| Position held by Dirk Kempthorne before becoming George W. Bush's final interior secretary | 94 |
| Diamond gambit, or a hint to a different concealed word found in each answer to a starred clue | 94 |
| Reality TV show won by Cris Judd and Lou Diamond Phillips in its first two seasons, familiarly | 94 |
| Start of a Bob Dole quip on how he fared the night after losing the 1988 New Hampshire primary | 94 |
| Word or phrase that has no repeated letters (every answer in this puzzle is an example of one) | 94 |
| Counterculture author who wrote about and drove the psychedelic "Furthur" school bus | 94 |
| "A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead" author | 94 |
| What's been deposited in four squares of this puzzle, expressed both by name and by symbol | 94 |
| Artwork using both paint and collage, e.g. ... and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 94 |
| Rhyming phrase that highlights one of the benefits of having sex with full-figured individuals | 94 |
| What happened, perhaps, after "Tower Heist" failed to be nominated for Best Picture? | 94 |
| Russian peasants (and the highest-scoring opening word in Scrabble--it's worth 128 points) | 94 |
| Biography by James Fenimore Cooper with the alternate title "A Life Before the Mast" | 94 |
| William Cullen Bryant poem that begins "Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!" | 94 |
| Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue | 94 |
| "The one and only true love ___ least it seems" (CeCe Peniston, "Finally") | 94 |
| 124 minutes of Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore doing nothing to distinguish themselves? | 94 |
| Fortuitous point in the Showcase Showdown to land on $1.00, on "The Price Is Right"? | 94 |
| German mathematician Bernhard whose eponymous hypothesis is one of the great unsolved problems | 94 |
| Company with the slogans "It's thinking" and "Up to 6 billion players" | 94 |
| Woman who said "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father" | 94 |
| Best-selling novelist about whom Gore Vidal said "She doesn't write, she types!" | 94 |
| ''Definitely!'': author Friedman/''Definitely not!'': Columbus | 94 |
| Wart-covered and hungry for flies or, alternately, have a meeting about one of Jon's pets? | 94 |
| What best-selling 2004 young adult novel was written entirely in the form of instant messages? | 94 |
| Mr. Peabody's aptly named time machine, as the creators of Rocky and Bullwinkle spelled it | 94 |
| Theoretical terrorist's theoretical threat that we should probably go crazy worrying about | 94 |
| Soap introduced with the slogan "For the first time in your life, feel really clean" | 94 |
| Playwright Edward who said "Creativity is magic ... don't examine it too closely" | 95 |
| Colts fullback Alan who famously scored the winning touchdown in the 1958 NFL championship game | 95 |
| "The Simpsons" character whose favorite baseball squadron is the "Nye Mets" | 95 |
| "___ begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome" (Andre Gide) | 95 |
| Song by the Who with the lyric "Just one word from her and my troubles are long gone" | 95 |
| Charles Gounod piece based on the first prelude of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" | 95 |
| Only person to have the #1 movie, #1 album and #1-rated late-night TV show all in the same week | 95 |
| Kentucky town with a college and a cornbread festival ... Christ, Wikipedia yields shitty clues | 95 |
| Ian's role in "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Return of the King" | 95 |
| Recipient of all of Dale Cooper's tape-recorded messages on TV's "Twin Peaks" | 95 |
| "___ Mak'er" (Zeppelin title that's a transliteration of "Jamaica") | 95 |
| "... when I am king, claim thou of me / The ___ of Hereford": "Richard III" | 95 |
| "FDA Official: 'Just ___ Goddamn Vegetable'" ("The Onion" headline) | 95 |
| He was "the Ugly" opposite Clint's "Good" and Lee's "Bad" | 95 |
| "riverrun, past ___ and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay": James Joyce | 95 |
| Surviving Milli Vanilli member [avxword.com is home to the best indie xwords - subscribe today] | 95 |
| Word that goes after the start of and before the end of the five longest answers in this puzzle | 95 |
| Screenwriting Oscar winner for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies" | 95 |
| "Shallow End of the ___ Pool" (Emily Kaitz song covered by the Austin Lounge Lizards) | 95 |
| Vaudeville comic brother who was part of the United States Croquet Hall of Fame inaugural class | 95 |
| Poet whose last words were "Of course [God] will forgive me; that's his business" | 95 |
| Disrespectful roommate's reply to an inquiry about that last slice of pizza you were saving | 95 |
