It may be involved in tallying the four theme answers

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Big letters, for short (and what your answers must be written in to understand the theme)
Word before the first word in this puzzle's theme answers
Announcement/event of September 2011, or what happened to the theme answers
Plummet ... or what this puzzle's theme answers do?
Theme answers' commonality
When spelled out, word that follows the beginnings of the starred answers in a memorable kids' show theme song
What each completed pair of theme answers in this puzzle is
"Something you would cheat on if you knew you wouldn't get caught." "___" (also, the source of this puzzle's theme answers)
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" network, and a hint to the theme in this puzzle's four longest answers
Weather Channel feature (it's the puzzle theme found in a quintet of answers)
Records "broken" in this puzzle's nine theme answers
1997 Kevin Kline film, and a hint to the puzzle theme hidden in four answers
What presidential term limits mercifully ensure, and each of this puzzle's theme answers "receives"
___ to school . . . or a hint to the puzzle theme suggested by the ends of five answers
Wise guys featured in this puzzle's theme answers
What this puzzle's theme answers contain (if you look closely enough)
Commonality of the theme answers
Theme of this puzzle hidden in the seven other longest across answers
Upright, and what's been removed to form this puzzle's theme answers
Compound found in perfume and this puzzle's theme answers
The pairs of letters inserted into each of this puzzle's theme answers, for example
New element in each of this puzzle's theme answers
Title of a crossword with theme answers like OVERHAND KNOT, BUTTERFLY EFFECT, and CRAWL SPACE
Big fight, and clue to this puzzle's theme that begins the four longest answers
Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers)