| "A whole new world of baking ... in a box!" sloganeer, once | 69 |
| Half of a sports rivalry detailed in the book "High Strung" | 69 |
| Ralph who co-wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | 69 |
| "Rolling Stone" called it "a doleful prom anthem" | 69 |
| "Make It With You" band touring with the Ringling Brothers? | 69 |
| "American Ska-Thic Vol. 2: More Ska From America's ___" | 69 |
| 1996 Helen Fielding book made into a film starring Renée Zellweger | 69 |
| To Shakespeare he was "high in all the people's hearts" | 69 |
| Oscar nominee for best actress in "Anne of a Thousand Days" | 69 |
| Come-ons used prior to making a secret "flight connection"? | 69 |
| "Excuse me, I seem to have lost my phone number — ...?" | 69 |
| Singer Blu with the 2001 hit "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" | 69 |
| "And the ___ and the silver spoon" (Harry Chapin) (4,2,3,6) | 69 |
| School report on the singer of "If I Could Turn Back Time"? | 69 |
| Rhode Island senator who created Basic Educational Opportunity Grants | 69 |
| Board game whose ads featured the line "Pretty sneaky, sis" | 69 |
| Devout acts in "Lord Jim" and "Heart of Darkness" | 69 |
| "___ it!" ("Dammit!," to an old-timey prospector) | 69 |
| Losing World Series manager of the 1933 Senators and the 1946 Red Sox | 69 |
| "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" philosophy | 69 |
| Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, with "The" | 69 |
| Drink cooler ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle's answer | 69 |
| When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first appear, in "Hamlet" | 69 |
| Co-creator of the Reitwagen, the first internal-combustion motorcycle | 69 |
| 'Spring forward' occasion hidden in 10 answers in this puzzle | 69 |
| Band with the 2009 album "Bitte Orca," with "The" | 69 |
| Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista ___, after whom a comet is named | 69 |
| Bit of nonsense famously replacing "strangers in the night" | 69 |
| Academy Award-nominated lyricist of "Come Saturday Morning" | 69 |
| First battery brand to feature an indefatigable pink bunny in its ads | 69 |
| L.A. rapper whose father is South Africa's National Poet Laureate | 69 |
| José who wrote "Beyond Hair: The Ultimate Makeover Book" | 69 |
| Singer with the 1988 #1 country hit "I'm Gonna Get You" | 69 |
| NFL Network journalist Rich, once partnered on ESPN with Stuart Scott | 69 |
| The only Blues Brother to reappear in "Blues Brothers 2000" | 69 |
| Winner of the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition | 69 |
| Rolling Stones album featuring the song "Where the Boys Go" | 69 |
| Words with ''an era'' or ''the line'' | 69 |
| Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas | 69 |
| Gold medalist at the Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo, and Mexico City Olympics | 69 |
| "Getting fairgoers moving on the right track" (Paris, 1900) | 69 |
| "I'm returning this concert CD-it's profoundly bad" | 69 |
| Swedish-born actress who played Candy in "Candy," ___ Aulin | 69 |
| It's also called the "Lincoln Law" (found in GOLF CART) | 69 |
| "Highly charged" character on "The Addams Family" | 69 |
| Longest number when spelled out in words that has no repeated letters | 69 |
| "That's a joke, ah say, that's a joke, son" speaker | 69 |
| Platonic state with unrequited romantic feelings, in modern-day slang | 69 |
| With "The," 1948 Red Skelton movie about door-to-door sales | 69 |
| Best Supporting Actress winner for "The Accidental Tourist" | 69 |
| Italian philosopher ___ Bruno, whose name was given to a lunar crater | 69 |
| Musician with the first record formally certified as a million-seller | 69 |
| Number that's physically impossible to write out in standard form | 69 |
| "Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!" | 69 |
| Food product whose name is an example of "foreign branding" | 69 |
| Negotiations leading to the surrender of German troops in Italy _____ | 69 |
| ___ legomenon (word or phrase used only once in a document or corpus) | 69 |
| Show whose originial theme song was done by Bill Haley and His Comets | 69 |
| Why the blackjack player got odd looks from the rest of the foursome? | 69 |
| 1980 hit with the line "I longed to speak but did not dare" | 69 |
| Steve Martin's doctor role in "The Man With Two Brains" | 69 |
| Scientific discovery nominated for Time's 2012 person of the year | 69 |
| Wide receiver who won season 12 of "Dancing With the Stars" | 69 |
| "The majority of British ___ ___ policy coming to fruition" | 69 |
| British ship that shares its name with a New York "village" | 69 |
| A&E TV show with professional cleaners and clinical psychologists | 69 |
| "Frost/Nixon" director's copy of a Graham Greene novel? | 69 |
| "Fine by me!"--that sounds like something Mr. Ed might say! | 69 |
| Song that knocked "Cracklin' Rosie" out of the top spot | 69 |
| Egyptian architect credited with building the Step Pyramid at Saqqara | 69 |
| Grammy-winning Nelly Furtado song . . . or a hint to the puzzle theme | 69 |
| (adj.) contradictory; out of touch with reality (said of legislators) | 69 |
| Grammy-winning R&B singer who covered "Imagine" in 2011 | 69 |
| Band with the 1982 platinum album "The Number of the Beast" | 69 |
| La ___, Dominican Republic (first Spanish settlement in the Americas) | 69 |
| "Bad Moon Rising" lyrics before "bad moon rising" | 69 |
| "So you finally got the gist of that Stephen Hawking book!" | 69 |
| "This is more than just a product," in Madison Avenue-speak | 69 |
| Song from "Mame" starting "Light the candles ..." | 69 |
| "I didn't steal the giant's treasure" and the like? | 69 |
| ___ Eads, engineer who built the world's first steel-truss bridge | 69 |
| Creator of TV's island that "wasn't just an island" | 69 |
| Comedian who once said, "My audiences are my group therapy" | 69 |
| Activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines | 69 |
| 1860 presidential candidate who won Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia | 69 |
| Coauthor with Friedrich Engels of "The Communist Manifesto" | 69 |
| First Japanese infielder to sign with a major-league team, familiarly | 69 |
| Corn flakes inventor (and anti-masturbation advocate) John Harvey ___ | 69 |
| Family on which "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" is based | 69 |
| Philosopher who wrote "anxiety is the dizziness of freedom" | 69 |
| Actress Kosarin of the Nickelodeon sitcom "The Thundermans" | 69 |
| Perennial herb with florets sometimes called "ham and eggs" | 69 |
| Secure container, for storing keys next to a shared-use door, perhaps | 69 |
| Request that the bank not give out all their money before you arrive? | 69 |
| Rock band with multiple songs about "The Lord of the Rings" | 69 |
| English translation of the University of California's Latin motto | 69 |
| Whence the phrase "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" | 69 |
| Elton John "And he shall be __, and he shall be a good man" | 69 |
| Women were not allowed to wear them on the US Senate floor until 1993 | 69 |
| "Band B wins, since Band A only has a tolerance for booze." | 69 |