- ESCAPE
- Break out
- Get out of Alcatraz, perhaps
- Break loose
- Make like Houdini
- The Great _____
- Pleasant distraction
- The 39 Steps event
- The Shawshank Redemption climax
- Houdini feat
- Jailbreak
- Make a break
- Houdini-style demonstration
- Alcatraz rarity
- Fly
- Alternate title for this puzzle
- Avoid finishing a sentence
- Make one's getaway
- Houdini routine
- It may be narrow
- Make a jailbreak
- Get away
- Avoid capture
- Prison break
- Feat of magic
- Retreat from reality
- Houdini's specialty
- Stalag 17 highlight
- Make a getaway
- Con's plan
- Joint resolution?
- Break out of jail
- Fly the coop
- Way out
- Certain artist's forte
- Romance novel, usually
- Prison break, e.g.
- Leak
- Run off
- Beach book genre
- Can plan
- Get away from it all
- Fire __
- Tunnel out, maybe
- Pen pals' plan?
- __ at Dannemora: Arquette miniseries
- __ room
- Wriggle out of
- Get away from
- Bust out
- Go over the wall
- Turn tail
- Go over the hill
- Cool Hand Luke's goal
- Houdini forte
- Break out of captivity
- Leak out
- Prison breakout
- Can opener's goal?
- Houdini's expertise
- War prisoner's hope.
- Go free.
- Miss misfortune.
- A play by John Galsworthy.
- Avoidance of reality.
- Shake pursuit.
- Slip the collar.
- Outwit one's captors.
- Regain liberty.
- Deliverance.
- Disappear.
- Shangri-La's raison d'etre.
- Slip away.
- Avoid.
- One kind of reading.
- Type of literature.
- Relief from routine.
- Thrilling episode.
- Occasional prison event
- Houdini specialty
- Fire or narrow
- ___ hatch
- ___ hatch (way out)
- Break free
- Kind of hatch
- Houdini's forte
- Theme of "Papillon"
- Stalag 17 event
- Kind of artist
- Vamoose from a calaboose
- Emulate Harriet Tubman
- Galsworthy play
- Emulate Houdini
- Type of clause
- Abscond
- Sutton's forte
- Houdini et al., with 40 Down
- Get out
- Distraction
- Reading pulp fiction, e.g.
- Break
- Con's preoccupation
- Magic act
- Pastime
- With 34-Across, 1996 action film sequel
- A tunnel, maybe
- Skip town
- Soap operas or movie thrillers, say
- Hobby, e.g.
- Divertissement
- Go over the wall, maybe
- Romance fiction or horror films, e.g.
- Actual title of the 1979 #1 hit known as "The Piña Colada Song"
- Flea
- Avoid, as the [circled letters]
- Caribbean vacation, e.g.
- Rarity at Alcatraz
- Barely successful avoidance of calamity
- Word with hatch or room
- Bust out of jail
- Actual title of "The Piña Colada Song"
- Free oneself
- Break out of
- Flee from
- Smash '81 Journey album
- Improperly shorten a sentence?
- The Great _____ (1963 film)
- The Great _____ (McQueen film)
- Hatch type
- Parole alternative
- Con's preoccupation, perhaps
- Feat by Houdini
- Type of clause or hatch
- Magic act segment
- One way to get out of prison
- Break free of
- Get out of jail free
- Way to get out of jail
- Room or "key" preceder
- Daydreaming, for some
- ___ to Margaritaville (jukebox musical)
- Getaway car? (Ford)
- Fire ___
- Computer resource
- Fire chaser?
- Prisoner's plot
- Prisoner's dream
- Goal in some rooms
- ___ (The Pina Colada Song)
- Don't finish a sentence?
- Journey album with the hit "Don't Stop Believin'"
- Criss Angel feat
- Pen pals' preoccupation, perhaps?
- Calvin Klein scent
- Steal away
- Con's contrivance
- Exciting movie scene, perhaps
- Con quest
- Outfox the prison guards
- Slip of the pen?
- Houdini act
- Con's dream