| Classic name in retail clothing ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 72 |
| "If we just allow them to keep merging, everything will be okay," for example? | 88 |
| Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin | 120 |
| "Floral" film of 2006 with Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson | 73 |
| 1980 romantic adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins | 75 |
| End of an idiom meaning "speaks evasively," whose beginning can be found around this answer | 101 |
| 1977 James Brolin thriller with the tagline "What EVIL drives ..." | 76 |
| Novel that ends "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" | 104 |
| 1992 dystopian novel in which mass infertility has doomed the human race | 72 |
| Govt. agcy. whose headquarters house the partially unsolved Kryptos sculpture | 77 |
| csa4ever: we'll cc'd from u / grantzuni0n: oh its on now / 133zarmy: u h4x0red us, we give | 100 |
| "Inspector Gadget" bad guy whose hand was replaced with a steel glove | 79 |
| "And at 7 P.M. there'll be a showing of the 60's film ___..." | 79 |
| "How lowbrow!" said the cats. "We much prefer '__'" | 79 |
| "It's worth it just for Ms. Behar's famous lasagna recipe" | 76 |
| 2003 sci-fi disaster film featuring a subterranean team of "terranauts" | 81 |
| "Required reading for all 'Purple Rain' fans who think their idol is too goody-goody" | 103 |
| Book about a geeky niche publication whose readership went from 10 to 0? | 72 |
| "An insightful look at how playing Miss Brooks took its toll on Ms. Arden" | 84 |
| "This gallery's artist-in-residence is the Prince of Darkness!" | 77 |
| What the producers of "Frida" said when they finally found someone to play her artist husband? | 104 |
| 1967 war film, and an apt description for this puzzle's starred answers | 75 |
| "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip ___": "Julius Caesar" [1974 novel] | 89 |
| "Well, sir, it's this rug I have - it really tied the room together" speaker | 90 |
| Bodies making their closest approach in more than 50,000 years on August 27, 2003 | 81 |
| Show with mystery numbers like "Lost," only they're all divisible by 2? | 85 |
| Mountaintop castle in "Game of Thrones" where Tyrion was imprisoned | 77 |
| Posthumous John Donne poem that includes "It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee" | 95 |
| Talk show about words like "zeppelin" and "dirigible"? | 74 |
| Sitcom character with a leather jacket that's now in the Smithsonian | 72 |
| "It surrounds us and penetrates us," according to Obi-Wan Kenobi | 74 |
| 1971 Oscar-winning film whose title is hinted at nine times in this grid | 72 |
| Metaphorical philosophical conflict used as an album title by The Police, literally | 83 |
| Caveman 1: "I just thought of a new invention. I call it 'juice'. Hand me those purple things."Caveman 2: "___?" | 140 |
| How you know that it's St. Patrick's Day in kin¬der¬gar¬ten? | 77 |
| 1985 dystopian novel in which a theocracy has reduced women to second-class citizens | 84 |
| 2009 comedy whose tagline is "Some guys just can't handle Vegas" | 78 |
| "___ is completely over" (baffling statement made by Prince on 7/5/10 that also serves as a clue how to find four answers in this puzzle) | 147 |
| What can be said about the answers to this puzzle's capitalized clues | 73 |
| Filter "Awake on my airplane, my skin is bare, my skin is ___" | 72 |
| One who's happy just to be at sea, despite being constantly seasick? | 72 |
| "Songs in ___ of Z" (compilation of "outsider" music) | 73 |
| 1951 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, featuring Gertrude Lawrence as a teacher in Siam | 89 |
| 1889 work of art deemed unsuitable for general display at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair | 91 |
| Tennessee's NCAA women's basketball team (with "Vols") | 72 |
| Famous legal-system denunciation by Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist" | 74 |
| "I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place ..." | 130 |
| 1991 film in which both lead actresses got Oscar nominations (neither of them won) | 82 |
| Book featuring a Whisper-ma-Phone, a Super-Axe-Hacker, Gluppity-Glupp and Schloppity-Schlopp | 92 |
| Poem featuring the line “O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more” | 87 |
