| The Library's Special Collections include one of George Washington's creations, ___ | 91 |
| "Take On Me" one-hit wonders vs. "Every Breath You Take" singer vs. "Angel of Death" metal band (10/14/1066) | 138 |
| "___ is only an egg's way of making another egg" (Samuel Butler) | 78 |
| Cofounder of Atlantic Records who was chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [39 47/127 inches] | 99 |
| That guy who shoves his political beliefs on you whether you like it or not, briefly | 84 |
| Lincoln's description of pre-Civil War America ... or a hint to the circled letters | 87 |
| Cheating euchre player in Bret Harte's "Plain Language From Truthful James" | 89 |
| "Mom put her headphones on and started listening to an audiobook of '___' ..." | 96 |
| 2008 bailed-out insurance co. that paid $165M in bonuses to its executives in 2009 | 82 |
| 1990 film with the tagline "The few. The proud. The totally insane." | 78 |
| Star of "Golden Receiver," "World Pup," and "Seventh Inning Fetch," among others | 110 |
| Winner of the inaugural Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent (2012) | 73 |
| Solution to the classic riddle "What force or strength cannot get through, / I, with gentle touch, can do" | 116 |
| "The House Without ___" (first of Earl Derr Biggers's Charlie Chan novels) | 88 |
| Oscar-winning screenwriter of "A Beautiful Mind," ___ Goldsman | 72 |
| ___ Goldsman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of "A Beautiful Mind" | 72 |
| Rap/country collaboration with the hit "Konvict in Tight Fittin' Jeans"? | 86 |
| Ohio minor league team whose alumni include C. C. Sabathia and Manny RamÃrez | 79 |
| 1915 song that popularized the phrase "Hail! Hail! The gang's all here" | 85 |
| Cocktails made with Southern Comfort, sloe gin, amaretto and orange juice | 73 |
| Oscar-winning actor with the autobiography "Halfway Through the Door" | 79 |
| Actor whose debut film was "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" | 88 |
| Comet co-discoverer who shares his name with a father-and-son acting pair | 73 |
| He said "Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers" | 91 |
| Comic who said "A short summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us. We won. Let's eat" | 112 |
| Character actor who played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," 1951 | 73 |
| The artist ___ wrote a four-book treatise on a) human proportions; b) botany; c) choral music; d) theology | 106 |
| Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture | 110 |
| "We're No Angels" costar with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov | 77 |
| ___ Snow, Russell Brand's character in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek" | 117 |
| Kid-lit character who had a "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" | 81 |
| "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" author Sherman | 74 |
| First NHL player to win the Art Ross Trophy, Maurice Richard Trophy, Lester B. Pearson Award, and Hart Memorial Trophy in a single season | 137 |
| Oscar-nominated director--1940, 1944, 1945, 1954 and 1960--who didn't win | 77 |
| Sec. of State who said "I am in control here" after Reagan was shot | 77 |
| ENGLISH GIRL, cat lover, party-goer, seeks fellow-adventurer to share dreams ... | 80 |
| ... the one for Medicine by this "Midnight in Paris" actress, ... | 75 |
| Somewhat suspect (and a hint to what can be found by connecting the circled letters in alphabetical order) | 106 |
| Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" | 124 |
| 2009 film for which Sandra Bullock won a Razzie for playing a crossword puzzle writer | 85 |
| Like some elite U.S. athletes (or an apt alternate title for this puzzle) | 73 |
| Role for which George Burns won Best Supporting Actor in "The Sunshine Boys" | 86 |
| End of a nursery rhyme, or the fate of this puzzle's other three long answers | 81 |
| Famous rallying cry ... and a hint to eight other answers in this puzzle | 72 |
| Groundbreaking sitcom, and a hint to four different three-letter words concealed by starred answers | 99 |
| ... using ___: “Lisa loved her little lamb / Its wool was white and waxen” | 82 |
| Duane who was #2 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" | 87 |
| 1962 Anne Sexton poetry collection whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 75 |
| Jurassic genus whose name means, literally, "different lizard" | 72 |
