| Host: "Well, that's because it's an anagram of your name. I guess it gives new meaning to the phrase '___'!" Flay: "Wait ... what?" Host: (Ding!) "And there's the timer! Tune in tomorrow for another t | 245 |
| He won 26 Oscars, including an Academy Honorary Award (consisting of one full-sized and seven miniature statuettes) for the film depicted in this puzzle's starred answers | 174 |
| Host: "Welcome to 'Celebrity Food Fight'! Tonight it's reigning champ Bobby Flay vs. Alton Brown. Needless to say, they both have that ___ ..." | 165 |
| He answered "Yes" when Oprah asked him "In all seven of your Tour de France victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood-dope?" | 158 |
| Host: "Champ, this seemed like a grudge match. Do I detect some ... ___?" Flay: "Well, yeah, he kept calling me 'Flabby Boy'!" | 154 |
| He said "Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes youÂ’re tired and most of your balls are missing." | 132 |
| Horror host who always seems to have a great weight on his shoulders?[The only real host on the list. He was on TV for 25+ years.] | 130 |
| History class: F -- “The professor ignored my attendance record and class participation, judging me entirely on ___” | 124 |
| He told the Once-ler, "Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!" | 121 |
| Hybrid citrus that's hidden in Marconi's first name (and you thought we'd run out of ways to clue this) | 115 |
| Her "Can't Be Tamed" video made Yahoo! Music's "The Least Awesome Videos of 2010" list | 114 |
| Home-field advantage in football ... or what the last square of the answer to this clue represents in this puzzle | 113 |
| He played a Nazi in "Marathon Man" and a Nazi hunter in "The Boys From Brazil" [Connecticut] | 112 |
| He wrote "Three Pear-Shaped Pieces" to answer criticism that his music lacked form [SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 110 |
| Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture | 110 |
| He was on deck when Mookie hit the ball through Bill Buckner's legs to win Game 6 of the 1986 World Series | 110 |
| His "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" was on Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2007 list | 109 |
| His mystery admirer didn't appear graveside to toast his birthday in 2010 for the first time since 1949 | 107 |
| Host: "Now Alton's on the ropes! Bobby's ___ out of him! (Or should I say, hash browns?)" | 107 |
| Houses with sharply angled roofs, and what this puzzle's four longest answers literally have in common | 106 |
| His film debut was as a subway thief in "Heartburn" (1986), with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson | 106 |
| Hit song of 1973 and 1996 with the lyrics "I heard he sang a good song / I heard he had a style" | 106 |
| His version of "Othello" holds the record for longest-running Shakespeare production on Broadway | 106 |
| Her first solo recording ("Ringo, I Love You") was released under the pseudonym Bonnie Jo Mason | 105 |
| HBO series with such segments as "Of Human Bondage" and "The Agony & the Ecstasy" | 105 |
| He said "The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall." | 104 |
| Home or Office follower [The AV Club xword moves to a subscription model soon! - sign up at avxword.com] | 104 |
| He said "To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess." | 104 |
| His tenure was set to end in 2009, to the delight of many, though he's reported to be reconsidering | 103 |
| Hall of Fame football player nicknamed "The Grand Old Man" who played for a record 26 seasons | 103 |
| His film debut was as Woody Allen's college-aged son in "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993) | 103 |
| hancox73: gtg, lets dump these mofos / notindians50: hurl the cr8s into the harbor / britzred: wtf?? | 102 |
| Hagen who originated the role of Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway | 102 |
| He was branded a heretic for writing the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" | 100 |
| Huston's costar and fellow Best Supporting Actress nominee for "Enemies, A Love Story" | 100 |
| Her full name has just one vowel repeated four times (aaaaand this entry officially jumps the shark) | 100 |
| He quipped "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot" when accepting his honorary Oscar | 100 |
| HP tablet released in July 2011, then discontinued six weeks later (then revived later in the year!) | 100 |
| Humorist who wrote "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long" | 99 |
| How you might sit to watch a movie (or at least you'd better, or I'm not watching with you) | 99 |
| Hispanic MLB star whose nickname is a Hispanic cartoon character spelled backward (COINCIDENCE?!?) | 98 |
| He said, upon leaving Stoner's Pot Palace: "Man, that is flagrant false advertising" | 98 |
| He cast spells with "Abraca-pocus" and "Hocus-cadabra" in a 1963 cartoon short | 98 |
