| It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it | 75 |
| It doesn't portray a big win nearly as well when it's regular-sized | 75 |
| Item on a safari guide's "least recommended activities" list? | 75 |
| Identification that John David Sweeney, Jr. was the first to receive: Abbr. | 75 |
| It begins: "It was the best of times . . . " (with "A") | 75 |
| Instrument on which Jake Shimabukuro can play "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 75 |
| It's pictured in Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhone" | 75 |
| Illustrator of "Paradise Lost" and "The Divine Comedy" | 74 |
| It "is easy, and has infinite forms," according to Blaise Pascal | 74 |
| It lost out to "Spirited Away" for Best Animated Feature of 2002 | 74 |
| It's bordered by three countries with "-stan" in their names | 74 |
| In "Penny Lane," what the banker never wears in the pouring rain | 74 |
| Its second-ever video was for Pat Benatar's "You Better Run" | 74 |
| It's easy to do if you've got a book, hard if kids are bugging you | 74 |
| Ingredient served with fries and brown gravy in the Canadian dish poutine | 74 |
| If one were to ___, one would get articles about crazy online personal ads | 74 |
| Its ratification was one of the goals of the women's suffrage movement | 74 |
| It's about 325 miles east of Texas's H-Town, with "the" | 73 |
| In a Kinks hit s/he "walked like a woman and talked like a man" | 73 |
| It can be heard in Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Lucky Man" | 73 |
| Indian whose tribe's name means "lovers of sexual pleasure" | 73 |
| In 1798 France ordered Bonaparte to invade Egypt and take control of this | 73 |
| In verse, "His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!" | 73 |
| Its ingredients may include cocoa, confectioners' sugar, and vanillin | 73 |
| It's easy to do if you brought a headset, hard if your batteries died | 73 |
| It may be given to a turkey before roasting, or a person during a massage | 73 |
| Idea that motivates getting bikini-clad babes to advertise motor vehicles | 73 |
| In Search Of: Southeast Asian boyfriend; maybe you can work out as my ___ | 73 |
| Its royal badge features the motto "Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad" | 73 |
| It's the end of the world!...if you sort the countries alphabetically | 73 |
| Its first issue featured Sugar Ray Robinson's wife Edna on the cover | 72 |
| It stands for "Committee for State Security" after translation | 72 |
| In his first TV appearance, he played Scrooge in a 1962 animated special | 72 |
| Island nation that was the setting of a 2005 "Survivor" season | 72 |
| It answers the question "Do you know how fast you were going?" | 72 |
| Iconic AC/DC album with the song "You Shook Me All Night Long" | 72 |
| Invoice for loofahs with "No-Spin Zone" printed on the handle? | 72 |
| Illinois city where HAL from "2001" was purportedly programmed | 72 |
| It's good for "absolutely nothing" according to a 1970 hit | 72 |
| It's ''positively'' hidden four times in this puzzle | 72 |
| It ends "...and peaceful slept the mighty Hector's shade" | 71 |
| It claimed to have "more stars than there are in the heavens" | 71 |
| It bills itself as "The World's Most Famous Arena": Abbr. | 71 |
| Item on the cover of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" | 71 |
| Israeli author of "Where the Jackals Howl, and Other Stories" | 71 |
| Innocent response to "Are you smoking that cigarette inside?" | 71 |
| Ian whose "Atonement" was adapted into a Best Picture nominee | 71 |
| In song she was "a wild sort of devil, but dead on the level" | 71 |
| It usually consists of an entrée, adagio, two variations, and a coda | 71 |
| In the 2005 national one, the winning word was "appoggiatura" | 71 |
| Italian poet who was the subject of a Goethe play and a Donizetti opera | 71 |
| Its film school alumni include Alexander Payne and Francis Ford Coppola | 71 |
| It starts in Friar Laurence's cell in "Romeo and Juliet" | 70 |
| Its motto is "To help them, you have to help yourself first" | 70 |
| It may be heard on the NPR show "The Thistle & Shamrock" | 70 |
| Irving Berlin's "___ My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen" | 70 |
| Ionesco play featuring the Professor and the Pupil, with “The” | 70 |
| Item: 1991 play. Problem: Borrowed by New York patron, never returned. | 70 |
| Is blessed with many assets, before "him" or "her" | 70 |
| Iraqi city where the name for the fabric "muslin" comes from | 70 |
| Impresario Hurok's drawing of the Roman sun god isn't too bad? | 70 |
| Interjection that seemingly no one on the internet can spell correctly | 70 |
| It's "when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" | 69 |
| It was once described as an "odious column of bolted metal" | 69 |
| International company with the slogan "Home away from home" | 69 |
| Item: 1936 novel. Problem: Missing from collection after freak storm. | 69 |
| Its southern border is about seven times longer than its northern one | 69 |
| It begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son ..." | 69 |
| International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee the same year as Guillermo | 69 |
| It ends "... and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh" | 69 |
| It can follow the last word of this puzzle's five longest answers | 69 |
| Its youngest British member, Elise Tan Roberts, was admitted at age 2 | 69 |
| Instrument heard in Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" | 69 |
| Instruments featured in the first of Bach's Brandenburg concertos | 69 |
| Its original purpose was to house Buddhist relics and sacred writings | 69 |
| Indiana town that's home to the International Circus Hall of Fame | 69 |
| It's "architecture, not interior decoration": Hemingway | 69 |
| It once billed itself "The most trusted name in television" | 69 |
| In modern-day slang, guilt and lack of motivation after becoming rich | 69 |
| Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista ___, after whom a comet is named | 69 |
| It's also called the "Lincoln Law" (found in GOLF CART) | 69 |
| Italian philosopher ___ Bruno, whose name was given to a lunar crater | 69 |
| Indian car company trying to break into the U.S. market with the Nano | 69 |
| Its flag has green and yellow stripes and a white star in a red field | 69 |
| Informal greetings (that were used to create this puzzle's theme) | 69 |
| It may precede ''boy!'' or ''girl!'' | 68 |
| It lost to VHS in part because the porn industry didn't adopt it | 68 |
| In one sense, it's used in breaking, and in another, in entering | 68 |
| Interior Secretary Hitchcock who served under McKinley and Roosevelt | 68 |
| It "has its reasons which reason knows nothing of": Pascal | 68 |
| It starts "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son..." | 68 |
| It's prohibited by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 | 68 |
| It knocked "Bridge Over Troubled Water" out of the #1 spot | 68 |
| Instrument heard on Simon & Garfunkel's "Bookends" | 68 |
| Its first words were "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll" | 68 |
| In "Casablanca," who said, "Play it again, Sam"? | 68 |
| It's next to mercurio in the tabla periódica de los elementos | 68 |
| Item with features that begin this puzzle's four longest answers | 68 |
| It has a separate men's store opposite its main store in Chicago | 68 |
| Its magazine had the recent article "The Polynesian Ideal" | 68 |