| "___ No Longer Permitted To Use Word 'Eat' In Advertisements": Onion headline | 95 |
| Miller beer that "tastes great" and is "less filling," according to its ads | 95 |
| "The ___ is a quadruped which lives in the big rivers like the Amazon" (Monty Python) | 95 |
| Broadway title character whose "special fascination'll prove to be inspirational" | 95 |
| Singer of the 1993 No. 1 hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" | 95 |
| Inventor whose name is spelled out by the horizontal lines of special characters in this puzzle | 95 |
| Word before "rain," "heat" and "gloom of night" in a postal creed | 95 |
| Band who appeared on "The Simpsons" in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch" | 95 |
| Source of the title material in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "The White Stuff" | 95 |
| Mary whose short story "The Wisdom of Eve" was the basis of "All About Eve" | 95 |
| "Al ___ Lado Del RÃo" (Oscar-winning song from "The Motorcycle Diaries") | 95 |
| Arcade game in which characters can pass through tunnels to get to the other side of the screen | 95 |
| Discussion group, and a word that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers | 95 |
| He's #1 on baseball's all-time list of games played ahead of Carl, Hank, Rickey, and Ty | 95 |
| "They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way," according to Pearl Jam | 95 |
| 1965 R&B #1 song with the repeated lyric "Can't you see that I'm lonely?" | 95 |
| "The ostrich roams the great ___. / Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra": Ogden Nash | 95 |
| "Tore open the shutters and threw up the ___" ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") | 95 |
| Like the order of the letters in the first words of the starred entries, before being shaken up | 95 |
| Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 95 |
| Dancer Ailey, in his upstate New York home (as screamed on "Chipmunk Day Afternoon")? | 95 |
| "If man makes himself ___ he must not complain when he is trodden on" (Immanuel Kant) | 95 |
| "The Breakfast Club" actress cuts through the nonsense to portray a chain of casinos? | 95 |
| Indie band with the classic album "If You're Feeling Sinister" (with sword drawn) | 95 |
| Meat that everyone thinks is rotten but then it turns out to be some of the best barbecue ever? | 95 |
| "I am on a drug. It's called ___." (And source of the quotes used in this puzzle) | 95 |
| We assume they ate my grandparents' cat that disappeared in San Diego like twenty years ago | 95 |
| Service run by the band They Might Be Giants that was nothing more than their answering machine | 95 |
| Bullfighter who's the subject of the book "Or I'll Dress You in the Mourning" | 95 |
| It's made with bread at the bottom, bananas and fish in the middle, and potato chips on top | 95 |
| Time leading up to doing whatever you want (as screamed on "Golf Course Braveheart")? | 95 |
| Family doctor's specialty, or the short-term experience you'll get solving this puzzle? | 95 |
| Tony Nelson: "What's another word for 'toilet'?" Jeannie: "___" | 95 |
| Lame alternative to "Couldn't be bothered with writing that five paragraph essay" | 95 |
| 1,000,000 in the phrase "When I win a million dollars" is an example of an ___ number | 95 |
| 1994 multi-Golden Raspberry-nominated film that lost in all categories to "Showgirls" | 95 |
| MTV reality show that controversially uses the terms "Guido" and "Guidette" | 95 |
| Son of a 1970s president, or host of the weekend edition of "Today" in the late 1990s | 95 |
| Mathematician and philosopher who coined the phrase "the best of all possible worlds" | 95 |
| Word that could mean “become too small to see” or “similar to a family vehicle” | 95 |
| Unit used to jokingly describe celery, since it requires more energy to eat it than it contains | 95 |
| Rapper who was the first artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time | 95 |
| “And I could barely keep my eyes open in Economics, where the topic of the day was ___” | 95 |
| Knock-off board game suffix found after "Dino," "Dog," or "Ocean" | 95 |
| After "The," 1970 John Jay Osborn Jr. novel or the movie or TV series adapted from it | 95 |
| What Roscoe Orman of "Sesame Street" played in 1974's "Willie Dynamite" | 95 |
| It put out the first crossword book in 1924 (and soon changed its name to Simon & Schuster) | 95 |
| "The Powerfully Effective, Take It Only When You Need It, Sinus and Allergy Medicine" | 95 |
| Reviewer on "The Road to Wellville": "I got whiplash from the runaway plot" | 95 |
| "Little" barnyard bird with an alliterative name in a classic Willie Dixon blues song | 95 |