| 1980 William Hurt film (and what eight answers herein contain on a trip across the country) | 91 |
| "Mother" and leader of the American Shakers that spoke in tongues, born 2/29/1736 | 91 |
| "It's ___!" ("Family Guy" parody of "Return of the Jedi") | 91 |
| Swiss mathmetician Daniel whose eponymous principle led to the carburetor and airplane wing | 91 |
| Violet Beauregarde is transformed into one in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" | 91 |
| “Iggy, your stirring Duncan Hines batter has no relevance to our experiment on ...” | 91 |
| Mystery Person once wrote a waltz in which the choice of measures played was determined ... | 91 |
| Song with the lyric "And the painted ponies go up and down," with "The" | 91 |
| Comic who coined the words "eneagled," "mantasy," and "freem" | 91 |
| "Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease" speaker | 91 |
| Memo about museum staff putting mistletoe around Frans's "Laughing Cavalier"? | 91 |
| Chronologically first but last-published of the Leatherstocking Tales, with "The" | 91 |
| When a player doesn't score for a while, or when a player doesn't score for a while | 91 |
| Santayana defines it as "redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim" | 91 |
| Max Bialystock's musical adaptation of "Hamlet," in "The Producers" | 91 |
| Like people in a group hug, presumably (and a group hug involving Tributes #7, #8, and #11) | 91 |
| A scarab beetle with a heart-shaped mark on its wing covers was named after this adventurer | 91 |
| Athlete John who was the only person to play professionally with Bill Russell and Jim Brown | 91 |
| Site where Strong Bad, in message #100, tells how he got his "very own The Cheat" | 91 |
| Last words from Hamlet (well, he goes on for a while after that, but these words sum it up) | 91 |
| "Am ___ yesterday's news?" ("You'll Never Know," Edwyn Collins) | 91 |
| On second thought, make it an edgy comedy: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being..." | 91 |
| The story of "Sleepy Hollow" set in outer space (or wherever else comes to mind)? | 91 |
| Rapper with no plans to stick around, or a "Back to the Future" hero after hours? | 91 |
| Film character who says "I promise teach karate. That my part. You promise learn" | 91 |
| Saxophonist-composer Jimmy, known for his big-band arrangements for Benny Goodman and Count | 91 |
| “Getting feedback from hospital occupants is a good use of funding,” Tom agreed ___ | 91 |
| "In what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?" "___" | 91 |
| He had a cameo on the Simpson's episode "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" | 91 |
| "___ Warns Russkies to Knock it Off" (1963 "Our Dumb Century" headline) | 91 |
| Eminem rap with the lyric "Guarantee I'll be the greatest thing you ever had" | 91 |
| 1975 #1 hit song with the lyrics "the love you gave me, nothing else can save me" | 91 |
| "We eat ham and jam and ___ a lot" ("Knights of the Round Table" lyric) | 91 |
| "I Don't Want to ___ the Party" (the B-side of "Eight Days a Week") | 91 |
| Biker club for Jewish guys? (This one's real; their shirts say, is hog is kosher") | 91 |
| 1980 funk album from Slave with the hits "Watching You" and "Snap Shot" | 91 |
| Roman writer who originated the phrase "Where there's life, there's hope" | 91 |
| 1889 work of art deemed unsuitable for general display at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair | 91 |
| Musical featuring the songs "Tornado Ballet" and "Slide Some Oil to Me" | 91 |
| Infielder Juan who won World Series rings with the White Sox in 2005 and the Giants in 2010 | 91 |
| He named a minor character in his most famous work Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of his name | 91 |
| Philosopher who wrote "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" | 91 |
| Senate candidate whose "proof" that she is 1/32nd Cherokee is her high cheekbones | 91 |
| "I challenge you to a dance duel to see who can shake their ass the naughtiest!"? | 91 |
| "We're coming to your town, we'll help you party down, ___ American band" | 91 |
| Classic rap outfit whose more famous members are circled in this puzzle's theme answers | 91 |
| First words of the title of Sue Grafton's as-yet-unwritten 24th Kinsey Millhone mystery | 91 |
