| Griffey Jr. who is virtually certain to join the "600 club" this year | 79 |
| Brand at a checkout counter that's also the name of a Phoenix radio station | 79 |
| He set down all 27 Brooklyn Dodgers he faced in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series | 79 |
| "I'll have a venti half-caff skinny peppermint mocha ___, please" | 79 |
| "The ___ Movie" (2014 film featuring Liam Neeson as Bad Cop/Good Cop) | 79 |
| Jay who said "You're not famous until my mother has heard of you" | 79 |
| Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle | 79 |
| It forms a superhero when added to the start of the answer to each starred clue | 79 |
| "I ___ her on Monday, 'twas my lucky bun day" (Spinal Tap lyrics) | 79 |
| "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my ___ the most": Mark Twain | 79 |
| With "The," Entertainment Weekly's pick for worst TV show of 2008 | 79 |
| Her white dress billowed over a subway grate in "The Seven Year Itch" | 79 |
| Mohawked actor whose voice was in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" | 79 |
| "Cut out the jibber-jabber" is one of his "Rules for Fools" | 79 |
| 1959 hit based on the traditional folk song "The Wreck of the Old 97" | 79 |
| Political cartoonist called "our best recruiting sergeant" by Lincoln | 79 |
| He's called Chico, Fabio, Bingo, Harpo, and Elmo by the forgetful fish Dory | 79 |
| "Crescit eundo" ("It grows as it goes") is its motto: Abbr. | 79 |
| Pitcher nicknamed "The Tornado" who threw no-hitters in 1996 and 2001 | 79 |
| Peggy who wrote George Bush's "Read my lips: no new taxes" speech | 79 |
| Author of the Oprah's Book Club selection "We Were the Mulvaneys" | 79 |
| Hoobastank "Did it ever ___ to you that this could be your final day" | 79 |
| "The ___ Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within" (Stephen Fry book) | 79 |
| TriBeCa restaurant in "Bright Lights, Big City," with "the" | 79 |
| Where Claudius is during Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy | 79 |
| R&B group with the 1972 hit "Back Stabbers," with "the" | 79 |
| Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | 79 |
| What rating does the Michelin Guide give to "a very good restaurant"? | 79 |
| "I must create a system, __ enslav'd by another Man's": Blake | 79 |
| What this puzzle's eight concentric rings (uncircled and circled) represent | 79 |
| Bear: sp. (I'm not even going to dignify this crap fill with a clever clue) | 79 |
| Song that provided the melody for Elvis's "It's Now or Never" | 79 |
| Employer of the "basterds" in "Inglourious Basterds": Abbr. | 79 |
| "Threw me in the tank with the drunk called ___" (Beastie Boys lyric) | 79 |
| "I haven't got any troubles I can't tell standing up" speaker | 79 |
| Vocalist who gave his farewell performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin | 79 |
| If they're dropping by your house, don't stick your head out the window | 79 |
| ___ Debevoise, Marilyn Monroe's "How to Marry a Millionaire" role | 79 |
| Home of the world's second-oldest written constitution, after America's | 79 |
| "And the ___ brought him bread and flesh in the morning ...": I Kings | 79 |
| TV series whose theme song is "I'm a Survivor" (sung by the star) | 79 |
| Nellie's portrayer in the version of "South Pacific" aired by PBS | 79 |
| Finally fixing up the boat or spending more time with the grandkids, say: Abbr. | 79 |
| Letters automatically displayed in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round | 79 |
| "___ the Stockbroker" ("The Howard Stern Show" personality) | 79 |
| Pitcher Maglie who in 1950 had baseball's highest winning percentage (.818) | 79 |
| Real-life opera composer who's a title character in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera | 79 |
| Instrument famously played by Bill Clinton on "The Arsenio Hall Show" | 79 |
| Holiday movie with the repeated line "You'll shoot your eye out!" | 79 |
| "'Tis not the dying for ___ that's so hard . . . ": Thackeray | 79 |
