The state of New York might make you get one after you were on a plane back from Hong Kong with this guy who couldn't stop coughing | 135 |
The starts of answers to asterisked clues are the most popular adult Halloween ones | 83 |
The Sphinx's is "blank and pitiless as the sun," per Yeats | 72 |
The second blank in the seafood restaurant sign "___ ___ season" | 74 |
The second African-American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be nominated for an Oscar | 80 |
The sculptures "Cloud Shepherd" and "Coquille Crystals" | 75 |
The sculpture "Kryptos," which has never been fully deciphered, stands at its main entrance and courtyard | 115 |
The Rolling Stones' first greatest hits album, "___ and Green Grass" | 82 |
The Rock of ___ (after translation, "The Rock of the Rock of Tariq") | 78 |
The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain | 136 |
The Presidents of the United States of America sang its theme (with "The") | 84 |
The practice of trying to stop something that persistently occurs in an apparently random manner | 96 |
The point at which people will see me as "The War of the Worlds" author Wells? | 88 |
The Peck and Snyder Company pioneered the use of ___ as advertising tools to sell a) candy; b) beverages; c) tobacco; d) sporting goods | 135 |
The pairs of letters inserted into each of this puzzle's theme answers, for example | 87 |
The overdramatic speaker at the press conference was known for using ___ ... | 76 |
The only woman on Time's list of the 20 most influential 20th-century business geniuses | 91 |
The only U.S. president whose vice president ran against him to succeed him was John .... | 89 |
The only recipient of Sports Illustrated's "Sportswoman of the Year" (from 1976) | 94 |
The only person to have been nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize | 103 |
The only movie to be the highest-grossing of the year and still lose money | 74 |
The only grading letters that appear anywhere in this puzzle (other than the present clue) | 90 |
The only 1930's boxing champ you need to know for solving crosswords | 72 |
The only "Celebrity Apprentice" participant to appear on a previous "Apprentice" season | 107 |
The Onion: "___ Announces New Version of Magazine Aimed at Adults" | 76 |
The murals at the Harvard Science Center and Rockefeller Center, for example | 76 |
The Magnetic Fields' "Wi' ___ Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget" | 77 |
The longest word containing only letters from the second half of the alphabet | 77 |
The longest one in English is the Navy term "ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC" | 78 |
The Library's Special Collections include one of George Washington's creations, ___ | 91 |
The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ | 125 |
The Library's Periodicals Room was the source of most of the excerpted material in the first issue of ___ | 109 |
The length of a meter is based precisely on the amount of light emitted from this | 81 |
The last word of this puzzle's five longest answers is a type of one | 72 |
The last song on Bob Dylan's "Desire," named for his then-wife | 76 |
The last cast member to sign on for the "Arrested Development" reunion, supposedly | 92 |
The largest man-made object in orbit around the Earth, with "The" | 75 |
The largest in the U.S. was found in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1902 | 75 |
The King (subject of four "sightings" elsewhere in this puzzle) | 73 |
The handle of Charles Dickens's ivory letter opener, in the Library's collection, is ___ | 96 |
The half of the keyboard on which all of this puzzle's answers can be typed | 79 |
The Guinness book once dubbed her "television's most frequent clapper" | 84 |
The Greek "khalix" (pebble) for the English "calculus," e.g. | 80 |
The genie studies it for a while and finally says, "This is impossible. So ..." | 89 |
The first piece of information ever learned about you during your lifetime, probably | 84 |
The first non-British to receive Britain's Dickin Medal for Gallantry was a _____ | 85 |
The first blank in the seafood restaurant sign "___ ___ season" | 73 |
The earliest surviving one, made in 1932, features the Philadelphia Orchestra | 77 |
The earliest possible time that this crossword will be finished tonight, unfortunately | 86 |
The Donald declared him the winner of 2012's "Celebrity Apprentice" | 81 |
The desire people have to do something good without getting out of their chair | 78 |
The Delacorte Theater's "Mother Courage and Her Children"? | 72 |
The crooked realty agent tried to sell some sucker the Golden Gate by offering a... | 83 |
The cover photo of him from the 1992 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue was used in 2005 as a postage stamp | 119 |
The Coasters' record label (coincidentally, all its letters appear in their name) | 85 |
The candidate from the Bachelor Party said that under him the country would ___ | 79 |
The bright side (according to Chinese philosophy) of an Oscar-winning film director? | 84 |
The Boston Symphony played its second movement to commemorate FDR's death | 77 |
The best-selling two-seat convertible sports car in history, according to Guinness | 82 |
The BBC's "Pinwright's Progress" is reportedly the first TV one | 81 |
The BBC promoted V-for-Victory in musical Morse code by frequenty broadcasting _____ | 84 |
The artist ___ wrote a four-book treatise on a) human proportions; b) botany; c) choral music; d) theology | 106 |
The Arcade Fire's "___ année sans lumière" ("A Year Without Light") | 97 |
The album "Honky Tonk Angels" is a collaboration of Dolly, Tammy and her | 82 |
The act of waiting for a partner to finish shopping, per the Urban Dictionary (+O) | 82 |
The ability to be on a string, can mouth along to what I'm saying, etc. | 75 |
The 2x2 black square near the middle of this puzzle's grid, e.g., which is part of eight answers | 100 |
The 2005-06 season was the first since 1950-51 in which this type of show wasn't among Nielsen's top 10 | 111 |
The "you" in the lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" | 74 |
The "you" in the 1968 lyric "Gee I think you're swell" | 78 |
The "who" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 115 |
The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 117 |
The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 116 |
The "Wedding March" was written for her wedding in "Lohengrin" | 82 |
The "voice" in Bloch's "Voice in the Wilderness" | 72 |
The "ugly" to Clint's "good" and Lee's "bad" | 82 |
The "she" in the lyric "She walked up to me and she asked me to dance" | 90 |
The "she" in the lyric "And when she passes, I smile" | 73 |
The "She" in Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It" | 74 |
The "she" in "Of all the gin joints ... she walks into mine" | 80 |
The "only g-g-g-girl that I adore," according to a WWI-era song | 74 |
The "one man" in the tagline, "One man's struggle to take it easy" | 90 |
The "me" in "nothing can stop me now," in a 1962 #1 hit | 75 |
The "it" in the lyric "turn it on, wind it up, blow it out" | 79 |
The "home" in John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | 81 |
The "her" of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" | 72 |
The "Her" of "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low" | 74 |
The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho" | 81 |
The "her" in Broadway's "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" | 87 |
The "her" in Beethoven's question "Who comprehends her?" | 80 |
The "greatest blessing" and the "greatest plague": Euripides | 80 |
That guy who shoves his political beliefs on you whether you like it or not, briefly | 84 |
Texter's "it's a secret" shorthand spelled out by the starts of four puzzle answers | 101 |
Text adventure with the classic line "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue." | 105 |
Texas oil company whose name comes from the Spanish for "treasure" | 76 |
Texas city that's the setting for the film "Friday Night Lights" | 78 |
Texas city obsessed with the Permian Panthers in "Friday Night Lights" | 80 |
Tex-Mex dish with lettuce, tomato, cheese, etc., in a hard tortilla "bowl" | 84 |
Test subject #4 perceives A and C as blue, B and D as orange, 1 and 2 as red; maybe she rides the ... | 101 |
Test subject #2 perceives 1 as yellow, 3 as red, 8 as black; maybe she owns a ... | 81 |