| Campaign about which Rumsfeld said in 2003 "it could last six days, six weeks - I doubt six months" | 109 |
| "___ and tigers and bears!" "Oh, my!" (memorable lines from "The Wizard of Oz") | 109 |
| Movie character with more than 400 siblings, all of whom are killed within the first five minutes of the film | 109 |
| Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech | 109 |
| 1987 market crash, and this puzzle's title, whose first word can precede each word in the starred answers | 109 |
| "The greatest threat to the internal security of the country," according to J. Edgar Hoover in 1969 | 109 |
| Don't throw away those PAPER PRODUCTS; recycle them into a ___, handy for carefully dressing french fries | 109 |
| Rumored reason for the stock market plunge of 5/6/10, whose effect is seen in this puzzle's theme answers | 109 |
| His "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" was on Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2007 list | 109 |
| Football coach who said, "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" | 109 |
| "La Bamba" band covering "More Than a Feeling" with "Funky Cold Medina" rapper? | 109 |
| “Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ...” | 109 |
| Initials found inside Slytherin's locket at the end of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" | 109 |
| The Library's Periodicals Room was the source of most of the excerpted material in the first issue of ___ | 109 |
| Band that sang the "Friends" theme song "I'll Be There for You," with "the" | 109 |
| Word that could mean “sparsely filled with settlers” or “added a certain punctuation mark to” | 109 |
| Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" | 109 |
| “Should that say ‘English,’ or will we really be reading nothing but roofing manuals in ___?” | 109 |
| Laurel and Hardy film with the line "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" | 109 |
| Type of waveform that gets its name from its resemblance to the serrations on a woodworker's cutting tool | 109 |
| Answer to "Charlie Sheen, do you remember the name of your 'Bad Day on the Block' co-star?" | 109 |
| TV character who says "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows" | 110 |
| It's zero in free-fall—and, put another way, a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers were formed | 110 |
| 1980 comedy that "makes 'Meatballs' seem like 'Hamlet,'" according to Leonard Maltin | 110 |
| "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver" comic | 110 |
| There is an important one spelled out by the last characters of this puzzle's clues, starting from the top | 110 |
| Book whose last chapter of Part I is titled "Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn--Friendships in Polynesia" | 110 |
| According to Oscar Levant, it's "the lowest form of humor--when you don't think of it first" | 110 |
| "9. I wrote a paper in college on Poe's 'The ___' exclusively using just the footnotes!" | 110 |
| He wrote "Three Pear-Shaped Pieces" to answer criticism that his music lacked form [SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 110 |
| Former U.S. Representative Bella who once ran under the slogan "A Woman's Place is in the House" | 110 |
| Star of "Golden Receiver," "World Pup," and "Seventh Inning Fetch," among others | 110 |
| Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture | 110 |
| Instrument heard prominently midway through the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'" | 110 |
| "The Crossword Obsession: The History and Lore of the World's Most Popular Pastime" author Coral | 110 |
| ___ compounds are synthesized to mimic the effects of a) adrenaline; b) testosterone; c) serotonin; d) insulin | 110 |
| Quality something has if you can put your arms around it (and a group hug involving tributes #4, #10, and #12) | 110 |
| A's hurler (1989 champs) / Eurythmics musician on "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (#1 in 1983) | 110 |
| "We're on to you!" (and a hint to how this puzzle's other four longest answers were created) | 110 |
| You started out going "50 ___" in a "40-Year-Old Virgin" zone, past the old video store... | 110 |
| Copies of "Our Man in Havana," "The Quiet American" and "The End of the Affair"? | 110 |
| He was on deck when Mookie hit the ball through Bill Buckner's legs to win Game 6 of the 1986 World Series | 110 |
| 1985 Smiths single with the line "I am human and I need to be loved / Just like everybody else does" | 110 |
| Tycoon who said "A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure" | 110 |
| Classic Doors song in which Jim Morrison refers to himself anagrammatically as "Mr. Mojo Risin'" | 110 |
| Eccentric billionaire entrepreneur who holds the Guinness record for the largest single e-commerce transaction | 110 |
| "Don't get me wrong — con¬struct¬ing crosswords is fun. What takes forever is the ___" | 110 |
| Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares | 110 |
| Maintain equilibrium while pushing on a rotating peripheral attachment, alternating with the lower extremities | 110 |
| "I wanted a MISSILE TANK, but instead I'm suffering from ___! (And I never even left the lodge)" | 110 |
