| It's "a mass of incandescent gas," in a TMBG song | 63 |
| Daylight source found in the seven longest Across answers | 57 |
| Central heating unit (it's found in four themed answers) | 60 |
| Britain's biggest-selling paper, with "The" | 57 |
| "That will be ere the set of ___": "Macbeth" | 64 |
| "Music of the ___" (Rihanna's debut album) | 56 |
| Novel about "lost generation" lives, with "The" | 67 |
| Ursine critter with an orange-yellow marking on its chest | 57 |
| Frito-Lay product once sold in a 100% compostable bag | 53 |
| " . . . sweetest songs yet remain to be ___": Whitman | 63 |
| "The ___ set; the swallows are asleep": Shelley | 57 |
| Like costs that can't be recovered, in economists' lingo | 64 |
| Microsystems company forced to cut operating expenses! | 54 |
| Late Unification Church leader who visited the astronomy class? | 63 |
| Kinks "Lazing on a ___, in the summertime" | 52 |
| Its logo has an arrow pointing down and to the right | 52 |
| Jazz legend who performed with his "Arkestra" | 55 |
| Only Pacific Division NBA team not based in California | 54 |
| It forms part of the border of UCLA's Westwood campus | 57 |
| It made John Denver happy when it was on his shoulders | 54 |
| George Burns's 1975 Oscar film, with "The" | 56 |
| Author referenced by Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" | 60 |
| Sch. system with campuses in Albany and 63 other places | 55 |
| Chinese revolutionary who attacked Dan Quayle in a debate? | 58 |
| He developed the "Three Principles of the People" | 59 |
| "___ Ninjas" (Nickelodeon show with George Takei) | 59 |
| Starter for ''star'' or ''power'' | 65 |
| 2007 hit comedy with a character who dubbed himself McLovin | 59 |
| Where this puzzle's theme pairs would like to meet | 54 |
| "He's prepared a ___ of popcorn for himself ..." | 62 |
| Event in which Picabo Street won her only Olympic gold medal | 60 |
| "...and they sent my case to what were clearly the ___" | 65 |
| Reality show focused on breeding the best female goat? | 54 |
| "Praise Citizens United! Praise Citizens United!"? | 60 |
| "60 Minutes" reporter Morley as an apartment manager? | 63 |
| Expressions of regret from apartment building managers? | 55 |
| 2004 documentary film title (with ''Me'') | 57 |
| Seattle team that became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008 | 58 |
| "I say every member of this board is a ___..." | 56 |
| Economics has a "law" of these market forces | 54 |
| Group that was second only to the Beatles in '60s #1 hits | 61 |
| "Stoned Love" singers, with "the" | 53 |
| ''Big'' part of California or of a Kerouac novel | 64 |
| "It's a ___!" ("You can't miss!") | 61 |
| Kiss "I'm nobody's fool, and I ___ something" | 63 |
| "Be ___ wear some flowers in your hair" (1960s lyric) | 63 |
| One "standing by the ocean's roar," in a 1963 song | 64 |
| "Then Dad played his favorite CD, '___' ..." | 62 |
| Daughter once nicknamed "TomKitten" by the media | 58 |
| One of South America's smallest republics, formerly | 55 |
| Brazilian neighbor with fewer than half a million people | 56 |
| Message written in the sky by the Wicked Witch of the West | 58 |
| TV feature, and a clue to six other answers in this puzzle | 58 |
| His writings inspired Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" | 62 |
| Show whose original winner, Richard Hatch, strategized while naked | 66 |
| George's ill-fated fiancée on "Seinfeld" | 57 |
| Sister of Lucy, Edmund and Peter in the Narnia books | 52 |
| Nathan and Matthew's "Producers" director | 55 |
| Barry's "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" costar | 60 |
| "Regarding the Pain of Others" author Sontag | 54 |
| ''Dead Man Walking'' actress Sarandon | 53 |
| ___ Langer, who wrote "Philosophy in a New Key" | 57 |
| Fox News political analyst with her head in the sand? | 53 |
| ''Stop the Insanity!'' exercise guru | 52 |
| Mixed drink #4: Metal chopsticks (vodka, Kahlúa, and light cream) | 68 |
| "Wake Up Little ___" (Everly Brothers hit) | 52 |
| The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little ___" | 55 |
| Girl, in song, "way down yonder in the paw-paw patch" | 63 |
| "Wake Up Little __" (Everly Brothers tune) | 52 |
| Final track on the Rolling Stones' "12 X 5" | 57 |
| 1957 hit covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968 | 56 |
| Pre-vacation checklist item for a party planner fond of streamers? | 66 |
| The world's longest crosses Japan's Akashi Strait | 57 |
| ... "And I have a ___ you'll love this: free shipping!" | 69 |
| "Why can't you see what you're doing to me . . ." | 67 |
| "Why can't you see what you're doing to me ..." | 65 |
| The Beatles' "I Feel Fine" begins with one | 56 |
| Main campus site of the University of the South Pacific | 55 |
| 1990 Grammy winner for her album "Days of Open Hand" | 62 |
| Financial guru who wrote "Women & Money" | 54 |
| Singer Quatro who played Leather Tuscadero on "Happy Days" | 68 |
| "The World of --- Wong" (William Holden film) | 55 |
| "The World of ___ Wong" (1957 Richard Mason novel) | 60 |
| "___ Q" (Creedence Clearwater Revival hit) | 52 |
| Snack that comes in banana and devil's food cake flavors | 60 |
| Scandinavian man's name that means "young warrior" | 64 |
| Name that comes from Old Norse for "young man" | 56 |
| Hummer voiced by Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Cars" | 58 |
| Former English World Cup manager ___-Gören Eriksson | 54 |
| ___ Kramer, 2010 Dutch Olympic gold medalist in speed skating | 61 |
| One who dominates another by sheer force of personality | 55 |
| "Law & Order: ___" (TV spinoff series) | 52 |
| Part of the "Law & Order" franchise, familiarly | 61 |
| Obeys a neatnik pirate's command regarding the deck | 55 |
| Source of most of the names in "The Lion King" | 56 |
| Language in which "simba" means "lion" | 58 |
| Language in which "lion" is "simba" | 55 |
| One of the birds that "come back to Capistrano," in song | 66 |
| E. B. White's "The Trumpet of the ___" | 52 |
| Constellation next to the Dragon, with "the" | 54 |