Test subject #1 perceives 1 as brown, 2 as red, 8 as gray; maybe he works as an ... | 83 |
Test outcome that once might have classified someone as a "moron" | 75 |
Terrifying (or at least super irritating) group for anyone who isn't their age, often | 89 |
Term from astrophysics that describes the stretching of objects in very strong gravitational fields | 99 |
Term borrowed from a board game to describe an easy means of escape from a bad situation | 88 |
Tennyson poem that begins "I waited for the train at Coventry" | 72 |
Tennis player who was the subject of a popular David Foster Wallace essay | 73 |
Tennessee's NCAA women's basketball team (with "Vols") | 72 |
Tennessee Williams's "The Mutilated" or "Lifeboat Drill" | 80 |
Temporary numeric identifications assigned to a node in an internet network | 75 |
Temporarily not playing, in baseball lingo (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 82 |
Teen movie franchise whose box set is titled "The Full Reveal" | 72 |
Technology that I guess has outed me as a robot because I always get it wrong | 77 |
Technology at issue in the 1984 Supreme Court case Sony Corp. of America vs. Universal Studios, Inc. | 100 |
Technique used to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ... or an alternate name for this puzzle | 92 |
Tech product whose original slogan was "There's no step three!" | 77 |
Teamster leader who was rumored to be buried under the end zone at Giants Stadium | 81 |
Teammate of Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Vida on the 1970s Oakland A's | 74 |
Team with which Yogi Berra and Willie Mays both ended their playing careers | 75 |
Team Wilt Chamberlain played for when he scored 100 points in a single game | 75 |
Team whose stadium was built by seizing private property in Brooklyn via eminent domain | 87 |
Team whose playing venue appears on the National Register of Historic Places | 76 |
Team that staged the infamous Disco Demolition Night, which led to a forfeit | 76 |
Team that plays "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" during the seventh inning stretch | 93 |
Team that has won the World Series three times while based in three different cities | 84 |
Team that finished last out of ten teams in each of its first four seasons | 74 |
Teacher's comment that she maybe might write near sentences sort of like this current clue here | 99 |
Taylor Swift song that contains the line, "Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer" | 150 |
Tatyana of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," or a later role for the Fresh Prince himself | 96 |
Tatum O'Neal's character in "The Bad News Bears," e.g. | 72 |
Tarzan's response to, "Hey, where do they keep the sugar on this ship?" | 85 |
Tarzan's order to Cheeta when the wedding bouquets didn't arrive? | 73 |
Target of criticism in Vincent Bugliosi's 1996 book "Outrage" | 75 |
Target of Bill Maher's "New Rule: stop wearing plastic shoes" | 75 |
Tallinn's St. ___ Church, once said to be the tallest building in Europe | 76 |
Talks that may ask "What's it like having a palace in Tatooine"? | 78 |
Talking Heads' "As the days go by, let the water hold me down" song | 81 |
Talk show host on the current season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" | 76 |
Talk show about words like "zeppelin" and "dirigible"? | 74 |
Talk radio personality with the comedy album "One Sacred Chicken to Go With Anthrax" | 94 |
Take two balloons, hold them side by side, then twist the whole thing in the middle | 83 |
Taiwanese LPGA star who is the youngest golfer to win five major championships | 78 |
Tackle box item turned hair accessory that was one of Yahoo!'s "Worst Trends of 2011" | 99 |
T: Ever audit somebody and find they've overpaid? A: __ (Buddy Holly) | 73 |
T. S. Eliot title character who measures out his life with coffee spoons | 72 |
System of a Down "This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like ___ This Song" | 74 |
Synthpop group that won a 1986 Grammy for its version of Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme | 99 |
Symphony whose second movement is marked "Marcia funebre. Adagio assai" | 81 |
Symphonic ode to a nation by Elgar that includes quotations from "Warszawianka" | 89 |
Symbol on the film poster for Eastwood's "Hang 'Em High" | 74 |
Sylvia ___, whom Sinatra once called the "world's greatest saloon singer" | 87 |
Sylvia Plath poem that begins "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root" | 103 |
Sylvia Plath poem featuring the line “I know it with my great tap root” | 79 |
Syllable between "do wah diddy diddy" and "diddy do" | 72 |
Swiss mathmetician Daniel whose eponymous principle led to the carburetor and airplane wing | 91 |
Swiss band with "Oh, Yeah" (as heard in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") | 91 |
Swing both ways, and a literal hint to how four puzzle answers were created | 75 |
Swimmer Kristin ___, the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympics | 80 |
Swift lyric "And I left my ___ at your sister's house ..." | 72 |
Sweet talk that may be subjected to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy? | 87 |
Swedish soccer player Sundhage who coached the U.S. women's team to two Olympic golds | 89 |
Sutton Foster's role in Broadway's "Young Frankenstein" | 73 |
Suspected spy's fashionable garb, in Simon and Garfunkel's "America" | 86 |
Susan who was the original Belle in Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" | 83 |
Susan who filled in for vacationing Bernadette Peters in "Annie Get Your Gun" | 87 |
Surviving Milli Vanilli member [avxword.com is home to the best indie xwords - subscribe today] | 95 |
Surrealist who avoided the draft by writing the day's date in every space on his induction paperwork | 104 |
Surrealist painter whose best-known painting shows up often in college dorm rooms | 81 |
Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
Surname of literary characters Noah, Tom, Al, Rosasharn, Ruthie, and Winfield | 78 |
Supreme Court justice known for a literalist interpretation of the Bill of Rights | 81 |
Supposed psychoactive substance outlined in "The Anarchist Cookbook" | 78 |
Supporter of class struggle who also happens to run a Fortune 500 company? | 74 |
Supermodel who appeared in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" | 77 |
Supermodel host of the version of "Project Runway" shown in Canada | 76 |
Superlative qualifier added to a childish argument in hopes of eliminating any potential for a further retort (of course, anyone who's been involved in a childish argument knows that you can just add | 203 |
Super Bowl XXI M.V.P., first to say "I'm going to Disney World!" | 78 |
Super Bowl in which Miami completed the NFL's only perfect season ever | 74 |
Summit attendee, and what the first word can be in each answer to a starred clue | 80 |
Summer coolers, briefly, and a hint to this puzzle's six longest answers | 76 |
Summer blazer, which can come before the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 89 |
Suggestion uttered by Nate Dogg at the end of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" (The views and opinions expressed in this answer are not necessarily shared by The Cross Nerd Inc.) | 188 |
Suffix with ''president'' or ''proverb'' | 72 |
Sue Ann __, Betty White's role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | 75 |
Sudden reductions in loan availability, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
Successor of Bernadette and Cheryl in the revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" | 83 |
Substance whose synthesis required a "life force," alchemists believed | 80 |
Substance under Little Cat Z's hat in "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" | 83 |
Subscription-based journalism site that bills itself as "the program with nothing to hide" | 100 |
Subject that includes women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment | 73 |
Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" | 75 |
Subject of the song "Tell Me, Trudy, Who Is Going to Be the Lucky One?" | 81 |
Subject of the Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" | 73 |
Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | 76 |
Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" | 78 |
Subject of the lyric "A horse is a horse, of course, of course" | 73 |
Subject of the Final Jeopardy! question that knocked out Ken Jennings after a record 74 wins ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 133 |
Subject of the biography "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" | 79 |
Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" | 77 |
Subject of the 1999 biography subtitled "The Little Giant of Baseball" | 80 |