| Sequel to Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" which Entertainment Weekly named "Worst Book of 2005" | 118 |
| Iowa city where Grant Wood's "American Gothic" house is located | 77 |
| Roosevelt who said "You must do the things you think you cannot do" | 77 |
| Util. bill usually paid monthly, or in my case, when it's threatened to be shut off | 87 |
| With "The," classic writing guide (and this puzzle's title) | 73 |
| Colleague of John, Antonin, Anthony, Clarence, Ruth, Stephen, Samuel, and Sonia | 79 |
| Kagan who saved crossword constructors from having to reference a very old actress or a Russian tennis player | 109 |
| On a scale of 1 to 10, what one amp in "This Is Spinal Tap" goes to | 77 |
| "___ needs food, badly" (Classic line from the video game Gauntlet) | 77 |
| The "ugly" to Clint's "good" and Lee's "bad" | 82 |
| Name that becomes another name when an F is added to the front and an X to the end | 82 |
| He was "the Ugly" opposite Clint's "Good" and Lee's "Bad" | 95 |
| First name of the only two-time Super Bowl MVP who, both times, beat another two-time Super Bowl MVP | 100 |
| "You can't spell 'elite' without ___" (Super Bowl XLVI aphorism) | 86 |
| ___ Talks (lecture series with the slogan "Inspired Jewish ideas") | 76 |
| Wiesel who said, "Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil" | 72 |
| Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" | 89 |
| Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" | 86 |
| Mr. Rosewater in Kurt Vonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" | 77 |
| He said "Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers" | 77 |
| "We'll give a long cheer for ___ men" ("Down the Field" lyric) | 86 |
| ''I Still See ___'' (''Paint Your Wagon'' tune) | 79 |
| Musical dedicatee whose true identity is the subject of much speculation | 72 |
| "Für ___" (piece Beethoven plays in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure") | 100 |
| Hypocritical pejorative when used by millionaire senators born into political families | 86 |
| The "her" of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" | 72 |
| The "her" in Broadway's "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" | 87 |
| Winner, with Tippi and Ursula, of the 1963 female New Star of the Year Golden Globe | 83 |
| Nevada city, the one place "Phil the Weatherman," at the beginning of "Groundhog Day," says he would like to be if he could choose; have you made the arrangments? | 182 |
| Scarlett's first daughter in the book "Gone With the Wind" | 72 |
| "___ Minnow Pea" (2001 novel featuring the pangram "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs") | 113 |
| Magazine that runs a spread for every winner of "Project Runway" | 74 |
| Magazine that "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" author Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor of | 105 |
| Comedian who'll be playing George Burns's role in a remake of "Oh, God!" | 90 |
| Football Hall of Famer Carl who was a member of the Vikings' Purple People Eaters defensive line | 100 |
| "Show Boat" girl who sings "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" | 75 |
| ___ Light (Obama astroturfer who has published letters to the editor in over 40 newspapers) | 91 |
| Area between the National Mall and The White House (with "The") | 73 |
| Social network with the slogan "Simple, beautiful & ad-free" | 74 |
| Sylvia Plath poem that begins "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root" | 103 |
| Sylvia Plath poem featuring the line “I know it with my great tap root” | 79 |
| "Man's the ___, and Wealth the vine, / Stanch and strong the tendrils twine": Emerson | 99 |
| Puppet in Kevin Clash's autobiography "My Life as a Furry Red Monster" | 84 |
| Pal of "Cookie Monkey," according to my son who isn't that good at English yet but who certainly enjoys "Sesame Street" | 143 |
| He's on the cover of Kevin Clash's "My Life as a Furry Red Monster" | 85 |
| "Sesame Street" character who sang "Hot N Cold" with Katy Perry | 83 |
| "__ World": ticklish Muppet's "Sesame Street" segment | 77 |
| First American independent movie to get a Best Original Screenplay nomination | 77 |
