| Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters | 96 |
| Familiarly, nutritious trio found twice in this puzzle—one trio is hidden in certain corners | 96 |
| Morgan who is "too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person," per Tina Fey | 96 |
| Fish dish served with lemon and pepper, simmered in pretty hate and dissonant synthesizer lines? | 96 |
| General who countered the Taiping Rebellion, which was waged over access to sugary fried chicken | 96 |
| "Has the ___ effective at keeping peace?" (question for Sec'y-General Ban Ki-moon) | 96 |
| "Come ___ these yellow sands, / And then take hands": Ariel in "The Tempest" | 96 |
| The practice of trying to stop something that persistently occurs in an apparently random manner | 96 |
| In a Weird Al Yankovic song, he "looks like a Muppet, but he's wrinkled and green" | 96 |
| "... the morn ... Walks o'er the dew of __ high eastward hill": "Hamlet" | 96 |
| Dad's reaction to: "Dad, I dropped out of college and joined the traveling circus" | 96 |
| Beer Obama sent to the Canadian P.M. to settle their bet over the Olympic hockey gold medal game | 96 |
| ___ and Jayna (TV's Wonder Twins, whose names were inspired by an Edgar Rice Burroughs pair) | 96 |
| Popular picture fonts that come standard on Apple computers (named after a German type designer) | 96 |
| Either of a pair of stubborn Dr. Seuss characters in "The Sneetches and Other Stories" | 96 |
| In "Macbeth," it starts with the line "Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd" | 97 |
| It blows; I just got scolded for using portable electronic devices and they're out of peanuts | 97 |
| "At the gym I usually toss up ___ ball -- it's my specialty -- just before I leave" | 97 |
| "___ volat propriis" (motto of Oregon meaning "She flies with her own wings") | 97 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," describes names like Vivian Darkbloom and Mr. Mojo RisiN' | 97 |
| Scoreboard abbr. for the football team that plays its home games at University of Phoenix Stadium | 97 |
| Main thoroughfare in Manhattan (one can be found in each of the four long answers in this puzzle) | 97 |
| "The path of the righteous man is ___ on all sides ..." ("Pulp Fiction" line) | 97 |
| 2006 title film character who says "Pamela! I no find you attractive anymore! ... Not!" | 97 |
| <u>President</u> <u>of</u> <u>1</u> <u>Across</u> | 97 |
| Someone who's "in the kitchen" in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 97 |
| Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
| Film that lost out to "Places in the Heart" for the 1984 Best Original Screenplay Oscar | 97 |
| Number of times the letter 'U' appears in each of this puzzle's eight longest answers | 97 |
| Award for which "The Godfather, Part III" was nominated seven times, but didn't win | 97 |
| "Sometimes, when I sleep at night, I think of '___ Pop'" (Dubya, April 2, 2002) | 97 |
| "Winnie ___ Pu" (Latin version of Milne's classic that became a bestseller in 1960) | 97 |
| "That's my cue!" (fun fact: I inadvertently stole this clue from my own NYT puzzle) | 97 |
| Female lab assistant who went for a "roll in the hay" in "Young Frankenstein" | 97 |
| TV neighbor who said "I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm loving every minute of it!" | 97 |
| "Compromise is the best and cheapest ___" (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson) | 97 |
| Comic who occasionally contributes to the "Motormouth" column ofThe London Sunday Times | 97 |
| It was 2nd (behind New York City) on Travel and Leisure's list of America's Rudest Cities | 97 |
| The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 97 |
| "Captain! The engines canna take ___ more!" (line from Scotty on "Star Trek") | 97 |
| Org. with a flag of five alternating green and white stripes and a blue union with 24 white stars | 97 |
| O. Henry Award winner for "In the Region of Ice" (1967) and "The Dead" (1973) | 97 |
| Turow memoir subtitled "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" | 97 |
| "And Morning ___ with haste her lids" (line from Emerson's "The Problem") | 97 |
| Revolutionary James ___, famous for saying "Taxation without representation is tyranny" | 97 |
| "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I say, why take the chance?" speaker | 97 |
| Loaf reliably available at cousin Lotte's house when we used to go up to Cleveland for brunch | 97 |
| She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” | 97 |
| 1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace" | 97 |
| Sci-fi stealth shields (that these two scientists at Harvard actually did figure out how to make) | 97 |
| Home of Canada's largest mall, named "Eighth Wonder of the World" by travel writers | 97 |