| "Hey, I'm not afraid of commitment; I just don't care," for example? | 86 |
| "A movie star can never order straight from ___" ("Get Shorty") | 83 |
| "I'll Be There for You" for "Friends," and others | 73 |
| "Why leave a city that has six professional sports teams, and ___?" (Manhattan Mini Storage advertising slogan) | 121 |
| "T-ball is just like baseball, except there's no pitching -- just like ___" (David Letterman) | 107 |
| John Quincy Adams, as U.S. secretary of state, was the man who actually drafted ... | 83 |
| 2013 Eminem hit featuring Rihanna (and inspiration for this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| Unfinished Norman Mailer work about strip-searching narcotics smugglers? | 72 |
| TV show that debuted on 11/3/93 (and start of a parent's distressed cry?) | 77 |
| "___ we came forth to rebehold the stars" (last line of Dante's "Inferno") | 98 |
| Answer to the question, "Which part of your sinuses hurts the most"? | 78 |
| Comedy about a government takeover that's alternately well-organized and absurdly sloppy? | 93 |
| Publication with a 1997 headline "Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids" | 76 |
| TV show whose working title was "Please Stand By" (and what you'll have to cross 18 times when solving this puzzle) | 129 |
| Member of a duo that "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" | 74 |
| The handle of Charles Dickens's ivory letter opener, in the Library's collection, is ___ | 96 |
| Unfinished Henry James work about Gainsborough's "Blue Boy"? | 74 |
| Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters | 96 |
| Program hosted by a televangelist who's raising money for a school play? | 76 |
| Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed | 90 |
| Men's style magazine focusing on "classic elegance" named after a term for a womanizer | 100 |
| Poem with the line, "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" | 87 |
| 1830 novel with the same historical backdrop as "Les Miserables" | 74 |
| Tyrone Power film remake with the line "This mask is really itchy"? | 77 |
| "15. Me and my buddy Stephen built a ___ after seeing a documentary about the instrument" | 99 |
| What "they say our love won't pay," in "I Got You Babe" | 79 |
| "Add ___ a tiger's chaudron, / For the ingredients of our cauldron": Shak. | 88 |
| "Clinton's a well-known southpaw, so this exposé on his other-handed punches is an eye-opener" | 111 |
| 1995 bestseller in which #23 is "Don't Date a Married Man" | 72 |
| Fictional band who sang "Can't Buy Me Lunch" and "All You Need Is Cash" | 95 |
| She remembered having a high-school crush on a handsome, dark-haired boy with ... | 81 |
| "___ aren't the droids you're looking for" ("Star Wars" line) | 89 |
| Former U.S. Open champ Monica's cry upon seeing wooden rackets in her locker? | 81 |
| Classic children's novel, and what to look for in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 99 |
| Classic 1911 children's novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Answer to ''Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?'' | 77 |
| What the final episode of "Breaking Bad" may mean for fans of the show? | 81 |
| Show where The B-52's redid "Love Shack" as the dueling song "Glove Slap" | 97 |
| Show since 12/17/1989 whose five main family members are hidden in this puzzle's other long across answers | 110 |
| Doomsday expression, or what you might start to think if you stare at the Down answers for too long | 99 |
| (((One Week Later))) LIEUT: "What happened? I thought we had him!" INSP: "He gave us ___." | 110 |
| "You don't have to be a gardener to dig this book about Kerouac's tools" | 90 |
| Unfinished Ian Fleming work about James Bond's affection for his boss? | 74 |
| 1978 King novel rereleased in a "Complete and uncut" version in 1990 | 78 |
| This puzzle's theme, whose first notes are indicated by shaded squares | 74 |
| Title of a crossword with theme answers like OVERHAND KNOT, BUTTERFLY EFFECT, and CRAWL SPACE | 93 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| John Travolta film reject about a Detroit gridder embarrassed by weight loss? | 77 |
| 1970 hit song with the lyric "You know you done me wrong, baby, and you'll be sorry someday" | 106 |
| "Finally, we learn how one Jonas brother defined an entire generation" | 80 |