| [I can't believe you just stepped on my tail. Now back the fuck away.] | 74 |
| Teamster leader who was rumored to be buried under the end zone at Giants Stadium | 81 |
| Group dance song with the repeated lyric "that's what it's all about" | 87 |
| "___ in the Wall" (upcoming game show based on the Japanese "Human Tetris" clips on YouTube) | 112 |
| "___ in the Wall" (game show based on the Japanese "Human Tetris" clips on YouTube) | 103 |
| Response to Ebert when he asks, "What's your favorite Christmas decoration?" | 90 |
| To whom Mortimer declares "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" | 83 |
| "11. Every year for Halloween I go as ___ (except for the one year I went as Senator Lieberman)" | 106 |
| Film in which Marv says, "He's only a kid, Harry. We can take him." | 81 |
| Landmark named "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon completion in 1936 | 77 |
| Easter bunny's spring, found in this puzzle's nine longest answers | 74 |
| "I Was ___" (Alanis Morissette song on the album "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie") | 106 |
| "Sometimes, when I sleep at night, I think of '___ Pop'" (Dubya, April 2, 2002) | 97 |
| Whom Hamlet calls "A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards / Hast ta'en with equal thanks" | 109 |
| To whom it is said "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" | 74 |
| Star of a 1981 Broadway revue subtitled "The Lady and Her Music" | 74 |
| Faced with two undesirable alternatives (with ''on the'') | 73 |
| Whence the line "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" | 86 |
| Source of the line "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" | 89 |
| Words with ''a pistol'' or ''a firecracker'' | 76 |
| "A Buddhist walks up to a ___ stand and says, 'Make me one with everything'" | 94 |
| Output from a smoking gun or, read differently, input for TheSmokingGun.com | 75 |
| Apt place to listen to Brian Eno's "Here Come the Warm Jets"? | 75 |
| Title character in an Elvis song who "ain't never caught a rabbit" | 80 |
| Stones "Any minute, any ___, I'm waiting on a call from you" | 74 |
| Julia ___, first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters | 74 |
| Prez who said "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" | 81 |
| Only 20th-century president whose three distinct initials are in alphabetical order | 83 |
| One of the subjects of the best-selling '02 book "The Conquerors" | 79 |
| "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" pres. | 73 |
| 1963 western with a tagline "The man with the barbed wire soul!" | 74 |
| Supreme Court justice known for a literalist interpretation of the Bill of Rights | 81 |
| Secret get-together, or what occurs literally in each of this puzzle's circled squares | 90 |
| "I am the doubter and the doubt / And I the ___ the Brahmin sings" (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | 98 |
| "So will I ... make the net / That shall enmesh them all" speaker | 75 |
| "And what's he then, that says I play the villain?" speaker | 73 |
| "And what's he then that says I play the villain?" speaker | 72 |
| Shakespearean character who called jealousy a "green-ey'd monster" | 80 |
| Shakespeare villain who says "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 76 |
| Shakespeare character who said "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 78 |
| Animated parrot of film whose voice is the same as that of the Aflac duck | 73 |
| "We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly 'd" speaker | 86 |
| "Othello" character who says "Who steals my purse steals trash" | 83 |
| "Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word" is his last line | 117 |
| "'Sblood, but you will not hear me: If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me" is his first line | 115 |
| Suffix with ''president'' or ''proverb'' | 72 |
| "Now ___ become Death, the destroyer of worlds": J. Robert Oppenheimer | 80 |
| "Impossible" response to the question "Are you sleeping?" | 77 |
| "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" has five of these | 73 |
| Company that recalled "Active Maturity with Beef in Gravy" in 2007 | 76 |
| Reply to "You're not even smart enough to be in fourth grade" | 75 |
| Janis who was the first musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" | 72 |
| "And Now for Something Completely Different" director MacNaughton | 75 |
| 1994 literary autobiography whose first chapter is titled "Infant Prodigy?" | 85 |
| "All ___ of You" (song from "The Phantom of the Opera") | 75 |
| Possible response to "what happened to the last piece of cake?" | 73 |
| Disrespectful roommate's reply to an inquiry about that last slice of pizza you were saving | 95 |
| "If __ make it there ...": "New York, New York" lyric | 73 |
| Golfer's lament about failing to recognize different ball positions? | 72 |
| Nuke deliverer [The AV xword goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 82 |
| Zamboni-prepared surface, and word that can follow the last word of the puzzle's four longest answers | 105 |
| It lost out to "Spirited Away" for Best Animated Feature of 2002 | 74 |
| 2002 animated film with a 2006 sequel subtitled "The Meltdown" | 72 |
| "Get the scoop on our new hand-held offering" (St. Louis, 1904) | 73 |
| Stranded at the ski lodge, perhaps, and a hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 80 |
| Secret (and potentially cataclysmic) substance in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | 98 |
| Freezing material that figures in Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | 77 |
| Rapper who recently called guns "the last form of defense against tyranny" | 84 |
| Rapper who produced the documentary "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap" | 86 |
| Artist with the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker | 72 |
| "___ Dien" (Prince of Wales's motto, which for some reason is in German) | 86 |
| First player to hit an inside-the-park home run during an All-Star Game, 2007 | 77 |
| Baseball star who reportedly said, "I think there's a sexiness in infield hits" | 93 |
| Harold in the Roosevelt administration, or his son in the Clinton administration | 80 |
| 1954 Patti Page hit, whose title is sung three times before "Please, don't go" | 92 |
| Malcolm's maternal grandmother on "Malcolm in the Middle" (played by Cloris Leachman) | 99 |
| State that Dan Quayle is obviously not from, based on a famous misspelling of 1992 | 82 |
| "If at first, the ___ is not absurd, then there is no hope for it": Einstein | 86 |
| "An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ___ cannot be resisted": Hugo | 94 |
| "&" or "@," but not "and" or "at" | 77 |
| ''Beware the ___ of March'' (''Julius Caesar'') | 79 |
| Amin who was called, quite fairly, "a murderer, a liar, and a savage" | 79 |
| ''What __ For Love'' (''A Chorus Line'' song) | 77 |
| "In the raw," "in the red" or "in the running" | 76 |
| Race that takes a northern trail in even years and a southern trail in odd years | 80 |
| Words made more broadly applicable by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor | 98 |
| Response to "Who wants to blow off school and go to the amusement park?" | 82 |
| Punch line to "What's the longest sentence in the English language?" | 82 |
| Promising words (and what's hidden in this puzzle's four longest entries) | 81 |
| 1966 two-person Broadway musical about a married couple's life together | 75 |
| Show that's broken scores of generic, melismatic singers, familiarly | 72 |
| Moorish ___ (kind of fish that Willem Dafoe's Gill is, in "Finding Nemo") | 87 |
| "___ the need ... the need for speed" (Classic line from "Top Gun") | 87 |
| ''___ Pretty'' (''West Side Story'' tune) | 73 |
| "___ be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed": Juliet | 73 |
| "We can dance ___ want to" ("The Safety Dance" line) | 72 |
| Grateful Dead "Yes ___ the gist of it, but it's all right" | 72 |
| Standard with the lyrics "Your eyes are always saying / the things you're never saying" | 101 |
| Standard that begins "When we are dancing / And you're dangerously near me" | 89 |
| "What More Can ___" (unreleased post-9/11 Michael Jackson charity single) | 83 |