| Geography class: D -- “Our instructor tried to cover too much material; he was ___” | 91 |
| Annual plant that produces many future plants, as its name would suggest | 72 |
| Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band "Instant Karma! (We ___)" | 72 |
| Varnish component that gets its name from the Latin for "garlic" | 74 |
| Program parodied on "Futurama" as "Single Female Lawyer" | 76 |
| "Highest Mountains" or "World Series MVP's," e.g. | 73 |
| Product once pitched with the line "Sometimes you feel like a nut" | 76 |
| Song whose title is repeated before and after "gentille" in its first line | 84 |
| Video game state where your character does a lot of spitting and grazing? | 73 |
| Like the order of the letters in the first words of the starred entries, before being shaken up | 95 |
| How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture | 78 |
| Certain character set ... and a hint to translating this week's final answer | 80 |
| Stream of radioactive particles with the lowest penetration of ordinary objects | 79 |
| 1980 William Hurt film (and what eight answers herein contain on a trip across the country) | 91 |
| Campus radio log, Monday: Iggy airs cubic-zirconia infomercial in response to requests for ... | 94 |
| Instrument heard prominently midway through the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'" | 110 |
| "Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's ___!" (Roseanne Roseannadanna line) | 93 |
| "___ gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car" (Carrie Snow) | 93 |
| Answer to the riddle "What has rivers without water, forests without trees, and cities without houses?" | 113 |
| "___ should keep himself to himself": "Treasure Island" | 75 |
| DESIGNER: "But I'm innocent!" LIEUT: "Maybe so, but we have ___." | 89 |
| Using both sides with equal frequency (like the letters in this puzzle's answer grid?) | 90 |
| Cynic Bierce who once defined "alone" as "in bad company" | 77 |
| She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” | 97 |
| "The Crossword Obsession: The History and Lore of the World's Most Popular Pastime" author Coral | 110 |
| It begins "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" | 88 |
| TV show on which Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon holds the record for most appearances with 110 | 99 |
| Ryan Piers Williams's romp on a waterbed with "Ugly Betty" star Ferrera? | 86 |
| Start of Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'Discussion' in 'The Devil's Dictionary' | 104 |
| Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/Down hints) for this all to work | 99 |
| Question that may be answered "No, you're not responsible" | 72 |
| "Twenty bullets and five grenades, give or take", for instance? | 73 |
| ... Basketball Hall of Fame [1959] and College Football Hall of Fame [1951] | 75 |
| ___ compounds are synthesized to mimic the effects of a) adrenaline; b) testosterone; c) serotonin; d) insulin | 110 |
| "The narrator of the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy's a stealth assassin"? | 88 |
| His right arm was severed in a light saber duel before he became Darth Vader | 76 |
| Period of supervision for a porn actor who's done poorly in recent backdoor scenes? | 87 |
| They Might Be Giants song with the line "And her voice is a backwards record" | 87 |
| The zoo's masseuse had to rub the back of one of the gorilla's necks whenever ___ | 89 |
| Device used in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" | 78 |
| A rewrite of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using ___: “A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece white as snow” | 127 |
| "Conversation is ___ in which a man has all mankind for his competitors": Ralph Waldo Emerson | 103 |
| "Fiddler on the Roof" setting that answers the question "Where else could Sabbath be so sweet?" | 115 |
| "I beheld the earth, ___, it was without form" (Jeremiah 4:23) | 72 |
| On second thought, make it a costume drama: "Stop Making Sense..." | 76 |
| William Shakespeare on the knuckleball ("Henry VI, Part II," II, i, 6) | 80 |
| Ali G asked him, "Has journalists ever put out tomorrow's news by mistake?" | 89 |
| Who said "Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?" | 93 |
| "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of ___ ..." (Matthew 19:24) | 85 |
| Play whose title character won't eat anything unless it's fried? | 72 |
| "A" making "E" a "D" in 1914, "B" its "C" in 1925 | 99 |