| Period of supervision for a porn actor who's done poorly in recent backdoor scenes? | 87 |
| They Might Be Giants song with the line "And her voice is a backwards record" | 87 |
| "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My ___" ("South Park" episode) | 87 |
| NFL Hall of Fame receiver who is first cousins once removed with jazz legend Thelonious | 87 |
| "Caesar, now be still: / I kill'd not thee with half so good ___": Brutus | 87 |
| "___ You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)" (2005 #1 album by Kenny Chesney) | 87 |
| Procedure improved by physician Alexander Bogdanov that left him dead of TB and malaria | 87 |
| What's taken by someone visiting a person who recants on the other side of a river? | 87 |
| "The Big Bang" rapper who voiced a character in "The Rugrats Movie" | 87 |
| Chorus starter in a 1972 David Bowie song ... or the theme of this puzzle, phonetically | 87 |
| 1974 #1 double album that included Peter Cetera's "Wishing You Were Here" | 87 |
| Car that George buys, thinking it was once owned by Jon Voight, on "Seinfeld" | 87 |
| New Hampshire town whose Daily Sun was the first newspaper to publish sudoku in English | 87 |
| 1969 Cream hit ... or a hint to the seven "mathematical" clues in this puzzle | 87 |
| Someone not on an evening guest list (by the way, two show up in this grid unannounced) | 87 |
| "The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby", he said | 87 |
| Ballplayer arrested for possession of cocaine, driving under the influence, and battery | 87 |
| What might have the heading "Collectibles" or "Toys & Hobbies"? | 87 |
| Mathematician who is the subject of the book "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" | 87 |
| Antelopes discovered that graze only at twilight; appropriately, they're called ... | 87 |
| The pairs of letters inserted into each of this puzzle's theme answers, for example | 87 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #2: "Roseanne" co-star and "Cheers" actor | 87 |
| Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bill who played the character Stefon | 87 |
| "Hie thee __, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear": "Macbeth" | 87 |
| Movie with the first female winner of the Oscar for Best Director, with "The" | 87 |
| "The only time I'm nervous or scared is when I'm NOT talking" speaker | 87 |
| Fictional character who says "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" | 87 |
| Nation invented by a John Kerry flub in his first major speech as US Secretary of State | 87 |
| "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" author Bartolomé de ___ | 87 |
| Title on certain language videos ... with a hint to entering six answers in this puzzle | 87 |
| “My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons” | 87 |
| Sign seen when approaching an exit road, perhaps, which limits a motorist's options | 87 |
| Singer with the #1 R&B hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 87 |
| What someone who has to choose between singers Courtney and Eddie makes a decision for? | 87 |
| Broadway producer Liz, Tony winner for "Elephant Man" and "Amadeus" | 87 |
| Animator who created "Beavis & Butthead" and "King of the Hill" | 87 |
| "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live" speaker, for short | 87 |
| Response to "What's a six-letter answer for 'Silent performer'?"? | 87 |
| Charles Van Doren vis-Ã -vis the game show "Twenty-One"? [1976, 1989, 1985] | 87 |
| "You'll have to solve this puzzle on your own, I'm not going to help" | 87 |
| Answer to "which Rogers and Hammerstein musical do you want to see and when?" | 87 |
| "... for there is nothing / either good __, but thinking makes it so": Hamlet | 87 |
| Mammal whose name derives from the Latin words for "pig" and "fish" | 87 |
| Beatles hit with the line, "Treasure these few words till we're together" | 87 |
| From a star in "A Guide for the Married Man" to a telegrapher's language? | 87 |
| Long rant about how the captain was mean, the shanties sucked, and everyone got scurvy? | 87 |
| Pitcher Johnny who completes the old rhyme, "Spahn and ___ and pray for rain" | 87 |
| "And would you like anything else with your imported coffee?" "___" | 87 |
| One of the "Ten Worst Automobiles of 2007" as ranked by thetruthaboutcars.com | 87 |
| Belle Fourche, in this state, is about 20 mi. south of the U.S.'s geographic center | 87 |
