| "What ___ of the face is here!": Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" | 81 |
| Winners of the longest postseason game in major-league history (18 innings, 2005) | 81 |
| Who nobody puts in the corner, according to a line from "Dirty Dancing" | 81 |
| Diamond great with the line "I really didn't say everything I said" | 81 |
| College basketball coach who was the subject of "A Season on the Brink" | 81 |
| One of Time's 2005 Persons of the Year called "The Good Samaritans" | 81 |
| Postseason gridiron game, and a hint to the puzzle theme found in starred answers | 81 |
| Singer who at age 22 got married in Vegas, then filed an annulment 55 hours later | 81 |
| College that, unabbreviated, is the punchline to a tasteless Michael Jackson joke | 81 |
| R&B singer with "Like a Surgeon" (no relation to the Weird Al song) | 81 |
| Word that can precede the first word of the twelve starred entries in this puzzle | 81 |
| Show whose opening theme was the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" | 81 |
| Surrealist painter whose best-known painting shows up often in college dorm rooms | 81 |
| He broke Mickey's record for most games played as a Yankee on August 29, 2011 | 81 |
| Breadless KFC sandwich on Newsweek's "13 Worst Trends of 2010" list | 81 |
| Frightful-looking "Alice in Wonderland" character, with "the" | 81 |
| Chase scene locale in "Die Hard," "Jurassic Park," and others | 81 |
| Author exhumed and reburied in the Panthéon of Paris for his 2002 bicentennial | 81 |
| Only valid three-letter Scrabble word that doesn't contain Y or any consonant | 81 |
| What the left panel of Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" depicts | 81 |
| Subject of the song "Tell Me, Trudy, Who Is Going to Be the Lucky One?" | 81 |
| It was "boil'd in broo'," in the ballad "Lord Randal" | 81 |
| Band with the hits "Evil Woman" and "Sweet Talkin' Woman" | 81 |
| "Area Man BCCs Psychiatrist On Every ___ He Sends" (The Onion headline) | 81 |
| "Move Like an ___" (song by the Australian kids' group the Wiggles) | 81 |
| "'Tis best to weigh the ___ more mighty than he seems": Shakespeare | 81 |
| Composer of "1/1," "1/2," "2/1" and "2/2" | 81 |
| "America's most innovative company" prior to its bankruptcy in 2001 | 81 |
| "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ___" | 81 |
| Symphony whose second movement is marked "Marcia funebre. Adagio assai" | 81 |
| Certain sporting equipment (especially useful for keeping the old heart in shape) | 81 |
| Pope who declared "I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition" | 81 |
| Highly successful Hollywood actor James presently on "General Hospital" | 81 |
| Prison threshold (represented by this 4x4 corner) at which the solver must arrive | 81 |
| "Gong Show" name repeated in both blanks of ___ ___ the Dancing Machine | 81 |
| Upstate NY city that calls itself the "Lake Trout Capital of the World" | 81 |
| Beatles song that begins "Is there anybody going to listen to my story" | 81 |
| Antonius Block's chess opponent in Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" | 81 |
| "... the slithy toves / Did __ and gimble ...": "Jabberwocky" | 81 |
| "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" speaker | 81 |
| Dwelling section whose name comes from the Arabic for "forbidden place" | 81 |
| "You will be ___" (last line of "Wishin' and Hopin'") | 81 |
| Teamster leader who was rumored to be buried under the end zone at Giants Stadium | 81 |
| Film in which Marv says, "He's only a kid, Harry. We can take him." | 81 |
| Prez who said "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" | 81 |
| Supreme Court justice known for a literalist interpretation of the Bill of Rights | 81 |
| Promising words (and what's hidden in this puzzle's four longest entries) | 81 |
| "My Friend __": 1949 film in which Martin & Lewis debuted as a team | 81 |
| Sport played by the "World's Most Interesting Man" in Dos Equis ads | 81 |
| Catalan composer ___ Nunó, who wrote the music for the Mexican national anthem | 81 |
