| "___ drink Pepsi, but ah'll have a Coke few don't mind" | 73 |
| Animated film featuring the voices of Gene Hackman and Sylvester Stallone | 73 |
| 1998 animated film released the month before "A Bug's Life" | 73 |
| One of Time's 1993 Men of the Year called "The Peacemakers" | 73 |
| "We have met the enemy, and they ___ ours": Oliver Hazard Perry | 73 |
| "The Man in the ___" (passage in a 1910 Teddy Roosevelt speech) | 73 |
| Title character portrayer in ''Thing From Another World'' | 73 |
| Kevin McHale's "Glee" character (no, not that Kevin McHale) | 73 |
| Robot who appeared with Joey Fatone on "Dancing With The Stars" | 73 |
| [*cross out* "Star Wars" character] Where droids go to dry out? | 73 |
| "___ uncertain actor on the stage" (Shakespearean sonnet start) | 73 |
| ''I trust him about ___ ...'' (start of skeptical phrase) | 73 |
| Words with ''standstill'' or ''distance'' | 73 |
| Words with ''crossroads'' or ''dead end'' | 73 |
| Ocean "crossing" this puzzle's four longest answers (abbr.) | 73 |
| Brand with the advertising slogan "Do You Pivot Every Morning?" | 73 |
| King who infamously demanded half of Rome's Western Empire as a dowry | 73 |
| "Voulez-vous coucher __ moi?": "Lady Marmalade" lyric | 73 |
| 1949 show tune with the lyric "Here am I, your special island!" | 73 |
| What Meat Loaf went around in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" | 73 |
| Arthur whom The Smoking Gun claims was "a truck-driving Marine" | 73 |
| "In ___" (jokey postscript tacked onto fortune cookie messages) | 73 |
| Busy one that has made its mark in this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| "Jive Talkin'" group, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| He jumped into Larsen's arms after the only World Series perfect game | 73 |
| Besch who played the mother of Kirk's son in "Star Trek II" | 73 |
| It's about 325 miles east of Texas's H-Town, with "the" | 73 |
| "Upon this ___ heath you stop our way ...": "Macbeth" | 73 |
| First tennis player to win more than a million dollars in a single season | 73 |
| Home of the civil-engineering boondoggle known as "The Big Dig" | 73 |
| To whom our ''millions'' are ''billions'' | 73 |
| Poet who originated the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" | 73 |
| Words between ''Would you'' and ''dance'' | 73 |
| Word that can follow the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| "Romeo and Juliet" : Paris :: "West Side Story" : ___ | 73 |
| Potentially stressful place to be, vis-a-vis one's sexual orientation | 73 |
| "I'm Mighty Glad I'm Living, That's All" songwriter | 73 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," in song | 73 |
| Classic cereal now sharing shelf space with Vanilla and Chocolate cousins | 73 |
| Name in Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" | 73 |
| Les Cowboys Fringants "La Grand-Messe" track "Ti-___" | 73 |
| Quayle, who can be "hunted" down in four answers of this puzzle | 73 |
| "Young ___ Boone" (1977 TV show that lasted only four episodes) | 73 |
| Spacey's co-star in the 1999 revival of "The Iceman Cometh" | 73 |
| Word with "Happy" and "Death Valley" in old TV titles | 73 |
| Third-place presidential candidate of 1920 who ran his campaign from jail | 73 |
| "Nothing runs like a ___" (slogan for a farm equipment company) | 73 |
| "___-in' in the Wind" (episode of "The Simpsons") | 73 |
| "The fool ___ think he is wise..." ("As You Like It") | 73 |
| "Higher and higher, straight up we'll climb" Van Halen song | 73 |
| Cannon who was Alice in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" | 73 |
| Society in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Fahrenheit 451" | 73 |
| They were invented by 15-year-old Chester Greenwood in the winter of 1873 | 73 |
| How to "make money the old-fashioned way," in a Smith Barney ad | 73 |
| Historical character in John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" | 73 |
| Crooner/actor whose albums are widely available in moldy garage sale bins | 73 |
| Actor who won Emmys for playing the same character on two different shows | 73 |
| Channel champ with a 24-year record that Chadwick's challenge changed | 73 |
| Most likely place you'd find REASSESSES in a themeless crossword grid | 73 |
| TV character who addresses a golf ball by saying "Hello, ball!" | 73 |
| With "The," classic writing guide (and this puzzle's title) | 73 |
| Area between the National Mall and The White House (with "The") | 73 |
| Band with the record for most Top 40 hits without ever having a #1 single | 73 |
| Pursue "I do's" when the parents say "don't"? | 73 |
| 1960 #1 hit from the album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" | 73 |
| The King (subject of four "sightings" elsewhere in this puzzle) | 73 |
| Sergeant Foley's first name in "An Officer and a Gentleman" | 73 |
| 1815 title character who "thought a little too well of herself" | 73 |
| Moon that the second Death Star orbited in "Return of the Jedi" | 73 |
| General dir. of Sal Paradise's return trip in "On the Road" | 73 |
| "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Tony nominee Mireille ___ | 73 |
| Company that was the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" | 73 |
| "___ midnight's frown and morning's smile..." (Shelley) | 73 |
| Animated character Cartman who describes himself as "big-boned" | 73 |
| "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" author Bombeck | 73 |
| "I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression" writer Bombeck | 73 |
| Famous last words (and homophonically, a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 73 |
| "I grew up in ___, where the history comes from" (Eddie Izzard) | 73 |
| Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length | 73 |
| Mountaintop castle in "A Game of Thrones," with "the" | 73 |
| "I would give all my ____ for a pot of ale":"Henry V" | 73 |
| Tennis player who was the subject of a popular David Foster Wallace essay | 73 |
| Pet targeted by the first words of this puzzle's four longest answers | 73 |
| Debut album from the Smashing Pumpkins named after silent actress Lillian | 73 |
| Novelist Elinor who coined the "It girl" nickname for Clara Bow | 73 |
| Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning role in "Life Is Beautiful" | 73 |
| Just before he died, he said, "I 'ope you liked your drink" | 73 |
| "... slithy toves did ___ and gimble" ("Jabberwocky") | 73 |
| With "The," city with a lake called the Hofvijver at its center | 73 |
| Distance runner Gebrselassie who won the Olympic 10,000m in 1996 and 2000 | 73 |
| Broadway show subtitled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" | 73 |
| Film villain who sings "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do!" | 73 |
| "... heaven hath pleas'd it so, / To punish me ..." speaker | 73 |
| Underwear brand that recently ended their relationship with Charlie Sheen | 73 |
| Psychohistorian Seldon of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" books | 73 |
| "___ Nagila" (song title that means "Let us rejoice") | 73 |
| 'Isn't -- bit like you and me?' ('Nowhere Man' lyric) | 73 |
| "A place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself": Shaw | 73 |
| Words before "signed, sealed, delivered" in a Stevie Wonder hit | 73 |
| Subject that includes women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment | 73 |