| Part of NaOH (just to give The Snack's old rival a smidgen of equal time) | 77 |
| Words of encouragement that may be heard at a Weight Watchers meeting, part 1 | 77 |
| Classic song that begins "When my baby / When my baby smiles at me" | 77 |
| Form of address for a supreme ruler, after "His" or "Her" | 77 |
| Item: 1966 true-crime work. Problem: Pages soaked with viscous red substance. | 77 |
| 1996 blockbuster with the tagline "Don't make plans for August" | 77 |
| Soul singer James with the 1990 #1 hit "I Don't Have the Heart" | 77 |
| "I couldn't be there--I had to sell my steam press" and others? | 77 |
| Words in "The Little Mermaid" after "The human world ..." | 77 |
| Actor originally slated to play Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" | 77 |
| "Tom Turkey's earliest crimes were street crimes, such as ___." | 77 |
| Bill Barber played it on Miles Davis' "Birth of the Cool" album | 77 |
| Pen name for Angela Lansbury's character on "Murder, She Wrote" | 77 |
| ATV that requires you say a "Hail Mary" before starting the engine? | 77 |
| Commercially, it started in the U.S. around the time of the Boeing 707 launch | 77 |
| Hairstyles seen in "Pulp Fiction" and "Coming to America" | 77 |
| Why the paparazzi couldn't photograph actress Roberts? [1977, 1985, 1998] | 77 |
| "I enjoy attending all these evening awards ceremonies," gushed ___ | 77 |
| "The Village Green Preservation Society" band, with "the" | 77 |
| Classic math problem involving a chess piece's movement through the board | 77 |
| Dudes who promise you rides to nu metal shows but keep forgetting to show up? | 77 |
| New York mayor incorporates witticism; it sends opponents to the floor (2, 5) | 77 |
| Philosopher who coined the phrase "the best of all possible worlds" | 77 |
| Triple-platinum Gloria Estefan album with "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" | 77 |
| Singer who went looking for Mr. Right on the reality show “#1 Single” | 77 |
| Dinner and a movie with the lyricist for "Mama Said Knock You Out"? | 77 |
| Character in "The Godfather" who "sleeps with the fishes" | 77 |
| "Un ___ Dun" (2007 fantasy novel set in a mirror version of the UK) | 77 |
| His "Dance With My Father" won the 2003 Grammy for Song of the Year | 77 |
| Lorin __, who succeeded Szell as the Cleveland Orchestra's music director | 77 |
| "Mr. Deeds" actor gets inside yours truly to portray a Frenchwoman? | 77 |
| Says "I tried needlepoint twice, but I was only so-so," for example | 77 |
| Clothing impresario who bought Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball | 77 |
| Oscar-nominated director--1980, 1988, 1990, 2002 and 2004--who didn't win | 77 |
| Where each plays darts and "Photo Hunt" according to his abilities? | 77 |
| Fashion collaboration of actor James and a one-named rock-'n'-roller? | 77 |
| Request that could elicit a, "not until you finish your vegetables" | 77 |
| Weight-conscious rapper, or what the singer of "American Pie" eats? | 77 |
| "Okay, dog, you happen to be eating my most valuable baseball card" | 77 |
| Group whose hits included "The Glow-Worm" and "Tiger Rag" | 77 |
| "I'm returning these pants-I don't dig them like I used to" | 77 |
| Like computer operating systems that allow many people to work simultaneously | 77 |
| Feeling literal, the woman with the zoo-going addiction tattooed the word ___ | 77 |
| "You haven't lived until you've died in California" speaker | 77 |
| 1971 hit for Jean Knight with the lyric "Who do you think you are?" | 77 |
| Derided 2005 Black Eyed Peas song that mentions "lovely lady lumps" | 77 |
| Composer of the one-act operas "Bertha" and "The Robbers" | 77 |
| Anagrammatic girls' name given to eight babies in 1999, and 4,457 in 2005 | 77 |
| Pop trio with the 1964 hit "Bread and Butter," with "the" | 77 |
| Shake-up in the global balance of power ... and a hint to the circled letters | 77 |
