| Author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" | 121 |
| It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's calling them (as in "Manhattan Murder Mystery") | 121 |
| "Why leave a city that has six professional sports teams, and ___?" (Manhattan Mini Storage advertising slogan) | 121 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| "Drink ___ Hearties Yo Ho" (song on the soundtrack to "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End") | 121 |
| A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value" | 122 |
| "I loaned a friend of mine $8,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like" comic Philips | 122 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight" (penultimate line of "A Visit From St. Nicholas") | 122 |
| "If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public" speaker | 122 |
| "O, swear not by ... the fickle moon ... __ that thy love prove likewise variable": "Romeo and Juliet" | 122 |
| Politician who had a voice that "could boil the fat off a taxicab driver's neck," according to Norman Mailer | 122 |
| Winner of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" | 122 |
| Answer to the question, "In your opinion, what do you suppose is the object most likely to scare away Dracula?"? | 122 |
| And you even managed to do 24 ___ in the strip mall parking lot, when the sign clearly said Five Guys Burgers and Fries... | 122 |
| Acme vehicle made for those who are a bit "unbalanced" (like coyotes), from "Hot Rod & Reel," 1959 | 122 |
| Where Kenny's ashes are put in a "South Park" episode, after which Cartman puts them in milk and drinks them | 122 |
| Add vertical line 13 (word 3) and vertical line 3 (word 1) together and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 123 |
| Salinger character who says “I’d be extremely flattered if you’d write a story exclusively for me sometime” | 123 |
| Celeb in "The First Wives Club" with the cameo line "Remember girls, don't get mad, get everything" | 123 |
| Connecticut politician Lamont who beat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Senate primary only to lose to him in the general election | 123 |
| Start of a number of ditties performed by creepy little orange dudes in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 123 |
| It "sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other," according to Aristotle Onassis | 123 |
| Word form made with the big letter depicted in this puzzle's diagram (this letter is entirely absent from the solution) | 123 |
| What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style | 123 |
| "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more ___?": "Twelfth Night" [1930 novel] | 123 |
| Fashion designer Marc who bought Barry Bonds's 756th home run ball and let the public vote to brand it with an asterisk | 123 |
| "South Pacific" song that asks "If you don't have a dream, / How you gonna have a dream come true?" | 123 |
| Good day sir, I am Joseph Komalo, son of a ___. I wish to transfer 1,594,976 ZAR ($14.9. million USD) direct to you account | 123 |
| Pitcher with a 168-mph fastball dreamed up by George Plimpton for the 1985 April Fools' Day issue of Sports Illustrated | 123 |
| It's the end of The World!...actually, it's a radio station mentioned at the end of PRI's "The World" | 123 |
| "The Simpsons" character who graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute of Technology | 124 |
| Sci-fi character who says "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." | 124 |
| "I'm ___, Indiana Jones, and Bladerunner. I'm Fuckin' Over It!": shirt Photoshopped onto Harrison Ford | 124 |
| "You won't have ___ to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference" (1962 quote) | 124 |
| Bush aide who claimed knowledge of "THE math" before incorrectly predicting the outcome of the 2006 U.S. elections | 124 |
| Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" | 124 |
| "Under a ___" (Durante's clue to where the money is buried in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World") | 124 |
| Entertainment options so named because the audience is more detached, per McLuhan (not because he thought they were awesome) | 124 |
| Social reformer whose correspondence with Millard Fillmore is the subject of the book "The Lady and the President" | 124 |
| "West Side Story" song, or a hoped-for response after experiencing the transition in this puzzle's word ladder | 124 |
| Start of remark to me by a guy in a coffee shop in March 2011 about his observations in my traffic courtroom not long before | 124 |
| "Then Larry starts begging to play Moe's role for a change, and Curly says to ___, so Moe happily obliges ..." | 124 |
| History class: F -- “The professor ignored my attendance record and class participation, judging me entirely on ___” | 124 |
| “The good news is, I told the professor about your lab contributions and she gave us an A for our assignment on ...” | 124 |
| 1981 comedy with the tagline "The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls" | 124 |
| Settings where the main characters get chased by sharks, in both "Finding Nemo" and "The Little Mermaid" | 124 |
| Guest speakers on the subject "Does the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' Story Perpetuate Offensive Sterotypes?"? | 124 |
| Theodore Roosevelt, who was never known as the modest type, is the only U.S. president ever to give an inaugural address ... | 124 |
| In response to declining sales, the photojournalism magazine launched a campaign to turn the short-term subscriber into a ___ | 125 |
| Model train company that REFUSES to face accusations that their faulty tracks endanger millions of imaginary tiny conductors? | 125 |
