| “I ___ my soul to the company store” (“Sixteen Tons” line) | 74 |
| Space between Jail and Electric Company in the British version of Monopoly | 74 |
| Todd who wrote the children's bestseller "The Thankful Book" | 74 |
| Repeated by rote ... or a word that's mixed up in three themed answers | 74 |
| Word with ''retirement'' or ''graduation'' | 74 |
| What "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" has a lot of | 74 |
| "Lethal Weapon 2," "... 3" and "... 4" actor | 74 |
| Org. that issued a statement on Michael Vick's signing with the Eagles | 74 |
| ...while actor Bill Nighy costarred with many ___ in a 2000s movie trilogy | 74 |
| "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" writer | 74 |
| What "Saturday Night Live" players are not ready for, supposedly | 74 |
| Biblical book whence the line "The meek shall inherit the earth" | 74 |
| Name of Michael's penis in the Judy Blume book "Forever ..." | 74 |
| It's easy to do if you've got a book, hard if kids are bugging you | 74 |
| "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also ___": Galatians | 74 |
| "Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store" Phish song | 74 |
| "They tried to make me go to ___, I said, 'No, no, no.'" | 74 |
| Band who settled on their name by flipping randomly through the dictionary | 74 |
| 1953's "The Jazz Singer" or 1976's "King Kong" | 74 |
| Tony-winning playwright for "Art" and "God of Carnage" | 74 |
| Country singer with the 1997 triple platinum hit "How Do I Live" | 74 |
| The second blank in the seafood restaurant sign "___ ___ season" | 74 |
| What Soul Asylum's phone won't do in "Somebody to Shove" | 74 |
| Response to the debut of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," e.g. | 74 |
| "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" author's initials | 74 |
| Letters with ''messenger'' or ''transfer'' | 74 |
| His "Crouching Woman" is in the Hirshhorn's sculpture garden | 74 |
| O'Donnell who hosted a widely panned 2008 Thanksgiving variety special | 74 |
| "House in the __ Plumet" (book of "Les Misérables") | 74 |
| 1961 #1 hit for Dion, and a literal hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 74 |
| 1998 movie with the quote "I saved Latin. What did you ever do?" | 74 |
| Wit who recorded the classic 1960 comedy album "At the Hungry I" | 74 |
| Teammate of Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Vida on the 1970s Oakland A's | 74 |
| California's ___ Valley, known as "America's salad bowl" | 74 |
| Literary character who asks "Would you, could you, in the dark?" | 74 |
| Political leader who patented a system to alter the buoyancy of steamboats | 74 |
| "It's only ___!" ("Winning isn't everything!") | 74 |
| "It's just ___!" ("Winning isn't everything!") | 74 |
| "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" author Sherman | 74 |
| Varnish component that gets its name from the Latin for "garlic" | 74 |
| Like a "Better active today than radioactive tomorrow" sentiment | 74 |
| Richard D. James covering "Seventeen" with Pat Smear's band? | 74 |
| Attempts to get a higher court to overturn one's espionage conviction? | 74 |
| First and only fictional group to have a #1 hit song, with "The" | 74 |
| Scholars believe that "A Musical Joke" by Mystery Person was ... | 74 |
| Where a dog-walker might go (and where a message is hidden in this puzzle) | 74 |
| Brit's ending to the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | 74 |
| Do a quick Erev Yom Kippur, show your face for Kol Nidre, no muss no fuss? | 74 |
| "___ Technology" (2007 #5 hit for 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake) | 74 |
| Animal taking a walk in Henry Mancini's jazzy "Hatari!" tune | 74 |
| Poor crossword construction technique that requires too much of the solver | 74 |
| ..."I Just Can't Help Believing She Blinded Me With Science" | 74 |
| Democratic territory / Cardinal, e.g. / "Over the Rainbow" flier | 74 |
| VH1 show on the New York Daily News's "Top 10 Worst of 2005" | 74 |
| Spiky device thrown in the road to puncture a speeding suspect's tires | 74 |
| Number five on askmen.com's "Top 10 Models of All Time" poll | 74 |
| Bygone NYC club whose name was an acronym for the music genres it featured | 74 |
| Ingredient served with fries and brown gravy in the Canadian dish poutine | 74 |
| Piano pieces nicknamed 'Winter Wind' and 'Butterfly,' e.g. | 74 |
| Blue-tongued dog in the canine version of the "Twilight" series? | 74 |
| Mystery author whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages | 74 |
| Nightly battle between a spouse who wants to read and one who doesn't? | 74 |
| "The black," in Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" | 74 |
| Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) | 74 |
| The "Her" of "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low" | 74 |
| Gold digger seduces a different kind of gold digger, gets charged with ... | 74 |
| Program about a sarcastic naval officer who offers sound financial advice? | 74 |
| Critic's complaint about the new restaurant "Charley Horse"? | 74 |
| Hyphenated New York City suburb that's the site of Van Cortlandt Manor | 74 |
| "It's against my programming to impersonate a deity" speaker | 74 |
| Bandleader Xavier who led the Waldorf-Astoria's orchestra for 16 years | 74 |
| Song that was bumped from the #1 spot by "Looks Like We Made It" | 74 |
| Dan ___, 1948 Best Actor nominee for "When My Baby Smiles at Me" | 74 |
| Satirical program originally hosted by Craig Kilborn, with "The" | 74 |
| Actor who presented at the 1973 Oscars while a streaker ran past on camera | 74 |
| Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 74 |
| If one were to ___, one would get articles about crazy online personal ads | 74 |
| __ Schayes, who held the NBA career scoring record when he retired in 1964 | 74 |
| "Blueberry Hill" singer is the only portly person in the family? | 74 |
| Speaker of the line "Listen to them - the children of the night" | 74 |
| Khal ___ (Dothraki chief who wed Daenerys, on "Game of Thrones") | 74 |
| Answer to the riddle, "What's brown and sounds like a bell?" | 74 |
| Blueprint spec ... or an MGM heartthrob's cousin from the Netherlands? | 74 |
| What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller | 74 |
| ___ & Ern (Kellogg's program where kids redeem coupons for prizes) | 74 |
| "Variety" headline about actress Rossum's hit Broadway role? | 74 |
| "___ petit placidam sub libertate quietem" (Massachusetts motto) | 74 |
| Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" | 74 |
| "___ Greatest Athlete of the Century" (honor for Michael Jordan) | 74 |
| What "you always pass ... on your way to success": Mickey Rooney | 74 |
| Fallacy that offers only two choices, when in fact many more are available | 74 |
| Good time of the week to solicit support from a rich campaign contributor? | 74 |
| Michael C. ___ (flatware company that provides prizes for many game shows) | 74 |
| "Don't I look fetching in this dress from Warsaw? Huh, huh?" | 74 |
| They included Chopin's "Prelude in E Minor," in a film title | 74 |
| Manson follower and would-be Ford assassin Lynette "Squeaky" ___ | 74 |
| Hoe or rake (like one might use to tend plants after losing one's job) | 74 |
| Writer who Ali G. mistook for Clinton's vice president in an interview | 74 |
| "Or that the Everlasting ___ fix'd/His canon . . . ": Hamlet | 74 |
| John Travolta will play Edna Turnblad in the movie version of this musical | 74 |