| Sch. whose alumni include Shaquille O'Neal, James Carville and Rex Reed | 75 |
| Source of the song "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" | 75 |
| Speaker of the only word heard in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" | 75 |
| Sports org. whose last game was the Chicago Sting over the Toronto Blizzard | 75 |
| School with the U.S.'s oldest continuously operating music conservatory | 75 |
| Speedskater who won the fourth season of "Dancing With the Stars" | 75 |
| Shakespeare character who said "more sinned against than sinning" | 75 |
| Sly & the Family Stone's "There's a ___ Goin' On" | 75 |
| Servant's complaint about serving a British queen one course of a meal? | 75 |
| Song that begins "Hey, where did we go, days when the rains came" | 75 |
| Stand-up guy who played Tobias Fünke on "Arrested Development" | 75 |
| Since, in Spain (I promise the next clue won't be another foreign word) | 75 |
| South Carolina university whose alumni include Amy Grant and Keith Lockhart | 75 |
| Shak. play with the famous line, "What a piece of pork is a man"? | 75 |
| Song that starts "A winter's day in a deep and dark December" | 75 |
| Square, in old slang, as indicated by forming a square with one's hands | 75 |
| Shakespearean "I can't believe we just stayed up all night!"? | 75 |
| Soft leather used in wallets, whose name derives from a place in California | 75 |
| Sue Ann __, Betty White's role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | 75 |
| Song with the lyric "In the middle of the night I call your name" | 75 |
| Shelley poem that begins "I met a traveller from an antique land" | 75 |
| She reprised Faye Dunaway's role in "The Thomas Crown Affair" | 75 |
| Springing bounce in tall grasses, as by an animal, to view the surroundings | 75 |
| Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" | 75 |
| Swing both ways, and a literal hint to how four puzzle answers were created | 75 |
| Skill needed when being asked "Does this dress make me look fat?" | 75 |
| Singer with the so-called "hardest-working legs in show business" | 75 |
| Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" | 75 |
| Song that includes the line, "How can I live through another day" | 75 |
| Singer with the 2008 album "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)" | 76 |
| She "espied their tails side by side, / All hung on a tree to dry" | 76 |
| Secret military mission ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle? | 76 |
| Shakespeare villain who says "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 76 |
| Supermodel host of the version of "Project Runway" shown in Canada | 76 |
| She played Ursula Andress in "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" | 76 |
| Sportsman Hunt for whom the N.F.L.'s A.F.C. championship trophy is named | 76 |
| Sports org. whose out-of-market TV package is called "Direct Kick" | 76 |
| Soda with the slogan "Your Favorite Drink In Your Favorite Flavor" | 76 |
| State that shares the longest diagonal border in the country with California | 76 |
| Songwriter of both "Stoney End" and "Stoned Soul Picnic" | 76 |
| Song they played over and over at this Jamaican resort my wife and I went to | 76 |
| Sports star who wrote the 2008 best seller "A Champion's Mind" | 76 |
| Summer coolers, briefly, and a hint to this puzzle's six longest answers | 76 |
| She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "A Passage to India" | 76 |
| Soulja Boy song on many "Worst of 2007" lists, despite hitting #1 | 76 |
| Start of a bumper sticker that may end with one's favorite vacation spot | 76 |
| Source of the mondegreen "Sunday monkey won't play piano song" | 76 |
| Start of a quote about Steinbrenner by former Yankees co-owner John McMullen | 76 |
| Saturn's confession to his wife after eating another of their offspring? | 76 |
| Shakespeare play that begins "Now is the winter of our discontent" | 76 |
| Some films, or, academically, what's hidden in the seven starred entries | 76 |
| She played one of Pierce's Bond girls in "Tomorrow Never Dies" | 76 |
| Sci-fi character whose first name, Nyota, was first revealed in film in 2009 | 76 |
| Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | 76 |
| She followed and preceded Billy as host of the Academy Awards ceremony twice | 76 |
| Sports Illustrated's first two-time Sportsman of the Year, 1996 and 2000 | 76 |
| State for Snowflake, a town founded by Mormon pioneers E. Snow and W.J. Flake | 77 |
| Scottish historian Thomas who called economics "the dismal science" | 77 |
| Seasoning option for fries at the Japanese fast food restaurant First Kitchen | 77 |
| Stuff people want legalized so they can make shampoo and shirts (yeah, right) | 77 |
| Source of "The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside" | 77 |
| Supermodel who appeared in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" | 77 |
| She won her first Tony for playing Flora in "Flora, the Red Menace" | 77 |
| Shania Twain "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm ___ Here!" | 77 |
| Singer of 1976's "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 77 |
| Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" | 77 |
| Sec. of State who said "I am in control here" after Reagan was shot | 77 |
| Song originally from the Broadway musical "Everybody's Welcome" | 77 |
| Stadium billed as "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon opening in 1965 | 77 |
| Sudden reductions in loan availability, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
| Speech given by the policeman chasing James Cagney in "White Heat"? | 77 |
| Some film credits, and the idea behind the eight theme answers in this puzzle | 77 |
| Samuel Butler's satirical utopia whose name is an anagram of its location | 77 |
| Saint-___-du-Mont, church containing the remains of the patron saint of Paris | 77 |
| Say "Yes, officer, that's the singer that was using Auto-Tune"? | 77 |
| Soul singer James with the 1990 #1 hit "I Don't Have the Heart" | 77 |
| Singer who went looking for Mr. Right on the reality show “#1 Single” | 77 |
| Says "I tried needlepoint twice, but I was only so-so," for example | 77 |
| Shake-up in the global balance of power ... and a hint to the circled letters | 77 |
| Start of Seneca's quote that ends with "... what reason cannot" | 77 |
| Songwriter-husband of Minnie Riperton and father of "SNL" alum Maya | 77 |
| Sch. that if it were a country, it would rank 12th all-time in Olympic medals | 77 |
| Spanish-American bandleader once married to Abbe Lane born on January 1, 1900 | 77 |
| Speaker of "Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be" | 77 |
| So-called "mansiere," essentially, in a "Seinfeld" episode | 78 |
| Short form of the formal name for mad cow disease (hidden in RUBS ELBOWS WITH) | 78 |
| San Antonio mayor Julián, keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic convention | 78 |
| Scholars doubt that he ever said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" | 78 |
| She beat out Renée, Sissy, Judi, and Nicole for the 2001 Best Actress Oscar | 78 |
| Shakespeare character who said "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 78 |
| Surname of literary characters Noah, Tom, Al, Rosasharn, Ruthie, and Winfield | 78 |
| Seuss character who "spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy" | 78 |
| Scarlett's sister-in-law and best friend in "Gone With the Wind" | 78 |
| Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | 78 |
| Songwriter who wrote "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Stoney End" | 78 |
| Scarlett whose final film words are "I'll never be hungry again" | 78 |
| Speaker of Shakespeare's "If music be the food of love, play on" | 78 |
| Seven-time Best Actor runner-up who finally received an honorary Oscar in 2003 | 78 |
| Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are determined by this | 78 |
| Simile words before "a hen's tooth" or "a day in June" | 78 |