| Creatively spelled Christina Aguilera single (I know, can you believe Miley wasn't the first one desperate to look sexy?) | 125 |
| "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of ___, of most excellent fancy": "Hamlet" [1996 novel] | 125 |
| Variant spelling for an eskimo boat recently added to the Scrabble dictionary (you'll need at least one blank to play it) | 125 |
| The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ | 125 |
| Director of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" (who is no relation to the author of this puzzle) | 125 |
| A. "Mommie Dearest" B. "Lonesome Dove" C. "Angela's Ashes" D. "Times to Remember" | 125 |
| "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is ___ 15" (Ronald Reagan) | 126 |
| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
| "Something a teenage boy can do for hours at a time." The survey did not say (but a contestant did): "___" | 126 |
| Neologism for the superfluous diacritical marks seen in the names of many heavy bands, also called "röck döts" | 126 |
| Song from "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with a title that is actually not a grammatical phrase in any Romance language | 126 |
| Economic term named the 2011 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary...and a description of 6 squares in this puzzle | 126 |
| Title words following "don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm just not concerned," in a 1966-'67 hit | 126 |
| Sitcom star who said "Putting humans in charge of the earth is the cosmic equivalence of letting Eddie Murphy direct" | 127 |
| 2010 movie Roger Ebert called "an incomprehensible mess with the 1980s TV show embedded inside," with "The" | 127 |
| First name of a civil rights activist who would turn 85 today, and whose adopted last name is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 127 |
| "Whatever ..." (for the record, this isn't a "Simpsons" neologism, despite what the Internet tells you) | 127 |
| Only NBA player to shoot at least 50% on field goals, 40% on three-pointers and 90% on free throws for five consecutive seasons | 127 |
| Org. using the scare tactic that "Congress will rewrite No Child Left Behind next year" to get out the vote this year | 127 |
| A rewrite of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using ___: “A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece white as snow” | 127 |
| 54 51 32 4 35 18 / 14 5 52 / 59 / 28 1 22 / 44 3 6 16 20 60 61 12 (see notepad) | 127 |
| [*cross out* Member of a certain 1990s-2000s rock band] Censor unhappy with "Family Guy" and "Glee," maybe? | 127 |
| Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers | 127 |
| 38 17 25 / 50 27 55 42 63 41 49 46 24 / 23 58 13 / 9 11 29 15 39 19 (see notepad) | 127 |
| What the "arrant thief" of a moon "snatches from the sun," in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" | 127 |
| Polygonal numerical array named for mathematician Blaise, in which each number is the sum of the nearest two in the row aboveit | 127 |
| 1973 film with the tagline "Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive -- an honest cop" | 127 |
| "Let's Make a Deal" non-prize that Gilbert Gottfried appeared in every instance on "Game Show Marathon" | 127 |
| "___ Baby" (song that begin "Yes I's finished on y'all farm land with yo' boll weevils and all") | 128 |
| Green spokesman for whom an effect explaining the correlation of cold weather and global warming meetings is sarcastically named | 128 |
| "That's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" speaker | 128 |
| "Let's ___ it up a notch!" (phrase spoken by Chef Elzar, a "Futurama" character based on Emeril Lagasse) | 128 |
| New age artist who has supposedly sold more records than Nirvana and the Spice Girls, although I can't name one of her songs | 128 |
| Lima alternative in the grocery aisle (sorry about this fill, I was sure I could fit [colander alternative in the kitchen] here) | 128 |
| Don't mix your GLASS BOTTLES with the garbage; recycle them into ___, ideal for brightening up the room where you experiment | 128 |
| "Then Moe says, 'Hey kid, you wanna type this up for us?' And I say, '___! I mean, just kidding!' ..." | 128 |
| Very distant or different (and a hint to what's hidden among the Across answers, in their logical order, from top to bottom) | 128 |
| Colts running back Ameche who scored the winning touchdown in overtime to end "The Greatest Game Ever Played," 12/28/58 | 129 |
| Word meaning "Indian nurse" that Jim Horne of the New York Times crossword blog says "you just have to learn" | 129 |
| In a "South Park" episode, what the entire cast of the remastered "The Empire Strikes Back" was replaced with | 129 |
| 43 57 45 7 37 / 33 / 36 30 40 47 10 / 26 53 62 21 / 31 34 56 48 2 8 (see notepad) | 129 |
| "The process by which trademark rights are diminished or lost as a result of common use in the marketplace" - Wikipedia | 129 |
| It states "as a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" | 129 |
| TV show whose working title was "Please Stand By" (and what you'll have to cross 18 times when solving this puzzle) | 129 |
| “Should that say ‘American,’ or will we really be studying the past by watching widescreen ’60s films in ___?” | 130 |
| Descriptor for some gospels that are part of the New Testament apocrypha, that comes from the Greek word for "knowledge" | 130 |
| Horror host who always seems to have a great weight on his shoulders?[The only real host on the list. He was on TV for 25+ years.] | 130 |
| "___ Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote." (Eric Massa) | 130 |
| Cubs player who prevented two protesters from igniting an American flag on the outfield grass during a 1976 game at Dodger Stadium | 130 |
| "I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place ..." | 130 |