| Mad scientist's sadistic exclamation upon attacking the Empire State? | 73 |
| Short-lived and generally disastrous sports experiment of the early 2000s | 73 |
| "___ Blues" (track on the Beatles' "White Album") | 73 |
| Kid-lit title character who cries, "Oh, the things I now rule!" | 73 |
| Character who made his debut in the 1945 cartoon "Hare Trigger" | 73 |
| "___ jumped" (antepenultimate sentence of "Catch-22") | 73 |
| "Lead the way!", and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| 1968 #2 hit with the lyric "My love for you is way out of line" | 73 |
| He beat out James, Rock, Kirk, and Laurence for the 1956 Best Actor Oscar | 73 |
| It's the end of the world!...if you sort the countries alphabetically | 73 |
| "Avenue Q" song, "What Do You Do with ___ in English?" | 74 |
| Pop group whose first Top 40 album was, appropriately, "Arrival" | 74 |
| "___ Gold," 1992 album that has sold 28 million copies worldwide | 74 |
| Simpson who said: "Grass today is sharper than when I was a boy" | 74 |
| Mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation | 74 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if "cap-" is added at the front | 74 |
| Firefighter Red, inspiration for John Wayne's "Hellfighters" | 74 |
| He called the U.S. vice presidency a "most insignificant office" | 74 |
| Prefix with ''ballistics'' or ''magnetic'' | 74 |
| Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers) | 74 |
| Writer whose Pulitzer for "A Death in the Family" was posthumous | 74 |
| For whom Safire wrote the words "nattering nabobs of negativism" | 74 |
| Fourth word in the opening sequence to all six "Star Wars" films | 74 |
| Literary character who says "I'll chase him round Good Hope" | 74 |
| Q: "When is a door not a door?" A: "When it's ___" | 74 |
| "Iliad" character with a shield made from seven bulls' hides | 74 |
| ___ Bowl (annual college football game between the Big Ten and the Big 12) | 74 |
| Senator portrayer in "The West Wing" and "The Aviator" | 74 |
| ''Break ___!'' (''Good luck'' on Broadway) | 74 |
| "I cannot tell ___" (admission attributed to a young Washington) | 74 |
| 1979 film with the tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" | 74 |
| "Us" or "them" in "It's us against them" | 74 |
| 1987 #1 Heart song that starts "I hear the ticking of the clock" | 74 |
| Either of the first two runners-up to Rose for the 1968 N.L. batting title | 74 |
| Site with a "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section | 74 |
| Joni Mitchell song with the lyric "She was swallowed by the sky" | 74 |
| Response to "Are not!" that's unlikely to resolve the matter | 74 |
| "___ Ng" (They Might Be Giants' first song on the US charts) | 74 |
| ''Feliz ___ Nuevo!'' (''Happy New Year!'') | 74 |
| TV father of Anoop, Uma, Nabendu, Poonam, Priya, Sandeep, Sashi, and Gheet | 74 |
| "__ of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world": Emerson | 74 |
| Movie with the tagline "The movie was fake.The mission was real" | 74 |
| Rebel ape in "Planet of the Apes" played by Helena Bonham Carter | 74 |
| Alan of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Sunshine Cleaning" | 74 |
| "The only way to run away without leaving home," per Twyla Tharp | 74 |
| Musketeer Salim imagined himself to be, in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 74 |
| Words before "to be born" and "to die" in Ecclesiastes | 74 |
| "Bonne fete ___..." ("Happy Birthday" line, in Quebec) | 74 |
| Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" | 74 |
| Directing nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu for "___" | 74 |
| "New York Mining Disaster 1941" was their first U.S. hit in 1967 | 74 |
| Plain whose novel "Heartwood" was published posthumously in 2011 | 74 |
| Ballplayer who's the subject of a museum at Montclair State University | 74 |
| "And they give you cash, which is just as good as money" speaker | 74 |
| Kind of production that "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" parodies | 74 |
| State capital whose name comes from the French for "wooded area" | 74 |
| Critter that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers | 74 |
| Beekeeper Shavitz who cofounded a company whose products include lip balms | 74 |
| Republican candidate whose campaign manager is the "smoking man" | 74 |
| Band whose "Shadow Stabbing" is featured in "Wordplay" | 74 |
| On second thought, make it a romantic comedy: "Soylent Green..." | 74 |
| 2006 Disney film, and the ends of the eight longest entries in this puzzle | 74 |
| Singer whose first top 10 hit was "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" | 74 |
| Singer with top 10 hits in the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's | 74 |
| The only movie to be the highest-grossing of the year and still lose money | 74 |
| Common soap opera plot device (as in, "When will they wake up?") | 74 |
| Where one might see the sounds embedded in this puzzle's theme answers | 74 |
| Place where you're advised "Don't fall in love," in song | 74 |
| "I can't remember if I ___" ("American Pie" lyric) | 74 |
| Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer who co-hosted "American Gladiators" | 74 |
| "Can't Help Lovin' ___ Man" ("Show Boat" song) | 74 |
| 'Can't Help Lovin' -- Man' ('Porgy and Bess' tune) | 74 |
| 1928 hit with the lyric "I'm in heaven when I see you smile" | 74 |
| "Holy Diver" rocker Ronnie James who guest-starred on South Park | 74 |
| Possible response to "You've got spinach between your teeth" | 74 |
| Illustrator of "Paradise Lost" and "The Divine Comedy" | 74 |
| Guy who wrote "Guys and Dolls" songs including nothing minor (7) | 74 |
| "Giving: How ___ of Us Can Change the World" (Bill Clinton book) | 74 |
| He said "Every great film should seem new every time you see it" | 74 |
| Time-traveling, alien-fighting title dolphin from a Sega video game series | 74 |
| Sedgwick, subject of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale" | 74 |
| "For ___ though vanquish'd, he could argue still": Goldsmith | 74 |
| "A Visit From the Goon Squad" Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer | 74 |
| Exec who ran a company that had the same internal letters as his last name | 74 |
| Magazine that runs a spread for every winner of "Project Runway" | 74 |
| Social network with the slogan "Simple, beautiful & ad-free" | 74 |
| Like one wearing a studded belt, black wristbands and black-rimmed glasses | 74 |
| Fictional Massachusetts town wherein "Infinite Jest" takes place | 74 |
| The Supreme Court or the starting lineup of the Washington Nationals, e.g. | 74 |
| "...there are evils ___ to darken all his goodness": Shakespeare | 74 |
| Proposed legislation whose current lead sponsor in the Sen. is Ted Kennedy | 74 |
| "___ the long roll of the ages end" (start of an old Irish song) | 74 |
| Title words repeated in a 1974 song after "Como una promesa ..." | 74 |
| What computers repeat out loud while shooting sparks, in old sci-fi movies | 74 |
| "___ Wood would saw wood ..." (part of a classic tongue twister) | 74 |
| Lang. that doesn't really contain that many words for "snow" | 74 |
| "... folks dressed up like ___" ("The Christmas Song") | 74 |
| "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and ___" (1939 Bette Davis film) | 74 |
| She was actually a year younger than Bea, despite playing her mother on TV | 74 |
| "___ was in our lips and eyes": "Antony and Cleopatra" | 74 |