| ''Beware __ you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow'': Aesop | 85 |
| Richard ___, director of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" | 81 |
| "__ In": Wings hit that begins "Someone's knockin' at the door" | 91 |
| Beatles tune that starts, "When I find myself in times of trouble" | 76 |
| 1970 #1 hit whose title follows the lyric "Speaking words of wisdom ..." | 82 |
| #1 single whose B-side is "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" | 75 |
| #1 Beatles hit with the only known vocal contribution by Linda McCartney | 72 |
| Oscar who said: "I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed" | 112 |
| Oscar who said "Under this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character" | 86 |
| Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle | 79 |
| "The Joy of ___" (Gyles Brandreth's celebration of wordplay) | 74 |
| "You know that it would be untrue, you know that I would be a ___" | 76 |
| ''___ Rose'' (song from ''The Music Man'') | 74 |
| "He's for the money, he's for the show," to Boz Scaggs | 72 |
| What "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," per Mark Twain | 108 |
| ''You look . . . umm . . . great in that bikini,'' e.g.? | 72 |
| Enjoy summer weather, and a hint to the beginning of the three other longest answers | 84 |
| “The cruelest ___ are often told in silence”: Robert Louis Stevenson | 76 |
| "That it will never come again is what makes ___ so sweet" (Emily Dickinson) | 86 |
| "A tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot," according to Charlie Chaplin | 100 |
| "A moderately good play with a badly written third act," according to Truman Capote | 93 |
| In response to declining sales, the photojournalism magazine launched a campaign to turn the short-term subscriber into a ___ | 125 |
| Hybrid cat "bred for its skills in magic," according to Napoleon Dynamite | 83 |
| Hybrid animal "bred for its skills in magic," per Napoleon Dynamite | 77 |
| "My tines be long. My tines be short. My tines end ere my first report ..." | 85 |
| Shakespeare sonnet that begins "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key" | 81 |
| "Her name was Magill, and she called herself __": Beatles lyric | 73 |
| ''_____ Folks'' (original name of ''Peanuts'') | 78 |
| Mexican singer Downs who performed on the Oscar-winning "Frida" soundtrack | 84 |
| "Thou art not lovelier than ___, — no" (Millay sonnet start) | 74 |
| U.S. city whose name is pronounced differently from its foreign namesake | 72 |
| Basketball player who was part of Time Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Most Influential People in the World" | 115 |
| "Was that an earthquake or did you just rock my world?," for one | 74 |
| Philatelist George, founder of the largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors | 80 |
| Mark ___-Baker (actor who played Larry Appleton on "Perfect Strangers") | 81 |
| Comics character who said "Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life" | 88 |
| "___ and tigers and bears!" "Oh, my!" (memorable lines from "The Wizard of Oz") | 109 |
| Simpson who said "Beneath my goody two shoes lie some very dark socks" | 80 |
| Simpson's episode "___ First Word" (featuring Liz Taylor as the voice of Maggie) | 94 |
| "___ Substitute" ("Simpsons" episode guest-starring Dustin Hoffman) | 87 |
| Boxer on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 75 |
| Composer who wrote piano transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies | 74 |
| Miller beer that "tastes great" and is "less filling," according to its ads | 95 |
| Nirvana song beginning "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends" | 87 |
| She won her first Tony for playing Flora in "Flora, the Red Menace" | 77 |
| Gershwin title girl who can make "all the clouds ... roll away" | 73 |
| "The ___ is a quadruped which lives in the big rivers like the Amazon" (Monty Python) | 95 |
| Bentsen who said to Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" | 75 |
| Money from a shark scattered in order in seven of this puzzle's answers | 75 |
| "Livin' La Vida ___" (Ricky Martin song in which he really sells his passion for the ladies) | 106 |
| English philosopher who wrote "Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins" | 75 |
| Off one's rocker, and a hint to what the four longest puzzle answers have in common | 87 |
| California's self-proclaimed "Zinfandel Capital of the World" | 75 |
| Song on Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Green River" album | 72 |
| "Oh, Lord, stuck in ___ again" (Creedence Clearwater Revival lament) | 78 |
| "I'm stuck in ___ again" (Credence Clearwater Revival lyric) | 74 |
| What the start of each starred answer is part of, for a company that intersects that answer | 91 |
| Mockingjay holding an arrow in a circle for "The Hunger Games," e.g. | 78 |
| Lindsay who tied with herself for a Worst Actress Razzie by playing two roles | 77 |
| Winner of dual Worst Actress Razzies for "I Know Who Killed Me" | 73 |
| Lindsay nominated for two "Worst Actress" Razzie Awards in 2007 for two roles in the same movie | 105 |
| "It's better than your drawings of naked ___" (Retort by Elaine to Jerry) | 87 |
| Miley Cyrus movie starring Demi Moore (yes, this is a thing; it shouldn't be, but it is) | 92 |
| The "she" in the lyric "She walked up to me and she asked me to dance" | 90 |
| The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho" | 81 |
| Lindsay Lohan's role in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" | 76 |
| In a Kinks hit s/he "walked like a woman and talked like a man" | 73 |
| Hit song with the line "When she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine" | 87 |
| Charmer who "walks like a woman and talks like a man," in a 1970 hit | 78 |
| 1970 hit with the lyric "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls" | 77 |
| "She was ___ in slacks" (part of an opening soliloquy by Humbert Humbert) | 83 |
| "Copacabana" girl who "would merengue and do the cha-cha" | 77 |
| "___ Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" (album by the Kinks) | 83 |
| ''Whatever __ Wants'' (''Damn Yankees'' tune) | 77 |
| About whom Nabokov said "She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle - its composition and its solution at the same time" | 138 |
| ___ Street, London's onetime equivalent to New York's Wall Street | 73 |
| "___ Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China" (1990 Caldecott Medal winner) | 87 |
| "I'm a ___, Dottie. A rebel." (Classic line from "Pee-wee's Big Adventure") | 103 |
| 1959 Cornelius Ryan best-seller about the Normandy invasion, with "The" | 81 |
| Shower object at the center of Bill O'Reilly's 2004 sexual harrasment lawsuit | 85 |
| Jennifer who got the 2007 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist | 72 |
| Seuss character who "spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy" | 78 |
| He told the Once-ler, "Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!" | 121 |
| "No one can sing who has smog in his throat" speaker of kiddie lit | 76 |
| Cosmetics brand with the classic slogan "Because I'm worth it" | 76 |
| The album "Honky Tonk Angels" is a collaboration of Dolly, Tammy and her | 82 |
| Patterson who played the title role on TV's "Private Benjamin" | 76 |
| "What's the fate of the crew?" (highly literal TV title #4) | 73 |
| Billy Joel "Lost a ___ of fights but it taught me how to lose OK" | 75 |
| Trent who resigned from the Senate two days before his brother-in-law was indicted | 82 |
| Reed who sang "when the smack begins to flow/then I really don't care anymore" | 92 |
| Dobbs who blasted "The Lorax" for its environmentalist message | 72 |
| 1980s Olympic star with the autobiography "Breaking the Surface" | 74 |
| When repeated, 1963 hit with alleged obscene lyrics determined by the FBI to be "unintelligible at any speed" | 119 |
| He championed the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | 77 |
| "The occupation of the idle man, the distraction of the warrior, the peril of the sovereign," per Napoleon | 116 |
| "Like the measles, ___ is most dangerous when it comes late in life": Lord Byron | 90 |
| "___ is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies": Aristotle | 77 |
| Brian McKnight/Vanessa Williams duet with the line "It conquers all" | 78 |
| "A bullet from a fucking gun!," per Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet" | 84 |