renaissance, the first African-American Rhodes scholar (1907) |