| "He ___ is crowned with immortality / Who fears to follow where airy voices lead" (Keats) | 99 |
| Source of the headline "Study Finds Blame Now Fastest Human Reflex," with "The" | 99 |
| Garden of ___ (outdoor Japanese lounge attached to the meatpacking district's Hotel Gansevoort) | 99 |
| Irish-themed Vegas casino that features a tattoo parlor owned by Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil | 99 |
| Actress Anderson who said: "Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror" | 99 |
| Carolina river that was Foster's original choice for "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" | 99 |
| Company whose movies, not counting sequels, are all included in this puzzle [Circled Squares: 2009] | 99 |
| Comic strip character who said "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person" | 99 |
| "And our love become a funeral ___" (lyric from the Doors' "Light My Fire") | 99 |
| She played Mrs. Garrett on both "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" | 99 |
| "But I shot a man in ___, just to watch him die." ("Folsom Prison Blues" lyric) | 99 |
| Cofounder of Atlantic Records who was chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [39 47/127 inches] | 99 |
| Groundbreaking sitcom, and a hint to four different three-letter words concealed by starred answers | 99 |
| TV show on which Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon holds the record for most appearances with 110 | 99 |
| Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/Down hints) for this all to work | 99 |
| "A" making "E" a "D" in 1914, "B" its "C" in 1925 | 99 |
| Comics character who is 65 years old this month (and whose friends are answers to asterisked clues) | 99 |
| Weight-loss candy of the '70s and '80s that couldn't overcome its unfortunate homophone | 99 |
| Philosopher Jeremy's "the greatest happiness comes between two slices of bread" food? | 99 |
| Grotesquely fat beast of early French literature that existed solely by devouring virtuous husbands | 99 |
| Frequent contestant on the "Saturday Night Live" spoof of "Celebrity Jeopardy!" | 99 |
| Ben Tausig foretells the future! Pose a yes-or-no question, and solve the puzzle to find the answer | 99 |
| “Next I endured the tedium of my Home Economics class, where the lecture was all about ___” | 99 |
| Word before "knows," "hurts," and "dance now," in various song titles | 99 |
| Tackle box item turned hair accessory that was one of Yahoo!'s "Worst Trends of 2011" | 99 |
| Casual, noncompetitive curling tournament (sorry, this might be a local thing, I don't know...) | 99 |
| 1939 retiree who said "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" | 99 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #1: "Button-Down Mind" comedian and syndicated advice columnist | 99 |
| Visual representation of an item associated with the answers to the asterisked clues in this puzzle | 99 |
| Twice Oscar-nominated actress for "Camille Claudel" and "The Story of Adele H." | 99 |
| Rap/country collaboration with a Dirty South version of "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy"? | 99 |
| Oscar-winning actress in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "California Suite" | 99 |
| 1864 battle site that was the source of the quote "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" | 99 |
| Mascot to improve the image of mining, or a household chemical company's expansion into energy? | 99 |
| Failed school curriculum that was the subject of the 1973 book "Why Johnny Can't Add" | 99 |
| "... and while the royal subjects now debated who would be ___ in line to the throne ..." | 99 |
| How you might sit to watch a movie (or at least you'd better, or I'm not watching with you) | 99 |
| Long-extinct German dialect of which the epic poem "The Heliand" is the only known sample | 99 |
| One-hit wonder that totally ripped off the Postal Service for its 2009 #1 hit "Fireflies" | 99 |
| A1: "... for ___ a sensitive document from the Something-or-other Embassy in Copenhagen." | 99 |
| Notable quote from the same movie as "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates" | 99 |
| 1953 film whose title character says "A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it"Â | 99 |
| Term from astrophysics that describes the stretching of objects in very strong gravitational fields | 99 |
| "The Pajama Game" show tune that introduced choreographer Bob Fosse's signature style | 99 |
| Setting for the iconic movie line "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 99 |
| TV show inspired by the 1975 New York magazine article "Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet" | 99 |
| This weekend's fridge contents, probably, and what's missing from five long puzzle answers? | 99 |
| Synthpop group that won a 1986 Grammy for its version of Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme | 99 |
| A series of "insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster," per Tom Stoppard | 99 |
| "15. Me and my buddy Stephen built a ___ after seeing a documentary about the instrument" | 99 |
