| This weekend's fridge contents, probably, and what's missing from five long puzzle answers? | 99 |
| Synthpop group that won a 1986 Grammy for its version of Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme | 99 |
| A series of "insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster," per Tom Stoppard | 99 |
| "15. Me and my buddy Stephen built a ___ after seeing a documentary about the instrument" | 99 |
| Classic children's novel, and what to look for in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 99 |
| Doomsday expression, or what you might start to think if you stare at the Down answers for too long | 99 |
| What your dog might do after eating his way through your linen closet, after aiming in and missing? | 99 |
| It features John Trumbull's painting "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence" | 99 |
| Boll whose films are so badly reviewed that he challenged his most severe critics to a boxing match | 99 |
| Device that protects kids from sex and violence, as long as they don't do anything but watch TV | 99 |
| "I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the ___ did it": Steven Wright | 99 |
| Last name of brothers who combined for 6,916 total bases (60 more than all-time leader Hank Aaron) | 98 |
| "___ Nights" (2014 movie for which Liam Hemsworth is said to have been cast as Ali Baba) | 98 |
| Hispanic MLB star whose nickname is a Hispanic cartoon character spelled backward (COINCIDENCE?!?) | 98 |
| Band with the albums "Alpha," "Astra," "Aqua"... (you get the point) | 98 |
| Newcaster who said "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" | 98 |
| The ___ (nickname for each season's recurring villain on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") | 98 |
| Russell parodied on "South Park" with the show "Fightin' Around the World" | 98 |
| Article in a German paper?[For the explanation to last week's puzzle, see the last clue down.] | 98 |
| Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort" | 98 |
| Narcissists' interests (one of which can be found in each of the puzzle's longest answers) | 98 |
| It's "heavier freight for the shipper than it is for the consignee": Augustus Thomas | 98 |
| "I am the doubter and the doubt / And I the ___ the Brahmin sings" (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | 98 |
| Secret (and potentially cataclysmic) substance in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | 98 |
| Words made more broadly applicable by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor | 98 |
| Retailer whose "Gutvik" children's bed translates to "good fuck" in German | 98 |
| 1940s quartet with the #1 hit "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall," with "the" | 98 |
| Morissette song that, by failing to give examples of things that are its title, becomes said title | 98 |
| Titular musical character who wants to "taste the Roaring Twenties" before settling down | 98 |
| There are eight of these before "baby" in Elvis's "A Big Hunk o' Love" | 98 |
| "The Wire" character Little who is murdered in the antepenultimate episode of the series | 98 |
| Number of unique lineups U2 has had, as well as the name of a single from "Achtung Baby" | 98 |
| He said, upon leaving Stoner's Pot Palace: "Man, that is flagrant false advertising" | 98 |
| 2014 Robin Thicke concept album (if "maybe stalking can win my wife back?" is a concept) | 98 |
| Acidity or alkalinity measurement, which is literally 8 for this puzzle's four longest answers | 98 |
| <u>Billy,</u> <u>Fred</u> <u>or</u> <u>Vincent</u> | 98 |
| "It's easy to be outnumbered when you're ___" ("George of the Jungle") | 98 |
| Lennon/McCartney song whose title words follow "They'll be glad, you're not ..." | 98 |
| Sitcom (as pronounced on CBS ads) that made tvsquad.com's "Worst of TV in 2010" list | 98 |
| The world's largest ..., prepared in Campbellsport, Wisconsin, required four gallons of relish | 98 |
| He cast spells with "Abraca-pocus" and "Hocus-cadabra" in a 1963 cartoon short | 98 |
| Comics character who said "Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help" | 98 |
| Girolamo ___, Italian mathematician who first published the solution to the general cubic equation | 98 |
| "Then I found these," she said, and even I was shocked. There were ___ on the floor ... | 98 |
| "___ Accidentally Leaks Results of 2008 Election Early" ("The Onion" headline) | 98 |
| New slogan for a North Carolina city trying to draw in visitors for tours of its old distilleries? | 98 |
| Douglas Adams' facetious answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything | 98 |
| Illegal football tackle involving grabbing the inside of the shoulder pads from behind or the side | 98 |
| "Now he remembers setting $10 aside for pizza - he searches his jacket and finds it ___" | 98 |
