| Phase in which the moon's right half is mostly visible in the Northern Hemisphere | 85 |
| "Isn't it rich, are ___ pair..." ("Send in the Clowns" lyric) | 85 |
| Irving Berlin standard that begins "Gone is the romance that was so divine" | 85 |
| "I took you for that cunning ___ of Venice" (line from "Othello") | 85 |
| "Here lies One ___ Name was writ in Water" (words on Keats's tombstone) | 85 |
| Bob Woodward book subtitled "The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" | 85 |
| "Why, oh why isn't my boyfriend more like the 1999 sexiest man alive?"? | 85 |
| "... each armed with a double-bladed ___ (to cut both ways, of course) ..." | 85 |
| Its first notable orchestral use was in Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" | 85 |
| "A place you can go ... when you're short on your dough," in a 1979 hit | 85 |
| "Will it ever stop? ___ don't know..." ("Ice Ice Baby" lyric) | 85 |
| Vegetarian's "Duh!" response to why they hate their formerly vegan pal? | 85 |
| Movie org. that created a top-100 list from which all of this puzzle's quotes come | 86 |
| Its name is derived from Provençal words for "garlic" and "oil" | 86 |
| TV interviewer who called astronaut "Buzz" Aldrin "Buzz Lightyear" | 86 |
| "Goodbye, Farewell and ___" (title of the final episode of "MASH") | 86 |
| Ethel Waters title line following "Now he's gone, and we're through" | 86 |
| ___ Blaine, protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" | 86 |
| Animated movie with the tagline "See the world from a whole new perspective" | 86 |
| Springsteen "If you've ever seen ___ trick pony then you've seen me" | 86 |
| Song sampled on "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" | 86 |
| "I am just __ boy, though my story's seldom told": "The Boxer" | 86 |
| "I fell right into the ___ of Venus de Milo" (chorus by the band Television) | 86 |
| 97-year-old entertainment personality who wrote "Old Age is Not for Sissies" | 86 |
| Equally influenced right now by Nam June Paik's video work and Bedouin poetry, say | 86 |
| Rare key in which a section of Chopin's "Polonaise Fantaisie" is written | 86 |
| Phrase before a sportswriter's name on the cover of an athlete's autobiography | 86 |
| "___ Lee" (Civil War song from which "Love Me Tender" was adapted) | 86 |
| Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end | 86 |
| Soul singer with the 2010 album "New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)" | 86 |
| Legend born 4/24/1942 whose name's 9 letters are the only ones in this puzzle grid | 86 |
| Informal chat, and based on the starts of the starred answers, this puzzle's title | 86 |
| Nile Rodgers band I can't believe aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet | 86 |
| Actor Fogler who won a Tony for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" | 86 |
| Third-place candidate in the 1920 presidential election who ran his campaign from jail | 86 |
| Game my dad refused to install on our computer in 1993 because it took up 40 megabytes | 86 |
| Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" | 86 |
| Prominent figure in the 1996 book "John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was" | 86 |
| "The eating of omelets is hereafter punishable by death," e.g.? [See byline] | 86 |
| "You can't spell 'elite' without ___" (Super Bowl XLVI aphorism) | 86 |
| Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" | 86 |
| "We'll give a long cheer for ___ men" ("Down the Field" lyric) | 86 |
| Hypocritical pejorative when used by millionaire senators born into political families | 86 |
| Book subtitled "Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef" | 86 |
| One-named model who wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 86 |
| Appropriately named monthly of the National Puzzlers' League, with "The" | 86 |
| "___ Knievel To Attempt Huge Leap In Logic" ("The Onion" headline) | 86 |
| "Something you'd hate to discover living in your attic." "___" | 86 |
| Self-described "short, stocky, slow-witted bald man" of "Seinfeld" | 86 |
| Product whose infomercial coined the phrase "But wait ... there's more!" | 86 |
| "Arrested Development" brother whose name is a homonym for a bible character | 86 |
| "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it" speaker | 86 |
| "The Unparalleled Adventure of One ___ Pfaall" (Edgar Allan Poe short story) | 86 |
| Words before and after "my lads" in the United States Merchant Marine anthem | 86 |
| Whence the line "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" | 86 |
| "We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly 'd" speaker | 86 |
| Rapper who produced the documentary "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap" | 86 |
| "___ Dien" (Prince of Wales's motto, which for some reason is in German) | 86 |
| "If at first, the ___ is not absurd, then there is no hope for it": Einstein | 86 |
| Charge carrier that forms a bond within each of this puzzle's four longest answers | 86 |
| Part of the pen name of the author who also once used the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel | 86 |
| Beliefs [Ink Well is always free, but yr tips help sustain us!: bentausig.com/tip.htm] | 86 |
| Manhattan Transfer classic with the line "A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup" | 86 |
| He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" | 86 |
| Cigarette that once advertised the "health benefits" of its Micronite filter | 86 |
| Prince song with the line "You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on" | 86 |
| "Carry the ___ that's born to be king" ("Skye Boat Song" line) | 86 |
| 1980s-'90s series based on the fictional firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak | 86 |
| Brand whose limited edition wasabi ginger flavor had damn well better become permanent | 86 |
| Cholesterol that doesn't start with H (I can never remember which is the good one) | 86 |
| Oscar who said "Under this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character" | 86 |
| "That it will never come again is what makes ___ so sweet" (Emily Dickinson) | 86 |
| "If you haven't seen ___, you haven't seen New York" (old ad slogan) | 86 |
| Emergency fund ... or what the second part of each answer to a starred clue ends with? | 86 |
| Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s | 86 |
| Only baseball player to hit a home run in every inning from the first through the 16th | 86 |
| Robert who won a Tony for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | 86 |
| ''. . . would thou hadst ___ been born'' (''Othello'') | 86 |
| 2003 film title character who's supposed to be Darla's eighth birthday present | 86 |
| September 8, 1974 pard recipient - and what the constructor did throughout this puzzle | 86 |
| ''___ won't be afraid'' (lyric in ''Stand by Me'') | 86 |
| City whose name is pronounced like the natives' word for "Where is ...?" | 86 |
| The earliest possible time that this crossword will be finished tonight, unfortunately | 86 |
| "... the inconstant moon ... that monthly changes in her circled __": Juliet | 86 |
| "Either that wallpaper goes ___ do" (Oscar Wilde's supposed dying words) | 86 |
| Winner of the 1970 Hart Trophy, Conn Smythe Trophy, Norris Trophy, and Art Ross Trophy | 86 |
| Palindromically surnamed swimmer Kristin who won six gold medals at the Seoul Olympics | 86 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer with the autobiography "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" | 86 |
| 1966 Rolling Stones hit ... or an instruction to be followed four times in this puzzle | 86 |
| Ostensible composer of "The Abduction of Figaro" and "Oedipus Tex" | 86 |
| Animated skunk Le Pew [get the 2013 rate at avxwords.com while it lasts - sign up now] | 86 |
| "Pearls Before Swine" character [See the NOTE for the theme of this puzzle.] | 86 |
| Parlor game, and word that can follow the last word of the answers to asterisked clues | 86 |
| "Objects in the ___ View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" (Meat Loaf) | 86 |
| 1984 film with the tagline "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" | 86 |
| "___ Builds Levee Out Of Poor People To Protect Convention Site" --The Onion | 86 |
| First publisher of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" | 86 |
| 1976 best seller that opens "four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia" | 86 |
| On second thought, make it a grim futuristic epic: "Zorro, the Gay Blade..." | 86 |
| Restaurant in Manhattan's theater district famous for the caricatures on its walls | 86 |