| "Please" and "thank you" are "bonvolu" and "dankon" in it | 97 |
| One set of gifts in "The 12 Days of Christmas" ... as suggested by the circled squares? | 97 |
| Non-fiction bestseller that was fact-checked by Associated Press five days before it was released | 97 |
| 1959 novella that begins "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" | 97 |
| Eugenia Washington (co-founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution), to George Washington | 97 |
| Go to this Vermont area to hike the Long Trail that was the inspiration for the Appalachian Trail | 97 |
| NBA strategy that involves deliberately fouling the opponent with the worst free throw percentage | 97 |
| 1995 film with the line "Alan, please, last time I played this game, it ruined my life" | 97 |
| Shortstop nicknamed "Slats" and "The Octopus" who won the 1944 N.L. MVP award | 97 |
| "... Love at first sight? No, she just didn't want to ___ any more! Then I woke up" | 97 |
| Rapper who prefers a pretty large mattress, or comparable in build to fashion designer Alexander? | 97 |
| Flowers that materialize above Magrathea, in "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" | 97 |
| Sidelined by injury, in baseball lingo, and a hint to how this puzzle's theme puns are formed | 97 |
| Prize for an aspiring musical artist, perhaps from the first word of the answer to a starred clue | 97 |
| "We ___ song of sorrow..." (lyric from Saves the Day's "What Went Wrong") | 97 |
| "Bad politicians are __ Washington by good people who don't vote": William E. Simon | 97 |
| Instruments in the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" and "Within You Without You" | 97 |
| "I'll send an ___ to the world" (repeated lyric in "Message in a Bottle") | 97 |
| "For an avid philatelist like me, sorting envelopes is thrilling - I might spot a ___!" | 97 |
| 1986 movie based on the Stephen King novella "The Body" ... and this puzzle's theme | 97 |
| His film debut was in "Curly Sue" (1991) as a sort of villain out to get the title girl | 97 |
| 1950s news anchor who said Timex's slogan "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking" | 97 |
| "The art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were" | 97 |
| Need bailing, or what five entries in this puzzle can do to make two overlapping words or phrases | 97 |
| It's easy to do if you're not traveling alone, hard if you're surrounded by strangers | 97 |
| Ancient playwright who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" | 97 |
| Fantastically pretentious former nickname for one of the few musicians who could get away with it | 97 |
| Show where The B-52's redid "Love Shack" as the dueling song "Glove Slap" | 97 |
| Band whose name comes from the Latin for "all-encompassing," not from a movie character | 97 |
| "South Park" co-creator whose student film was titled "Cannibal! The Musical" | 97 |
| The Arcade Fire's "___ année sans lumière" ("A Year Without Light") | 97 |
| On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code | 97 |
| "A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her" speaker | 97 |
| Computer term, based on an arcade game, regarding the annoyance of fending off recurring spammers | 97 |
| Classic ad line, and question you need to answer to find the hidden theme in four starred answers | 97 |
| Song played at Tampa Bay Buccaneers home games, which originated in a Disney boat ride attraction | 97 |
| Last name of brothers who combined for 6,916 total bases (60 more than all-time leader Hank Aaron) | 98 |
| "___ Nights" (2014 movie for which Liam Hemsworth is said to have been cast as Ali Baba) | 98 |
| Hispanic MLB star whose nickname is a Hispanic cartoon character spelled backward (COINCIDENCE?!?) | 98 |
| Band with the albums "Alpha," "Astra," "Aqua"... (you get the point) | 98 |
| Newcaster who said "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" | 98 |
| The ___ (nickname for each season's recurring villain on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") | 98 |
| Russell parodied on "South Park" with the show "Fightin' Around the World" | 98 |
| Article in a German paper?[For the explanation to last week's puzzle, see the last clue down.] | 98 |
| Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort" | 98 |
| Narcissists' interests (one of which can be found in each of the puzzle's longest answers) | 98 |
| It's "heavier freight for the shipper than it is for the consignee": Augustus Thomas | 98 |
| "I am the doubter and the doubt / And I the ___ the Brahmin sings" (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | 98 |
| Secret (and potentially cataclysmic) substance in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | 98 |