| Classic song that begins "Proudly swept the rain cloud by the cliffs" | 79 |
| Contralto Susannah Maria __ who debuted in her brother Thomas's first opera | 79 |
| Complete freedom ... and a hint to each half of the answer to each starred clue | 79 |
| Classic novel that ends "Well said, but we must cultivate our garden" | 79 |
| City that was the source of the marble for Michelangelo's "David" | 79 |
| Comic strip whose last collection was "Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet" | 79 |
| Cartoon exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 | 79 |
| Colleague of John, Antonin, Anthony, Clarence, Ruth, Stephen, Samuel, and Sonia | 79 |
| Catcher Carlton __, who famously homered to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 79 |
| County that is home to Death Valley and has Mount Whitney on its western border | 79 |
| Cartoon character that was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon | 79 |
| Classic 1978 rock song with the lyric "Nothing to do / Nowhere to go" | 79 |
| Colored like the boat in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" | 79 |
| Conservative politician who wrote "Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century" | 79 |
| Certain filings, and what happens literally in six of this puzzle's answers | 79 |
| City with a radio station that has the same call letters as the city's name | 79 |
| Chicago-based insurance company that sponsors Manchester United's uniforms | 78 |
| California governor Gray whom Cybill Shepherd called "a good kisser" | 78 |
| California locale where "Maria Maria" fell in love, in a Santana hit | 78 |
| Coveted [subscribe to avxwords.com for the best indie puzzles in the land ...] | 78 |
| Comic collected in "The Chickens Are Restless," with "The" | 78 |
| Charmer who "walks like a woman and talks like a man," in a 1970 hit | 78 |
| Chairman who said "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" | 78 |
| Cassini who said "To be well dressed is a little like being in love" | 78 |
| Cheri who portrayed the cheerleader Arianna on "Saturday Night Live" | 78 |
| Characters in "Julius Caesar" and "The Merchant of Venice" | 78 |
| Comedian Bob who said, "'Full House' gave me Tourette's" | 78 |
| Collection of stories that includes "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 78 |
| Classic country song with the lyric "I've lived my life in vain" | 78 |
| Close attention to one's cook-off entry? (... Ã la Jerry Brown in 1998) | 78 |
| Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" | 78 |
| Charla's taller racing partner, on "The Amazing Race: All-Stars" | 78 |
| Cigarette brand that once used the slogan "Not a cough in a carload" | 78 |
| Critically acclaimed role-playing game in the "Elder Scrolls" series | 78 |
| Carroll critter that "frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea" | 78 |
| City with a landmark spelled out by the circled letters, reading left to right | 78 |
| Common name for focal dystonia, characterized by the loss of fine motor skills | 78 |
| Courtney Love wore one on the cover of the "Live Through This" album | 78 |
| Chimpanzee psychologist played by Kim Hunter in "Planet of the Apes" | 78 |
| Company founded by and named after an MIT professor of electrical engineering | 77 |
| Company mascot introduced in the 1930s that has never been put out to pasture | 77 |
| Claudio's love in Berlioz's "Béatrice et Bénédict" | 77 |
| Czech-born celebrity who had a cameo in "The First Wives' Club" | 77 |
| Cracker that is the "apple" in an 80-year-old mock apple pie recipe | 77 |
| Cynic Bierce who once defined "alone" as "in bad company" | 77 |
| Celebrity chef and host of the Food Network's "Boy Meets Grill" | 77 |
| Cream that proto-Nissan owners had to apply to their vehicles on summer days? | 77 |
| Composer/humorist who said "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" | 77 |
| Clique of cows who totally knew about this patch of grass before anyone else? | 77 |
| Classic song that begins "When my baby / When my baby smiles at me" | 77 |
| Commercially, it started in the U.S. around the time of the Boeing 707 launch | 77 |
| Classic math problem involving a chess piece's movement through the board | 77 |
| Character in "The Godfather" who "sleeps with the fishes" | 77 |
| Clothing impresario who bought Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball | 77 |
| Composer of the one-act operas "Bertha" and "The Robbers" | 77 |
| Classic 1934 novel set in Prohibition-era New York City, with "The" | 77 |
| Confucius say "Passionate kiss like spider's web; leads to ___" | 77 |
| Coulter whose jaw was wired shut in November, according to the New York Post | 76 |
| Comedian who was the Peace and Freedom Party's 2012 presidential nominee | 76 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," familiarly | 76 |
| Capital of the Netherlands' South Holland province, with "The" | 76 |
| Company that recalled "Active Maturity with Beef in Gravy" in 2007 | 76 |
| Capital of the country that's alphabetically first in the United Nations | 76 |
| Cosmetics brand with the classic slogan "Because I'm worth it" | 76 |
| Composer of "Oedipus Tex" and "A Little Nightmare Music" | 76 |
| Chip ___, whom many consider the greatest cash game poker player of all time | 76 |
| César of fancy hotels [subscribe to great weekly puzzles at avxwords.com] | 76 |
| College football circuit that's been finally retired for playoffs: Abbr. | 76 |
| Cracker variety with the slogan "The snacking crunch with a punch" | 76 |
| Charles who had mutton chops before he got older and grew a long white beard | 76 |
| Classic TV sitcom whose working title was "45 Minutes From Harlem" | 76 |
| Colts owner Robert who spirited the team away from Baltimore to Indianapolis | 76 |
| Content of Muhammad Ali's supposed shortest poem in the English language | 76 |
| Company associated with the alcoholic "7" in a "7 and 7" | 76 |
| Channel between mainland England and the Isle of Wight, with "the" | 76 |
| Classic 1911 children's novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| CSN&Y "You place the flowers in the ___ that you bought today" | 76 |
| Claim from a video store stocking "Bulworth" and "Reds"? | 76 |
| Classic cartoon in which "Kill da wabbit" is sung to a Wagner tune | 76 |
| Calvin Coolidge lived up to his reputation as a man of few words when he ... | 76 |
| Classic Hanks line in "Saving Private Ryan," "___ this" | 75 |
| Contraction with ''a prayer'' or ''a clue'' | 75 |
| Country whose national anthem's title means "The Hope": Abbr. | 75 |
| Cameron of "Growing Pains" and "Left Behind: The Movie" | 75 |
| California's self-proclaimed "Zinfandel Capital of the World" | 75 |
| Comedy group whose show sometimes opened with a naked guy playing the organ | 75 |
| Catching one in a dream means you should be wary of bad company, supposedly | 75 |
| City that's home to a statue honoring the TV show "Bewitched" | 75 |
| Classic 1890's song that ends "Sailor take care! ... Beware!" | 75 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #3: "Toxic" singer and Stooges frontman | 75 |
| Character who sings "She's a super King Kamehameha bee-yotch" | 75 |
| Cuban-born actor whose first film was 1940's "Too Many Girls" | 75 |
| Curtis who wrote the children's book "My Mommy Hung the Moon" | 75 |
| Cartoon character played by Leslie Nielsen in a 1997 live-action adaptation | 75 |
| Condition resulting from long-term dietary deficiencies or undernourishment | 75 |
| Chic scientists love these Day-Glo accessories for Special Forces troops... | 75 |
| Clapton "Don't want ___. Just another reason for another lie" | 75 |
| Classical music group ... or what the four sets of circled letters make up? | 75 |
| Country-pop star with the 2008 six-time platinum album "Fearless" | 75 |
| Carpet cleaning device with the slogan "Nothing sucks like a ..." | 75 |