| Swiss band with "Oh, Yeah" (as heard in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") | 91 |
| "If the fans don't come out to the ballpark, you can't stop them" speaker | 91 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| "__ & Son": "The Bullwinkle Show" feature involving morality tales | 90 |
| Literary character who says "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" | 90 |
| "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" boaster | 90 |
| "Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up" speaker | 90 |
| Name after "Chasing" in a movie title and "Judging" in a TV show title | 90 |
| Connector that completes a phrase made from the starts of the three longest across answers | 90 |
| Georges Perec's 1969 novel "La Disparition" is written entirely without this | 90 |
| Singer Paul who also wrote "Johnny's Theme" for "The Tonight Show" | 90 |
| "Have ___!" ("You're not going to like what I'm about to say") | 90 |
| "___ McGee" (2006 animated series about a detective with no head, torso or arms) | 90 |
| Mo. with very few holidays, though looks like it's got National Ice Cream Sandwich Day | 90 |
| Rock singer Rose who's been working on "Chinese Democracy" for over a decade | 90 |
| He sang "I've Got You Under My Skin" with Frank Sinatra on "Duets" | 90 |
| "A person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it," according to Henry Ford | 90 |
| Common word spelled in the "Spelling Bee" game on "The Price Is Right" | 90 |
| Ohio's ___ Point, home of the Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force roller coasters | 90 |
| Fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail | 90 |
| "__ High": 1975 film that inspired the sitcom "What's Happening!!" | 90 |
| Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce | 90 |
| "Russell Simmons' ___ Strawberry Jam" ("In Living Color" ad spoof) | 90 |
| "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" speaker | 90 |
| The only grading letters that appear anywhere in this puzzle (other than the present clue) | 90 |
| "Any man who wants to be president is either an ___ or crazy": Dwight Eisenhower | 90 |
| Comedian who'll be playing George Burns's role in a remake of "Oh, God!" | 90 |
| Event at the 2012 Olympics in which a Venezuelan won gold for his country's only medal | 90 |
| "Nine Stories" girl who says "I'm extremely interested in squalor" | 90 |
| Old-timey anesthetic [need a holiday gift? avxwords.com annual subscriptions are just $15] | 90 |
| Word with ''blue,'' ''green'' or ''brown'' | 90 |
| The "one man" in the tagline, "One man's struggle to take it easy" | 90 |
| Literary series with "Monster Blood" and "Night of the Living Dummies" | 90 |
| 1977 David Bowie album whose cover was altered for his 2013 album "The Next Day" | 90 |
| Response to Ebert when he asks, "What's your favorite Christmas decoration?" | 90 |
| Secret get-together, or what occurs literally in each of this puzzle's circled squares | 90 |
| "___ have what she's having" (line from "When Harry Met Sally...") | 90 |
| Sports org. whose aim is "to contribute to building a peaceful and better world" | 90 |
| "When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am" song | 90 |
| "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (Erma Bombeck book) | 90 |
| TV Judge who said: "If I could fine you for stupid, I would fine you for stupid" | 90 |
| "How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" quipper | 90 |
| The "she" in the lyric "She walked up to me and she asked me to dance" | 90 |
| "Like the measles, ___ is most dangerous when it comes late in life": Lord Byron | 90 |
| Only pitcher to win the deciding games of the ALCS, ALDS and World Series in the same year | 90 |
| Actress who said "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" | 90 |
| Oscar-winning actress in "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Sophie's Choice" | 90 |
| Manfred Mann "Runner" lyric, "See the ___ as your breath hits the air" | 90 |
| "The flavor can't be matched because only ___ knows the secret" (old slogan) | 90 |
| Whom Goldwater called "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life" | 90 |
| Words after ''see,'' ''hear'' or ''speak'' | 90 |
| "Bring this ship into the shore and throw away the ___ forever" (REO Speedwagon) | 90 |
| "Our remedies __ in ourselves do lie": "All's Well That Ends Well" | 90 |