| Wanda and Darryl's firstborn in the comic strip "Baby Blues" | 74 |
| Words with ''standstill'' or ''distance'' | 73 |
| Words with ''crossroads'' or ''dead end'' | 73 |
| What Meat Loaf went around in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" | 73 |
| Words between ''Would you'' and ''dance'' | 73 |
| Word that can follow the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| Word with "Happy" and "Death Valley" in old TV titles | 73 |
| With "The," classic writing guide (and this puzzle's title) | 73 |
| With "The," city with a lake called the Hofvijver at its center | 73 |
| Words before "signed, sealed, delivered" in a Stevie Wonder hit | 73 |
| Words with ''the kill'' or ''the buzzer'' | 73 |
| What Pink didn't want her man to do on the "Funhouse" album | 73 |
| Winner of dual Worst Actress Razzies for "I Know Who Killed Me" | 73 |
| What you might get from the ends of this puzzle's six longest answers | 73 |
| Whence the phrase "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep" | 73 |
| What you might reach for after hearing "Don't go anywhere!" | 73 |
| Winner of the inaugural Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent (2012) | 73 |
| Weather comment represented visually by this puzzle's circled letters | 73 |
| Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" | 73 |
| Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | 73 |
| Where this grid's starred answers' ends have particular relevance | 73 |
| What the Baseball Hall of Fame is considering lifting a lifetime ban for? | 73 |
| Words with ''pedestal'' or ''happy face'' | 73 |
| What people in relationships need together ... or this puzzle's title | 73 |
| What King Arthur's men would like to have seen more of along the way? | 73 |
| Words before "a Brain" and "an Animal" in book titles | 73 |
| What this puzzle's theme answers contain (if you look closely enough) | 73 |
| Word with ''Entertainment!'' or ''Amore'' | 73 |
| What can be said about the answers to this puzzle's capitalized clues | 73 |
| Word that led to the "Why a duck?" routine by the Marx brothers | 73 |
| When "anything can happen" on "The Mickey Mouse Club" | 73 |
| Whence "Nothing will come of nothing" in "King Lear" | 72 |
| When Elder Kevin Price goes to Uganda, in "The Book of Mormon" | 72 |
| Words with ''remember'' or ''celebrate'' | 72 |
| Words with ''a sudden'' or ''the above'' | 72 |
| Word fatefully misspelled in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" obituary | 72 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if you move its first letter to the end | 72 |
| Whenever Erica Hill came on the set of "CBS This Morning," ___ | 72 |
| Whom you might see in your rearview mirror if you ignore the above signs | 72 |
| Where Al Yankovic bought a "Dukes of Hazzard" ashtray, in song | 72 |
| Wiesel who said, "Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil" | 72 |
| When Harriet Farnam invented her "Non-Swarmer" beehive, she __ | 72 |
| Work unit that appears far less often in crosswords than "erg" | 72 |
| When Hedy Lamarr co-invented a radio-frequency encryption system, she __ | 72 |
| Word with ''hitching'' or ''scratching'' | 72 |
| Words that can precede, in order, the three words in each starred answer | 72 |
| When written three times, fraternity in "Revenge of the Nerds" | 72 |
| Where the smart set sat [answer to be entered in the appropriate manner] | 72 |
| What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for | 72 |
| What's heard in the computer lab when the regular teachers are sick? | 72 |
| What this puzzle's capitalized clues are, both by definition and pun | 72 |
| While working as a waiter, he annoyed a character only known as Fat Blue | 72 |
| Words with ''there'' and ''the balance'' | 72 |
| Whence the line "A person's a person, no matter how small" | 72 |
| What the tabloids desperately searched for after a noted 2008 pregnancy? | 72 |
| What Fido's recently purchased tether gave him (with "a")? | 72 |
| Warning from the critters that appear to be slithering through the grid? | 72 |
| Word for "beginning" that encloses four answers in this puzzle | 72 |
| Where "we can make it if we run," per Bruce Springsteen (1975) | 72 |
| Words before "Remember" and "Forget," in song titles | 72 |
| Words with ''the minute'' or ''no good'' | 72 |
| Word with ''temporary'' or ''practical'' | 72 |
| Where there are "many ways to have a good time," in a 1978 hit | 72 |
| Where "they can start you back on your way," according to song | 72 |
| What "they've all gone to look for," in a Paul Simon song | 71 |
| What it is "when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" | 71 |
| Words with ''distance'' or ''discount'' | 71 |
| Words with ''early age'' or ''impasse'' | 71 |
| Word repeated before "lama sabachthani" by Jesus on the cross | 71 |
| Wesley Crusher's rank on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" | 71 |
| William ___, half of the team that produced Tom and Jerry and Yogi Bear | 71 |
| What "Otello" and "Peter Grimes" immediately became | 71 |
| Word with ''each life'' or ''thin air'' | 71 |
| World leader who said "Every little thing counts in a crisis" | 71 |
| Walt Whitman's "A Backward Glance ___ Travel'd Roads" | 71 |
| Word before and after "by," "on," or "to" | 71 |
| Words with ''Dinner's'' or ''Lean'' | 71 |
| Where the girl who received a much-awaited marriage proposal was found? | 71 |
| What a Manhattan landmark's inscription is mistakenly assumed to be | 71 |
| With "The," Sherlock Holmes story, and the puzzle's title | 71 |
| Where "yes" is "ioe," pronounced in three syllables | 71 |
| When, in Act II, Macbeth soliloquizes, "Is this a dagger ..." | 71 |
| Words before "I remember it well," in a "Gigi" song | 71 |
| Words with ''to top it'' or ''take it'' | 71 |
| What you shouldn't eat if "you are what you eat" is true? | 71 |
| World leader who wrote a novel, "The Cardinal's Mistress" | 71 |
| Way too friendly child psychologist in a "South Park" episode | 71 |
| Work by Sir Edward Elgar hinted at by this puzzle's circled squares | 71 |
| What "there's gonna be," in a "Funny Lady" song | 71 |
| With "The," 1967 gore film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis | 71 |
| Where "1, 2, 3, 4, we all want our water warm!" may be heard? | 71 |
| World heavyweight champion who was once an Olympic boxing gold medalist | 71 |
| What desperate druggie crossword puzzle makers will use as inspiration? | 71 |
| Words with ''an example'' or ''a goal'' | 71 |
| Wintry mix revealed in the circled letters (it's the puzzle theme!) | 71 |
| Weekend TV show that had four presidential candidates as guests in 2008 | 71 |
| Word before ''fast'' and after ''home'' | 71 |
| Woman for whom Stanley bellows, in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 71 |
| Word with ''shoulder'' or ''spaghetti'' | 71 |
| Word with ''operating'' and ''nervous'' | 71 |