"Gong Show" name repeated in both blanks of ___ ___ the Dancing Machine | 81 |
Upstate NY city that calls itself the "Lake Trout Capital of the World" | 81 |
Prefix with ''political'' or ''logical'' | 72 |
Self-described "short, stocky, slow-witted bald man" of "Seinfeld" | 86 |
Magazine whose debut issue featured a cover photo of Cindy Crawford dressed as Washington | 89 |
In the first line of a novel, he wrote, "and the clocks were striking 13" | 83 |
Actor who played a coin-flipping killer in the 1932 movie "Scarface" | 78 |
Country bordered by Den., Pol., the Czech Rep., Aus., Switz., Fr., Lux., Belg., and the Neth. | 93 |
"I guess it just proves that in America anyone can be president" | 74 |
Halliwell with the 1997 movie line "Now that's girl power" | 72 |
She says "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" in "Hamlet" | 83 |
"Hamlet" character who says, "These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears" | 96 |
Words after "She throws the want ads right my way and never fails to say," in a 1958 #1 hit | 101 |
Advice for the brokenhearted ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle | 91 |
Lead-in for "across," "along," or "around" | 72 |
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights" speaker | 80 |
It's zero in free-fall—and, put another way, a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers were formed | 110 |
Home of the van Eyck brothers' "Adoration of the Lamb" altarpiece | 79 |
"The ___ win the pennant!" (repeated shout from Russ Hodges, 10/3/51) | 79 |
"O wad some power the giftie ___ us / To see oursels as ithers see us!": Burns | 88 |
Natural talent[For the explanation of last week's theme, see the last Down clue] | 84 |
"Hey, dude, I'm playing a ___ tonight, you should totally come" | 77 |
"Computers can't generate good results from bad data," briefly | 76 |
1997 Demi Moore movie with the tagline "Failure is not an option" | 75 |
Gershon who played a seductive dry cleaner on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 78 |
Reason everyone whispered during the afternoon on Gilligan's island? | 72 |
Product whose infomercial coined the phrase "But wait ... there's more!" | 86 |
George who famously asked Knute Rockne to "win just one" for him | 74 |
Beatles song that begins "Is there anybody going to listen to my story" | 81 |
Little ones who, they say, are made up of the ends of this puzzle's four longest entries | 92 |
Debut album from the Smashing Pumpkins named after silent actress Lillian | 73 |
Politician who's done cameos on "Seinfeld" and "Law & Order" | 88 |
"... as they shouted out with ___" ("Rudolph" lyric) | 72 |
TV show that was pitched as "a High School Musical for adults" | 72 |
Show whose cast holds the record for the most charted songs on the Billboard Hot 100 | 84 |
She was Cruella de Vil in "101 Dalmatians" and "102 Dalmatians" | 83 |
Novelist Elinor who coined the "It girl" nickname for Clara Bow | 73 |
Name of the first level of Special World in "Super Mario World" for the SNES, right before "Tubular" and "Way Cool" (how '90s is that?) | 169 |
"We all ___ little mad sometimes" (quote from "Psycho") | 75 |
Esmeralda's dance partner in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 72 |
Spock sported one in the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of "Star Trek" | 84 |
"Arrested Development" brother whose name is a homonym for a bible character | 86 |
"Arrested Development" brother [enjoy funny, edgy xwords? Sign up for them weekly @ avxwords.com] | 107 |
"Universe Ends as ___ Wakes Up Next to Suzanne Pleshette" (headline in The Onion) | 91 |
Tennyson poem that begins "I waited for the train at Coventry" | 72 |
Who wrote "A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines" | 101 |
Award for which "The Godfather, Part III" was nominated seven times, but didn't win | 97 |
Award Cillian Murphy was nominated for for the 2005 movie "Breakfast on Pluto" | 88 |
This puzzle's theme—according to Twain, it's "a good walk spoiled" | 88 |
It's "more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much," according to Buddy Hackett | 109 |
"___ is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it." (Robin Williams) | 108 |
"Never ___ Give You Up" (song featured in the YouTube prank "Rickrolling") | 94 |
Literary series with "Monster Blood" and "Night of the Living Dummies" | 90 |
1980 comedy that "makes 'Meatballs' seem like 'Hamlet,'" according to Leonard Maltin | 110 |
"25. I'm supposed to come up with 25 random things?Sorry, I think that's all I've ___" | 108 |
When Harriet Farnam invented her "Non-Swarmer" beehive, she __ | 72 |
"I ___ Feeling" (Black Eyed Peas earworm that causes brain damage, sorry) | 83 |
Scholastic mean, briefly, hidden in this puzzle's seven longest answers | 75 |
Meal blessing that's 'mixed' and hidden in seven answers in this puzzle | 83 |
Debra Messing character, whose name goes "around" four answers in this puzzle | 87 |
Only tennis player who has won all four Grand Slam titles at least four times each | 82 |
1980s-'90s women's tennis player who was #1 for a record total of 377 weeks | 83 |
"But since I actually like Danny Glover and Steve Martin, we watched all of '___' ..." | 104 |
President who said "I have never felt any sort of fondness for war" | 77 |
With "The," L.A. theater at which Neil Diamond recorded "Hot August Night" | 94 |
Source of "Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark?" | 92 |
She played Anna in "Anna Karenina" and "Anna Christie" | 74 |
She played Anna in "Anna Christie" and "Anna Karenina" | 74 |
Ingrid's Oscar-winning role in "Murder on the Orient Express" | 75 |
Antonius Block's chess opponent in Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" | 81 |
"That's repulsive!" ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 74 |
Feeling of resentment associated with the last words of the starred answers | 75 |
'60s song car with "three deuces and a four-speed and a 389" | 74 |
The "it" in the lyric "turn it on, wind it up, blow it out" | 79 |
Car that's "really lookin' fine," in a 1960's song | 72 |
1964 hit with the lyric "C'mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out" | 85 |
Museum featuring the works mentioned above, which opened on October 21, 1959 | 76 |
Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning role in "Life Is Beautiful" | 73 |
Visit to one's parents, even though you could've gone somewhere fun instead? | 84 |
Word with ''boat,'' ''fire'' or ''smith'' | 89 |
Just before he died, he said, "I 'ope you liked your drink" | 73 |
'50s-'60s title detective whose show's theme was composed by Mancini | 80 |
Band with the "Worst Music Marketing" of 2008, according to BusinessWeek | 82 |
Paul Simon told him to get on the bus to "Leave" his "Lover" | 80 |
Los Pollos Hermanos businessman Fring on TV's "Breaking Bad" | 74 |
Monogram of the author of "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" | 85 |
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream" prez | 80 |
___ Torrence, American sprinter who won three gold medals at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics | 87 |
1959 musical by Jule Styne, featuring Ethel Merman as a domineering stage mother | 80 |
''. . . slithy toves did ___ and gimble'' (''Jabberwocky'') | 91 |
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" word for "scratch, dog-style" | 83 |
"... the slithy toves / Did __ and gimble ...": "Jabberwocky" | 81 |
"... slithy toves did ___ and gimble" ("Jabberwocky") | 73 |
"... slithy toves did ___ and gimble ..." ("Jabberwocky") | 77 |
". . . slithy toves did ___ and gimble" ("Jabberwocky") | 75 |
''... slithy toves did ___ and gimble'' (''Jabberwocky'') | 89 |
''... slithy toves / Did ___ and gimble'' (''Jabberwocky'') | 91 |
"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou __ been wise": "King Lear" | 89 |
"... would thou ___ ne'er been born" ("Othello") | 72 |
"___ thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge / It could not move thus" (Laertes) | 92 |