| Reviewer on "The French Lieutenant's Woman": "It gets bogged down in excessive detail" | 110 |
| Theme answer count, amount of letters in each, word hidden in each, and, when repeated twice, today's date | 110 |
| Show since 12/17/1989 whose five main family members are hidden in this puzzle's other long across answers | 110 |
| (((One Week Later))) LIEUT: "What happened? I thought we had him!" INSP: "He gave us ___." | 110 |
| "The buck stops here" and "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," e.g.? | 110 |
| Question asked by a customs officer or a kid on Christmas ... with a hint to this puzzle's circled squares | 110 |
| Ptolemaic constellation that is now divided into Carina (the keel), Puppis (the poop deck) and Vela (the sails) | 111 |
| "___ Iver" (2011 Record of the Year nominee whose name roughly translates to "good winter") | 111 |
| Grp. with three anthems: "The Bonnie Blue Flag," "God Save the South" and "Dixie" | 111 |
| "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps" comedian Philips | 111 |
| Sci-fi character who said "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever" | 111 |
| "Bob ___ Rises From Grave To Free Frat Boys From Bonds Of Oppression": "The Onion" headline | 111 |
| "T-ball is just like baseball, except there's no pitching -- just like the ___" (David Letterman) | 111 |
| When he was a bodyguard, his business card read: "Next to God, there is no greater protector than I." | 111 |
| Triatomic gas in a thinning layer ... and, symbolically, what appears in this puzzle's four longest answers | 111 |
| Thomas who was "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession and a propagandist by inclination" | 111 |
| Literary captain who says "It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one" | 111 |
| "Abstract ___ product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered" (Al Capp) | 111 |
| Genre that includes the classic albums "Barn Salad Surgery" and "The Dark Side of the Moo"? | 111 |
| Store for athletes seeking protection? (And, onsides, what each of this puzzle's starred entries refers to) | 111 |
| “We’ve just learned that two of the graph’s dimensions have been secured by a squadron of ___!” | 111 |
| Shortish documentary program, such as a "behind-the-scenes" or "making-of" segment on a DVD | 111 |
| Like the answers to the 10 asterisked clues, more often than any other English words, according to a 1999 study | 111 |
| #1 Dolly Parton country hit with the lyric "I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man" | 111 |
| "Atomic" Gummi snacks whose second word is a portmanteau of their shape and how they "move" | 111 |
| Norbert Pearlroth spent 52 years of 60-hour weeks in the Library's Reading Room collecting material for ___ | 111 |
| Kids' programming series that produced "Conjunction Junction" and "I'm Just a Bill" | 111 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter X | 111 |
| Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan | 111 |
| "Clinton's a well-known southpaw, so this exposé on his other-handed punches is an eye-opener" | 111 |
| "12. I burst into tears after seeing the second to last episode of the fifth season of '___'" | 111 |
| "Travelin' ___" (Dolly Parton song from "Transamerica" that was nominated for an Oscar) | 111 |
| "'I've been doing exercises to strengthen my core muscles,' Brendan said obliquely," e.g. | 111 |
| The 2005-06 season was the first since 1950-51 in which this type of show wasn't among Nielsen's top 10 | 111 |
| __ Vandelay, recurring fake "Seinfeld" character who turns out to be a real judge in the final episode | 112 |
| American swimmer whose relay team set a world record in the women's 4×100 freestyle at the 1924 Olympics | 112 |
| ''What,'' ''who,'' ''how'' or ''where'' follower | 112 |
| Brian who is a rare example of someone whose prominence in crosswords is commensurate with his actual prominence | 112 |
| "___ in the Wall" (upcoming game show based on the Japanese "Human Tetris" clips on YouTube) | 112 |
| Portrayer of Felix in the movie "The Odd Couple," or Oscar in the TV series "The Odd Couple" | 112 |
| "I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life" speaker Charles Foster ___ | 112 |
| "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver" quipper | 112 |
| Oscar who said: "I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed" | 112 |
| "I go on four legs in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and on three legs in the evening ..." | 112 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter pi | 112 |
| "Matrix" protagonist and hopefully someone else someday, so this can be a less dubious crossword entry | 112 |
| Comic who said "A short summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us. We won. Let's eat" | 112 |
| "If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction / Instruct ___ in diction" ("Anything Goes" lyric) | 112 |
| Video game that comes out today (9/9/09), whose songs/levels are referenced in this puzzle, with "The" | 112 |
| Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them | 112 |