| Subject of the 1928 novelty song "Henry's Made a Lady Out of Lizzie" | 82 |
| Subject of Ruth Montgomery's biography "A Gift of Prophecy" | 73 |
| Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" | 75 |
| Subject of an annual March 14 celebration and of this puzzle, celebrated in both a literal and a numerical way in the first square of the starred answers, reading left to right | 177 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter X | 111 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter pi | 112 |
| Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 72 |
| Subject of a documentary subtitled "Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" | 85 |
| Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue | 94 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography with the subtitle "Sittin' on Top of the World" | 89 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography subtitled "A Legend Like Lightning" | 73 |
| Subject of "The Word" on the first episode of "The Colbert Report" | 86 |
| Style appellation thrown around a lot, almost never in self-identification | 74 |
| Stuffed animals sold with secret codes that unlock virtual on-line versions of them | 83 |
| Stuff people want legalized so they can make shampoo and shirts (yeah, right) | 77 |
| Studio that produced Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Notorious" | 84 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| Studio behind "Gone with the Wind" and "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" | 99 |
| Strongest theory of where the next "Real Housewives" show will be set? | 80 |
| Strip that accompanied Sunday "Dixie Dugan" comics in the 1930s | 73 |
| Street food magnate who failed despite having food from every continent? | 72 |
| Stream of radioactive particles with the lowest penetration of ordinary objects | 79 |
| Strapless, sleeveless women's garment that covers the breasts and part of the midriff | 89 |
| Stranded at the ski lodge, perhaps, and a hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 80 |
| Straight-to-video knockoff, such as "Transmorphers" or "The Da Vinci Treasure" | 98 |
| Story of a hero's less-than-successful early years before he got the sword idea? | 84 |
| Stormers of Saruman's fortress, in "The Lord of the Rings" | 72 |
| Store for athletes seeking protection? (And, onsides, what each of this puzzle's starred entries refers to) | 111 |
| Stop at this North Dakota region that was the inspiration for a folk song | 73 |
| Stones "Any minute, any ___, I'm waiting on a call from you" | 74 |
| Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers | 74 |
| Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” | 115 |
| Steven Bochco drama with an Emmy for the episode "The Venus Butterfly" | 80 |
| Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 74 |
| Status attained after passing the Trials of Skill, Spirit, and Knowledge | 72 |
| Statistician who on Election Day 2012 gave Obama a 91.6% chance of victory | 74 |
| Statesman Benjamin who said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" | 105 |
| State whose ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment ended Prohibition | 72 |
| State where Don Ho was born (or was he? let's see the REAL birth certificate, Don!) | 87 |
| State that shares the longest diagonal border in the country with California | 76 |
| State that Dan Quayle is obviously not from, based on a famous misspelling of 1992 | 82 |
| State for Snowflake, a town founded by Mormon pioneers E. Snow and W.J. Flake | 77 |
| State celebrating its 50th anniversary in January 2009 (and a hint to the three theme entries) | 94 |
| State capital whose name comes from the French for "wooded area" | 74 |
| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
| Start of the caption to a Jim Johnson cartoon showing a woman holding a 32-oz. piece of stemware | 96 |
| Start of Seneca's quote that ends with "... what reason cannot" | 77 |
| Start of remark to me by a guy in a coffee shop in March 2011 about his observations in my traffic courtroom not long before | 124 |
| Start of many songs in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 74 |
| Start of an open letter from the puzzle constructor: "Dear ___, you seem a bit confused about what the V. P. does every day, so here are some helpful hints ..." | 170 |
| Start of an Einstein quote that holds true when solving clever crosswords | 73 |
| Start of Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'Discussion' in 'The Devil's Dictionary' | 104 |
| Start of Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'Acquaintance' in 'The Devil's Dictionary' | 106 |
| Start of a showbiz question about whether a hit in one town will be a hit in a different town | 93 |
| Start of a quote by Lord Jeffery, 18th-century literary critic and judge | 72 |
| Start of a quote by James H. Boren, author of "When in Doubt, Mumble" | 79 |
| Start of a quote about Steinbrenner by former Yankees co-owner John McMullen | 76 |
| Start of a quip by hockey commentator Don Cherry about his autobiography | 72 |
| Start of a proverb about consequences ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 79 |
| Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" | 124 |
| Start of a number of ditties performed by creepy little orange dudes in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 123 |
| Start of a definition of "elbonics" (a word that doesn't exist but should) | 88 |
| Start of a bumper sticker that may end with one's favorite vacation spot | 76 |
| Start of a bumper sticker that may end with one's favorite attraction | 73 |
| Start of a bumper sticker that may end with one's favorite (usually expensive) vehicle | 90 |
| Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares | 110 |
| Start of a Bob Dole quip on how he fared the night after losing the 1988 New Hampshire primary | 94 |
| Start of a billboard catchphrase meaning "close to the highway" | 73 |
| Start of a "grook" (an aphoristic poem) by Danish scientist Piet Hein | 79 |
| Stars of "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," collectively | 89 |
| Star of the Oscar-winning short film "For Scent-imental Reasons" | 74 |
| Star of the motivational video "Be Somebody ... or Be Somebody's Fool" | 84 |
| Star of the film referenced by the start of the three other longest entries | 75 |
| Star of a 1981 Broadway revue subtitled "The Lady and Her Music" | 74 |
| Star of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "As Good As It Gets" | 90 |
| Star of "Golden Receiver," "World Pup," and "Seventh Inning Fetch," among others | 110 |
| Star of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Best Years of Our Lives" | 87 |
| Star of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" | 103 |
| Standard with the lyrics "Your eyes are always saying / the things you're never saying" | 101 |
| Standard with the lyric "Ain't these tears in my eyes tellin' you?" | 85 |
| Standard with the lines "Pay for every dance, sellin' each romance" | 81 |
| Standard that begins "When we are dancing / And you're dangerously near me" | 89 |
| Stand-up guy who played Tobias Fünke on "Arrested Development" | 75 |
| Stadium billed as "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon opening in 1965 | 77 |
| Squirrel's staple [don't miss great indie puzzles from avxwords.com! subscribe today!] | 94 |
| Square, in old slang, as indicated by forming a square with one's hands | 75 |
| Spy movie villain who says "East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other" | 106 |
| Spud who won the 1986 Slam Dunk Contest with a "180-degree reverse two-handed strawberry jam" | 103 |
| Springsteen song that starts, "Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?" | 79 |
| Springsteen "When they built you, brother, they broke the ___" | 72 |
| Springsteen "If you've ever seen ___ trick pony then you've seen me" | 86 |
| Springsteen "His body hit the street with such a beautiful ___" | 73 |
| Springing bounce in tall grasses, as by an animal, to view the surroundings | 75 |
| Springfield businessman who briefly opened a "Family Feedbag" restaurant | 82 |
| Spots where ship passengers shout "I'm king of the world!" | 72 |
| Spot of "bad intent" in Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" | 72 |
| Sportsman Hunt for whom the N.F.L.'s A.F.C. championship trophy is named | 76 |
| Sports talk radio host whose show is affectionately called "The Jungle" | 81 |
| Sports star who wrote the 2008 best seller "A Champion's Mind" | 76 |
| Sports org. whose website is in English, French, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Slovak and German | 100 |