| Travis who sang "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" | 73 |
| Actor who announced in December that he was leaving "Grey's Anatomy" | 82 |
| Minor planets whose orbits are farther from the sun than the farthest planet | 76 |
| Guest speakers on the subject "Does the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' Story Perpetuate Offensive Sterotypes?"? | 124 |
| Movie with the tagline "A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now." | 106 |
| QB's pace just before a series that will start after a commercial break | 75 |
| Fish dish served with lemon and pepper, simmered in pretty hate and dissonant synthesizer lines? | 96 |
| "Though banish'd, yet a ___ Englishman": "Richard II" | 77 |
| Garnish that some upscale fries at Chicago restaurant mk are served with | 72 |
| President who said, "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em" | 82 |
| "The buck stops here" and "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," e.g.? | 110 |
| "... and it comes out here" (this last instrument, by the way, is often the subject of the song) | 106 |
| "The ___ is out there" (catchphrase on "The X-Files") | 73 |
| Subject of "The Word" on the first episode of "The Colbert Report" | 86 |
| "I know someone who can help you purchase a vintage stereo system"? | 77 |
| Words before "Remember" and "Forget," in song titles | 72 |
| ''___ Remember'' (from ''The Fantasticks'') | 75 |
| Q: How many ___ agents does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Please remove your pants. | 87 |
| What Thoreau and Eisenhower have in common, or this puzzle's theme, literally | 81 |
| He said the most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible | 82 |
| Who said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" | 75 |
| General who countered the Taiping Rebellion, which was waged over access to sugary fried chicken | 96 |
| Chinese general who fought in the sugary-chicken-cube-and-white-rice wars of the 19th century | 93 |
| A sudden rise or fall of seawater level is an unmistakable sign that one is coming | 82 |
| What best-selling 2004 young adult novel was written entirely in the form of instant messages? | 94 |
| New slogan for an Arizona city trying to emphasize strong elementary school math programs? | 90 |
| 1950s actress who was on the cover of Matthew Sweet's 1991 cult classic "Girlfriend" | 98 |
| Oscar-winning star of "Tropic Blunder: The True Story Behind the Making of the Most Expensive Fake True War Story Ever" in 2008's "Tropic Thunder" | 170 |
| Flower whose name is derived from the Turkish/Persian for "turban" | 76 |
| "Livin' on ___ time" (lyric in a #1 Don Williams country hit) | 75 |
| Country whose name becomes its capital when you drop its last two letters | 73 |
| Boxing champ whose autobiography was titled "A Man Must Fight" | 72 |
| Rapper with the 1996 nine-time platinum album "All Eyez on Me" | 72 |
| "___ Honey" (Van Morrison song featured at the end of "Ulee's Gold") | 92 |
| Word that can come before the last word of this puzzle's longest entries | 76 |
| How long it takes to get something back (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| Housekeeper's home renovation advice about a cheap fourposter offer? | 72 |
| Regained one's winning status ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 84 |
| Placekicker Jim who scored 10 points in the Jets' Super Bowl III victory | 76 |
| "Now that I've finished vacuuming and laundry, what should I do next?" | 84 |
| This animal presumably spends its entire life in a shell ... correction: just the first part of its life | 104 |
| Training site for certain WWII airmen, first African American fighter pilots | 76 |
| Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing | 75 |
| "You" affectionately in Yamachiche, followed by ubiquitous German auto? | 81 |
| The 2005-06 season was the first since 1950-51 in which this type of show wasn't among Nielsen's top 10 | 111 |
| Mark who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" | 76 |
| "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" quipper | 75 |
| "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" singer (hate me later for giving you the earworm) | 86 |
| "___ grace that taught my heart to fear" ("Amazing Grace") | 78 |
| "___ brillig, and the slithy toves ..." ("Jabberwocky") | 75 |
| give every1 a super quick update on what ur doing at the moment (w/ a lot of abbrs) because u only get 140 characters, and that's really not e | 146 |