| Mr. Zog's surfboard grip product that gained notoriety by being banned from schools | 87 |
| LaBeouf of acting petulant and then being excused by James Franco in the New York Times | 87 |
| Where "Ice Ice Baby" appeared on the "Play That Funky Music" single | 87 |
| Johnny Mercer jazz standard with the lyric "My heart is riding on your wings" | 87 |
| Bill Callahan covering Scottish math metal with "I Know What Boys Like" band? | 87 |
| One of Shakespeare's begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | 87 |
| "I wanted a DIESEL TRUCK, but got this ___! (Which'll never bear birds)" | 87 |
| 1984 Talking Heads film hailed as "one of the greatest rock movies ever made" | 87 |
| One of two cars besides a Cadillac named in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" | 87 |
| Classic novel subtitled "Adventures in a Desert Island," with "The" | 87 |
| Sylvia ___, whom Sinatra once called the "world's greatest saloon singer" | 87 |
| Upon reviewing the apprentice's work, the boss said, "Truly you are a __" | 87 |
| West Indian language that gave us the words "hammock" and "cassava" | 87 |
| He said "If playing chess were made illegal by law, I would become an outlaw" | 87 |
| An automatic one injured Vince Coleman in 1985, forcing him to sit out the World Series | 87 |
| Country singer with the 2012 #1 hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" | 87 |
| Newman who is running against Jerry Costello for Illinois' 12th congressal district | 87 |
| Band originally snubbed by a label that said "Guitar music is on the way out" | 87 |
| Poem featuring the line “O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more” | 87 |
| Poem with the line, "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" | 87 |
| It includes a vest ... and what can be found in each set of circles in the long answers | 87 |
| "Heart and Soul" '80s band with a strange name (hidden in PREGNANT PAUSE) | 87 |
| Molecule that sends amino acids to ribosomes ... and a hint to the theme of this puzzle | 87 |
| Q: How many ___ agents does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Please remove your pants. | 87 |
| Craft whose existence may be denied by government officials, thus proving its existence | 87 |
| 1965 Righteous Brothers hit repopularized by its use in the 1990 film "Ghost" | 87 |
| Genghis Khan reportedly decided not to conquer India after meeting one on a mountaintop | 87 |
| With "The," NBC drama inspired by the film "The American President" | 87 |
| "___ happened?" (Fred Willard's catchphrase in "A Mighty Wind") | 87 |
| "Hey, what did you think when you missed that last pit stop?" [The Who, 1971] | 87 |
| Old film actress who starred in 1950's TV's "The Pride of the Family" | 87 |
| "Place you can go ... when you're short on your dough," according to song | 87 |
| "Butterfly" co-star who won the 1982 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress | 87 |
| Tropical insect whose name is the last word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary | 87 |
| "We'll tak ___ o' kindness yet" (line from "Auld Lang Syne") | 88 |
| Confuse—or what to do to four common phrases to form this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| Vikings running back Peterson who holds the NFL record for yards rushed in a single game | 88 |
| Old riddle: "What did Delaware?" Answer: "I don't know, but ___" | 88 |
| "While I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it" speaker | 88 |
| "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on" boaster | 88 |
| "Dilbert" engineer whose "cardiovascular system is basically coffee" | 88 |
| Dominican Republic teammate of Encarnación and Guerrero in the World Baseball Classic | 88 |
| Alternative words used as alternatives for each other in this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of ___": Deuteronomy | 88 |
| Contest where you'd hear words like "euonym" and "autochthonous" | 88 |
| Ballplayer Campaneris who was the first ever to play all nine positions in a single game | 88 |
| ''Sun,'' ''star,'' or ''cloud'' follower | 88 |
| "Eoweoweoweow-powpowpowpow-ooohweee-ooohweee-whooopwhooop-urnhurnhurnh" device | 88 |
| World leader who co-wrote the book "How Far We Slaves Have Come!" with Mandela | 88 |
| United Artists cofounder whose first feature-length film was "The Kid" in 1921 | 88 |