| Singer of "Like a Surgeon" (with the lyric "I can hear your heart beat for the very last time") | 115 |
| In the end, though, the media portrayed the press conference as bland and amicable -- the latest in a series of ___ | 115 |
| "I would venture to guess that __, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman": Woolf | 116 |
| Shakespeare title character whose first line is "There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd" | 116 |
| "All My ___ Live in Texas" (song with the lyric "And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee") | 116 |
| Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods | 116 |
| Princess who says "This is some rescue! You came in here, but didn't you have a plan for getting out?" | 116 |
| "The occupation of the idle man, the distraction of the warrior, the peril of the sovereign," per Napoleon | 116 |
| <u>A</u> <u>founder</u> <u>of</u> <u>1</u> <u>Across</u> | 116 |
| Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" | 116 |
| "House of Bush, House of ___: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties" | 116 |
| Solution to the classic riddle "What force or strength cannot get through, / I, with gentle touch, can do" | 116 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #2: grab a broom, put a book under your arm and like magic, you're a ___ | 116 |
| Money ... or a hint to how six crossings in this puzzle are to be represented, superimposing one letter over another | 116 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #3: slap on a sheet, borrow some Birkenstocks and suddenly you're an ___ | 116 |
| "I will always wear black; even when I enjoy a concert I will never do more than sway disaffectedly," etc. | 116 |
| "I'm kind of embarrassed how many people mistake me for George Clooney and ask for my autograph," e.g. | 116 |
| "I wanted a TWIN-NOSED JET, but all I got were these ___! (Which don't bend like normal salamanders)" | 116 |
| London venue where plays based on "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and "Mr. Ice Cream Man" are performed? | 116 |
| It has "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects," according to Aldous Huxley | 116 |
| "Weird Al" Yankovic song with the lyric "Think about nutrition, wonder what's inside it now" | 116 |
| The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 116 |
| "The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought ___" (one of Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts") | 117 |
| "Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word" is his last line | 117 |
| Word that can precede each set of circled letters, forming a literal hint for entering certain answers in this puzzle | 117 |
| Only tree in the Monty Python sketch "How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away" | 117 |
| "18. In kindergarten art class, while other boys were drawing things like tanks and dinosaurs, I drew ___," | 117 |
| "Annie" song with the lyric "Too busy / Too crazy / Too hot / Too cold / Too late / I'm sold" | 117 |
| "That hurts ..." [Ink Well ends forever on June 25. Sign up for avxwords.com to get great, similar puzzles] | 117 |
| Player behind Bonds, Henderson, Ruth, Williams, Morgan, Yastrzemski, and Mantle on the all-time leader list for walks | 117 |
| Danish cyclist Bjarne who admitted in 2007 to taking performance-enhancing drugs when winning the 1996 Tour de France | 117 |
| The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 117 |
| ___ Snow, Russell Brand's character in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek" | 117 |
| One with an important role in the production of a fantasy film or period drama (not so important for a porno, though) | 117 |
| "Gosh!" (or, based on the starts of starred answers, one who is expert at solving this puzzle's theme?) | 117 |
| Name Jerry accidentally calls a girlfriend whose name rhymes with part of the female anatomy, on "Seinfeld" | 117 |
| Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect" | 117 |
| Commedia dell'arte character David Bowie dressed as on the cover of "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" | 117 |
| Adjective for the man who shirtlessly plays "Careless Whisper" on his saxophone in malls and grocery stores | 117 |
| Russell Byars is one: He set the Guinness World Record of 51 times from the shore of the Allegheny River on 7/19/2007 | 117 |
| French Stewart's response when asked to "write a number" in an SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skit | 117 |
| EPILOGUE: Band member: Where can we possibly go where they won't find us? T: I'm thinking __ (Frankie Avalon) | 117 |
| "6. I was mildly disappointed when I walked down ___ Road in London.I wanted it to be more magical, I guess" | 118 |
| Speaker of "I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick!" | 118 |
| Memorable repeated question by the economics teacher (played by Ben Stein) in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 118 |
| Singer who redefined double standards by recording both "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" in 1961 | 118 |
| Sequel to Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" which Entertainment Weekly named "Worst Book of 2005" | 118 |
| "The other day my nephew's computer beat me at chess. But it was no match for me at kickboxing" comedian | 118 |
| "Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ___ the other side he see." | 118 |
| Gabonese president Bongo who's the world's longest-serving nonmonarchal head of state (he took office in 1967) | 118 |
