| Chairperson of the National Endowment of the Humanities (1986 - 1993) | 69 |
| 1978 #1 Donna Summer hit that covered a 1968 #2 hit by Richard Harris | 69 |
| Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress | 69 |
| Degree for a leprechaun who's an expert at finding imperfections? | 69 |
| Show with celebrity panelists filling in blanks on a Chicago railway? | 69 |
| Mr. ___ (delivery man on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood") | 69 |
| "... Then the ___ said she wanted to run away with me! ..." | 69 |
| Series with "Duck Amuck" and "One Froggy Evening" | 69 |
| Today, and a hint to what the longest answers (doubly) have in common | 69 |
| Punk rock band who coined the term "straight edge movement" | 69 |
| Philadelphia's "P" and Denver's "D," e.g. | 69 |
| Tirso de ___, Spanish dramatist who introduced Don Juan to literature | 69 |
| "And the ___ raths outgrabe" ("Jabberwocky" line) | 69 |
| "I'm returning this scented spray-it smells like a bog" | 69 |
| 1971 hit from the album "Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy" | 69 |
| "Song of ___" (opening poem in "Leaves of Grass") | 69 |
| Sitcom about a family of Dresden residents raised by a single parent? | 69 |
| Journalist Octavia canned by CNN for a tweet sympathetic to Hezbollah | 69 |
| Former relief pitcher Robb and his first baseman father Dick, for two | 69 |
| Words with ''see you'' or ''be here'' | 69 |
| "That's final!" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 69 |
| Lisa Kudrow, just pretending to be her "Friends" character? | 69 |
| Anika ___ Rose, 2014 Tony nominee for "A Raisin in the Sun" | 69 |
| K's Choice "I'm ___ addict, maybe that's a lie" | 69 |
| Notice "All Quiet on the Western Front" sitting on a shelf? | 69 |
| On second thought, make it a prison drama: "French Kiss..." | 69 |
| Theme of this puzzle hidden in the seven other longest across answers | 69 |
| Protective cover that's found in an "Ave Maria" phrase? | 69 |
| Author of ''The Principles and Practice of Medicine'' | 69 |
| Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "Anaconda" (1997) | 69 |
| Event that includes Snowboarding Charades and Motocross 20 Questions? | 69 |
| Star of the Oscar-winning short "For Scent-imental Reasons" | 69 |
| Prank where you pour seasoning over the captain of the football team? | 69 |
| Jo Ann who played Lt. "Dish" in 1970's "MASH" | 69 |
| Japanese packaged sweet that comes in a "Men's" variety | 69 |
| "Interested in verse? You should read 'The Bells'"? | 69 |
| One who says "Beg your pardon" after stepping on your toes? | 69 |
| Like George Clooney in ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' | 69 |
| Pasta-aisle product that says "Czech it out!" on the label? | 69 |
| Artist who was the first to have a video with a billion YouTube views | 69 |
| Ballplayer's home renovation advice about the bare hallway floor? | 69 |
| Portland Trail Blazer Woods busted for raising pit bulls for fighting | 69 |
| Find out what that weird dude from high school is up to, via Facebook | 69 |
| Seals close them when they dive to keep water from flowing to canals? | 69 |
| "At work, when I tried to open a link, it was really a ___" | 69 |
| Film in which Dean Martin sings "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me" | 69 |
| ... the one for Peace by this "Thomas and Beulah" poet, ... | 69 |
| With "The," 1994 movie with Anthony Hopkins and Dana Carvey | 69 |
| Things found under the bridge in "Three Billy Goats Gruff"? | 69 |
| House Judiciary Committee chair during the Nixon impeachment hearings | 69 |
| What a virtuous woman is worth more than, according to Proverbs 31:10 | 69 |
| Her 1965 Met debut was as Cio-Cio-San in "Madama Butterfly" | 69 |
| Ones said to be "trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly ..." | 69 |
| Mazda Raceway Laguna ___ (Monterey racetrack in operation since 1957) | 69 |
| Neil with the 1962 chart-topper "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" | 69 |
| "___ Little Light" (bio of Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould) | 69 |
| TV show that ended with the line "Good night and good luck" | 69 |
| "You don't have to ___ your body to the night, Roxanne" | 69 |
| LPGA star who is the youngest living World Golf Hall of Fame inductee | 69 |
| What Justin Timberlake's "bringin' back," in a song | 69 |
| "Play this note with a sudden accent," in sheet music abbr. | 69 |
| Oft-ridiculed workout item, or what the strings of circled letters do | 69 |
| Gene who compiled the quote anthology "Great Hollywood Wit" | 69 |
| Who said "An asylum for the sane would be empty in America" | 69 |
| Chipper Jones's son, named after a stadium his dad played well in | 69 |
| "The Glamorous Life" singer and former Prince percussionist | 69 |
| Something a "man" has that a "woman" doesn't? | 69 |
| Rodney Dangerfield's "I don't get no respect," e.g. | 69 |
| "He don't know 'come here' from '___'!" | 69 |
| Pertaining to the second most common element in the Earth's crust | 69 |
| 2005 award for Leigh Ann Hester, the first woman to win it since WWII | 69 |
| Best-selling computer game from the early 2000s, with "The" | 69 |
| Voice heard in commercials with Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel | 69 |
| Player of one of the women in Robert Altman's "3 Women" | 69 |
| 2012 Bond film ... or a hint to six other Down answers in this puzzle | 69 |
| Salty snacks that were endorsed by "Macho Man" Randy Savage | 69 |
| Beach Boys hit with the line "the first mate, he got drunk" | 69 |
| "Sunshine is brighter if our windows are clean", she wrote | 69 |
| Nestlé brand named for its covering of tiny white confection balls | 69 |
| Supply hidden in the first two letters of the long answers' words | 69 |
| Cracker box: "Slide finger under flap and loosen gently"... | 69 |
| Variety headline about the MPAA's decision on a movie about salt? | 69 |
| Flamenco instrument requiring somewhat Americanized piano fingerings? | 69 |
| "...and the case against me was presented by some very ___" | 69 |
| Lawyer Gerry who authored "How to Argue and Win Every Time" | 69 |
| "Narrow land is grand" and "So what if it juts?"? | 69 |
| Only character who appeared in every episode of "Star Trek" | 69 |
| ''And Moses sent them to ___ out the land of Canaan'' | 69 |
| 1973 horror flick about a doctor who turns his assistant into a cobra | 69 |
| Band that famously remade "Satisfaction" on its first album | 69 |
| Fan club for South Americans who like thick mustaches and propaganda? | 69 |
| "Black ___ in the Hour of Chaos" (1989 Public Enemy single) | 69 |
| You might think it's sexy when they're tongue-tied at the bar | 69 |
| Word with ''forward'' or ''backward'' | 69 |
| CEO responsible for the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications | 69 |
| ___ Nivens (Betty White's "Mary Tyler Moore" show role) | 69 |
| ... "And I have a ___ you'll love this: free shipping!" | 69 |
| Main character in Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" | 69 |
| Book series featuring identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield | 69 |
| "Right Here / Human Nature" new jack swing group, for short | 69 |