| Catcher Buck ___, elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in its first year | 74 |
| In a "South Park" episode, what the entire cast of the remastered "The Empire Strikes Back" was replaced with | 129 |
| "___: The Battle for Endor" (Wilford Brimley made-for-TV classic) | 75 |
| Word that shouldn't precede ''estimate'' or ''replica'' | 91 |
| "All My ___ Live in Texas" (song with the lyric "And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee") | 116 |
| Word with ''black,'' ''red'' or ''pink'' | 88 |
| Body part that 2012 Summer Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville each have one of | 82 |
| Word with ''blue,'' ''green'' or ''brown'' | 90 |
| Coveted [subscribe to avxwords.com for the best indie puzzles in the land ...] | 78 |
| "___ Springfield" (Kent Brockman's show on "The Simpsons") | 82 |
| Title surname in a novel originally published under the name Currer Bell | 72 |
| Literary character who says "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" | 91 |
| Mountaintop castle in "A Game of Thrones," with "the" | 73 |
| Book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ..." | 78 |
| Bible book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia" | 80 |
| Surviving Milli Vanilli member [avxword.com is home to the best indie xwords - subscribe today] | 95 |
| "Animal House" college with the motto "Knowledge is good" | 77 |
| Activity that in five years you're going to be embarrassed you were so into today | 85 |
| Word that can follow the first word of this puzzle's four longest answers | 77 |
| "I would give all my ____ for a pot of ale":"Henry V" | 73 |
| "A fickle food upon a shifting plate," according to Emily Dickinson | 77 |
| Joe DiMaggio's "I'll finally get to see Marilyn," e.g. | 72 |
| Comic collected in "The Chickens Are Restless," with "The" | 78 |
| Tracy Chapman: "You've got a ___, I want a ticket to anywhere" | 76 |
| "Weird Al" Yankovic song with the lyric "I'm the king of cellulite" | 91 |
| "When ___ hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade" (Dale Carnegie) | 85 |
| "I ate his liver with some ___ beans and a nice Chianti": Hannibal Lecter | 83 |
| Quarterback who played himself in “There’s Something About Mary” | 76 |
| Quarterback who played himself in "There's Something About Mary" | 78 |
| One side in a Supreme Court case brought on by a Carlin monologue broadcast | 75 |
| Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods | 116 |
| POTUS who said: "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made" | 76 |
| "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind," per H. P. Lovecraft | 76 |
| "That little darkroom where negatives are developed," per Michael Pritchard | 85 |
| "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on ___" (Camus) | 72 |
| "___ makes strangers of people who would be friends": Shirley MacLaine | 80 |
| "___ leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering": Yoda | 82 |
| Tennis player who was the subject of a popular David Foster Wallace essay | 73 |
| "What is ___?" (Ken Jennings's losing Final Jeopardy response) | 76 |
| Govt. agcy. with a "Recover & Rebuild" section on its website | 75 |
| The "one man" in the tagline, "One man's struggle to take it easy" | 90 |
| "Starting a giant revolution at the fairgrounds" (Chicago, 1893) | 74 |
| Pet targeted by the first words of this puzzle's four longest answers | 73 |
| "My Best ___" (Werner Herzog documentary about his relationship with Klaus Kinski) | 92 |
| Item missing in this puzzle's theme that's absent as well in the fill and clues | 87 |
| Lifeline removed from the latest season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 84 |
| "The Marriage of ___" (opera by today's birthday composer) | 72 |
| Jimmy Buffett "___ to the right, and you're the only bait in town" | 80 |
| Word that goes after the start of and before the end of the five longest answers in this puzzle | 95 |
| "The football fan is fingering the buttons on the remote ... he pushes the ___ and the game is on!" | 109 |
| Certain sporting equipment (especially useful for keeping the old heart in shape) | 81 |
| Red Sox catcher Carlton whose 12th-inning off-the-foul-pole home run won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 104 |
| Catcher Carlton __, who famously homered to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 79 |
| "... imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing ___." | 74 |
| ''Mouth,'' ''Maude'' and ''music'' | 82 |
| Fannie who wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" | 74 |
| Verne character for whom the International Date Line meant almost everything | 76 |
| Actor who had to wait 41 years from his first Oscar nomination to his first win | 79 |
| 1970's TV character whose real first name was Arthur, with "the" | 78 |
| One's on "the Hill," the other's in "the Rain" | 74 |
| Screenwriting Oscar winner for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies" | 95 |
| Add vertical line 1 (word 1) and vertical line 15 (word 3) and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 114 |
| Time that little Susie is woken in the 1957 hit "Wake Up Little Susie" | 80 |
| Number of times this puzzle's theme word appears diagonally in the grid (to complete the puzzle, shade those words plus the Down answers that begin where they meet) | 168 |
| Number of times the letter 'U' appears in each of this puzzle's eight longest answers | 97 |
| Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution | 89 |
| Subject of a documentary subtitled "Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" | 85 |
| Lebowitz who said "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying" | 93 |
| Pope who declared "I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition" | 81 |
| NFLer Harris, known for his 1972 game-winning "Immaculate Reception" | 78 |
| Highly successful Hollywood actor James presently on "General Hospital" | 81 |
| "___ to Be ... You and Me" (1972 Marlo Thomas gender stereotype-fighting album) | 89 |
| Scholars doubt that he ever said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" | 78 |
| "___ and Toad are Friends" (children's book by Arnold Lobel) | 74 |
| "Surgeon General Mills Recommends Three to Five Servings of ___ Per Day" ("The Onion" headline) | 115 |
| A different one is hidden in each of this puzzle's seven longest answers | 76 |
| "The end of the Civil War was near" was the start of its theme song | 77 |
| '60s sitcom whose original theme song began "The end of the Civil War was near" | 93 |
| 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 | 204 |
| According to Kin Hubbard, it's "like life insurance: the older you get, the more it costs" | 104 |
| "The ___ of forty thousand years" ("Thriller" lyric) | 72 |
| "Something you'd hate to discover living in your attic." "___" | 86 |
| 1979 environmental bestseller subtitled "A new look at life on Earth" | 79 |
| Sir ___ the Pure ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail" character) | 72 |
| He was branded a heretic for writing the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" | 100 |
| "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the ___" | 79 |
| As it was formerly known, channel with the slogan "play every day" | 76 |
| Who said "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching" | 78 |
| Besides Davis, only person to receive five consecutive Best Actress nominations | 79 |
| Prison threshold (represented by this 4x4 corner) at which the solver must arrive | 81 |
| John who wrote "She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd" | 75 |
| Crystal ___ (singer of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") | 72 |
| The Sphinx's is "blank and pitiless as the sun," per Yeats | 72 |
| ''Before I __ at You Again'' (''Camelot'' song) | 79 |
| Where Maria and the Captain have their first kiss in "The Sound of Music" | 83 |
| Diploma that Mr. Hooper earned on a 1976 episode of "Sesame Street" | 77 |
| ''...the _____ are getting fat'': ''Beggar's Rhyme'' | 88 |
| Funny Cide was the first one to win the Kentucky Derby in more than 70 years | 76 |
| Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers | 74 |
| "Shallow End of the ___ Pool" (Emily Kaitz song covered by the Austin Lounge Lizards) | 95 |