| Ohio minor league team whose alumni include C. C. Sabathia and Manny RamÃrez | 79 |
| Oscar-winning actor with the autobiography "Halfway Through the Door" | 79 |
| Stream of radioactive particles with the lowest penetration of ordinary objects | 79 |
| Picnic food with a classic jingle asking "what kind of kids eat" them | 79 |
| Out of whack, or what's featured in each of this puzzle's theme answers | 79 |
| "___ cheeseburger and just kept getting bigger" (U2 line about Elvis) | 79 |
| The candidate from the Bachelor Party said that under him the country would ___ | 79 |
| Girl's nickname formed by removing the first two letters of its longer form | 79 |
| What Attila reputedly demanded 3,000 pounds of as a ransom for the city of Rome | 79 |
| "The Puzzling World of Winston ___" (kids puzzle book by Eric Berlin) | 79 |
| He hosted "The Tonight Show" longer than all its other hosts combined | 79 |
| Diggory who (spoiler alert!) is killed at the end of "Goblet of Fire" | 79 |
| "The Incredible Hulk" actor, through music, takes on a fluffier role? | 79 |
| “Vain are the thousand ___ that move men’s hearts...”: Emily Bronte | 79 |
| Actress Beverly who played Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter" | 79 |
| "Oh yeah? Let's see you hold your breath for TWO minutes!," e.g.? | 79 |
| The White Stripes's second album which was named after a Dutch art movement | 79 |
| Tycoon who was reputedly the first person in New York City to own an automobile | 79 |
| How a Southerner might begin a sentence about how they do things in these parts | 79 |
| "... and he's got Budweiser and Michelob on tap - excellent ___!" | 79 |
| “I may have discovered the key to the unconscious mind,” Freud said ___ | 79 |
| Ohio town where "there's a happiness" in an old Glenn Miller song | 79 |
| 1993 rap hit with the repeated lyric "Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay" | 79 |
| Mascot for a soup vendor, or a soda company's expansion into selling drugs? | 79 |
| Travel organization with the slogan "Adventures in lifelong learning" | 79 |
| Morricone who scored "The Thing" and "A Fistful of Dollars" | 79 |
| Mathematician who was the subject of "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" | 79 |
| Ancient court official who got his job because he could be trusted around women | 79 |
| Popular and bad-ass name for the Helix Nebula, which looks a little like Sauron | 79 |
| Someone safely in the middle class who puts on airs of an alternative lifestyle | 79 |
| Cartoon character that was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon | 79 |
| Useful type of hitch in a pickup truck, or an undesired part of a social circle | 79 |
| 90's group with the hit "Killing Me Softly," with "the" | 79 |
| Oft-riffed-on ad slogan since 1993 (California [dairy product] Processor Board) | 79 |
| Discussion between a former Colorado senator and a '70s-'90s rock band? | 79 |
| Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? | 79 |
| #1 hit between "Monster Mash" and "Big Girls Don't Cry" | 79 |
| Valentine's Day gifts that have to go back at the end of the night? (-Guns) | 79 |
| Traffic cop's answer upon being asked "Describe your job"? [1975] | 79 |
| Springsteen song that starts, "Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?" | 79 |
| Latin term for coming back to life at the exact midpoint of a video game level? | 79 |
| "A County in la Nazione: Autobiography of a 'Godfather' Star" | 79 |
| Start of a quote by James H. Boren, author of "When in Doubt, Mumble" | 79 |
| Classic 1978 rock song with the lyric "Nothing to do / Nowhere to go" | 79 |
| Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle | 79 |
| Novel that opens "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" | 79 |
| Dictionary term for any of the "self-defining" answers in this puzzle | 79 |
| "Rent" composer Jonathan and "The Far Side" cartoonist Gary | 79 |
| Person who believes that studying socks and shorts long enough will reveal god? | 79 |
| Internet writing system that popularized "pwn3d" and "n00b" | 79 |