| Characters who "haunt" this puzzle's theme answers | 64 |
| 1994 Michael Keaton film in which real journalists have cameo roles | 67 |
| 1994 film taglined "An everyday adventure" | 52 |
| 1973 film for which John Houseman was named Best Supporting Actor | 65 |
| What Dad the fisherman is tired of getting every Christmas? | 59 |
| 1993 Julia Roberts movie featuring product placement | 52 |
| 2002 film for which Adrien Brody won a Best Actor Oscar | 55 |
| 2002 film about a musician who survived the Holocaust | 53 |
| 1993 film that won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscars | 66 |
| "Schindler's List" beat it for Best Picture | 57 |
| Elton John "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only ___" | 58 |
| What the capitalist pig's financial clout gives him when shopping | 69 |
| 1822 Walter Scott novel about Capt. Clement Cleveland | 53 |
| Stop-motion animated Fox series featuring Eddie Murphy | 54 |
| Second of two groups that may come in handy for this puzzle? | 60 |
| "General good is ___ of the scoundrel": Blake | 55 |
| ''This story's getting interesting!'' | 57 |
| Noted Iraq war critic who recently visited the White House | 58 |
| Art direction nominees Crowley and Ochipinti for "___" | 64 |
| Niccòlo Machiavelli book posthumously published in 1532 | 58 |
| Mark Twain novel whose plot is encapsulated in this puzzle | 58 |
| Novel about a kid who looks just like Orville Redenbacher? | 58 |
| Where ''Survivor'' Tribal Council meetings are held? | 68 |
| Copy of "Atlas Shrugged" that was ordered? | 52 |
| Tendency to throw one's club after sinking a short stroke? | 62 |
| Something to "Blame It On," in a Milli Vanilli song | 61 |
| Group whose 1968 album "Time Peace" was #1 | 52 |
| "Ghastly grim and ancient" poem title critter | 55 |
| Poem that opens "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." | 59 |
| Word with ''so'' or ''hi'' | 58 |
| "And ___ were shepherds . . . ": J. S. Bach | 53 |
| Round trip ... or the subtitle of "The Hobbit" | 56 |
| Debate team's consensus about rules for counterarguments? | 61 |
| 2003 spy thriller starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell | 54 |
| "Cincinnati has an inexperienced team this year" | 58 |
| William Carlos Williams poem that begins "so much depends" | 68 |
| 1994 Denis Leary film about a crook who acts as an arbiter | 58 |
| Corollary to Descartes' famous conclusion? (Part 3) | 55 |
| Admission from someone who just realized they're rambling | 61 |
| "___ always money in the banana stand!" (George Bluth) | 64 |
| Word before "a will" and "a way" | 52 |
| "_____ a Small Hotel" (Rodgers and Hart hit) | 54 |
| "__ a place for us ...": "West Side Story" lyric | 68 |
| Maria ___ (queen of Hungary and Bohemia in the 1700s) | 53 |
| "Ay" follower in Hamlet's famous soliloquy | 56 |
| Thomas Hardy book about a taxpayer's deductions for groceries? | 66 |
| Prefix with "dynamics" or "nuclear" | 55 |
| Beginning with "dynamic" or "nuclear" | 57 |
| Classic verse from the collection "Mountain Interval" | 63 |
| Hope/Crosby travel flick that takes place in Mali's capital? | 64 |
| 2002 Dennis Quaid film about a struggling minor-league pitcher | 62 |
| "The force . . . that blasts ___ of trees": D. Thomas | 63 |
| Bette Midler film loosely based on Janis Joplin's life | 58 |
| "I say love, it is a flower, and you its only seed" song | 66 |
| Heroic medal whose recipient didn't feel worthy of it? | 58 |
| Film starring Liz and Dick that rubs people the wrong way? | 58 |
| In a famous Christmas poem, it follows "threw up" | 59 |
| Hustling is the same as cheating, according to these authorities | 64 |
| "We hold ___ truths to be self-evident . . ." | 55 |
| "We hold ___ truths to be self-evident ..." | 53 |
| "One of __ days, Alice ...": Ralph Kramden | 52 |
| "___ Words" (2005 Natasha Bedingifeld hit) | 52 |
| "___ Words" (2005 Natasha Bedingfield hit) | 52 |
| "___ Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (1966 hit) | 57 |
| "___ are the times that try men's souls": Thomas Paine | 68 |
| "___ are the times ..." (Thomas Paine quote) | 54 |
| ''__ are the times that try men's souls'' | 61 |
| “___ Thirteen” (1931 Faulkner short-story collection) | 61 |
| Classic Frances Hodgson Burnett children's novel | 52 |
| Legendary slayer of the Minotaur who became king of Athens | 58 |
| Ingmar Bergman classic narrated by Jacques Cousteau? | 52 |
| Show on which all nine celebrities have guest-starred as themselves | 67 |
| Spellbinding "Batman" villainess played by Joan Collins | 65 |
| Character played by Joan Collins on "Batman" | 54 |
| 1999 film whose title is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 58 |
| Band with a 1985 U.K. #1 album titled "Meat Is Murder" | 64 |
| 1948 Olivia de Havilland drama that takes place in an insane asylum | 67 |
| 1980s Saturday morning cartoon characters who lived underwater | 62 |
| Behavior guidelines for a former TV host's family? | 54 |
| Hemingway's sequel to "The Daughter Gets Up"? | 59 |
| Writers Guild of America's best-written TV series of all time | 65 |
| First cable series to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama | 55 |
| Music magazine that rates albums on a scale of 1-5 mics | 55 |
| Hip-hop magazine with a "Five-Mic albums" rating | 58 |
| After U2, highest-grossing concert band of all time, informally | 63 |
| English "Rattus Norvegicus" punk forerunners | 54 |
| 1957 film with Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, and Error Flynn | 69 |
| "___ on the British Empire" (19th-century boast) | 58 |
| Last letter in the first third of the Greek alphabet | 52 |
| Greek letter traditionally associated with Earth Day | 52 |
| Buck Owens' "I've Got a Tiger by ---" | 55 |
| "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows" play | 63 |
| Oscar Wilde's "greatest of all art forms" | 55 |
| Documentary about an online connection to a dieting website? | 60 |
| What's promising about a K-K-Q-Q-J-J-7 rummy hand? | 54 |
| Quote from ''The Philadelphia Story'' | 53 |
| Start of a quote by Bertrand Russell relevant to crossword solvers | 66 |
| ... "Order '___ to a Slimmer You'!" ... | 57 |
| Early vehicle for Marisa Tomei, as an extra in a health club | 60 |
| Girl group with the 1965 #2 hit "A Lover's Concerto" | 66 |