| "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 |