"Mr. Webster isn't home, he's compiling his dictionary"? | 74 |
Familiar five-word phrase that means "Excuses are unacceptable!" | 74 |
Beatles: "Two ___ sending postcards, writing letters on my wall" | 74 |
Cheers bartender Woody's slimy menu addition, in his new Brooklyn bar? | 74 |
Word appearing twice after "Boogie" in a 1978 #1 hit's title | 74 |
Product formerly with the "fabulous" spokesperson Vanessa Branch | 74 |
" . . . if I should sleep ___/'Twere deadly sickness": Shak. | 74 |
Actor in both "Shane," 1953, and "City Slickers," 1991 | 74 |
Star of the Oscar-winning short film "For Scent-imental Reasons" | 74 |
Supporter of class struggle who also happens to run a Fortune 500 company? | 74 |
Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Katy Perry's "Roar" | 74 |
Description of Molly Ringwald's character at the prom, in a 1986 movie | 74 |
1969 hit with the repeated lyric "Big wheel keep on turnin'" | 74 |
Male protagonist in William Inge's "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" | 74 |
Facial gesture used to show affection (and sometimes creepy condescension) | 74 |
"Finally, we won! But we left behind some gold and had to go..." | 74 |
London-based dubstep artist whose name is pronounced like a math operation | 74 |
1983 film with the classic line "Say hello to my little friend!" | 74 |
"Teach not thy lip such ___, for it was made for kissing": Shak. | 74 |
Skating legend who cameoed as a commentator in "Blades of Glory" | 74 |
"From ___ shining ..." ("America the Beautiful" lyric) | 74 |
Rock-album cover on which this puzzle's celebrities appear, familiarly | 74 |
Tune also known as "It's in His Kiss" (with "The") | 74 |
Characteristic of ''fat'' but not ''fate'' | 74 |
"The long-awaited sequel to 'Cry, the Beloved Country'!" | 74 |
Elisabeth with a Best Actress nomination for "Leaving Las Vegas" | 74 |
Signal that the game's over by the Irish ref? (Prince / Living Colour) | 74 |
"The chair doesn't recognize you, steakhouse and chophouse!" | 74 |
Song with the lyric ''Lost my partner, what'll I do?'' | 74 |
"Bronco Billy" co-star (wait, what is SHE doing in this puzzle?) | 74 |
Video game detailing the early years of an anthropomorphic Sega speedster? | 74 |
"For realz" [the American Values Club puzzle is at avxwords.com] | 74 |
John David Sweeney, Jr. was issued the first one (FWIW it was 055-09-0001) | 74 |
"We passed upon the ___, we spoke of was and when" Bowie/Nirvana | 74 |
"Ambition should be made of __ stuff": "Julius Caesar" | 74 |
Beatified monk who shares his name with a "Robin Hood" character | 74 |
Probable rte. parts if you click "avoid highways" on Google Maps | 74 |
"Alphabet series" mystery writer (she's up to "X") | 74 |
Press charges against a Snuggie-clad werewolf encountered on an acid trip? | 74 |
Jazz musician from either Saturn or Alabama, depending on whom you believe | 74 |
Devices that, when turned, adjust themselves (just like the theme answers) | 74 |
"The ability to describe others as they see themselves": Lincoln | 74 |
Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle | 74 |
Actress who accidentally flashed her breast augmentation scar to paparazzi | 74 |
Seesaw (and the longest common word that uses just the top typewriter row) | 74 |
Common misspelling online (or, on "___ Interwebz" if you prefer) | 74 |
British art-rock band with the 1975 #2 hit "I'm Not in Love" | 74 |
Total value of the symbols created by the special crossings in this puzzle | 74 |
What nerve, disrupting a carpenter's joint with that kind of hat (3-6) | 74 |
Electrical pioneer whose last known U.S. patent was for a helicopter-plane | 74 |
"If I Were a Rich Man" singer in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 74 |
Lauren who played cruise director Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat" | 74 |
Talk show about words like "zeppelin" and "dirigible"? | 74 |
"It surrounds us and penetrates us," according to Obi-Wan Kenobi | 74 |
Famous legal-system denunciation by Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist" | 74 |
Member of a duo that "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat" | 74 |
Unfinished Henry James work about Gainsborough's "Blue Boy"? | 74 |
1830 novel with the same historical backdrop as "Les Miserables" | 74 |
Unfinished Ian Fleming work about James Bond's affection for his boss? | 74 |
This puzzle's theme, whose first notes are indicated by shaded squares | 74 |
Date when the events recounted in "Ode to Billie Joe" took place | 74 |
Its ratification was one of the goals of the women's suffrage movement | 74 |
18th-century Venetian master who painted "Adoration of the Magi" | 74 |
"We'll taunt you __ you all turn blue": "Spamalot" | 74 |
Part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act concerned with employment discrimination | 74 |
"Your trip to the free clinic isn't interesting to me, dude" | 74 |
"What else do you want to tell me about your sex life? Geez ..." | 74 |
Smashing Pumpkins: "___ is the greatest day I've ever known" | 74 |
Clapton "I'm ___ down, I'm almost level with the ground" | 74 |
Eric Clapton "I'm ___, I'm almost level with the ground" | 74 |
Role played by Pepe the Prawn in "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" | 74 |
"His posterior goes all the way back into the easy chair - ___!" | 74 |
Failed Facebook game where you're marooned in the middle of a highway? | 74 |
Sick Puppies "You're Going Down" album "___-Polar" | 74 |
School plagued by Andrew Martinez, the "naked guy," in the 1990s | 74 |
"When You Got It, Flaunt It" singer in "The Producers" | 74 |
She was nominated for an Oscar for playing Mia in "Pulp Fiction" | 74 |
Quentin directed her in "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill" | 74 |
Like dictionaries without a word meaning "raisable castle door"? | 74 |
He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame the same year as Butkus | 74 |
"What's the __ Wond'rin'": "Carousel" song | 74 |
Wavy tonal quality overdone by a lot of "American Idol" hopefuls | 74 |
Super Bowl in which Miami completed the NFL's only perfect season ever | 74 |
Artist Muniz who's the subject of the documentary 'Waste Land' | 74 |
Word that becomes its own synonym if the last letter is moved to the front | 74 |
Certification requirement from the American Turntablist's Association? | 74 |
Reindeer name rhymed with Blitzen in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" | 74 |
Prince called "the Impaler," who was the inspiration for Dracula | 74 |
1958 #1 song with the lyric "Let's fly way up to the clouds" | 74 |
Acronym for aircraft that can depart from short runways (anagram of VOLTS) | 74 |
Ring org. with a "Minimumweight" category (less than 105 pounds) | 74 |
Massachusetts town on Lake Chargoggagogg-manchauggagogg-chaubunagungamaugg | 74 |
"___ Get Fooled Again" (last song on "Who's Next") | 74 |
QB who threw a record-tying seven touchdown passes in a single game (1962) | 74 |
Cartoony yell if your butt's on fire and you're running in circles | 74 |
Jedi master who said, "Happens to every guy sometimes this does" | 74 |
"Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you" speaker | 74 |
"Car Talk" dubbed it "the worst car of the millennium" | 74 |
Christmas season / Greet a villain / Speak aloud / Query / Monthly payment | 74 |
"__ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance": '70s best-seller | 74 |