| QB whose name is added phonetically to the middle of the three long entries | 75 |
| "America's favorite active pro athlete," per a 2012 ESPN poll | 75 |
| Anybody featured in a high school yearbook, if you don't count teachers | 75 |
| ''Don't __!'' (''Mum's the word!'') | 75 |
| Real-life scientist played by David Bowie in "The Prestige," 2006 | 75 |
| Walter who wrote "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money" | 75 |
| 1980 romantic adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins | 75 |
| 1967 war film, and an apt description for this puzzle's starred answers | 75 |
| "That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest" penner | 75 |
| "A Nervous ___ Motion of the Head to the Left" (Andrew Bird song) | 75 |
| "If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us ___": Mel Brooks | 75 |
| "I say, old chap, I've sold my last copy of that newsweekly"? | 75 |
| Singer with the so-called "hardest-working legs in show business" | 75 |
| Film score composer Dimitri with twenty-six Oscar nominations and four wins | 75 |
| "X-Men" villain with great leaping ability and a very long tongue | 75 |
| Outfits for dancing to a frat house performance by Otis Day and the Knights | 75 |
| "You've got ___ your way into tomorrow" (Glen Campbell lyric) | 75 |
| "I'm returning this laundry product-it only works on blouses" | 75 |
| Where you might see a "Don't even think of parking here" sign | 75 |
| Featured artist on the #1 singles "Low" and "Kiss Kiss" | 75 |
| Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" | 75 |
| QB's pace just before a series that will start after a commercial break | 75 |
| ''___ Remember'' (from ''The Fantasticks'') | 75 |
| Who said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" | 75 |
| "Livin' on ___ time" (lyric in a #1 Don Williams country hit) | 75 |
| Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing | 75 |
| "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" quipper | 75 |
| "___ brillig, and the slithy toves ..." ("Jabberwocky") | 75 |
| Instrument on which Jake Shimabukuro can play "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 75 |
| Title name written "on the door of this legended tomb," in poetry | 75 |
| "Sonata Quasi __ Fantasia": Beethoven's "Moonlight" | 75 |
| It's pictured in Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhone" | 75 |
| The Tragically Hip "___ all up, don't save a thing for later" | 75 |
| Part of the face whose name is derived from the Latin for "grape" | 75 |
| Carpet cleaning device with the slogan "Nothing sucks like a ..." | 75 |
| Member of the 2007 Women's N.C.A.A. champion basketball team, for short | 75 |
| Playground equipment that'll move if you're really, really patient? | 75 |
| Whence the line "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" | 75 |
| Robert Frost poem that includes "Good fences make good neighbors" | 75 |
| Animator who dropped out of high school to join the army (but was rejected) | 75 |
| "Much too serious a thing to be left to the military": Clemenceau | 75 |
| Team Wilt Chamberlain played for when he scored 100 points in a single game | 75 |
| "Dial ___ Watkins" (2004 album by Welsh bluesman Geraint Watkins) | 75 |
| ... Massachusetts birthplace of the 19th-century feminist Elizabeth Packard | 75 |
| Song that includes the line, "How can I live through another day" | 75 |
| Holiday song that begins "The sun is shining, the grass is green" | 75 |
| "My ___" (song on The Who's "Who's Next" album) | 75 |
| Award honoring literature that features women's stories set in the West | 75 |
| He wrote, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform" | 75 |
| Former "On Language" New York Times columnist who died on 9/27/09 | 75 |
| Floors [an avxwords.com subscription makes a great holiday crossword gift!] | 75 |
| Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
| "High Qua1ityMeds - 50% off ___ straight from our 0nline parma3y" | 75 |
| Advice like "Don't fly so low you crash into the Death Star"? | 75 |
| Doors song off "Backstage and Dangerous" (with "Hyper") | 75 |
| Five-time teammate of Bryant, Duncan, and Nowitzki at the NBA All-Star Game | 75 |
| "___ Favourites" (2005 compilation album from the Tragically Hip) | 75 |
| "___ Am" (Melissa Etheridge album released the year she came out) | 75 |
| Nerdy band with "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" | 75 |
| "Chimp and ___" (kid-lit series by Catherine and Laurence Anholt) | 75 |
| Organization whose members are at least halfway toward becoming centenarians | 76 |
| "What Do You Do With ____ in English?" ("Avenue Q" song) | 76 |
| Fictional manufacturer of disintegrating pistols and jet-propelled unicycles | 76 |
| British singer with the age-related albums "19" and "21" | 76 |
| Band that won five MTV Video Music Awards for "Take on Me" in 1986 | 76 |
| Hill staffer [sign up to get the AVCX celebrity puzzle series--avxwords.com] | 76 |
| ___ Wuornos, "Monster" role for which Charlize Theron won an Oscar | 76 |
| Playwright who wrote the collection of essays "Stretching My Mind" | 76 |
| Trumpeter and bandleader who was called "The Round Mound of Sound" | 76 |
| Boxer who told Will Smith "you ain't pretty enough to play me" | 76 |
| "Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than ___": Aesop | 76 |
| "After the Gold Rush" lyric "___ felt like getting high" | 76 |
| Coulter whose jaw was wired shut in November, according to the New York Post | 76 |
| Word with ''day now'' or ''other questions'' | 76 |
| Quantity that makes another quantity by adding an "m" at the front | 76 |
| ''I got an ___ my test!'' (student's cry of achievement) | 76 |
| "I only run the Mac as needed, turning it off when not in use..." | 76 |
| "Much ___ About Nothing" (title of a "Simpsons" episode) | 76 |
| Best Picture between "The Artist" and "12 Years a Slave" | 76 |
| Hollywood agent Emanuel whose brother Rahm is the White House chief of staff | 76 |
| ''You're ___!'' (''You make me laugh!'') | 76 |
| Place where you'll hear a bum say "Remember me on the way out" | 76 |
| "That's ___!" (director's "We're finished!") | 76 |
| Singer with the 2008 album "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)" | 76 |
| Comedian who was the Peace and Freedom Party's 2012 presidential nominee | 76 |
| Name that might elicit giggles if used in the song "The Name Game" | 76 |
| He said "Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting" | 76 |
| Having poor taste? [check out avxwords.com for edgy indie xwords every week] | 76 |
| Audi rival, and, when spoken as a command, a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Movie star who said, "I always cry at weddings, especially my own" | 76 |
| Australian cager Andrew who was selected first overall in the 2005 NBA draft | 76 |
| She "espied their tails side by side, / All hung on a tree to dry" | 76 |
| "I Am the Walrus," for the Beatles' "Hello, Goodbye" | 76 |
| Org. at the center of the 2007 memoir "At the Center of the Storm" | 76 |
| Kid who first appeared in O. Henry's "The Caballero's Way" | 76 |
| Mythical figure represented in Vermeer's "The Art of Painting" | 76 |
| Instrument that hints at the missing parts of certain answers in this puzzle | 76 |
| Your role in this puzzle [the asterisked clues will help you crack the case] | 76 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," familiarly | 76 |
| Secret military mission ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle? | 76 |