| His "Seeking Major Tom" made Pitchfork's "Worst Album Covers of 2011" list | 98 |
| Home of Canada's largest mall, named "Eighth Wonder of the World" by travel writers | 97 |
| His film debut was in "Curly Sue" (1991) as a sort of villain out to get the title girl | 97 |
| He purportedly said "Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me" | 96 |
| HBO's "Inside the __" (and hidden theme in this puzzle's four longest answers) | 96 |
| Hungarian playwright whose "Liliom" was the basis for the musical "Carousel" | 96 |
| He was "the Ugly" opposite Clint's "Good" and Lee's "Bad" | 95 |
| He's #1 on baseball's all-time list of games played ahead of Carl, Hank, Rickey, and Ty | 95 |
| Her "Orinoco Flow" has a macabre role in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" | 94 |
| He designed costumes for "Così fan tutte" at Paris's Opéra-Comique in 1952 | 94 |
| He wrote "There was an old man of Thermopylae / Who never did anything properly ..." | 94 |
| He said "In America, anybody can be president; that's one of the risks you take" | 94 |
| He said "I don't want my album coming out with a G rating. Nobody would buy it" | 93 |
| He said "They call [cocaine] an epidemic now. That means white folks are doing it." | 93 |
| Host: "Whoa, Bobby just got bopped! Looks like his first entree is gonna be a ___!" | 93 |
| He composed "A Hymn to the UN" in 1971 to commemorate the UN's 25th anniversary | 93 |
| He said about an opponent "My main objective is to be professional but to kill him" | 93 |
| He conducted the premiere performances of "Pagliacci" and "La Bohème" | 92 |
| Handyman's answer of "Boring" to the question "How's business?"? | 92 |
| He said "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both" | 92 |
| He had to wait a record 4,272 games as a player and manager before reaching the World Series | 92 |
| He said "Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers" | 91 |
| He had a cameo on the Simpson's episode "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" | 91 |
| He named a minor character in his most famous work Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of his name | 91 |
| He sang "I've Got You Under My Skin" with Frank Sinatra on "Duets" | 90 |
| He wrote "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal" | 90 |
| Huffington who said "There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear" | 90 |
| His best-known song includes ''Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame'' | 90 |
| His only line in "Clerks" ends in "Most of 'em just cheat on you" | 89 |
| He wrote "It's certain that fine women eat / A crazy salad with their meat" | 89 |
| Hang on to ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue | 88 |
| He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" | 88 |
| Hardly a model of perfection, and a hint to how this puzzle's theme puns are derived | 88 |
| His tombstone reads "Cast a cold Eye / On Life, on Death. / Horseman, pass by" | 88 |
| He shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | 87 |
| He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame the same year as Billie Jean | 87 |
| He called wedlock "The most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised" | 87 |
| He sings "Rubber Duckie, you're the one / You make bath time lots of fun" | 87 |
| Hit song with the line "When she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine" | 87 |
| Henry Ford: "People can have the ___ in any color, as long as it's black" | 87 |
| He said "I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it" | 87 |
| He said "If playing chess were made illegal by law, I would become an outlaw" | 87 |
| Hypocritical pejorative when used by millionaire senators born into political families | 86 |
| He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" | 86 |
| He came out of retirement to play Winston Churchill in "Inglorious Basterds" | 86 |
| He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" | 85 |
| He's on the cover of Kevin Clash's "My Life as a Furry Red Monster" | 85 |
| He had the 2000 autobiographical lyric “I think I was put here to annoy the world | 85 |
| He was on deck when Bobby Thomson hit "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" | 85 |
| Hodges who called "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" | 85 |
| Hybrid car that runs a few seconds, then stops, then runs again, then stops again...? | 85 |
| Holder of the world record for the longest ovation on the operatic stage (80 minutes) | 85 |
| Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? | 85 |
| Hall of Fame pop group The Four __, and last of this puzzle theme's five anagrams | 85 |
| He replaced Foxx as baseball's youngest player when he debuted at age 17 in 1926 | 84 |
| Heroine who declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" | 84 |
| He said "Here's to our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet!" | 84 |