Widespread Internet prank involving a bait-and-switch link to a music video | 75 |
Molecule key for studying evolutionary relationships between species: Abbr. | 75 |
1990s dance hit with that recurring line "Bada bwi ba ba bada bo" | 75 |
He voiced Meadowlark in the "Harlem Globetrotters" cartoon series | 75 |
Oscar winner who sang in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" | 75 |
Antiperspirant brand once advertised as "strong enough for a man" | 75 |
Author of the controversial kids' book "In the Night Kitchen" | 75 |
Advice to a young Schwarzenegger: "If you want to succceed, ___!" | 75 |
Discovery channel programming block that included "Ocean of Fear" | 75 |
Word after "does" and "doesn't" in an old ad slogan | 75 |
"Where'd'ya hang 'Water Lillies' in this museum?" | 75 |
"___ liebt dich" ("She Loves You" rerecorded in German) | 75 |
Often-cited distance between things ... or what's hidden in this puzzle | 75 |
"Try to chew your food a little more--don't scarf it" phrase? | 75 |
Whom Raskolnikov confesses his crime to in "Crime and Punishment" | 75 |
Movie character who says "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" | 75 |
A synonym for it can be found inside this puzzle's four longest entries | 75 |
"The primary factor in a successful attack," per Lord Mountbatten | 75 |
Lowish varieties of "vertical deflection traffic calming devices" | 75 |
A "Star Trek" officer and a physician are going to board a plane? | 75 |
Springing bounce in tall grasses, as by an animal, to view the surroundings | 75 |
Identification that John David Sweeney, Jr. was the first to receive: Abbr. | 75 |
Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" | 75 |
"Souvenir" picked up in Amsterdam's red-light district: Abbr. | 75 |
Many thoroughfares ... or what this puzzle's Across answers consist of? | 75 |
"___ Nacht" (original German version of "Silent Night") | 75 |
Top-grossing concert act of 1989, '94 and '05, with "the" | 75 |
Classical music group ... or what the four sets of circled letters make up? | 75 |
Theme #4 (Dah dah-dah dah-dah, dah dah dah! Dah dah-dah dah-dah Dat-Dadah!) | 75 |
Word that may elicit the response "And don't call me Shirley" | 75 |
Swing both ways, and a literal hint to how four puzzle answers were created | 75 |
Word elisions, as in "forecastle" to "fo'c'sle" | 75 |
Skill needed when being asked "Does this dress make me look fat?" | 75 |
U.S. President who inaugurated baseball's 7th inning stretch, allegedly | 75 |
"¿Qué ___?" ("¿Cómo estás?" alternative) | 75 |
It begins: "It was the best of times . . . " (with "A") | 75 |
Movie epic that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about poi? | 75 |
Letter that some feel should have its own day, rather than pi having Pi Day | 75 |
Country-pop star with the 2008 six-time platinum album "Fearless" | 75 |
QB whose name is added phonetically to the middle of the three long entries | 75 |
"America's favorite active pro athlete," per a 2012 ESPN poll | 75 |
Anybody featured in a high school yearbook, if you don't count teachers | 75 |
''Don't __!'' (''Mum's the word!'') | 75 |
Real-life scientist played by David Bowie in "The Prestige," 2006 | 75 |
Walter who wrote "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money" | 75 |
1980 romantic adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins | 75 |
1967 war film, and an apt description for this puzzle's starred answers | 75 |
"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest" penner | 75 |
"A Nervous ___ Motion of the Head to the Left" (Andrew Bird song) | 75 |
"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us ___": Mel Brooks | 75 |
"I say, old chap, I've sold my last copy of that newsweekly"? | 75 |
Singer with the so-called "hardest-working legs in show business" | 75 |
Film score composer Dimitri with twenty-six Oscar nominations and four wins | 75 |
"X-Men" villain with great leaping ability and a very long tongue | 75 |
Outfits for dancing to a frat house performance by Otis Day and the Knights | 75 |
"You've got ___ your way into tomorrow" (Glen Campbell lyric) | 75 |
"I'm returning this laundry product-it only works on blouses" | 75 |
Where you might see a "Don't even think of parking here" sign | 75 |
Featured artist on the #1 singles "Low" and "Kiss Kiss" | 75 |
Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" | 75 |
QB's pace just before a series that will start after a commercial break | 75 |
''___ Remember'' (from ''The Fantasticks'') | 75 |
Who said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" | 75 |
"Livin' on ___ time" (lyric in a #1 Don Williams country hit) | 75 |
Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing | 75 |
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" quipper | 75 |
"___ brillig, and the slithy toves ..." ("Jabberwocky") | 75 |
Instrument on which Jake Shimabukuro can play "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 75 |
Title name written "on the door of this legended tomb," in poetry | 75 |
"Sonata Quasi __ Fantasia": Beethoven's "Moonlight" | 75 |
It's pictured in Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhone" | 75 |
The Tragically Hip "___ all up, don't save a thing for later" | 75 |
Part of the face whose name is derived from the Latin for "grape" | 75 |
Carpet cleaning device with the slogan "Nothing sucks like a ..." | 75 |
Member of the 2007 Women's N.C.A.A. champion basketball team, for short | 75 |
Playground equipment that'll move if you're really, really patient? | 75 |
Whence the line "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" | 75 |
Robert Frost poem that includes "Good fences make good neighbors" | 75 |
Animator who dropped out of high school to join the army (but was rejected) | 75 |
"Much too serious a thing to be left to the military": Clemenceau | 75 |
Team Wilt Chamberlain played for when he scored 100 points in a single game | 75 |
"Dial ___ Watkins" (2004 album by Welsh bluesman Geraint Watkins) | 75 |
... Massachusetts birthplace of the 19th-century feminist Elizabeth Packard | 75 |
Song that includes the line, "How can I live through another day" | 75 |
Holiday song that begins "The sun is shining, the grass is green" | 75 |
"My ___" (song on The Who's "Who's Next" album) | 75 |
Award honoring literature that features women's stories set in the West | 75 |
He wrote, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform" | 75 |
Former "On Language" New York Times columnist who died on 9/27/09 | 75 |
Floors [an avxwords.com subscription makes a great holiday crossword gift!] | 75 |
Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
"High Qua1ityMeds - 50% off ___ straight from our 0nline parma3y" | 75 |
Advice like "Don't fly so low you crash into the Death Star"? | 75 |
Doors song off "Backstage and Dangerous" (with "Hyper") | 75 |
Five-time teammate of Bryant, Duncan, and Nowitzki at the NBA All-Star Game | 75 |
"___ Favourites" (2005 compilation album from the Tragically Hip) | 75 |
"___ Am" (Melissa Etheridge album released the year she came out) | 75 |
Nerdy band with "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" | 75 |
"Chimp and ___" (kid-lit series by Catherine and Laurence Anholt) | 75 |
Organization whose members are at least halfway toward becoming centenarians | 76 |