| Maker of a dish Patton Oswalt called a "failure pile in a sadness bowl" | 81 |
| Duettist with Elton John on 1976's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" | 81 |
| Cackling cry from a mad scientist before unleashing havoc on southern California? | 81 |
| 1965 movie in which Sophia Loren and Paul Newman are both really nice on the eyes | 81 |
| Christine who directed the Oscar-winning short film "Lieberman in Love" | 81 |
| Del Rey who sang "Young and Beautiful" for "The Great Gatsby" | 81 |
| 1972 Bill Withers hit whose title precedes "when you're not strong" | 81 |
| Shakespearean character who calls himself "a very foolish fond old man" | 81 |
| Self-described "poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man" of literature | 81 |
| Sierra ___ (get puzzle discounts by signing up for the news list @ avxwords.com!) | 81 |
| Richard ___, director of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" | 81 |
| Shakespeare sonnet that begins "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key" | 81 |
| Mark ___-Baker (actor who played Larry Appleton on "Perfect Strangers") | 81 |
| The "her" in the lyric "I met her in a club down in old Soho" | 81 |
| 1959 Cornelius Ryan best-seller about the Normandy invasion, with "The" | 81 |
| It has ''arguments'' and ''logic games'' sections | 81 |
| Instrument played on the 2005 White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Satan" | 81 |
| "I had not thought death had undone so ___": "The Waste Land" | 81 |
| Virginian statesman George nicknamed "The Father of the Bill of Rights" | 81 |
| Graphic novel whose first section was titled "My Father Bleeds History" | 81 |
| "That time of year thou ___ in me behold" (Shakespeare's Sonnet 73) | 81 |
| Hall of Fame manager of the New York Giants nicknamed "Little Napoleon" | 81 |
| 1971 hit that begins "Busted flat in Baton Rouge / waiting for a train" | 81 |
| "Though this be madness, yet there is ___ in't": "Hamlet" | 81 |
| "___ abed and daylight slumber / Were not meant for man alive": Housman | 81 |
| 1959 hit with a melody based on the folk song "The Wreck of the Old 97" | 81 |
| His poem "Fleas" reads, in its entirety, "Adam / Had 'em" | 81 |
| "Success is counted sweetest by those who ___ succeed": Emily Dickinson | 81 |
| It was once advertised as "Your favorite drink in your favorite flavor" | 81 |
| Pink Floyd "The ___ Song" off "Soundtrack From the Film More" | 81 |
| "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal" speaker | 81 |
| "À ___ la Liberté" (1931 classic film directed by René Clair) | 81 |
| Word before and after "Tovarich" in a "Doctor Zhivago" number | 81 |
| Upton Sinclair novel that was the inspiration for "There Will Be Blood" | 81 |
| "I wonder what the word for 'dots' looks like in Braille," e.g. | 81 |
| Number two on Forbes's 2011 list of The World's Most Powerful Celebrities | 81 |
| "If music be the food of love ..." speaker in "Twelfth Night" | 81 |
| Song that was the basis for Elvis Presley's "It's Now or Never" | 81 |
| Fred ___, whose sneeze was the subject of the first copyrighted movie in the U.S. | 81 |
| ___ Octavius ("Spider-Man" villain Doc Ock's "real" name) | 81 |
| Follower of Brink, Carnation, Pig, Shocking, and Tickle Me in Crayola color names | 81 |
| Invention modernized by William Bullock that mangled his leg and led to his death | 81 |
| '70s-'80s network letters discussed in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" | 81 |
| Network seen in "The Soup" segment "Tales From Home Shopping" | 81 |
| Carruth of the Carolina Panthers who was convicted of conspiring to commit murder | 81 |
| 1988 Best Picture, with the repeated line "I'm an excellent driver" | 81 |
| British regime in India that ends when "Midnight's Children" begins | 81 |
| "You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how" speaker | 81 |
| Hollywood studio that released "King Kong" and "Citizen Kane" | 81 |
| Spoiler alert: He's married to Hermione at the end of the Harry Potter series | 81 |