"This rental car commercial would be better with an eclectic soundtrack and Bill Murray ..." | 102 |
"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" songwriter Paul (whose daughter is married to Jason Bateman) | 101 |
Songwriter Paul who wrote the title track of Michael Jackson's last album, "This Is It" | 101 |
"___ est celare artem" ("true art conceals the means by which it's achieved") | 101 |
Possessive for Pierre (or, a dictionary volume that wouldn't include "jabber", I guess) | 101 |
Comic that comes to an end on October 3rd, and whose catchphrase ends this puzzle's theme answers | 101 |
Fictional hero whose first words are "I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York ..." | 101 |
"A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man" speaker | 101 |
Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" | 101 |
"Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" artist | 101 |
Deg. of the professional who may instruct you to do the last words of the four longest puzzle answers | 101 |
Who said "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." | 101 |
Title heroine who says "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 101 |
Ntozake Shange play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ___" | 101 |
"All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room" author Bombeck | 101 |
Words after "She throws the want ads right my way and never fails to say," in a 1958 #1 hit | 101 |
Who wrote "A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines" | 101 |
"England hath long been mad, and scarr'd ___": Richmond in "King Richard III" | 101 |
Standard with the lyrics "Your eyes are always saying / the things you're never saying" | 101 |
Radio host who said "My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life" | 101 |
Source of the line "Midway upon the road of our life I found myself within a dark wood ..." | 101 |
It has counties named Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison | 101 |
''Impossible headline!'': inventor DeForest/''Future headline!'': JFK | 101 |
God killed him but not specifically because he spilled his "seed," though that was also bad | 101 |
"How ___ Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" (Kaavya Viswanathan novel in the news) | 101 |
Madison who said "You don't have to cook. I have enough potato chips to last me a year" | 101 |
Player honored with Campanella, Greenberg, and Mantle on "Baseball Sluggers" postage stamps | 101 |
Child's word after ''one,'' ''two'' and ''three'' | 101 |
"Was it a ___?" "Yeah, a great big one" (line from "L.A. Confidential") | 101 |
Good name for an Asian airline (possible slogan: "The same great service coming and going") | 101 |
Where Mitt Romney built a treehouse for his former employees? (... Ã la Michael Bloomberg in 2007) | 101 |
According to legend, its continued presence on Gibraltar allows the British to retain control thereof | 101 |
Process by which an element's atomic number may be reduced, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 101 |
1985 John Cusack film with the tagline "Insanity doesn't run in the family, it gallops" | 101 |
Singer (with the Dakotas) for whom Lennon & McCartney wrote songs in the early 1960s, ___ Kramer | 101 |
"TV Party" punks covering some '80s Hollywood glam metal with "Scrape" punks? | 101 |
Illegal saloon offering "complimentary" drinks to those who paid to see an animal curiosity | 101 |
Jazz singer and pianist who sang "Figure Eight" on "Schoolhouse Rock" (1924-2009) | 101 |
Shakespeare character who says "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth" | 101 |
N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer who, with Walt Frazier, formed the Knicks' "Rolls Royce Backcourt" | 101 |
What a walk in the ballpark will get you / (next line) It's spelled out in an Aretha Franklin hit | 101 |
"That's all she wrote," and literally, what the last word of each starred answer can be | 101 |
Texter's "it's a secret" shorthand spelled out by the starts of four puzzle answers | 101 |
Assistant D.A. who joined McKenzie Brackman in season 4 after a brief stint as a judge (126 episodes) | 101 |
Seed containing moth larva, and what is aptly hidden in each puzzle row whose clues contain asterisks | 101 |
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's ___": John Kenneth Galbraith | 101 |
1970 article by Germaine Greer, which was an early example of the reappropriation of a degrading word | 101 |
What bottles of "Pluto Water," a drink sold in the early 1900s, were supposed to be used as | 101 |
Coach who said "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm" | 101 |
Former editorial page editor of The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for Newsweek | 101 |
Magazine with the recurring heading "Onward and Upward With the Arts," with "The" | 101 |
