| Host: "... and more than just pride is at stake tonight, namely, a ___!" | 82 |
| Comic actor who played Jeff Greene's dad on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 80 |
| Big Band star who sang "I Wanna Be Like You" in "The Jungle Book" | 85 |
| Singer with the #1 R&B hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 87 |
| Frank Sinatra said he had "the silkiest chops in the singing game" | 76 |
| Soldier's comment akin to "It's time to join the line, dear"? | 79 |
| "I'm crazy about my fine collection of guitars with steel resonators"? | 84 |
| What someone who has to choose between singers Courtney and Eddie makes a decision for? | 87 |
| Pessimistic J. Geils Band hit with the line "It's gonna make you cry" | 83 |
| It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it | 75 |
| Square, in old slang, as indicated by forming a square with one's hands | 75 |
| California-based semiconductor company founded in 1981 (hidden in FALSIFY) | 74 |
| Creator of the solid-body electric guitar, a model of which still bears his name | 80 |
| Character in "The Godfather" who "sleeps with the fishes" | 77 |
| Cereal for people with good fortune during a fictional "Simpsons" month? | 82 |
| Rap/country collaboration with a Dirty South version of "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy"? | 99 |
| "Un ___ Dun" (2007 fantasy novel set in a mirror version of the UK) | 77 |
| "___ Yu" (collection also known as "The Analects of Confucius") | 83 |
| His "Dance With My Father" won the 2003 Grammy for Song of the Year | 77 |
| "___ Jr." (Pixar's first film whose lamps are used in their logo) | 79 |
| With "The," TV series whose relationships were mapped by "The Chart" | 88 |
| Eagles song with the line "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town" | 85 |
| Band whose name is based on the name of several members' high school gym teacher | 84 |
| Bulwer-___ Fiction Contest (yearly contest involving deliberately awful opening sentences to novels) | 100 |
| "Great idea!" said the goats. "Let's watch '__'" | 80 |
| Lorin __, who succeeded Szell as the Cleveland Orchestra's music director | 77 |
| He played opposite Jones in "Carousel" and "Oklahoma!" | 74 |
| Epic battle in technology ... or a hint to four crossings in this puzzle | 72 |
| "Mr. Deeds" actor gets inside yours truly to portray a Frenchwoman? | 77 |
| Palindromic phrase ostensibly spoken to a person with a palindromic name | 72 |
| So-called explanation for an athlete's off-year after appearing on a video game cover | 89 |
| Publication founded in 1952 featuring artwork that does the same thing as this puzzle | 85 |
| Oscar-winning actress in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "California Suite" | 99 |
| Says "I tried needlepoint twice, but I was only so-so," for example | 77 |
| "So, now that he's in trucking school, I just hope he ___ ..." | 76 |
| Cause a sensation, or what the first words of the answers to starred entries may do | 83 |
| Host: "Now Alton's on the ropes! Bobby's ___ out of him! (Or should I say, hash browns?)" | 107 |
| Critic who wrote the shortest review ever given to a motion picture: "No" for 1948's "Isn't It Romantic?" | 133 |
| What the host of "Deal or No Deal" eats to make the gold suitcases look, like, *extra* gold? | 102 |
| V-shaped crotch-to-shoulders bathing suits popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen in "Borat" | 96 |
| The act of waiting for a partner to finish shopping, per the Urban Dictionary (+O) | 82 |
| Duke ___ (Humphrey Bogart's role in "The Petrified Forest") | 73 |
| If one were to ___, one would learn that their address is 605 5th St., Seattle, WA | 82 |
| Bread with swirls stolen by Jerry in a classic "Seinfeld" episode | 75 |
| Marcel with the only audible line in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" | 78 |
| Clothing impresario who bought Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball | 77 |
| "Peanuts" character who calls Charlie Brown "Charles" | 73 |
| Most successful recording artist of the 1990s, per "Billboard" | 72 |
| "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon ___" (Pulitzer-winning play) | 83 |
| Romanian-born composer of the famously eerie theme music for "The Twilight Zone" | 90 |
| Eccentric billionaire entrepreneur who holds the Guinness record for the largest single e-commerce transaction | 110 |
| They were once promoted with the slogan "Ivory tips protect your lips" | 80 |
| Fictional character who says "I wear the chain I forged in life" | 74 |
| Nixon whose voice replaced Natalie Wood's in "West Side Story" | 76 |
| "I suppose it might seem odd that a reverend like myself would suddenly begin ___ ..." | 96 |
| Annual wetlands tournament involving cattails and water lilies, casually? | 73 |
| Prosecutor's claim upon submitting evidence at the trial of Viking 1 | 72 |
| Oscar-nominated director--1980, 1988, 1990, 2002 and 2004--who didn't win | 77 |
| Shortstop nicknamed "Slats" and "The Octopus" who won the 1944 N.L. MVP award | 97 |
| Q: See title A: "None--the bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution" | 83 |
| Where each plays darts and "Photo Hunt" according to his abilities? | 77 |
| Gessen who wrote the 2012 Putin biography "The Man Without a Face" | 76 |
| Fashion collaboration of actor James and a one-named rock-'n'-roller? | 77 |
| London venue where plays based on "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and "Mr. Ice Cream Man" are performed? | 116 |
| "Something a teenage boy can do for hours at a time." The survey did not say (but a contestant did): "___" | 126 |
| How amorous firestarters might start the fire, or a golf scoring system interrupted? | 84 |
| Important trial figure, or what you'll be when you read this puzzle's other four longest answers | 104 |
| 2003 film with the tagline "Free Your Mind," with "The" | 75 |
| Smetana symphonic suite whose title is Czech for "My Homeland" | 72 |
| "___ elephant caress you with his toes" (lyric from a song about a bird) | 82 |
| Program about Andy Taylor's hometown being shaken up by a civil rights leader? | 82 |
| Request that could elicit a, "not until you finish your vegetables" | 77 |
| Biblically-minded rapper, or a story in which a 2008 runner-up kills his brother? | 81 |
| Live video of the 2008 presidential runner-up going about his daily life? | 73 |
| Broadway producer Liz, Tony winner for "Elephant Man" and "Amadeus" | 87 |
| "Anyway, my deadline's ap¬proach¬ing. I better get ___" | 75 |
| Rapper with no plans to stick around, or a "Back to the Future" hero after hours? | 91 |
| Director of "Charlie's Angels" and "This Means War" | 75 |
| "... Love at first sight? No, she just didn't want to ___ any more! Then I woke up" | 97 |
| Weight-conscious rapper, or what the singer of "American Pie" eats? | 77 |
| "Don't get me wrong — con¬struct¬ing crosswords is fun. What takes forever is the ___" | 110 |
| QB Donovan dissed by Rush Limbaugh a year before taking his team to the Super Bowl | 82 |
| Writer John who won a Pulitzer for "Annals of the Former World" | 73 |
| Rapper who prefers a pretty large mattress, or comparable in build to fashion designer Alexander? | 97 |
| Year Hieronymus Bosch painted the "The Garden of Earthly Delights" | 76 |
| ___ diet, food plan emphasizing olive oil, fish, fruit, vegetables and red wine | 79 |
| Early punk rock band with the song "Never Been in a Riot," with "the" | 89 |
| Announcer who was the first to call DiMaggio "Joltin' Joe" | 72 |
| Girl's name that begins the lyrics of Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" | 85 |
| "Okay, dog, you happen to be eating my most valuable baseball card" | 77 |
| Exclusive group's limit, or dental restoration required to get into a club? | 79 |
| ___ Line (informal baseball term for the threshold of incompetent hitting) | 74 |
| When accused of being "out of uniform," what the naked private said he was wearing? | 93 |
| Former editorial page editor of The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for Newsweek | 101 |
| "... They lived peacefully in the land of ___, until one day ..." | 75 |
| Author Prosper __ who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based | 75 |
| Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | 73 |
| Austrian physician who lent his name to an English word ending in "-ize" | 82 |
| Soccer star Lionel who won the Ballon d'Or each of the last four years | 74 |
| What's been deposited in four squares of this puzzle, expressed both by name and by symbol | 94 |