| "American Idol" runner-up with the album "Measure of a Man" | 79 |
| Early film version of "The Maltese Falcon," "Satan Met ___" | 79 |
| How Ms. Morissette was known on "You Can't Do That on Television" | 79 |
| "What did Delaware?" "I don't know, but ___" (old joke) | 79 |
| Like you after drinking Red Bull, according to commercials, in scientific terms | 79 |
| He played Stiller's biological father in "Flirting With Disaster" | 79 |
| Beverage whose homonym describes what you'll do if you drink too much of it | 79 |
| Ripley who wrote the "Gone With the Wind" sequel "Scarlett" | 79 |
| She finished third behind Ohno and Fatone on "Dancing With the Stars" | 79 |
| Actor Mahershalalhashbaz ___ of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" | 79 |
| "I was volunteering at the orphanage at the time of the murder," e.g. | 79 |
| One who's called "the Merciful" and "the Compassionate" | 79 |
| Classic song that begins "Proudly swept the rain cloud by the cliffs" | 79 |
| Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers | 79 |
| Anterograde ___ (affliction suffered by the protagonist of "Memento") | 79 |
| 1978 comedy set at Faber College (whose motto is "Knowledge is good") | 79 |
| Source of the sample in Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" | 79 |
| 1959 Tony-nominated play whose 2014 Broadway production stars Denzel Washington | 79 |
| Contralto Susannah Maria __ who debuted in her brother Thomas's first opera | 79 |
| Nickname of the author of the children's book "Hit a Grand Slam!" | 79 |
| First player whose HR was reviewed (and upheld) by umpires using instant replay | 79 |
| "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to ___": Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 79 |
| "I trust him about ___ ..." (start of a leery person's statement) | 79 |
| ''I trust him about ___ ...'' (start of a skeptic's phrase) | 79 |
| Mariano Rivera has had only one in his career (not surprisingly, he struck out) | 79 |
| "You risk your skin ... For what? For __ star": "High Noon" | 79 |
| ''Take ___ from me'' (''Here's my advice'') | 79 |
| Where to look for hidden words in this puzzle's fifth and eleventh columns? | 79 |
| ___ Sigurdson (Eric Forman's grandmother on "That '70s Show") | 79 |
| It's soft, strong, and demonstrated by this puzzle's four theme answers | 79 |
| Designer who said "The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable" | 79 |
| Complete freedom ... and a hint to each half of the answer to each starred clue | 79 |
| "Be Prepared" org. that recently lifted its ban on openly gay members | 79 |
| "Eight Miles High" folk rockers of the '60s, with "the" | 79 |
| ___ and response ("human microphone" technique at Occupy Wall Street) | 79 |
| 1950 musical by Irving Berlin, featuring Ethel Merman as a socialite ambassador | 79 |
| Classic novel that ends "Well said, but we must cultivate our garden" | 79 |
| City that was the source of the marble for Michelangelo's "David" | 79 |
| "I think I'm on a hot streak, should I quit while I'm ahead?" | 79 |
| Comic strip whose last collection was "Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet" | 79 |
| Queensryche song for when the cops are coming after you (with "The")? | 79 |
| ___ Helms, "Father" of San Francisco's "Summer of Love" | 79 |
| 1990's sitcom based on the British series "One Foot in the Grave" | 79 |
| Cartoon exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 | 79 |
| "Oh no, ___!" (certain singer's palindromic "greeting") | 79 |
| "After we delineate this sales chart, our stockholders will love us." | 79 |
| "You're the One That I Want" (song from "Grease"), e.g. | 79 |
| Song that begins "How come you're always such a fussy young man?" | 79 |
| Web site with the headings "Toys & Hobbies" and "Music" | 79 |
| Lyricist for Broadway’s disastrous “Spider-Man,” with “the” | 79 |
| How to score it when you bunt your hard-boiled breakfast to advance the runner? | 79 |
| Colleague of John, Antonin, Anthony, Clarence, Ruth, Stephen, Samuel, and Sonia | 79 |
| ''I Still See ___'' (''Paint Your Wagon'' tune) | 79 |
| Sylvia Plath poem featuring the line “I know it with my great tap root” | 79 |
| Bernie's "Crocodile Rock" and "Rocket Man" collaborator | 79 |
| Anthony's "Remains of the Day" and "Howards End" costar | 79 |
| Model who co-wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 79 |
| "How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand" quipper | 79 |
| Author Michael who hated the movie version of "The Neverending Story" | 79 |
| "One of the most time-consuming things is to have an ___": E.B. White | 79 |
| Legislation recently re-introduced by Edward Kennedy and Carolyn Maloney: Abbr. | 79 |
| Actor Dane who plays "Dr. McSteamy" on "Grey's Anatomy" | 79 |
| 2002 A.L. Rookie of the Year Hinske who struck out to end the 2008 World Series | 79 |
| "When I throw rocks at seabirds, I leave no ___ unstoned": Ogden Nash | 79 |
| First of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 79 |
| "Waka Waka (___ es Ãfrica)" (official song for the 2010 World Cup) | 79 |
| Words of reproach, and a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers are formed | 79 |
| Activist who said "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea" | 79 |
| Catcher Carlton __, who famously homered to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 79 |
| Actor who had to wait 41 years from his first Oscar nomination to his first win | 79 |
| 1979 environmental bestseller subtitled "A new look at life on Earth" | 79 |
| "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the ___" | 79 |
| Besides Davis, only person to receive five consecutive Best Actress nominations | 79 |
| ''Before I __ at You Again'' (''Camelot'' song) | 79 |
| Home of the van Eyck brothers' "Adoration of the Lamb" altarpiece | 79 |
| "The ___ win the pennant!" (repeated shout from Russ Hodges, 10/3/51) | 79 |
| The "it" in the lyric "turn it on, wind it up, blow it out" | 79 |
| Broadway lyricist/composer who wrote "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" | 79 |
| He's the "A" to Jerry Moss's "M" in A&M records | 79 |
| "It's in ___ Kiss" (subtitle of "The Shoop Shoop Song") | 79 |
| One of the subjects of the best-selling '02 book "The Conquerors" | 79 |
| ''Beware the ___ of March'' (''Julius Caesar'') | 79 |
| Amin who was called, quite fairly, "a murderer, a liar, and a savage" | 79 |
| IX ^ (I/II) ...is there a Roman numeral for one-half that I'm not aware of? | 79 |
| Hymn whose title follows the line "When I die, Hallelujah, by and by" | 79 |
| Product once advertised with the catchphrase "There's no step 3!" | 79 |
| John Lennon song with the refrain "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." | 79 |
| County that is home to Death Valley and has Mount Whitney on its western border | 79 |
| Its motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" | 79 |
| "Bomb, Bomb ___" ("Barbara Ann" parody sung by John McCain) | 79 |
| Killers "Day & Age" bonus track "Forget About What ___" | 79 |
| "It's Not a Fashion Statement, ___ Deathwish" My Chemical Romance | 79 |
| "History repeats ___, first as tragedy, second as farce." (Karl Marx) | 79 |
| Garbo line from "Grand Hotel" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| Nickname for a longtime Dartmouth humor periodical named for a Halloween symbol | 79 |
| "Mitt Romney is so rich, he taught his dog to roll over an IRA" comic | 79 |
| Biblical figure who says to God "Make me understand how I have erred" | 79 |
| Soda whose original slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine" | 79 |
| His number 23 is retired by the Miami Heat even though he never played for them | 79 |
| Author who said "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us" | 79 |