| TV sketch comedy set in the "city where young people go to retire" | 76 |
| "Few can be induced to labor exclusively for ___": Abraham Lincoln | 76 |
| Film with the classic line "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." | 76 |
| The overdramatic speaker at the press conference was known for using ___ ... | 76 |
| Francis ___, 17th-century English poet who wrote “A Feast for Worms” | 76 |
| 2012 Best Actress nominee alongside Jessica, Jennifer, Emmanuelle, and Naomi | 76 |
| Football legend who was the first non-referee to do the Super Bowl coin toss | 76 |
| Lee who got a Best Actress nomination for "Days of Wine and Roses" | 76 |
| Shakespeare play that begins "Now is the winter of our discontent" | 76 |
| Quote from director Reiner: "Me so foolish for not seeing that..." | 76 |
| 1799 discovery that made possible the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics | 76 |
| Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood | 76 |
| "The one beer to have when you're having more than one" brewer | 76 |
| Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" | 76 |
| Company associated with the alcoholic "7" in a "7 and 7" | 76 |
| '60s political activist whose autobiography is "A Lonely Rage" | 76 |
| 1962 hit that starts "Tho we gotta say goodbye for the summer ..." | 76 |
| Washington newspaper that ended its printed version in March 2009, for short | 76 |
| Nickname of Pink Floyd musician Barrett after he became a financial watchdog | 76 |
| "I've ___ All Good People" (song on "The Yes Album") | 76 |
| "... and that's why I ate all of your favorite cookies," e.g.? | 76 |
| The murals at the Harvard Science Center and Rockefeller Center, for example | 76 |
| Words with ''world record'' or ''precedent'' | 76 |
| Words with ''precedent'' or ''good example'' | 76 |
| "___ needle pulling thread" ("The Sound of Music" lyric) | 76 |
| Briefly, Bay Area forcE [avxwords.com has the edgiest weekly indie puzzles!] | 76 |
| "Star Trek" actor who starred in a film shot entirely in Esperanto | 76 |
| Some films, or, academically, what's hidden in the seven starred entries | 76 |
| "Kiss With a Fist" lyric "You gave a kick, I gave a ___" | 76 |
| They might have the newspaper Hospodárske Noviny shipped overseas to them | 76 |
| Julia Ormond title character with a "Sense of Snow" in a 1997 film | 76 |
| "'Twas white then as the new-fa'en __": Alexander Anderson | 76 |
| 2006 film with the tagline "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the fright" | 76 |
| Bit of footwear that appears at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 76 |
| Channel between mainland England and the Isle of Wight, with "the" | 76 |
| "___ Dances" (Josh Groban song played on "The Simpsons") | 76 |
| "The ___ of a New Machine" (Pulitzer-winning book by Tracy Kidder) | 76 |
| This animal presumably moves about on eight limbs ... correction: four limbs | 76 |
| Mexican cooking ingredients called "flores de calabaza" in Spanish | 76 |
| Florida city that was once home to the world's largest Shuffleboard club | 76 |
| It comes from the Japanese words for "slice" and "broil" | 76 |
| What it takes not to say "I see you've put on a little weight" | 76 |
| Asian capital that was from 2004-07 home of the world's tallest building | 76 |
| Pal of Marshall, Lily, Robin and Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" | 76 |
| <u>Fiorito</u> <u>and</u> <u>Koehler</u> | 76 |
| She played one of Pierce's Bond girls in "Tomorrow Never Dies" | 76 |
| Texas oil company whose name comes from the Spanish for "treasure" | 76 |
| 1977 James Brolin thriller with the tagline "What EVIL drives ..." | 76 |
| "It's worth it just for Ms. Behar's famous lasagna recipe" | 76 |
| Publication with a 1997 headline "Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids" | 76 |
| Program hosted by a televangelist who's raising money for a school play? | 76 |
| Classic 1911 children's novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Phrase with synonyms starting this puzzle's eight longest Across answers | 76 |
| Gland at the base of the neck that produces and "educates" T cells | 76 |
| Portrayer of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" | 76 |
| The Onion: "___ Announces New Version of Magazine Aimed at Adults" | 76 |
| Brief version of this puzzle's title hidden in eight long puzzle answers | 76 |
| ''Skoal'' and ''Here's mud in your eye'' | 76 |
| " . . . ___ achievement is only tomorrow's confusion": Howells | 76 |
| Arlen/Mercer song "Blues in the Night ("My Mama Done ___ Me") | 76 |
| Publisher with the slogan "Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe" | 76 |
| Words repeated after "I shall no more," in "The Tempest" | 76 |
| "And I'm ready ___ right through the sky" (Richard Marx lyric) | 76 |
| "When I Take My Sugar ___" (1931 Fain, Kahal & Norman classic) | 76 |
| ''The Sound of Music'' family (with ''von'') | 76 |
| Minor planets whose orbits are farther from the sun than the farthest planet | 76 |
| Flower whose name is derived from the Turkish/Persian for "turban" | 76 |
| Word that can come before the last word of this puzzle's longest entries | 76 |
| Placekicker Jim who scored 10 points in the Jets' Super Bowl III victory | 76 |
| Training site for certain WWII airmen, first African American fighter pilots | 76 |
| Mark who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" | 76 |
| Unexpected development ... or what the answer to each starred clue contains? | 76 |
| Group with the 1963 #1 hit "So Much in Love," with "the" | 76 |
| Sci-fi character whose first name, Nyota, was first revealed in film in 2009 | 76 |
| Thurman who was a Golden Globe nominee for both "Kill Bill" movies | 76 |
| Proposed "fifth taste," which means "savory" in Japanese | 76 |
| Like the haircut I just got from this old Polish dude that then I had to fix | 76 |
| Lion's combatant for the crown, in "Through the Looking-Glass" | 76 |
| "Remember to look __ the stars and not down at your feet": Hawking | 76 |
| Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | 76 |
| Â Â Add light, or not (and do this 13 more times to solve this puzzle) | 76 |
| 1963 hour-long "Twilight Zone" episode with a Bible-inspired title | 76 |
| CSN&Y "You place the flowers in the ___ that you bought today" | 76 |
| Where "the nights are stronger than moonshine," per America (1972) | 76 |
| "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" writer | 76 |
| Nebraska town made famous as the home office of Letterman's Top Ten List | 76 |
| 1960s-'70s group originally known as the Teenagers, with "the" | 76 |
| It's good for "absolutely nothing," according to a 1970 #1 hit | 76 |
| "I cant stand water because of all the things fish do in it" comic | 76 |
| "___ well here in Camelot" (line from a "Spamalot" song) | 76 |
| Claim from a video store stocking "Bulworth" and "Reds"? | 76 |
| "Any thoughts I had of having 'free time' quickly ___ ..." | 76 |
| Lead-in to ''kidding'' and ''gonna take it'' | 76 |
| "Should I say 'Come here often?' or 'Hey, babe!'"? | 76 |
| Classic cartoon in which "Kill da wabbit" is sung to a Wagner tune | 76 |
| Mean-sounding Elvis Costello solo album on NPR's Best Music of 2002 list | 76 |
| She followed and preceded Billy as host of the Academy Awards ceremony twice | 76 |
| "Something that has to warm up before you use it." "___" | 76 |
| Musical with the song "Slide Some Oil to Me," with "The" | 76 |
| Sports Illustrated's first two-time Sportsman of the Year, 1996 and 2000 | 76 |