| He played Friar Laurence in Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet" | 80 |
| Roman numeral hidden (in left-to-right order) in the four longest Across answers | 80 |
| "How did that new car handle out there on the track?" [Maroon 5, 2011] | 80 |
| Pianist known for her arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" | 80 |
| Space traveler whose first five letters, spelled backward, are oddly appropriate | 80 |
| English Lit class: A -- “All we had to do was read one book; a very ___” | 80 |
| "I'm light as a feather, but nobody can hold me for very long ..." | 80 |
| Classic Xavier Cugat song ... or a hint to the invitation in the circled letters | 80 |
| Substance whose synthesis required a "life force," alchemists believed | 80 |
| "Is she not down so late, ___ so early?": "Romeo and Juliet" | 80 |
| 1966 hit with the lyric "I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky" | 80 |
| International Tennis Hall of Famer who won consecutive US Opens in 1997 and 1998 | 80 |
| "Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me" author Boyd | 80 |
| Site affiliated with "WTF Tattoos" and "White Trash Repairs" | 80 |
| He's famous for the words "There's a sucker born every minute" | 80 |
| Infamous 1983 Royals/Yankees contest where a George Brett home run was nullified | 80 |
| "The House at ___" (1928 volume in which A.A. Milne introduced Tigger) | 80 |
| Billy Joel hit that begins "You'll have to learn to pace yourself" | 80 |
| What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? | 80 |
| Song played by Elvis Costello on "SNL" that led to his twelve-year ban | 80 |
| "I'm returning this feathered headdress-it's just not refined" | 80 |
| Actress who played Natasha in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" | 80 |
| Locale called Minnahannock by the Algonquin Indians, bought by the Dutch in 1637 | 80 |
| The Greek "khalix" (pebble) for the English "calculus," e.g. | 80 |
| Movie for which Anna Magnani won an Oscar for Best Actress, with "The" | 80 |
| 1970s-'80s band whose debut album was the soundtrack to a Richard Pryor film | 80 |
| "Yesterday, while washing up in the morning, I nearly choked on a ___" | 80 |
| English illustrator who created the "St. Trinian's" cartoon series | 80 |
| Scottish sailor Alexander who was supposedly the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe | 80 |
| "I would rather die than be in the United States ___" (Chris Christie) | 80 |
| Brownish photo tint [Coming to avxwords.com this fall - celebrity puzzle series] | 80 |
| Words with ''high standard'' or ''good example'' | 80 |
| "___ needle pulling thread ..." ("The Sound of Music" lyric) | 80 |
| U.S. defensive midfielder ejected in the semis of the 2007 Women's World Cup | 80 |
| "___ the Man" (Amanda Bynes romcom based on "Twelfth Night") | 80 |
| Dramatic device about which Hamlet says "The play's the thing ..." | 80 |
| Title film character who says "Donkey, two things, O.K.? Shut ... up!" | 80 |
| #1 on the American Film Institute's "Greatest Movie Musicals" list | 80 |
| Say "I love you" by extending the thumb, index finger, and pinky, e.g. | 80 |
| Part of a game name reportedly chosen because the game surface resembles a slope | 80 |
| Job that may have you dressing ahead for the winter while shooting in the summer | 80 |
| Jan ___, South African leader instrumental in establishing the League of Nations | 80 |
| "Oops, accidentally picked out Parcheesi at Toys 'R' Us #___"? | 80 |
| Until June 25, 2011, its first three digits had geographical significance: Abbr. | 80 |
| With "association," legal group in Arkansas or Tennessee, for instance | 80 |
| Thing spread in bed: Abbr. [get the 2013 rate - subscribe to avxwords.com today] | 80 |
| Blender magazine ranked him #1 on its list of 40 worst lyricists in rock in 2007 | 80 |
| "Two-way" thoroughfares at both ends of this puzzle's long answers | 80 |
| "Gattaca" star moves to Charleston in order to play a poisonous plant? | 80 |
| Racehorse whose 1955 Kentucky Derby win kept Nashua from taking the Triple Crown | 80 |
| "Do you need anything else with your imported coffee?" "___" | 80 |
| "People are said to hate you or love you. What do you hear from them?" | 80 |
| Beatles song with the lyric "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 80 |
| Second of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 80 |
| Source of the line "What's past is prologue," with "The" | 80 |
| Pope John XXIII encyclical "Pacem in ___" ("Peace on Earth") | 80 |
| O'Shea who appeared on "Ed Sullivan" the same night as the Beatles | 80 |
| Holiday when children are given red envelopes containing money from their elders | 80 |
| "Finally, we learn how one Jonas brother defined an entire generation" | 80 |
| TV series whose fourth season had the subtitle "No Corner Left Behind" | 80 |
| Item that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula trees | 80 |
| "Mighty" superhero in 1987's "Adventures in Babysitting" | 80 |
| "Well it's time ___ home and I ain't even done with the night" | 80 |
| Strongest theory of where the next "Real Housewives" show will be set? | 80 |
| Title twin sister in a series of children's books by Jean and Gareth Adamson | 80 |
| Screenwriter/actor roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an old announcer? | 80 |
| TV host whose first name is spelled by the first and last letters of his surname | 80 |
| "Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha" band | 80 |
| "Our races are scrutinized down to the millisecond because we use ___" | 80 |
| Prefix with "violet," "liberal," or "conservative" | 80 |
| Ibuprofen: "Line up arrows on cap and bottle. Push cap with thumbs"... | 80 |
| "As we have therefore opportunity, let ___ good to all men": Galatians | 80 |
| Former weekly mag that still publishes an annual "Best Colleges" issue | 80 |
| His tombstone in Montmartre Cemetery has a statue of him as the puppet Petrushka | 80 |
| "Either that ___ goes, or I do" (Oscar Wilde's reputed last words) | 80 |
| "That mad game the world so loves to play" according to Jonathan Swift | 80 |
| Longtime G.E. chief with the best seller "Jack: Straight From the Gut" | 80 |
| Boston station that produces most of PBS's prime-time television programming | 80 |
| It's "no longer current in natural colloquial speech," per the OED | 80 |
| Actress Kate recently voted "most desirable body" in a Daily Mail poll | 80 |
| 1975 musical with the song "Believe in Yourself," with "The" | 80 |
| The "greatest blessing" and the "greatest plague": Euripides | 80 |
| Summit attendee, and what the first word can be in each answer to a starred clue | 80 |
| "Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they" speaker | 80 |
| "What's that chocolate beverage you're drinking, Yogi?" answer | 80 |
| "If you go to jail, will all these beautiful things fit in your cell?" | 80 |
| Org. that once used the slogan "In Service for the Girls of the World" | 80 |
| "___ Off the Old Tooth" ("Alvin & the Chipmunks" episode) | 81 |
| Japanese breed of dog that figured in O.J.'s "Trial of the Century" | 81 |
| "___ peanut-butter sandwiches!" ("Sesame Street" incantation) | 81 |
| Baseball div. that provided a wild-card 10 out of the 14 years wild-cards existed | 81 |
| Dancer Mazo who led Kelly Monaco to victory on "Dancing With the Stars" | 81 |
| "And here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" speaker | 81 |
| Movie whose last lines are "Mediocrities everywhere ... I absolve you." | 81 |
| "I'm ___" (Lemmon's last words in "Some Like It Hot") | 81 |
| Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| One of the girls in the Madonna children's book "The English Roses" | 81 |
| "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" author Coulter | 81 |
| Spanish architect who designed the unfinished Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona | 81 |
| "So much depends / upon / ___ wheel / barrow" (William Carlos Williams) | 81 |