| “___ Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up": Barack Obama | 140 |
| “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ but that ain’t no matter” | 150 |
| “You can’t be a real country unless you have a ___ and an airline”: Frank Zappa | 91 |
| “We’ve just learned that two of the graph’s dimensions have been secured by a squadron of ___!” | 111 |
| “Vain are the thousand ___ that move men’s hearts...”: Emily Bronte | 79 |
| “The surgery department’s budget may have to be slashed,” Tom stated ___ | 84 |
| “The research study on fevers needs lots of funding,” Tom said ___ | 74 |
| “The neonatology department needs funding most of all,” Tom blurted ___ | 79 |
| “The leaders of the hostiles are said to comprise a particularly ___” | 77 |
| “The good news is, I told the professor about your lab contributions and she gave us an A for our assignment on ...” | 124 |
| “The dermatology study shouldn’t be funded,” Tom decided ___ | 72 |
| “The cruelest ___ are often told in silence”: Robert Louis Stevenson | 76 |
| “Still, I’m imparting loads of useful information that I hope they’ll ___...” | 93 |
| “Should that say ‘Forensic,’ or will we really be practicing criminology on trees in ___?” | 106 |
| “Should that say ‘English,’ or will we really be reading nothing but roofing manuals in ___?” | 109 |
| “Should that say ‘Art,’ or will we really be practicing psychology on rodents in ___?” | 102 |
| “Should that say ‘American,’ or will we really be studying the past by watching widescreen ’60s films in ___?” | 130 |
| “One man’s ___ is another man’s reminiscence”: Ogden Nash | 73 |
| “Now ___ the one half-world/Nature seems dead.”" (Shakespeare) | 75 |
| “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for ___”: Samuel Johnson | 74 |
| “Next I endured the tedium of my Home Economics class, where the lecture was all about ___” | 99 |
| “My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons” | 87 |
| “My dull day began in my History of Free Silver class, where we were discussing 1878’s ___” | 103 |
| “More research on sneezing and sniffling is ridiculous,” Tom declared ___ | 81 |
| “Maybe this study on sudden consciousness loss does need funding,” Tom whispered ___ | 92 |
| “Lord High Everything ___” (one of Pooh-Bah’s titles in “The Mikado”) | 89 |
| “In my Soil Mechanics class, the professor droned on about how to use ___” | 82 |
| “Iggy, your stirring Duncan Hines batter has no relevance to our experiment on ...” | 91 |
| “Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ...” | 109 |
| “Iggy, these biographies of Stokowski and Toscanini don’t really apply to our project on ...” | 105 |
| “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born ...” | 119 |
| “I’m determined to finish my behavioral experiments,” Pavlov said ___ | 81 |
| “I ___ my soul to the company store” (“Sixteen Tons” line) | 74 |
| “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family ...” | 80 |
| “I may have discovered the key to the unconscious mind,” Freud said ___ | 79 |
| “Harvard Beats ___, 29-29” (1968 “Harvard Crimson” headline) | 76 |
| “Getting feedback from hospital occupants is a good use of funding,” Tom agreed ___ | 91 |
| “Fortunately, allied forces have entered the graph and are busily ___” | 78 |
| “Cupid is a knavish ___”: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” | 73 |
| “Chariot” in von Däniken’s “Chariots of the Gods?” | 73 |
| “Character is like a ___ and reputation like its shadow”: Abraham Lincoln | 81 |
| “And thankfully, the graph’s final dimension is not within the ___” | 79 |
| “And I could barely keep my eyes open in Economics, where the topic of the day was ___” | 95 |
| “All-out war was launched on the graph today when the ___ attacked” | 75 |
| “A great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”: Berlioz | 77 |
| “... and use later in brilliant research papers, giving me something to ___!” | 85 |
| Â Â Add light, or not (and do this 13 more times to solve this puzzle) | 76 |
| Awards won by "Les Misérables" and "The Book of Mormon" | 78 |
| Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | 82 |
| Award-winning author of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" | 83 |
| Award won by lead actors in this puzzle's starred films: the winners' names are hidden "word search"-style in the grid (across, down or diagonally, and forward or backward) | 190 |
| Award honoring literature that features women's stories set in the West | 75 |
| Award given to the creators of Dos Equis' "The Most Interesting Man" ad | 85 |
| Award for which "The Godfather, Part III" was nominated seven times, but didn't win | 97 |
| Award Cillian Murphy was nominated for for the 2005 movie "Breakfast on Pluto" | 88 |
| Awaken, and words that can precede first words of answers to asterisked clues | 77 |
| Avant-garde filmmaker Paul whose "Rebus-Film Nr. 1" is a crossword puzzle | 83 |
| Autobiography subtitled "A Baseball Life" by a Yankees bench coach | 76 |
| Author whose initials can be anagrammed into the second word of his most famous work | 84 |
| Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 95 |
| Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 83 |
| Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" | 80 |
| Author who used the pseudonym “Alcofribas Nasier,” an anagram of his full name | 86 |
| Author who said "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die" | 77 |
| Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" | 109 |
| Author who said "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" | 79 |
| Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" | 107 |
| Author who co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" | 84 |
| Author who "a lot of us ... pick[ed] up ... when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood," per Obama | 113 |
| Author Prosper __ who wrote "Carmen," on which the opera is based | 75 |
| Author of the surreal Zen-like book of instructions "Grapefruit" | 74 |
| Author of the story that inspired "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" | 77 |
| Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" | 83 |
| Author of the Oprah's Book Club selection "We Were the Mulvaneys" | 79 |
| Author of the controversial kids' book "In the Night Kitchen" | 75 |
| Author of the children's book "Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born" | 86 |
| Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" | 87 |
| Author of the 2009 book subtitled "A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" | 80 |
| Author of the 1968 work named in the circled letters (reading clockwise) | 72 |
| Author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" | 121 |
| Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order | 92 |
| Author of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" | 75 |
| Author of "Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why Nafta Must Be Stopped — Now!" | 91 |
| Author of "Paris in the 20th Century," an 1863 novel first published in 1994 | 86 |
| Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" | 76 |
| Author of "How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World" | 72 |
| Author of "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression" | 82 |
| Author of "Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series" | 80 |
| Author Michael who hated the movie version of "The Neverending Story" | 79 |
| Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial | 81 |
| Author Andreyev, called "The Edgar Allan Poe of Russian Literature" | 77 |
| Austrian physician who lent his name to an English word ending in "-ize" | 82 |
| Australian cager Andrew who was selected first overall in the 2005 NBA draft | 76 |
| Auntie who said "Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" | 93 |
| Audi rival, and, when spoken as a command, a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| ATV that requires you say a "Hail Mary" before starting the engine? | 77 |
| Attorney General, or what each of six Across answers in this grid literally is | 78 |
| Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers | 90 |
| Attempts to get a higher court to overturn one's espionage conviction? | 74 |
| Atmospheric condition in which there is no visibility both horizontally and vertically | 86 |