| Classic children's novel, and what to look for in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 99 |
| Doomsday expression, or what you might start to think if you stare at the Down answers for too long | 99 |
| What your dog might do after eating his way through your linen closet, after aiming in and missing? | 99 |
| It features John Trumbull's painting "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence" | 99 |
| Boll whose films are so badly reviewed that he challenged his most severe critics to a boxing match | 99 |
| Device that protects kids from sex and violence, as long as they don't do anything but watch TV | 99 |
| "I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the ___ did it": Steven Wright | 99 |
| Boxer who boasted "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" | 100 |
| Technology at issue in the 1984 Supreme Court case Sony Corp. of America vs. Universal Studios, Inc. | 100 |
| Nickname popularized by a New York Morning Telegraph sportswriter in the 1920s, with "the" | 100 |
| The 2x2 black square near the middle of this puzzle's grid, e.g., which is part of eight answers | 100 |
| Lover's woe ... or something found, literally, in the 4th, 5th, 8th and 11th rows of this puzzle | 100 |
| First name of the only two-time Super Bowl MVP who, both times, beat another two-time Super Bowl MVP | 100 |
| "Für ___" (piece Beethoven plays in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure") | 100 |
| Football Hall of Famer Carl who was a member of the Vikings' Purple People Eaters defensive line | 100 |
| "The even mead, that __ brought sweetly forth / The freckled cowslip": "Henry V" | 100 |
| "Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York" author Thomas Von ___ | 100 |
| He was branded a heretic for writing the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" | 100 |
| Agcy. whose FAQ page includes "Is there an age limit on claiming my child as a dependent?" | 100 |
| Picnic serving, and when divided properly, a hint to a hidden feature of six pairs of puzzle answers | 100 |
| "A tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot," according to Charlie Chaplin | 100 |
| Todd Snider "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing, Republican, Straight, White American ___" | 100 |
| Video game designer Sid who made the "Railroad Tycoon" and "Civilization" series | 100 |
| ''It's ___ in life'' (''It's the hand I've been dealt'') | 100 |
| "... with no ___ dialect, unless he wanted to have one" (Harry Reid on Barack Obama, 2008) | 100 |
| <u>Diamond,</u> <u>Sedaka</u> <u>or</u> <u>Moret</u> | 100 |
| Sports org. whose website is in English, French, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Slovak and German | 100 |
| Boy band that appeared on the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of "The Simpsons" | 100 |
| Huston's costar and fellow Best Supporting Actress nominee for "Enemies, A Love Story" | 100 |
| "The Wire" character who whistles "The Farmer in the Dell" when entering a scene | 100 |
| Her full name has just one vowel repeated four times (aaaaand this entry officially jumps the shark) | 100 |
| Bobby ___, the only N.H.L.'er to win the Hart, Norris, Ross and Smythe trophies in the same year | 100 |
| He quipped "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot" when accepting his honorary Oscar | 100 |
| Pitcher Doug with whom Tommy Lasorda had an infamous—and recorded--on-the-mound argument in 1977 | 100 |
| There are four hidden in this puzzle, which together suggest a familiar five-word saying (3,5,4,2,4) | 100 |
| What writer Malcolm Peltu predicted could "cross a busy highway without being hit" by 2010 | 100 |
| It's the end of the world!...or, the country home to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world | 100 |
| Who, What and I Don't Know, in Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine | 100 |
| Possible Variety headline if an "American Beauty" actress agrees to do a D.L. Coburn play? | 100 |
| "If my article doesn't get published, I'll be ___," said the antiquities professor | 100 |
| Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the object found by connecting the four circled letters in a diamond | 100 |
| G. Love & Special Sauce song that repeats "I can tell that we're gonna be friends" | 100 |
| "Law & Order: ___" (TV show about what could be next if prisons get any more crowded?) | 100 |
| "Apt" geographical element needed to complete the answers to 10 of this puzzle's clues | 100 |
| Viral video about an excited hiker after a rainstorm that's represented three times in this grid | 100 |
| "So you never know — next time we take a trip across the country we might even ___" | 100 |
| "If my book doesn't get published, I'll be ___," said the parapsychology professor | 100 |
| Wisecrack about an actor waking up from his nap on the set of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"? | 100 |
| One of only two women on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" | 100 |
| Bulwer-___ Fiction Contest (yearly contest involving deliberately awful opening sentences to novels) | 100 |