| Ryan Piers Williams's romp on a waterbed with "Ugly Betty" star Ferrera? | 86 |
| Russian pop duo with the hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 73 |
| Russian peasants (and the highest-scoring opening word in Scrabble--it's worth 128 points) | 94 |
| Russian girl pop group with the 2002 hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 85 |
| Russell parodied on "South Park" with the show "Fightin' Around the World" | 98 |
| Russell Byars is one: He set the Guinness World Record of 51 times from the shore of the Allegheny River on 7/19/2007 | 117 |
| Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is set at the end of it | 73 |
| Rush's song off "Presto" that went long? (with "The") | 77 |
| Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
| Runner Sebastian who headed London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics | 77 |
| Run in the wash[To fully understand this week's and last week's puzzles, SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 96 |
| Rumored reason for the stock market plunge of 5/6/10, whose effect is seen in this puzzle's theme answers | 109 |
| Rule for finding buried treasure ... and a hint to making sense of this puzzle | 78 |
| Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them | 87 |
| Rossellini film renamed "Ways of Love" in its American version | 72 |
| Roosevelt who said "You must do the things you think you cannot do" | 77 |
| Rooney __, who played Salander in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" | 77 |
| Ronald Reagan is the only U.S. president who was also president of a ... | 72 |
| Ron who was the 1981 World Series co-MVP with Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager | 77 |
| Ron Moody in "Oliver!" compared to others who played the part? | 72 |
| Romanian-born composer of the famously eerie theme music for "The Twilight Zone" | 90 |
| Roman writer who originated the phrase "Where there's life, there's hope" | 91 |
| Roman who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" | 84 |
| Roman philosopher who originated the phrase "What fools these mortals be" | 83 |
| Roman numeral hidden (in left-to-right order) in the four longest Across answers | 80 |
| Rolling Stones song with the lyric "Let me whisper in your ear" | 73 |
| Rolling Stones album that features "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | 85 |
| Role played by Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" ... | 82 |
| Role played by Pepe the Prawn in "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" | 74 |
| Role for which George Burns won Best Supporting Actor in "The Sunshine Boys" | 86 |
| Roger Waters "4:37 AM (___ With Knives and West German Skies)" | 72 |
| Rod Stewart cover "When it comes to being lucky she's ___" | 72 |
| Rocker with the 1981 triple-platinum album "Diary of a Madman" | 72 |
| Rocker Case who tweeted "If a dude called me a 'cougar' I'd be more likely to kill him bare-handed and shit him out in front of his parents than fuck him" | 176 |
| Rocker Bonnie [CONTEST NOTE: My online all-skill crossword contest is Sept. 30. First prize is $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn.org.] | 138 |
| Rock-album cover on which this puzzle's celebrities appear, familiarly | 74 |
| Rock star who offered his help to Nixon in combating "the hippie elements" | 84 |
| Rock song with the lyric "A big-legged woman ain't got no soul" | 77 |
| Rock singer Rose who's been working on "Chinese Democracy" for over a decade | 90 |
| Rock photographer Russell who shot the cover for "Who's Next?" | 76 |
| Rock grp. once promoted as "the English guys with the big fiddles" | 76 |
| Rock group whose name is an appropriate alternative title for this puzzle | 73 |
| Rock group whose members all assumed the same last name, with "the" | 77 |
| Rock band whose first album was titled, appropriately, "High Voltage" | 79 |
| Robot who appeared with Joey Fatone on "Dancing With The Stars" | 73 |
| Robin Williams flick that was Roger Ebert's pick for worst movie of 2002 | 76 |
| Roberto who said "There must be some terrible mistake!" in his Oscar speech | 85 |
| Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning role in "Life Is Beautiful" | 73 |
| Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort" | 98 |
| Robert who won Oscars for both writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer" | 82 |
| Robert who won a Tony for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | 86 |
| Robert Frost poem that includes "Good fences make good neighbors" | 75 |
| Robb Stark's realm in "Game of Thrones," with "the" | 75 |
| Road in the title of an old Johnny Depp television show and recent movie | 72 |
| River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" | 81 |
| River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" | 89 |
| River facetiously described as "a mile wide at the mouth, but only six inches deep" | 93 |
| Rita who shouted "Hey you guys!" on "The Electric Company" | 78 |
| Risky marketing of sports jackets on a city's outskirts? [Chevrolet] | 72 |
| Ripley who wrote the "Gone With the Wind" sequel "Scarlett" | 79 |
| Ring org. with a "Minimumweight" category (less than 105 pounds) | 74 |
| Ring of ___ (mythological Greek artifact that rendered its wearer invisible) | 76 |
| Rihanna lyric "Got my Ray ___ on and I'm feeling hella cool tonight" | 82 |
| Rick Wakeman "Anne Boleyn: The Day Thou Gavest Lord ___ Ended" | 72 |
| Richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood, according to Forbes | 74 |
| Richards who played Lex Murphy in the first two "Jurassic Park" movies | 80 |
| Richard ___, director of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" | 81 |
| Richard ___, 2002 Pulitzer winner for the novel "Empire Falls" | 72 |
| Richard who quipped "I never met anybody who said, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic'" | 103 |
| Richard who played the garage attendant in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 83 |
| Richard Hooker book subtitled "A Novel About Three Army Doctors" | 74 |
| Richard D. James covering "Seventeen" with Pat Smear's band? | 74 |
| Rice-___ Stadium (setting of the ceremonies for the Salt Lake City Olympics) | 76 |
| Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role | 78 |
| Rhyming phrase that highlights one of the benefits of having sex with full-figured individuals | 94 |
| Rhyme scheme in Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | 76 |
| Rhyme scheme for Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | 77 |
| Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. | 78 |
| Reynolds' impressions of an MTV dimwit (or a cosmetics ad interrupted by a rental car ad)? | 94 |
| Reynolds who renamed himself "Turd Ferguson" on SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy!" | 99 |
| Revolutionary War general with the nickname "The Hero of the Two Worlds" | 82 |
| Revolutionary James ___, famous for saying "Taxation without representation is tyranny" | 97 |
| Reviewer on "The Road to Wellville": "I got whiplash from the runaway plot" | 95 |
| Reviewer on "The Luck of Roaring Camp": "It needs more humor" | 81 |
| Reviewer on "The French Lieutenant's Woman": "It gets bogged down in excessive detail" | 110 |
| Reviewer on "Look Homeward, Angel": "It's overlong and clunky" | 86 |
| Reviewer on "Das Kapital": "Its arguments don't hold water" | 83 |
| Reverend whose name is linked to terms like "Pazz and Jop," and this puzzle's theme answers | 105 |
| Retailer whose "Gutvik" children's bed translates to "good fuck" in German | 98 |
| Result of not following through (of which there are four examples in this puzzle's grid) | 92 |
| Result of black's move from the upper-left board to the lower-right board | 77 |
| Result of an Oscar nominee's disappearance at an awards ceremony? [releases of 1968, 1982 and 1982] | 104 |
| Result of "too much change in too short a period of time" (Alvin Toffler) | 83 |
| Restrictions, like the ones on PA systems that necessitate the "human microphone" at Occupy Wall Street | 113 |
| Restaurant in Manhattan's theater district famous for the caricatures on its walls | 86 |
| Restaurant chain where you can (aptly) get French toast and Belgian waffles | 75 |
| Response to the debut of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," e.g. | 74 |
| Response to Spanish tenor Kraus's "What's for dinner?"? | 73 |
| Response to Revolutionary Arnold's "What's for breakfast?"? | 77 |
| Response to Ebert when he asks, "What's your favorite Christmas decoration?" | 90 |