| She supplied the speaking voice of Esmeralda in the Disney film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 103 |
| "Dragons' ___" (British TV series featuring entrepreneurs) | 72 |
| He won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Godfather Part II" | 76 |
| Prefect's friend in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 72 |
| Home or Office follower [The AV Club xword moves to a subscription model soon! - sign up at avxword.com] | 104 |
| "Die Luft ___ Freiheit weht" (motto of Stanford University meaning "The wind of freedom blows") | 115 |
| He broke Mickey's record for most games played as a Yankee on August 29, 2011 | 81 |
| Actor with the memoir "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" | 87 |
| He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" | 85 |
| He called wedlock "The most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised" | 87 |
| "In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice" speaker | 87 |
| Early production company for "I Love Lucy" and "Star Trek" | 78 |
| Kiss "You know your man is working hard. He's worth a ___" | 72 |
| "The ___ Made Me Buy This Dress" (Grammy-winning Flip Wilson album) | 77 |
| "The ___ Went Down to Georgia" (1979 Charlie Daniels Band hit) | 72 |
| Band that simultaneously released the albums "Greatest Hits" and "Greatest Misses" | 102 |
| Recipient of all of Dale Cooper's tape-recorded messages on TV's "Twin Peaks" | 95 |
| Keaton, née Hall, who won the Best Actress Oscar for "Annie Hall" | 78 |
| 1928 hit with the lyric "I'm in heaven when I see you smile" | 74 |
| Junot ___, 2008 Pulitzer winner for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" | 84 |
| Rapper who said, "the 'P.' was getting between me and my fans" | 80 |
| Brazilian midfielder on back-to-back World Cup winners in '58 and '62 | 77 |
| "If thou ___ ever thy dear father love...": "Hamlet" | 72 |
| Shuffle off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and join the bleedin' choir invisible | 92 |
| Woman's name heard in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 75 |
| Someone who's "in the kitchen" in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 97 |
| "Holy Diver" rocker Ronnie James who guest-starred on South Park | 74 |
| Singer who redefined double standards by recording both "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" in 1961 | 118 |
| He won 26 Oscars, including an Academy Honorary Award (consisting of one full-sized and seven miniature statuettes) for the film depicted in this puzzle's starred answers | 174 |
| Who said "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." | 101 |
| Statesman Benjamin who said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" | 105 |
| Classic song with the words "Look away! Look away! Look away!" | 72 |
| "Home work" letters that appear at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 89 |
| One of Skitch's successors as bandleader on "The Tonight Show" | 76 |
| Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | 82 |
| "And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou ___ every act of thy life as if it were the last" (Marcus Aurelius) | 121 |
| It's listed as "(annoyed grunt)" in "The Simpsons" scripts | 82 |
| Cry a channel surfer might hear a few minutes after the final ticks of "60 Minutes" | 93 |
| Catchphrase introduced around the same time as "don't have a cow, man" | 84 |
| Cartoon exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 | 79 |
| "___-in' in the Wind" (episode of "The Simpsons") | 73 |
| Possible response to "You've got spinach between your teeth" | 74 |
| Former Kansas senator who said "Life is very important to Americans" | 78 |
| "2. I've never been more drunk than the New Years Eve night 1999 when I polished off three bottles of ___" | 120 |
| ___ Nelson who on 4/7/10 became the NBA's all-time coaching leader in victories | 83 |
| Legendary crooner who entertained tourists wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses | 78 |
| "Oh no, ___!" (certain singer's palindromic "greeting") | 79 |
| "I love to detail cars, but I will ___ without a down payment" | 72 |
| Game my dad refused to install on our computer in 1993 because it took up 40 megabytes | 86 |
| Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
| "L'Âge ___" (1930 film scripted by Luis Buñuel and Salvador DalÃ) | 89 |
| Illustrator of "Paradise Lost" and "The Divine Comedy" | 74 |
| Historian Kearns Goodwin whose work was adapted into the movie "Lincoln" | 82 |
| Diana on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 75 |
| "The fool ___ think he is wise..." ("As You Like It") | 73 |
| "The fool __ think he is wise ...": "As You Like It" | 72 |
| Breadless KFC sandwich on Newsweek's "13 Worst Trends of 2010" list | 81 |
| First baseman Mientkiewicz who caught the final out of the 2004 Boston World Series victory | 91 |
| "The moon is ___; I have not heard the clock": "Macbeth" | 76 |
| 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit about being averse to part of a puzzle? | 77 |
| Cop show that claimed "the story you are about to see is true" | 72 |
| Rapper with the 3x platinum single "Hold On, We're Going Home" | 76 |
| "House" and "Little House ...," but not "Full House" | 82 |
| "After we delineate this sales chart, our stockholders will love us." | 79 |
| Dr. whose final album (supposedly) will be the 2008 release "Detox" | 77 |
| "It's like this and like that and like this and uh /___, creep to the mic like a phantom" | 103 |
| Actress de Matteo who moved from "The Sopranos" to "Joey" | 77 |
| "Higher and higher, straight up we'll climb" Van Halen song | 73 |
| "The House of Dies ___" (Virginia Hamilton Edgar-winning mystery) | 75 |
| Handyman's answer of "Boring" to the question "How's business?"? | 92 |
| Villain who says "That's a Dom Perignon '55. It would be a pity to break it" | 94 |
| Spy movie villain who says "East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other" | 106 |
| Movie with the opening line "I admire your courage, Miss ...?" | 72 |
| Like St. Nick's "little mouth," in "The Night Before Christmas" | 87 |
| Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" | 86 |
| Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" | 115 |
| Peter Tosh "You Don't Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs ___)" | 78 |
| Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers | 88 |
| Period that ends Nov. 3rd, requiring a shift, and letters that shift in this puzzle's theme entries | 103 |
| Frightful-looking "Alice in Wonderland" character, with "the" | 81 |
| Chase scene locale in "Die Hard," "Jurassic Park," and others | 81 |
| "You're the One That I Want" (song from "Grease"), e.g. | 79 |
| "Cinque, dieci, venti, trenta" in "The Marriage of Figaro," e.g. | 84 |
| The "me" in "nothing can stop me now," in a 1962 #1 hit | 75 |
| Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial | 81 |
| Old detergent company that often enclosed a free drinking glass in each box | 75 |
| Old brand that promised "white white washes without red hands" | 72 |
| Insignificant guy (and #7 on the "Top Ten Words That Sound Romantic When Spoken By Barry White") | 106 |
| Cannon who was Alice in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" | 73 |
| "___ Mak'er" (Zeppelin title that's a transliteration of "Jamaica") | 95 |
| "I'm a ___!" (Rosie O'Donnell's coming-out announcement) | 78 |
| Guy who wrote "Guys and Dolls" songs including nothing minor (7) | 74 |
| "I've had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's the record" | 76 |
| Undesirable society type depicted in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | 82 |
| Society in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Fahrenheit 451" | 73 |
| "Giving: How ___ of Us Can Change the World" (Bill Clinton book) | 74 |
| Lady who "had class with a capital 'K,'" per a 1932 Ethel Merman tune | 87 |
| Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort" | 98 |
| George who played the title character in the 2004 TV movie "Evel Knievel" | 83 |
| What the blind man who thought the elephant was "like a fan" touched | 78 |