| After "The," 1970 John Jay Osborn Jr. novel or the movie or TV series adapted from it | 95 |
| What Roscoe Orman of "Sesame Street" played in 1974's "Willie Dynamite" | 95 |
| It put out the first crossword book in 1924 (and soon changed its name to Simon & Schuster) | 95 |
| "The Powerfully Effective, Take It Only When You Need It, Sinus and Allergy Medicine" | 95 |
| Reviewer on "The Road to Wellville": "I got whiplash from the runaway plot" | 95 |
| "Little" barnyard bird with an alliterative name in a classic Willie Dixon blues song | 95 |
| Accidental portmanteau from Sarah Palin that made a few "2010 Word of the Year" lists | 95 |
| It's more of a privilege, really, in countries like Canada that have fairly strict gun laws | 95 |
| ___ Octubre (nickname of Orlando Hernández after he went 8-0 to start his postseason career) | 95 |
| Defensive fencing positions in which the top of the blade is pointed at the opponent's knee | 95 |
| [*cross out* Children's song] Ignore the rest of the lunch I brought and just eat the fish? | 95 |
| Sales person's forte, and a synonym for the ends of this puzzle's three longest entries | 95 |
| "Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," in Alcoholics Anonymous | 95 |
| Composer threatened with arrest in 1940 for adding a major seventh chord to the national anthem | 95 |
| Source of illumination Harold Edgerton used for photographs of milk drops and bursting balloons | 95 |
| Vocally versatile, cruciverbally useful singer Yma who would have turned eighty-seven this week | 95 |
| ___ Arthur (British psych rock band named after a Pink Floyd member and a bad Herman Hesse pun) | 95 |
| Posthumous John Donne poem that includes "It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee" | 95 |
| Fictional band who sang "Can't Buy Me Lunch" and "All You Need Is Cash" | 95 |
| "If you don't meet my demands within 24 hours, I'll blow up a Russian river"? | 95 |
| Only sch. to win both the menÂ’s and womenÂ’s N.C.A.A. basketball titles in the same year | 95 |
| Org. with the ad slogan "It's not science fiction. It's what we do every day" | 95 |
| Only person to garner Oscar nominations for producer, director, writer, and actor for two films | 95 |
| Someone who isn't going to have a Four Loko and salvia cocktail before planking, obviously! | 95 |
| Indie rock band that played the Velvet Underground in 1996's "I Shot Andy Warhol" | 95 |
| Fictional corporation that supplied rocket-powered roller skates and jet-propelled pogo sticks | 94 |
| Squirrel's staple [don't miss great indie puzzles from avxwords.com! subscribe today!] | 94 |
| Its cause is what rocket scientist Robert Truax predicted would be found and corrected by 2010 | 94 |
| State celebrating its 50th anniversary in January 2009 (and a hint to the three theme entries) | 94 |
| Shakespearean character who said "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war" | 94 |
| About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about" | 94 |
| Former Yankee Aaron whose 2003 ALCS Game 7 homer extended the "Curse of the Bambino" | 94 |
| "Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage," e.g.? | 94 |
| "___ thou remember / A time before we came unto this cell?": "The Tempest" | 94 |
| Government agcy. that produced the graphic novel "Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic" | 94 |
| "The wart stops here" product, and a hint to the theme found in eight puzzle answers | 94 |
| Villain who says "That's a Dom Perignon '55. It would be a pity to break it" | 94 |
| ___ Reiss Merin, babysitter player in "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" | 94 |
| 1961 film with the tagline "The greatest romance and adventure in a thousand years!" | 94 |
| Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it | 94 |
| Her "Orinoco Flow" has a macabre role in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" | 94 |
| Ancient stone once thought to be man-made but now believed to have been produced by glaciation | 94 |
| He designed costumes for "Così fan tutte" at Paris's Opéra-Comique in 1952 | 94 |
| "Never ___ Give You Up" (song featured in the YouTube prank "Rickrolling") | 94 |
| With "The," L.A. theater at which Neil Diamond recorded "Hot August Night" | 94 |
| "___ let us in, knows where we've been" ("Octopus's Garden" lyric) | 94 |
| "A Buddhist walks up to a ___ stand and says, 'Make me one with everything'" | 94 |
| "An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ___ cannot be resisted": Hugo | 94 |
| 1967 hit with the repeated lyric "Yes I am / And I can't help / But love you so" | 94 |
| Talk radio personality with the comedy album "One Sacred Chicken to Go With Anthrax" | 94 |
| Poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen'" | 94 |
| He wrote "There was an old man of Thermopylae / Who never did anything properly ..." | 94 |
| Lead singer of the band whose name is derived from a "Barbarella" villain's name | 94 |
| Simpson's episode "___ First Word" (featuring Liz Taylor as the voice of Maggie) | 94 |
| Bill who said of his TV monologues "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 94 |
| Jets legend who drunkenly hit on ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber during a live TV interview | 94 |
| Poet who wrote, about children, "And if they are popular / The phone they monopular" | 94 |
| TV series that originally had the redundant "Navy" in its title for the first season | 94 |
| Film in which the title character says "I don't permit the suffering—you do" | 94 |
| Classic 1977 song with the repeated line "Let's get together and feel all right" | 94 |
| Musician who's probably going to end up in your grid when you've got 33 3-letter words | 94 |
| Song played at the 1920 Olympics when music for the Italian national anthem could not be found | 94 |
| Different kinds of them are split (but not in an embarrassing way) in the four starred answers | 94 |
| "Norma ___" (cinematic union organizer whose inspiration died on September 11, 2009) | 94 |
| "Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief" speaker | 94 |
| Twins player with the team's all-time highest single-season batting average (.388 in 1977) | 94 |
| Mnemonic that figures into each theme entry's "color shift" (from top to bottom) | 94 |
| "I couldn't unfasten her ___ belt" ("No Particular Place to Go" lyric) | 94 |
| George W. Bush, as a managing general partner of baseballÂ’s Texas Rangers, traded away ... | 94 |
| "In fair Verona, where we lay our ___" (second line of "Romeo and Juliet") | 94 |
| "He ... vas ... my ... boyfriend!" from "Young Frankenstein," for example? | 94 |
| He said "In America, anybody can be president; that's one of the risks you take" | 94 |
| Campus radio log, Monday: Iggy airs cubic-zirconia infomercial in response to requests for ... | 94 |
| What I wanted for myself, but couldn't get to work properly...then received in front of me | 94 |
| Sir Mix-a-Lot anthem with the line "...don't want none unless you got buns, hon" | 94 |
| Word fragment repeated multiple times by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October | 94 |
| U.S. stealth bomber (usually written with a numeral, but how about a little creative license?) | 94 |
| Reynolds' impressions of an MTV dimwit (or a cosmetics ad interrupted by a rental car ad)? | 94 |
| "I'm strongly thinking about moving to Iowa, how will I secure a place to live?" | 94 |
| The only recipient of Sports Illustrated's "Sportswoman of the Year" (from 1976) | 94 |
| Jerome who played Miles Archer, Sam's ill-fated partner, in "The Maltese Falcon" | 94 |
| What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like a "City Slickers" actor? | 94 |
| Science fiction classic to which the Harry Potter series bears more than a passing resemblance | 94 |
| Oxford American Dictionary's 2012 word of the year, and the key to this puzzle's theme | 94 |
| Position held by Dirk Kempthorne before becoming George W. Bush's final interior secretary | 94 |
| Diamond gambit, or a hint to a different concealed word found in each answer to a starred clue | 94 |
| Reality TV show won by Cris Judd and Lou Diamond Phillips in its first two seasons, familiarly | 94 |
| Start of a Bob Dole quip on how he fared the night after losing the 1988 New Hampshire primary | 94 |
| Word or phrase that has no repeated letters (every answer in this puzzle is an example of one) | 94 |
| Counterculture author who wrote about and drove the psychedelic "Furthur" school bus | 94 |
| "A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead" author | 94 |
| What's been deposited in four squares of this puzzle, expressed both by name and by symbol | 94 |
| Artwork using both paint and collage, e.g. ... and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 94 |
| Rhyming phrase that highlights one of the benefits of having sex with full-figured individuals | 94 |
| What happened, perhaps, after "Tower Heist" failed to be nominated for Best Picture? | 94 |
| Russian peasants (and the highest-scoring opening word in Scrabble--it's worth 128 points) | 94 |
| Biography by James Fenimore Cooper with the alternate title "A Life Before the Mast" | 94 |
| William Cullen Bryant poem that begins "Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!" | 94 |
| Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue | 94 |
| "The one and only true love ___ least it seems" (CeCe Peniston, "Finally") | 94 |