| Director David behind the video game classics "Twisted Metal" and "God of War" | 98 |
| "If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be / lyrically Talib ___" (Jay-Z lyric) | 98 |
| Straight-to-video knockoff, such as "Transmorphers" or "The Da Vinci Treasure" | 98 |
| Kind of arena that might host the Hugger Games (and a group hug involving tributes #1, #2, and #6) | 98 |
| Low-priced American vodka known affectionately (and ironically) as "Russia's finest" | 98 |
| Advice during a solar eclipse (and a homophonic hint to uncovering this puzzle's secret image) | 98 |
| Change the condition of a fish part? (and three words that can follow BLUE and RED, but not WHITE) | 98 |
| Lame reality TV term driven into the ground by this season's "Big Brother All-Stars" | 98 |
| Actual protest activity for tax-and-spend opponents that sets the tone for this puzzle's theme | 98 |
| "___ we came forth to rebehold the stars" (last line of Dante's "Inferno") | 98 |
| Where the ball drops on New Year's Eve ... as depicted literally in four places in this puzzle | 98 |
| 007: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you ___!" | 98 |
| 1950s actress who was on the cover of Matthew Sweet's 1991 cult classic "Girlfriend" | 98 |
| Notably snarky magazine/media empire [The AV goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxwords.com] | 98 |
| MRS. HAtty-Cyphert you will amaze at your w*ste line goes invisible vvith these rev/olutionary ___ | 98 |
| His "Seeking Major Tom" made Pitchfork's "Worst Album Covers of 2011" list | 98 |
| Sci-fi character whose last words are "There is ... another ... Sky ... Sky ... walker." | 98 |
| In "Macbeth," it starts with the line "Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd" | 97 |
| It blows; I just got scolded for using portable electronic devices and they're out of peanuts | 97 |
| "At the gym I usually toss up ___ ball -- it's my specialty -- just before I leave" | 97 |
| "___ volat propriis" (motto of Oregon meaning "She flies with her own wings") | 97 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," describes names like Vivian Darkbloom and Mr. Mojo RisiN' | 97 |
| Scoreboard abbr. for the football team that plays its home games at University of Phoenix Stadium | 97 |
| Main thoroughfare in Manhattan (one can be found in each of the four long answers in this puzzle) | 97 |
| "The path of the righteous man is ___ on all sides ..." ("Pulp Fiction" line) | 97 |
| 2006 title film character who says "Pamela! I no find you attractive anymore! ... Not!" | 97 |
| <u>President</u> <u>of</u> <u>1</u> <u>Across</u> | 97 |
| Someone who's "in the kitchen" in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 97 |
| Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
| Film that lost out to "Places in the Heart" for the 1984 Best Original Screenplay Oscar | 97 |
| Number of times the letter 'U' appears in each of this puzzle's eight longest answers | 97 |
| Award for which "The Godfather, Part III" was nominated seven times, but didn't win | 97 |
| "Sometimes, when I sleep at night, I think of '___ Pop'" (Dubya, April 2, 2002) | 97 |
| "Winnie ___ Pu" (Latin version of Milne's classic that became a bestseller in 1960) | 97 |
| "That's my cue!" (fun fact: I inadvertently stole this clue from my own NYT puzzle) | 97 |
| Female lab assistant who went for a "roll in the hay" in "Young Frankenstein" | 97 |
| TV neighbor who said "I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm loving every minute of it!" | 97 |
| "Compromise is the best and cheapest ___" (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson) | 97 |
| Comic who occasionally contributes to the "Motormouth" column ofThe London Sunday Times | 97 |
| It was 2nd (behind New York City) on Travel and Leisure's list of America's Rudest Cities | 97 |
| The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 97 |
| "Captain! The engines canna take ___ more!" (line from Scotty on "Star Trek") | 97 |
| Org. with a flag of five alternating green and white stripes and a blue union with 24 white stars | 97 |
| O. Henry Award winner for "In the Region of Ice" (1967) and "The Dead" (1973) | 97 |
| Turow memoir subtitled "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" | 97 |
| "And Morning ___ with haste her lids" (line from Emerson's "The Problem") | 97 |
| Revolutionary James ___, famous for saying "Taxation without representation is tyranny" | 97 |
| "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I say, why take the chance?" speaker | 97 |
| Loaf reliably available at cousin Lotte's house when we used to go up to Cleveland for brunch | 97 |
| She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” | 97 |
| 1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace" | 97 |