| Leader of Husker Du whose "Dog On Fire" became the "Daily Show" theme | 89 |
| Stars of "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," collectively | 89 |
| With "The," 1985 coming-of-age comedy-drama featuring the "Brat Pack" | 89 |
| What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like "The Man in Black"? | 89 |
| "No, I don't think 'virgin wool' means that the sheep was ___, ___" | 89 |
| "Jacques, I rate your face a perfect score, but your butt is très mediocre!" | 89 |
| Group cannibals don't eat "because they taste funny," according to the joke | 89 |
| Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue | 89 |
| "Say hello to friends you know and __": ". . . Holly Jolly Christmas" | 89 |
| Company whose founder first proposed the business concept in a college paper, earning a C | 89 |
| Worst team's privilege in next year's draft or, with a comma, "premium" | 89 |
| Band whose frontman passes through the audience in a plastic bubble, with "The" | 89 |
| Q: "What do you see lots of at Jerry's family reunions?" A: "___" | 89 |
| If one were to ___, one would discover that they have 8 million articles in 253 languages | 89 |
| It's easy to do if you're hungry, hard if it's late and the shops have closed | 89 |
| "The ___ and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality" (1982 best seller) | 89 |
| 1962 chart topper whose title subject "doesn't do what everybody else does" | 89 |
| Words from Pope's "An Essay on Man" (1940, 1942-43, 1960-62, 1965-68, 1978) | 89 |
| The genie studies it for a while and finally says, "This is impossible. So ..." | 89 |
| "So why on earth should ___ ..." (line from "A Hard Day's Night") | 89 |
| "When __ she comes to me with a thousand smiles": "Little Wing" lyric | 89 |
| Part of the earth whose temperature Al Gore claims is "several million degrees" | 89 |
| Comic actor George who was nicknamed "Toastmaster General of the United States" | 89 |
| "I only spend these quarters on video games that involving drawing partitions"? | 89 |
| Blanche __, pseudonymous author of the 1983 best-seller "Truly Tasteless Jokes" | 89 |
| ...while Henry Gibson presented satirical poetry on the 1960s comedy show "___" | 89 |
| Best-selling novelist who wrote the children's poetry volume "Father Goose" | 89 |
| So-called explanation for an athlete's off-year after appearing on a video game cover | 89 |
| Early punk rock band with the song "Never Been in a Riot," with "the" | 89 |
| "This is Spinal Tap" star who played Lenny on "Laverne & Shirley" | 89 |
| Mixed drink #1: A friar's riding sport (vodka, cranberry juice, triple sec, and lime) | 89 |
| Something to "call me" per an old song ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 89 |
| Physical principle whose equation explains the changes in this puzzle's theme entries | 89 |
| ___ One (political idea-sharing .org site with the slogan "You Set the Agenda") | 89 |
| There are ones named after all the men featured on current U.S. banknotes except Hamilton | 89 |
| Noises you're guaranteed to hear after opting out of the naked body scanner machines? | 89 |
| First of 12 popes (just put the Roman numeral in now and get the name from the crossings) | 89 |
| Symphonic ode to a nation by Elgar that includes quotations from "Warszawianka" | 89 |
| Art punk band whose members appear as tophat-wearing giant eyeballs, with "The" | 89 |
| Actor who played Hamlet in a 1964 production deliberately staged to look like a rehearsal | 89 |
| You might get them for having seen an Arcade Fire show before they were signed to a label | 89 |
| "And I've got one, two, three, four, five ___ working overtime" (XTC lyric) | 89 |
| Band that will change your life, according to Natalie Portman in "Garden State" | 89 |
| His only line in "Clerks" ends in "Most of 'em just cheat on you" | 89 |
| Broadway composer Matthew who was nominated for a Tony for "The Wedding Singer" | 89 |
| Pseudonymous surname used by a director who doesn't want to be associated with a film | 89 |
| Mock rock band with the albums "Smell The Glove" and "Shark Sandwich" | 89 |
| Commercial interruptions literally found in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 89 |
| Word with ''forward,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 89 |
| Chemical element #38 (also part of the name of a pre-Police Sting/Stewart Copeland band) | 89 |