| Word that goes in either blank in the classic movie quote "___? Where we're going we don't need ___" | 118 |
| Radio personality who said "Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom" | 118 |
| "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes," a.k.a. "Fleas," in its entirety (world's shortest poem?) | 118 |
| "Sleepless in Seattle II: We Need to Get to the Hospital Now"? (Happy New Year to baby Hildegard of Bingen!) | 118 |
| With "The," country that's already a U.S. state by 2010, in the 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" | 118 |
| It's crafted in prison movies to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually escaped | 118 |
| She said, “Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case” | 118 |
| Player who tried to catch the ball that Cubs fan Steve Bartman reached for in the 8th inning of Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS | 119 |
| The cover photo of him from the 1992 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue was used in 2005 as a postage stamp | 119 |
| Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle's six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid) | 119 |
| When repeated, 1963 hit with alleged obscene lyrics determined by the FBI to be "unintelligible at any speed" | 119 |
| Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
| It's put in front of a window to fool people into thinking someone is standing there (as in "Home Alone") | 119 |
| Food that "did fall on the Israelites most gently, vexing those burdened with meathead pride" (Exodus 17:17)? | 119 |
| “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born ...” | 119 |
| Today, to Caesar—and a hint to the hidden word appearing in this puzzle 15 times (including the one in this answer) | 119 |
| International standardized measurement promotion that may get more attention next year, since it's held on 10/10/10 | 119 |
| Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
| We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!] | 119 |
| Guitarist's cheat sheet (Abbr.) © 2010 Todd Santos Written By: Todd Santos | 119 |
| French Stewart's response to the category "Write a Number" in an SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skit | 119 |
| What the ten movie titles in this puzzle do at their intersections -- or a 2005 movie spelled out by those intersections | 120 |
| "2. I've never been more drunk than the New Years Eve night 1999 when I polished off three bottles of ___" | 120 |
| Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay." | 120 |
| "So, if she weighs the same as ___, then she's made of wood" ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail") | 120 |
| Deadly; understood; take a flat; show-off; drew a blank; New York nickname; pro; director Hartley; 2000 Ethan Hawke role | 120 |
| Acme product intended for recreational use (not for dropping bombs on roadrunners), from "Zipping Along," 1953 | 120 |
| Comedy writer Carol (whose new book, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying," inspired this puzzle) | 120 |
| Most likely to go way too far, for example to get drunk and expose one's ass and then shake it in people's faces | 120 |
| 16 of these are hidden in the answer grid, each reading left, right, up, down or diagonally in an unbroken straight line | 120 |
| Country that recently "built 500 objects contributable to raising the level of modernization," per its website | 120 |
| Embarking on something exciting, and a hint regarding what this puzzle's starred answers' endings have in common | 120 |
| Don't toss out that pile of OLD MAGAZINES; recycle them into a ___, perfect for keeping your beer clean at the beach | 120 |
| Place that it wouldn't kill you to go one of these Fridays, or maybe you think you're too important for G-d now? | 120 |
| Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin | 120 |
| Novel that begins "When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and an owner of property" | 120 |
| Job for which the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner said Sarah Palin was picked for "reasons of image, not substance" | 120 |
| Youtube clip of a chat with the author of "Myra Breckenridge"? (party-hopping à la Charles Barkley in 2006) | 120 |
| Julian Assange's controversial website, and a hint to what's missing from this puzzle's four longest answers | 120 |
| Flying by the bookstore, you were caught doing "One Hundred ___" in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" zone... | 120 |
| With "The," band with a remastered box set of albums released 9/9/09 (the date referring to one of their songs) | 121 |
| "And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou ___ every act of thy life as if it were the last" (Marcus Aurelius) | 121 |
| "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives" speaker | 121 |
| Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally | 121 |
| He told the Once-ler, "Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!" | 121 |
| She played Olive Madison opposite Struthers's Florence Ungar in a 1985 Broadway version of "The Odd Couple" | 121 |
| Theme #2 (Bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum), with "the" | 121 |
| Mark that appears four times in this puzzle (hint: the baseball player who's the answer to this puzzle uses one, too) | 121 |
| Character who, in an 8/15/1939 Hollywood premiere, speaks the first words of this puzzle's five other longest answers | 121 |
| Q: "So, Lone Ranger (whinny, neigh), what do you call these undies of yours (neigh, snort)?" A: "___" | 121 |