| Song that starts "What'll you do when you get lonely / And nobody's waiting by your side?" | 108 |
| Song from "The Music Man" with the lyric "What words could be saner or truer or plainer" | 108 |
| Sci-fi acceleration technology (that I think I actually figured out how to make if I just had this one part) | 108 |
| Star of "Golden Receiver," "World Pup," and "Seventh Inning Fetch," among others | 110 |
| Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares | 110 |
| Show since 12/17/1989 whose five main family members are hidden in this puzzle's other long across answers | 110 |
| Sci-fi character who said "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever" | 111 |
| Store for athletes seeking protection? (And, onsides, what each of this puzzle's starred entries refers to) | 111 |
| Shortish documentary program, such as a "behind-the-scenes" or "making-of" segment on a DVD | 111 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter X | 111 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter pi | 112 |
| Sequel that made The Onion A.V. Club's "Worst Movies of 2007" list, with a rare "F" grade | 113 |
| Sextet of cancellations that produced the starred entries...or an oversexed MTV production now facing cancellation | 114 |
| Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” | 115 |
| Singer of "Like a Surgeon" (with the lyric "I can hear your heart beat for the very last time") | 115 |
| Shakespeare title character whose first line is "There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd" | 116 |
| Solution to the classic riddle "What force or strength cannot get through, / I, with gentle touch, can do" | 116 |
| Speaker of "I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick!" | 118 |
| Singer who redefined double standards by recording both "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" in 1961 | 118 |
| Sequel to Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" which Entertainment Weekly named "Worst Book of 2005" | 118 |
| She said, “Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case” | 118 |
| Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
| She played Olive Madison opposite Struthers's Florence Ungar in a 1985 Broadway version of "The Odd Couple" | 121 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| Salinger character who says “I’d be extremely flattered if you’d write a story exclusively for me sometime” | 123 |
| Start of a number of ditties performed by creepy little orange dudes in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 123 |
| Sci-fi character who says "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." | 124 |
| Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" | 124 |
| Social reformer whose correspondence with Millard Fillmore is the subject of the book "The Lady and the President" | 124 |
| Start of remark to me by a guy in a coffee shop in March 2011 about his observations in my traffic courtroom not long before | 124 |
| Settings where the main characters get chased by sharks, in both "Finding Nemo" and "The Little Mermaid" | 124 |
| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
| Song from "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with a title that is actually not a grammatical phrase in any Romance language | 126 |
| Sitcom star who said "Putting humans in charge of the earth is the cosmic equivalence of letting Eddie Murphy direct" | 127 |
| Subject of the Final Jeopardy! question that knocked out Ken Jennings after a record 74 wins ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 133 |
| Schoolhouse Rock cartoon that begins "You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington" | 135 |
| Slugger Jim who along with Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen were nicknamed "MV3" during the St. Louis Cardinals's 2004 World Series run | 146 |
| Soccer coach who said "I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's." | 157 |
| Size that's usually perfect for printing crosswords, but often not for mine because I tend to write really long clues and you might need more space, for short | 162 |
| Start of an open letter from the puzzle constructor: "Dear ___, you seem a bit confused about what the V. P. does every day, so here are some helpful hints ..." | 170 |
| Sci-fi swords (that my older brother actually got to use one time at this place but he had to sign a contract saying he wouldn't tell anyone where they're located) | 171 |
| Subject of an annual March 14 celebration and of this puzzle, celebrated in both a literal and a numerical way in the first square of the starred answers, reading left to right | 177 |
| Suggestion uttered by Nate Dogg at the end of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" (The views and opinions expressed in this answer are not necessarily shared by The Cross Nerd Inc.) | 188 |
| Slang term for the Canadian equivalent of a 750 mL bottle of liquor, based on the number of ounces in it (which makes no sense because we use metric here but I never like to argue with drunks) | 192 |
| Superlative qualifier added to a childish argument in hopes of eliminating any potential for a further retort (of course, anyone who's been involved in a childish argument knows that you can just add | 203 |