"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil" writer | 78 |
"We'll always have __": Rick, to Ilsa, in "Casablanca" | 78 |
''When ___ fly!'' (''It'll never happen'') | 78 |
"The ___" (Mortal Kombat arena where the loser falls to their death) | 78 |
"A woman's ___ often opens the door to love": Henry Ward Beecher | 78 |
Historical figure in Isabel Allende's novel "Inés of My Soul" | 78 |
"Willie and the ___ boys are playing, bring a nickel, tap your feet" | 78 |
Characters in "Julius Caesar" and "The Merchant of Venice" | 78 |
Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are determined by this | 78 |
One's favorite decades old concert tee, in the eye's of one's wife | 78 |
Pharmaceutical company budget line generally dwarfed by ad expenditures: Abbr. | 78 |
Simile words before "a hen's tooth" or "a day in June" | 78 |
"Weed 'em and ___: A Weed Eater Reader" (2006 Roger Welsch book) | 78 |
My wife's third most-hated band (behind Big Country and Phil Collins solo) | 78 |
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" band | 78 |
Hall & Oates "You're a ___ girl and you've gone too far" | 78 |
One protected by une dame, deux tours, deux fous, deux cavaliers et huit pions | 78 |
Material my stepfather's old Ford Pinto was made of, or so it seemed to me | 78 |
Comedian Bob who said, "'Full House' gave me Tourette's" | 78 |
Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music" | 78 |
Plant known as "seer's sage" because of its hallucinatory effect | 78 |
End of the slogan that starts "Everybody doesn't like something" | 78 |
Vujacic of the Los Angeles Lakers, who's nicknamed "The Machine" | 78 |
2005 horror sequel with the tagline "Oh yes ... there will be blood" | 78 |
The longest one in English is the Navy term "ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC" | 78 |
First-century governor of Britain, whose name was Latin for "farmer" | 78 |
"___ is only an egg's way of making another egg" (Samuel Butler) | 78 |
1990 film with the tagline "The few. The proud. The totally insane." | 78 |
How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture | 78 |
Device used in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" | 78 |
"I would give all my fame for ___ of ale" ("King Henry V") | 78 |
Collection of stories that includes "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 78 |
Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role | 78 |
... using ___: “Gladys had a bantam lamb / Its hide was white as rice” | 78 |
"Hark, hark! the lark ___ sings": "Cymbeline" [1943 novel] | 78 |
"Poverty is ___ that obscures the face of greatness" (Kahlil Gibran) | 78 |
"For Christmas my uncle gave me a palm-tree coffee mug from ___ ..." | 78 |
Supposed psychoactive substance outlined in "The Anarchist Cookbook" | 78 |
"Let's see who can prepare for their colonoscopy first," et al.? | 78 |
Extended piece by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin or John Entwistle of the Who | 78 |
In other words, mom or dad will be out at midnight searching for an open store | 78 |
Former teen heartthrob James Van Der ___ ("Dawson's Creek" star) | 78 |
Fictional barbershop quartet on "The Simpsons," with "The" | 78 |
Feature hidden in the starred answers (and suggested by the grid's center) | 78 |
...a Heyman/Sour/ Eyton/Green collaboration with Isaac Hayes and David Porter? | 78 |
Classic country song with the lyric "I've lived my life in vain" | 78 |
Band whose 1994 song "I'll Make Love to You" was #1 for 14 weeks | 78 |
Part of a U.S. president's name that's Dutch for "neighbors" | 78 |
Philosopher who wrote "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds" | 78 |
Leave the infant of "In Treatment" star Gabriel in the sun too long? | 78 |
With "The," former sketch comedy program on CBS ... fittingly enough | 78 |
Close attention to one's cook-off entry? (... Ã la Jerry Brown in 1998) | 78 |
2003 Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for "Adaptation" | 78 |
'70s TV host who purportedly led a double life as a decorated CIA assassin | 78 |
Only female to have received jazz, pop, and classical music Grammy nominations | 78 |
Where to meet for drinks with Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Chandler | 78 |
Lower-tract product whose instructions say "Fasten your seat belts"? | 78 |
Active Ecuadorean volcano whose name means "Smooth neck of the moon" | 78 |
“Fortunately, allied forces have entered the graph and are busily ___” | 78 |
Board game with the categories "Data Head" and "Word Worm" | 78 |
1986 comedy with the tagline "The Wizard of Auz hits The Big Apple!" | 78 |
One who sets a VHS of "The Crying Game" precisely to the money shot? | 78 |
Write down "Vast Asian country with a population of over a billion"? | 78 |
Girlfriend whose name Jerry thinks is Mulva, in a "Seinfeld" episode | 78 |
With "the", past decade name, to secret agents with license to kill? | 78 |
What the four longest entries in this puzzle (except this one) are examples of | 78 |
"I'm buying!," at a bar ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 78 |
Genre that's so obviously, transcendently bad you have to hear more of it? | 78 |
The "you" in the 1968 lyric "Gee I think you're swell" | 78 |
Attorney General, or what each of six Across answers in this grid literally is | 78 |
Band with the 1997 double platinum album "So Much for the Afterglow" | 78 |
Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" | 78 |
Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. | 78 |
NBC reality show that taped contestants drinking donkey semen (it never aired) | 78 |
Founding member of Public Enemy known for wearing large clocks around his neck | 78 |
Feeling literal, the guy with the dead-end fast food job tattooed the word ___ | 78 |
"Sleight of hand" used when solving trigonometry problems in groups? | 78 |
"Let's ___" (Grammy-winning suggestion from the Black Eyed Peas) | 78 |
The Rock of ___ (after translation, "The Rock of the Rock of Tariq") | 78 |
1969 song with the lyric "Once there was a way to get back homeward" | 78 |
Proper sort ... or a cry upon solving each of this puzzle's theme answers? | 78 |
Halloween costume that includes big ears, dark clothing and a bunch of charts? | 78 |
Garden outside Jerusalem that was the scene of the agony and betrayal of Jesus | 78 |
Genuine designer shades (and the department store was charging twice as much!) | 78 |
2001-'08 White House Deputy Chief of Staff whose middle name is Whitehouse | 78 |
"... never thinks straight 'bout the shape that __": Dylan lyric | 78 |
Fictional school whose motto is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" | 78 |
"__ safe and warm if ...": "California Dreamin'" lyric | 78 |
Movie co. behind "Wordplay" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 78 |
Like fewer and fewer children, as from diseases like whooping cough (grrrr...) | 78 |
"Good Eats" episode title where Alton Brown discusses lemon meringue | 78 |
Talks that may ask "What's it like having a palace in Tatooine"? | 78 |
Adam Sandler cringefest that topped many "Worst Movie of 2011" lists | 78 |
Backup band for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, with "the" | 78 |
Org. that suggests Obama's success is attributable to his being half-white | 78 |
Geographical features ... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent | 78 |
Ongoing NYC tribute project where musicians cover the works of other musicians | 78 |
Marcel with the only audible line in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" | 78 |
"Make sure to eat at this amazing Cuban place in South Beach," e.g.? | 78 |
Charla's taller racing partner, on "The Amazing Race: All-Stars" | 78 |