| One of the four that end this puzzle's starred answers | 58 |
| "Top o' the mornin' to ye," for example | 57 |
| "All the world is sad and dreary, everywhere ___" | 59 |
| "...is sad and dreary ev'rywhere ___": Stephen Foster | 67 |
| General Wellington's nickname, with "The" | 55 |
| Britain's Arthur Wellesley, with "the" | 52 |
| "Element #26 Starting Divorce Proceedings!" | 53 |
| Historical period when nobody seems to mean what they say? | 58 |
| "It's permanent press," said the saleswoman ___ | 61 |
| "___ the water shall float" (old English saying) | 58 |
| One who uses words in ways opposite of their literal meaning | 60 |
| Heavy metal band with the album "The Final Frontier" | 62 |
| Band with the 1982 platinum album "The Number of the Beast" | 69 |
| Kevin Spacey proclamation from "American Beauty" | 58 |
| "___ to You" (Grammy-winning song by Lady Antebellum) | 63 |
| Classic storyteller who wrote under the pseudonym Knickerbocker | 63 |
| He spent December 25, 1642 being born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth | 68 |
| La ___, Dominican Republic (first Spanish settlement in the Americas) | 69 |
| Biblical patriarch whose name means "he will laugh" | 61 |
| "Grey's Anatomy" actor Washington and others | 58 |
| "Your face, my thane, ___ book . . . ": Shak. | 55 |
| "It ___ of true theories . . . ": W. Whewell | 54 |
| "___ star fall from heaven unto the earth": Revelation | 64 |
| Tongue-twister phrase hinting at this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| "She ___, therefore may be woo'd": Shak. | 54 |
| Words after a rhetorical "Is this a good idea?" | 57 |
| "Pisces ___" (1994 Smashing Pumpkins album) | 53 |
| "When the well ---, we know the worth of water" | 57 |
| " . . . tribute to whom tribute ___": Romans | 54 |
| "___ man in your future" (fortuneteller's declaration) | 68 |
| Bonnie "Prince" Billy "___ Darkness" | 56 |
| Boney M. "___ Boat on the River/My Friend Jack" | 57 |
| "Bad Moon Rising" lyrics before "bad moon rising" | 69 |
| "___ long life ahead" (palmist's pronouncement) | 61 |
| Cat Stevens song about Yankees tickets on the third base line? | 62 |
| "Got it! You want me to play Dorothy's aunt!" | 59 |
| "You go not till ___ you up a glass": Hamlet | 54 |
| " . . . one of them ___ and grows old": Shak. | 55 |
| When he pops the cork, a genie appears and says, "..." | 64 |
| “Blessed ___ who comes in the name of the Lord†| 59 |
| Spanish saint who wrote the encyclopedic "Etymologiae" | 64 |
| 'Where do ('It's a deal!') --?!' | 52 |
| "I have the heart of a small boy. It ___": Stephen King | 65 |
| Question from viewers if TV's Robin will get a cohost? | 58 |
| Question asked many times in "Marathon Man" | 53 |
| Question asked by Laurence Olivier in "The Marathon Man" | 66 |
| One who might have to drop the line to perform salah? | 53 |
| "The reporter heard the New York ___ ___ his coach" | 61 |
| Tourist activity, and an explanation of the shaded letters | 58 |
| Vacation spot far, far from Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde? | 59 |
| " . . . as he was ambitious, ___ him": Shak. | 54 |
| "What a Piece of Work ___" ("Hair" song) | 60 |
| 'What a Piece of Work --' ('Hair' song) | 55 |
| "Wow, it stinks like a spoiled kid in here"? | 54 |
| "For better is a neighbor that ___ . . . ": Proverbs | 62 |
| " . . . call ye upon him while he ___": Isaiah 55:6 | 61 |
| Guess when asked what one calls where the orchestra plays? | 58 |
| "Jane's quite sharp, don't you think?" | 56 |
| Believer in government where everyone enjoys equal political power | 66 |
| They were used on old TV's "Twenty One" | 53 |
| "... despise not thy mother when she ___": Proverbs 23:22 | 67 |
| Distance-preserving transformation, as the rotation of a plane | 62 |
| It's mentioned by the Scarecrow when he gets his brain | 58 |
| Fluid with the same salt concentration as mammalian blood? | 58 |
| "Little we see in Nature that ___": Wordsworth | 56 |
| " . . . but when ___, they are for war": Psalms | 57 |
| Its slogan was once "More bounce to the ounce" | 56 |
| "The East ___," song of the Chinese Cultural Revolution | 65 |
| "My Name ___" (1998 Orhan Pamuk best-seller) | 54 |
| "My gal --- hot ..." (Billy Lee Riley lyric) | 54 |
| "Look not thou upon the wine when it ___": Proverbs | 61 |
| "It will be fair weather: for the sky __": Matthew | 60 |
| 'Look not thou upon the wine when it --': Proverbs 23:31 | 64 |
| What California congressman heads the House Oversight Committee? | 64 |
| Joe Jackson's "___ Really Going Out With Him?" | 60 |
| "___ Really Going Out With Him?" (1979 Joe Jackson hit) | 65 |
| "__ Really Going Out With Him?": Joe Jackson hit | 58 |
| Having only the upper part showing, as a heraldic beast | 55 |
| Having only the forepart visible, as a beast in heraldry | 56 |
| "From hell's heart, ___ at thee"--Melville | 56 |
| "From hell's heart, ___ at thee" (Melville) | 57 |
| Apiarist's request on "Wheel of Fortune"? | 55 |
| On a slow roller: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 59 |
| "We have met the enemy and he ___!" (Pogo) | 52 |
| Reggae hitmakers of the 1970s-1980s, with "The" | 57 |
| I had a relationship with Frankenstein's monster, but . . . | 63 |
| "Txtng & Drivng ... __ Wait": AT&T ad tagline | 63 |
| '-- wait' ('The issue isn't that urgent') | 61 |
| Symptom of one's waxing starting to grow out, maybe | 55 |
| Arab country suffering from an outbreak of poison ivy? | 54 |
| Mellencamp "Nothing Matters and What if ___" | 54 |
| John Cougar "Nothin' Matters and What If ___" | 59 |
| "___ thee, Kate, 'twas burnt . . . ": Shak. | 57 |
| "Let's Hear ___ the Boy" (Denise Williams hit) | 60 |
| ''I Can Get _____ You Wholesale'' ('62 musical) | 67 |
| "Of course this car isn't voice-controlled!" | 58 |
| Resident of the seat of New York's Tompkins County | 54 |
| Song about Salieri's true feelings toward Mozart? | 53 |
| Line from Metallica's "Until It Sleeps" | 53 |
| The Rolling Stones' 'You Can Make -- You Try' | 57 |