What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like the author of "Delta of Venus"? | 101 |
Test subject #4 perceives A and C as blue, B and D as orange, 1 and 2 as red; maybe she rides the ... | 101 |
"___ To Fu" (part of the 2008 Damon Albarn project "Monkey: Journey to the West") | 101 |
Dish that always gets the same reaction — "Hey, this meat is cold"? (one-letter change) | 101 |
First part of an erroneous "Christian Science Monitor" headline published on April 15, 1912 | 101 |
"Find more great clues like this in the author's Winner's Circle Crosswords!," e.g. | 101 |
Law, before the "Mad Madam" from Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" showed up? | 101 |
Directed to the video of Will Shortz's duet with Whitney Houston (http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh), say | 101 |
Japanese horror film series about a cursed videotape that inspired a similarly-titled American remake | 101 |
Creatively-censored 4/28/10 New York Post headline about the foul-mouthed Senate/Wall Street hearings | 101 |
Who said "Y'know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick." | 101 |
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" speaker | 101 |
"If you can't beat 'em in the alley you can't beat 'em on the ice", he said | 101 |
Clint Eastwood's love interest in "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (and for 12 years afterward) | 101 |
Someone who wears a wide-brim hat, sunglasses, a turtleneck, jeans, and SPF 75 sunblock to the beach? | 101 |
What to do to read the secret message (going diagonally down, then diagonally back up the under side) | 101 |
1905 Belmont Stakes winner, the only filly to win besides Ruthless in 1867 and Rags to Riches in 2007 | 101 |
End of an idiom meaning "speaks evasively," whose beginning can be found around this answer | 101 |
Odd-looking but versatile garments the Once-ler manufactures in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" | 101 |
With "The," classic novel, each of whose major characters is hiding in a row of this puzzle | 101 |
Character who says "talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee." | 101 |
Off-the-cuff riffs about old-timey clothes-cleaning devices? (Happy New Year to Emperor Justinian I!) | 101 |
Classic Hüsker Dü double album whose title sounds like where a Buddhist Monk would play pinball | 101 |
Boxer who boasted "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" | 100 |
Technology at issue in the 1984 Supreme Court case Sony Corp. of America vs. Universal Studios, Inc. | 100 |
Nickname popularized by a New York Morning Telegraph sportswriter in the 1920s, with "the" | 100 |
The 2x2 black square near the middle of this puzzle's grid, e.g., which is part of eight answers | 100 |
Lover's woe ... or something found, literally, in the 4th, 5th, 8th and 11th rows of this puzzle | 100 |
First name of the only two-time Super Bowl MVP who, both times, beat another two-time Super Bowl MVP | 100 |
"Für ___" (piece Beethoven plays in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure") | 100 |
Football Hall of Famer Carl who was a member of the Vikings' Purple People Eaters defensive line | 100 |
"The even mead, that __ brought sweetly forth / The freckled cowslip": "Henry V" | 100 |
"Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York" author Thomas Von ___ | 100 |
He was branded a heretic for writing the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" | 100 |
Agcy. whose FAQ page includes "Is there an age limit on claiming my child as a dependent?" | 100 |
Picnic serving, and when divided properly, a hint to a hidden feature of six pairs of puzzle answers | 100 |
"A tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot," according to Charlie Chaplin | 100 |
Todd Snider "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing, Republican, Straight, White American ___" | 100 |
Video game designer Sid who made the "Railroad Tycoon" and "Civilization" series | 100 |
''It's ___ in life'' (''It's the hand I've been dealt'') | 100 |
"... with no ___ dialect, unless he wanted to have one" (Harry Reid on Barack Obama, 2008) | 100 |
<u>Diamond,</u> <u>Sedaka</u> <u>or</u> <u>Moret</u> | 100 |
Sports org. whose website is in English, French, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Slovak and German | 100 |
Boy band that appeared on the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of "The Simpsons" | 100 |
Huston's costar and fellow Best Supporting Actress nominee for "Enemies, A Love Story" | 100 |
"The Wire" character who whistles "The Farmer in the Dell" when entering a scene | 100 |
Her full name has just one vowel repeated four times (aaaaand this entry officially jumps the shark) | 100 |
Bobby ___, the only N.H.L.'er to win the Hart, Norris, Ross and Smythe trophies in the same year | 100 |
He quipped "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot" when accepting his honorary Oscar | 100 |