| Film that lost out to "Places in the Heart" for the 1984 Best Original Screenplay Oscar | 97 |
| 1983 film about a brother and sister's journey from Guatemala to Los Angeles | 80 |
| Rock grp. once promoted as "the English guys with the big fiddles" | 76 |
| Classic rock band that famously wanted to "pick up where 'I Am the Walrus' left off" | 102 |
| Band with the record for most Top 40 hits without ever having a #1 single | 73 |
| Band with the hits "Evil Woman" and "Sweet Talkin' Woman" | 81 |
| Pursue "I do's" when the parents say "don't"? | 73 |
| 1960 #1 hit from the album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" | 73 |
| The "Wedding March" was written for her wedding in "Lohengrin" | 82 |
| Actress Lanchester who played Jessica Marbles in "Murder by Death" | 76 |
| ___ Schneider, villainess in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" | 75 |
| "What," "who," "how" or "where" follower | 80 |
| “Lord High Everything ___” (one of Pooh-Bah’s titles in “The Mikado”) | 89 |
| ''What,'' ''who,'' ''how'' or ''where'' follower | 112 |
| ''What,'' ''who,'' ''how,'' and ''where'' | 105 |
| Billie Holiday's "You Can't Be Mine (And Someone ___ Too)" | 76 |
| Company mascot introduced in the 1930s that has never been put out to pasture | 77 |
| Bernie's "Crocodile Rock" and "Rocket Man" collaborator | 79 |
| The King (subject of four "sightings" elsewhere in this puzzle) | 73 |
| Singer who's the subject of Carl Perkins's "The Whole World Misses You" | 89 |
| Vulture, e.g. (hey, they started running metas by Matt Gaffney; you should do them) | 83 |
| Intuitively reasonable but rarely actually used name for an online publication | 78 |
| "Area Man BCCs Psychiatrist On Every ___ He Sends" (The Onion headline) | 81 |
| Original "How to Boil Water" host on the Food Network, familiarly | 75 |
| Chef who made a cameo as Marlon the Gator in "The Princess and the Frog" | 82 |
| Book subtitled "Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef" | 86 |
| Record label that Paul McCartney blames for the Beatles' absence on iTunes | 78 |
| Sergeant Foley's first name in "An Officer and a Gentleman" | 73 |
| Boxer Griffith who's the subject of the documentary "Ring of Fire" | 80 |
| "That man" in "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" | 82 |
| ___ Palma (Argentine national who is purportedly the first person to be born in Antarctica) | 91 |
| Simon & Garfunkel's "For ___, Whenever I May Find Her" | 72 |
| He had the 2000 autobiographical lyric “I think I was put here to annoy the world | 85 |
| Artist with the #1 albums "Relapse" (2009) and "Recovery" (2010) | 84 |
| "But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life / Somethin' ain't right ..." singer | 106 |
| Title heroine who says "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 101 |
| Title heroine described in the first sentence of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" | 99 |
| Title heroine described in the first lines of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" | 96 |
| Book whose title character "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her" at the start of the story | 151 |
| Anthony's "Remains of the Day" and "Howards End" costar | 79 |
| 1815 title character who "thought a little too well of herself" | 73 |
| One-named model who wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 86 |
| Model who co-wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 79 |
| "I'm not a Republican, but I'm saving up to be one" comic Philips | 83 |
| Philips who said "I've learned about women the hard way - through books." | 87 |
| Like one wearing a studded belt, black wristbands and black-rimmed glasses | 74 |
| Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it | 94 |
| Genre whose band name generator offers results like "Some Kind of Bleeding Feeling" | 93 |
| "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps" comedian Philips | 111 |
| "People come up to me ... concerned ... that I'll reproduce" comedian Philips | 91 |
| "I loaned a friend of mine $8,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like" comic Philips | 122 |
| "I like to play chess with old men in the park. The tough part: finding 32 of them." comic Philips | 108 |