| Big fight, and clue to this puzzle's theme that begins the four longest answers | 83 |
| "I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age" speaker | 83 |
| "Here Come the ___" (Abbott and Costello film set at a girls' school) | 83 |
| The starts of answers to asterisked clues are the most popular adult Halloween ones | 83 |
| ___ Nelson who on 4/7/10 became the NBA's all-time coaching leader in victories | 83 |
| George who played the title character in the 2004 TV movie "Evel Knievel" | 83 |
| Words "beautifully marked in currants" in "Alice in Wonderland" | 83 |
| Site that was super fun before they had rules; once I sold a deed to the moon on it | 83 |
| Guest commenter Roger on the 70th Anniversary DVD edition of "Casablanca" | 83 |
| Publication founded in 1843 to campaign against the Corn Laws, with "The" | 83 |
| Harry who played the Artful Dodger in Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" | 83 |
| "It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it" speaker | 83 |
| Susan who was the original Belle in Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" | 83 |
| Monthly release [the American Values Club xword is at avxwords.com - subscribe now] | 83 |
| Winner, with Tippi and Ursula, of the 1963 female New Star of the Year Golden Globe | 83 |
| "Sesame Street" character who sang "Hot N Cold" with Katy Perry | 83 |
| Vulture, e.g. (hey, they started running metas by Matt Gaffney; you should do them) | 83 |
| "I'm not a Republican, but I'm saving up to be one" comic Philips | 83 |
| Singer with a "Best of" album titled "Paint the Sky With Stars" | 83 |
| Bombeck who said "A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat." | 83 |
| Language that gave us "slogan," originally meaning "battle cry" | 83 |
| "Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once" quipper | 83 |
| ''For,'' ''how'' or ''what'' ending | 83 |
| "I ate his liver with some ___ beans and a nice Chianti": Hannibal Lecter | 83 |
| Where Maria and the Captain have their first kiss in "The Sound of Music" | 83 |
| In the first line of a novel, he wrote, "and the clocks were striking 13" | 83 |
| She says "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" in "Hamlet" | 83 |
| She was Cruella de Vil in "101 Dalmatians" and "102 Dalmatians" | 83 |
| "I ___ Feeling" (Black Eyed Peas earworm that causes brain damage, sorry) | 83 |
| Meal blessing that's 'mixed' and hidden in seven answers in this puzzle | 83 |
| 1980s-'90s women's tennis player who was #1 for a record total of 377 weeks | 83 |
| Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" word for "scratch, dog-style" | 83 |
| "Shakespeare of Hollywood" who wrote the "Notorious" screenplay | 83 |
| "Marry ___: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough" (2010 best-seller) | 83 |
| To whom Mortimer declares "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" | 83 |
| Only 20th-century president whose three distinct initials are in alphabetical order | 83 |
| "Othello" character who says "Who steals my purse steals trash" | 83 |
| "What More Can ___" (unreleased post-9/11 Michael Jackson charity single) | 83 |
| "___ for Innocent" (novel featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone) | 83 |
| Corporation that received an Oscar for scientific and technical achievement in 1997 | 83 |
| Repeated shout to a parent’s “You’re going to miss the school bus!” | 83 |
| "Be Honest—You're Not That __ Him Either": Ian Kerner best-seller | 83 |
| "___ Ho" (Academy Award-winning song from "Slumdog Millionaire" | 83 |
| Fictional pitchman whom Michael Dukakis likened to George H.W. Bush during a debate | 83 |
| Show with episodes “Pettycoat Injunction” and “His Suit is Hirsute” | 83 |
| Avant-garde filmmaker Paul whose "Rebus-Film Nr. 1" is a crossword puzzle | 83 |
| "Prisoners of Love (___ & Max)" (song from "The Producers") | 83 |
| Pepe who said "You are ze corned beef to me, and I am ze cabbage to you." | 83 |
| Hybrid cat "bred for its skills in magic," according to Napoleon Dynamite | 83 |
| "She was ___ in slacks" (part of an opening soliloquy by Humbert Humbert) | 83 |
| "___ Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" (album by the Kinks) | 83 |
| Exams for students potentially most interested in this puzzle's theme, in brief | 83 |
| Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" | 83 |
| "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," per H. L. Mencken | 83 |
| "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" theorist | 83 |
| One-named singer/songwriter of the 1970 Woodstock-inspired hit "Lay Down" | 83 |
| Gilbert (who I was kind of in love with) on "Little House on the Prairie" | 83 |
| Alla ___ (dipped in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs/Parmesan, and fried in butter) | 83 |
| Who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 83 |
| Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 83 |
| When repeated, Harold Rome song lyric before "I fear you reared me wrong" | 83 |
| Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues | 83 |
| Arkansas town that calls itself the "Quartz Crystal Capital of the World" | 83 |
| "Three o'clock is always too late or too early . . ." literary source | 83 |
| Org. in which "everybody played with a gay teammate," per Charles Barkley | 83 |
| "___, My God, to Thee" (supposed last song played on the sinking Titanic) | 83 |
| "Homer and ___ Hail Mary Pass" (2005 episode of "The Simpsons") | 83 |
| Other name of the hit song "Volare," "___ Blu, Dipinto di Blu" | 83 |
| "La Bestia ___ Cuore" (2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film nominee) | 83 |
| "La Bestia ___ Cuore" (2005 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film) | 83 |
| "Sweet ___ Con" (2005 Rolling Stones song from "A Bigger Bang") | 83 |
| ''___ won't be afraid'' (''Stand by Me'' lyric) | 83 |
| "___ shall pass" (warning in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail") | 83 |
| "The world will little note, __ long remember, what we say here": Lincoln | 83 |
| Black Kids "I'm ___ Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" | 83 |
| One famously begins "O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" | 83 |
| Ukrainian port whose staircase is a setting for "The Battleship Potemkin" | 83 |
| Yello song heard in the closing credits of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 83 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Buck whose autobiography was "I Was Right On Time" | 83 |
| "As we pulled out of the driveway, Dad started singing '___' ..." | 83 |
| Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" (and, fun fact, Charlie's granddaughter) | 83 |
| Town on the SE tip of Italy that's the title setting for a Horace Walpole novel | 83 |
| "An article of clothing that children are always losing." "___" | 83 |
| "Tout le monde en ___" ("Everyone's talking about it": Fr.) | 83 |
| "Moon Over ___" (original theme song for "The Drew Carey Show") | 83 |
| Arizona Indians whose name comes from a phrase meaning "I don't know" | 83 |
| Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" | 83 |
| One of two school colors (along with heliotrope) of New York's Purchase College | 83 |
| PLAYGIRL, soft-hearted, huggable. Red hair, brown eyes, great smile. Loves kids ... | 83 |
| Successor of Bernadette and Cheryl in the revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" | 83 |
| Where "I shot a man" in Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" | 83 |
| Speaker of the "most memorable film quote ever," according to a 2005 poll | 83 |
| 1984 Tommy Lee Jones film set on the banks of the Mississippi, with "The" | 83 |
| "For you there's rosemary and ___": "The Winter's Tale" | 83 |
| Former senator for whom Georgia Tech's School of International Affairs is named | 83 |
| "It's true whether or not you believe in it," per Neil deGrasse Tyson | 83 |
| "Under ___, whose antique root peeps out..." ("As You Like It") | 83 |
| Disposition to credulity (and the longest common word that alternates typing hands) | 83 |
| One of the things "I've been" in the song "That's Life" | 83 |
| 1959 hit with the lyric "One day I feel so happy, next day I feel so sad" | 83 |