| "___: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968" | 77 |
| "Say. That feels good!Old Harry is coming back, Ms. Henstridge" (7) | 77 |
| Start of Seneca's quote that ends with "... what reason cannot" | 77 |
| "1. My ideal night of drinking involves knocking back a couple ___" | 77 |
| One of The Forbidden Planet's "Best of the Year" movies of 2006 | 77 |
| What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order | 77 |
| He wrote the theme for and appeared in 1962's "The Longest Day" | 77 |
| Film with the tagline "Flunk 'em if they can't take a joke" | 77 |
| Georges who wrote "A Void" (novel without the letter "E") | 77 |
| "Equus" playwright whose twin brother Anthony was also a playwright | 77 |
| 1966 album that's #2 on Rolling Stone's all-time greatest albums list | 77 |
| Extremely controversial, blasphemous 1987 photograph by artist Andres Serrano | 77 |
| Possible outcome of the event that is visually represented twice in this grid | 77 |
| Person that "I'm Not," nor were any characters, in a 1996 movie | 77 |
| Two great genres that for some inexplicable reason don't go well together | 77 |
| Heavy metal band with the triple-platinum album "Out of the Cellar" | 77 |
| Former "Headbangers Ball" regulars with "Round and Round" | 77 |
| Songwriter-husband of Minnie Riperton and father of "SNL" alum Maya | 77 |
| Impressionist whom Mel Blanc labeled "The Man of a Thousand Voices" | 77 |
| "Shaggy! There are monsters under this bridge with terrible colds!" | 77 |
| Flower mentioned initially by character on TV's "Entourage" (8) | 77 |
| "... edged tools [to] be kept from children and from fools": Dryden | 77 |
| "Now you ___ ..." (magician's comment about disappearing cards) | 77 |
| Eisenhower portrayer in the 2004 TV movie "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" | 77 |
| Word that "run" replaced as the OED entry with the most definitions | 77 |
| Under [like contemporary crosswords? Become an AVXWORDS.com subscriber today] | 77 |
| First professional musician to become Chairman of the Board of Lincoln Center | 77 |
| They're "in flight," according to "Afternoon Delight" | 77 |
| "All ___ is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry": G. K. Chesterton | 77 |
| "I give you the steel-handed stingray, Captain James Hook!" speaker | 77 |
| One of the three subjects of the sports book "American Triumvirate" | 77 |
| Inappropriate Neil Diamond single "Girl, You'll Be a Woman ___" | 77 |
| The longest word containing only letters from the second half of the alphabet | 77 |
| TV character who says "Captain, you almost make me believe in luck" | 77 |
| ___ Dan (sexual device in William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch") | 77 |
| Group whose 1972 debut album "Can't Buy a Thrill" went platinum | 77 |
| The earliest surviving one, made in 1932, features the Philadelphia Orchestra | 77 |
| One who follows tornados (or a hint to the opener in four horizontal answers) | 77 |
| "Equus" character Alan transforms to become useful to a lumberjack? | 77 |
| ___ Nahan (real-life boxing commentator who appeared in all six Rocky movies) | 77 |
| "Mr. Roboto" band appearing with the "Ruby Tuesday" band? | 77 |
| Indonesian island separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca | 77 |
| Asset in answering the question "Does this dress make me look fat?" | 77 |
| Grunge band whose final album was 1995's "Infrared Riding Hood" | 77 |
| Many people get one in the summer (and so do this puzzle's theme entries) | 77 |
| Govt. agcy. whose headquarters house the partially unsolved Kryptos sculpture | 77 |
| "This gallery's artist-in-residence is the Prince of Darkness!" | 77 |
| Mountaintop castle in "Game of Thrones" where Tyrion was imprisoned | 77 |
| How you know that it's St. Patrick's Day in kin¬der¬gar¬ten? | 77 |
| TV show that debuted on 11/3/93 (and start of a parent's distressed cry?) | 77 |