| Home-field advantage in football ... or what the last square of the answer to this clue represents in this puzzle | 113 |
| Lizzie Borden's blows – "Easy Pieces" ÷ proverbial crowd = | 82 |
| Age at which Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse died | 89 |
| The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain | 136 |
| Classic TV show whose first episode was "Where Is Everybody?", with "The" | 93 |
| "Let's ___" (choreographic suggestion from Chubby Checker) | 72 |
| "Then Moe says, 'Hey kid, you wanna type this up for us?' And I say, '___! I mean, just kidding!' ..." | 128 |
| Unexpected development ... or what the answer to each starred clue contains? | 76 |
| Drink garnish ... or a hint to five letters in the answer to each starred clue | 78 |
| It features John Trumbull's painting "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence" | 99 |
| Wee hr., and a hint to a feature common to this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| Tone-Loc and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, e.g. ... or how this puzzle's theme entries might be described? | 112 |
| In the United States, it began with the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists | 82 |
| 1973 Peter Fonda travel drama in which Lindsay Wagner's character asks to share some kif | 92 |
| 1952 revue with lyrics by Ogden Nash, featuring Bette Davis in song-and-dance routines | 86 |
| Slang term for the Canadian equivalent of a 750 mL bottle of liquor, based on the number of ounces in it (which makes no sense because we use metric here but I never like to argue with drunks) | 192 |
| "Our races are scrutinized down to the millisecond because we use ___" | 80 |
| Character who says "talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee." | 101 |
| "Romeo and Juliet" character who claims to hate the word "peace" | 84 |
| When repeated, words before "burning bright" to start a William Blake poem | 84 |
| Movie mogul whom Forbes magazine once named the highest-paid man in entertainment | 81 |
| Group with the 1963 #1 hit "So Much in Love," with "the" | 76 |
| Placekicker Lawrence whose 47-yard overtime field goal sent the Giants to Super Bowl XLII | 89 |
| "Puts the keys of the future at your fingertips" (Philadelphia, 1876) | 79 |
| Aptly, the Nobel Prize for Physics was presented by this actor who played Zorro, ... | 84 |
| He said about an opponent "My main objective is to be professional but to kill him" | 93 |
| #1 on ESPN's "hardest hitters in heavyweight history" list | 72 |
| __-Chung (T.C.) Chen, first golfer in U.S. Open history to make a double eagle (1985) | 85 |
| Three-letter designator code for the largest carrier out of Denver Intl. | 72 |
| "Dream if ___ a courtyard" (Prince lyric, as it is in fact notated) | 77 |
| School plagued by Andrew Martinez, the "naked guy," in the 1990s | 74 |
| It's part of the eight original "Public Ivy" schs., per author Richard Moll | 89 |
| Sch. whose women's basketball team is currently on a 76-game winning streak | 79 |
| Only sch. to win both the menÂ’s and womenÂ’s N.C.A.A. basketball titles in the same year | 95 |
| Its women's basketball team holds the consecutive victories record(abbr.) | 77 |
| Mixed martial arts co. that recently aired its first event on national television | 81 |
| You can find one in the four longest puzzle answers, even if you don't believe | 82 |
| Craft whose existence may be denied by government officials, thus proving its existence | 87 |
| “Chariot” in von Däniken’s “Chariots of the Gods?” | 73 |
| "__ Hunters": History Channel show with the tagline "Hoax or History?" | 90 |
| Nintendo product on many "worst game controllers of all time" lists | 77 |
| Hybrid citrus that's hidden in Marconi's first name (and you thought we'd run out of ways to clue this) | 115 |
| Film with the tagline "TV the way it was meant to be seen: in a movie theatre" | 88 |
| 1989 movie with the line "Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!" | 93 |
| TV character who was a role model to the first African-American female astronaut Mae Jemison | 92 |
| Sci-fi character whose first name, Nyota, was first revealed in film in 2009 | 76 |
| "Star Trek" lieutenant who participated in TV's first interracial kiss | 84 |
| "Star Trek" character who famously kissed Captain Kirk in a 1968 "Star Trek" episode | 104 |
| Instrument on which Jake Shimabukuro can play "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 75 |