| Word that could mean “not entirely disobedient” or “headed for the metro” | 89 |
| Summer blazer, which can come before the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 89 |
| Really, really integral baseball stats (or a hair stylist ad interrupted by a cookie ad)? | 89 |
| It's easy to do with the right connections, hard if you can't find a good hotspot | 89 |
| Velvet Underground song ranked#335 on Rolling Stones's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time | 89 |
| Some graffiti signatures (which were used to form this puzzle's four longest answers) | 89 |
| Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle | 89 |
| Southern Florida "trail" that's a portmanteau of the two cities it connects | 89 |
| "I found a ___, which blended into the beige, but no way am I going to eat it." | 89 |
| Strapless, sleeveless women's garment that covers the breasts and part of the midriff | 89 |
| Terrifying (or at least super irritating) group for anyone who isn't their age, often | 89 |
| River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" | 89 |
| "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip ___": "Julius Caesar" [1974 novel] | 89 |
| 1951 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, featuring Gertrude Lawrence as a teacher in Siam | 89 |
| "___ aren't the droids you're looking for" ("Star Wars" line) | 89 |
| Show on which Hillary Clinton first alluded to the "vast right-wing conspiracy" | 89 |
| Poe poem with the lines "thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicean barks of yore" | 89 |
| Iggy wrote about the rising popularity of sleep shirts so he could yell "___!" | 89 |
| Age at which Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse died | 89 |
| Placekicker Lawrence whose 47-yard overtime field goal sent the Giants to Super Bowl XLII | 89 |
| It's part of the eight original "Public Ivy" schs., per author Richard Moll | 89 |
| "It can only be postponed to the advantage of others," according to Machiavelli | 89 |
| Wine that can't decide what it is (from a stand-up comedian and a fictional newsman)? | 89 |
| 2003 Penn/Watts drama with "The weight of a hummingbird" in one of its taglines | 89 |
| He wrote "It's certain that fine women eat / A crazy salad with their meat" | 89 |
| Variation of an online term that supposedly originated with someone missing the SHIFT key | 89 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| "__ & Son": "The Bullwinkle Show" feature involving morality tales | 90 |
| Literary character who says "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" | 90 |
| "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" boaster | 90 |
| "Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up" speaker | 90 |
| Name after "Chasing" in a movie title and "Judging" in a TV show title | 90 |
| Connector that completes a phrase made from the starts of the three longest across answers | 90 |
| Georges Perec's 1969 novel "La Disparition" is written entirely without this | 90 |
| Singer Paul who also wrote "Johnny's Theme" for "The Tonight Show" | 90 |
| "Have ___!" ("You're not going to like what I'm about to say") | 90 |
| "___ McGee" (2006 animated series about a detective with no head, torso or arms) | 90 |
| Mo. with very few holidays, though looks like it's got National Ice Cream Sandwich Day | 90 |
| Rock singer Rose who's been working on "Chinese Democracy" for over a decade | 90 |
| He sang "I've Got You Under My Skin" with Frank Sinatra on "Duets" | 90 |
| "A person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it," according to Henry Ford | 90 |
| Common word spelled in the "Spelling Bee" game on "The Price Is Right" | 90 |
| Ohio's ___ Point, home of the Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force roller coasters | 90 |
| Fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail | 90 |
| "__ High": 1975 film that inspired the sitcom "What's Happening!!" | 90 |
| Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce | 90 |
| "Russell Simmons' ___ Strawberry Jam" ("In Living Color" ad spoof) | 90 |
| "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" speaker | 90 |
| The only grading letters that appear anywhere in this puzzle (other than the present clue) | 90 |
| "Any man who wants to be president is either an ___ or crazy": Dwight Eisenhower | 90 |