| Word with ''bagatelle'' or ''technicality'' | 75 |
| Word that's only coincidentally made up of the four main compass points | 75 |
| When Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" is believed to have been published | 75 |
| Words with ''lay it'' or ''the joke's'' | 75 |
| Wisconsin city billed as the "Birthplace of the Republican Party" | 75 |
| Where Mirabelle Buttersfield sells gloves in the movie "Shopgirl" | 75 |
| What Commissioner Gordon is always findin' at Gotham City crime scenes? | 75 |
| West Coast burger chain advertised by a writhing Paris Hilton washing a car | 75 |
| Waitress: "In other words, the One-Two ___. Comin' right up." | 75 |
| Words before "though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful" | 75 |
| What I wished for, but couldn't write correctly due to heavy turbulence | 75 |
| What one gets by multiplying the numbers in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
| Winner of 2009's Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Precious" | 75 |
| White House press secretary who once hosted "Saturday Night Live" | 75 |
| Widespread Internet prank involving a bait-and-switch link to a music video | 75 |
| Word after "does" and "doesn't" in an old ad slogan | 75 |
| Whom Raskolnikov confesses his crime to in "Crime and Punishment" | 75 |
| Word that may elicit the response "And don't call me Shirley" | 75 |
| Word elisions, as in "forecastle" to "fo'c'sle" | 75 |
| Walter who wrote "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money" | 75 |
| Where you might see a "Don't even think of parking here" sign | 75 |
| Who said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" | 75 |
| Whence the line "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" | 75 |
| Word with ''day now'' or ''other questions'' | 76 |
| What you'll find at the end of each of this puzzle's longest answers | 76 |
| Words with ''a pistol'' or ''a firecracker'' | 76 |
| Work that begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son ..." | 76 |
| Words before ''Methuselah'' or ''the hills'' | 76 |
| What one of the hypocycloids in the Pittsburgh Steelers' logo represents | 76 |
| Words with ''I'm told'' or ''I thought'' | 76 |
| Whence the phrase "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" comes from | 76 |
| With ''K'' or ''C,'' military food allotment | 76 |
| Word after ''last'' or before ''of passage'' | 76 |
| With "The," 1978 horror mystery with John Huston--refilmed in 3-D? | 76 |
| With "The," punk-pop band who sang "Bitchin' Camaro" | 76 |
| What Crystal Harris became famous for doing in 2011, and a hint to the theme | 76 |
| Warning label on consumer products that one might be tempted to chew on, say | 76 |
| Word or phrase with no repeated letters, such as every answer in this puzzle | 76 |
| What was removed just before the "Psycho" shower scene was filmed? | 76 |
| What well-intentioned, but inevitably incompetent people end up doing, often | 76 |
| Washington newspaper that ended its printed version in March 2009, for short | 76 |
| Words with ''world record'' or ''precedent'' | 76 |
| Words with ''precedent'' or ''good example'' | 76 |
| What it takes not to say "I see you've put on a little weight" | 76 |
| Words repeated after "I shall no more," in "The Tempest" | 76 |
| Word that can come before the last word of this puzzle's longest entries | 76 |
| Where "the nights are stronger than moonshine," per America (1972) | 76 |
| Words with ''good faith'' or ''self-defense'' | 77 |
| What each of today's four long answers is vis-Ã -vis New Year's Eve | 77 |
| Word that can follow the first word of this puzzle's four longest answers | 77 |
| What Depp did, over and over, to acquire the auction item he so badly wanted? | 77 |
| When Bloomsday, which celebrates Joyce's "Ulysses," is observed | 77 |
| Words with ''even keel'' or ''empty stomach'' | 77 |
| Words with ''step'' or ''I'll get right'' | 77 |
| Water-bowl user (or the start of a film and TV actor's split personality) | 77 |
| Who wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" | 77 |
| What the Magic Eye picture ends up being in a scene from "Mallrats" | 77 |
| When, in Act III, Mercutio says "A plague o' both your houses!" | 77 |
| When night owls thrive, or where the last words of the starred answers can go | 77 |
| Whence the line "Into the eternal darkness; into fire and into ice" | 77 |
| Wooded area mentioned at the start of Longfellow's "Evangeline" | 77 |
| Words of encouragement that may be heard at a Weight Watchers meeting, part 1 | 77 |
| Words in "The Little Mermaid" after "The human world ..." | 77 |
| Why the paparazzi couldn't photograph actress Roberts? [1977, 1985, 1998] | 77 |
| Where each plays darts and "Photo Hunt" according to his abilities? | 77 |
| Weight-conscious rapper, or what the singer of "American Pie" eats? | 77 |
| What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order | 77 |
| Word that "run" replaced as the OED entry with the most definitions | 77 |
| Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" | 78 |
| Word of encouragement with ''boy'' or ''girl'' | 78 |
| Word of greeting and parting with the derivation "I am your servant" | 78 |
| What the blind man who thought the elephant was "like a fan" touched | 78 |
| Words on cakes in "Alice in Wonderland" and "Animal House" | 78 |
| Who said "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching" | 78 |
| Word derived from the Latin "uncia," meaning "one-twelfth" | 78 |
| Who said "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce" | 78 |
| Winner over Ohio State in 1935's so-called "Game of the Century" | 78 |
| With "The," former sketch comedy program on CBS ... fittingly enough | 78 |
| Where to meet for drinks with Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Chandler | 78 |
| Write down "Vast Asian country with a population of over a billion"? | 78 |
| With "the", past decade name, to secret agents with license to kill? | 78 |
| What the four longest entries in this puzzle (except this one) are examples of | 78 |
| With "The," 1960s series set in the North African desert during WWII | 78 |
| Words before ''precedent'' or ''good example'' | 78 |
| What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series | 78 |
| With "The," 1996 movie family headed by Tom Arnold and Jessica Lundy | 78 |
| Word that can mean "deteriorate" or "resist deterioration" | 78 |
| Will's rabbit brother in Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" strip | 79 |
| Where to look for hidden words in this puzzle's fifth and eleventh columns? | 79 |
| Web site with the headings "Toys & Hobbies" and "Music" | 79 |
| Words of reproach, and a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers are formed | 79 |
| Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle | 79 |
| With "The," Entertainment Weekly's pick for worst TV show of 2008 | 79 |
| Where Claudius is during Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy | 79 |
| What rating does the Michelin Guide give to "a very good restaurant"? | 79 |
| What this puzzle's eight concentric rings (uncircled and circled) represent | 79 |
| What Attila reputedly demanded 3,000 pounds of as a ransom for the city of Rome | 79 |
| Why "there's no time for fussing and fighting," per a Beatles hit | 79 |
| Word accented on the antepenultimate syllable (the answer is an example of one) | 79 |
| Wheels on loan ... or, as the circles show, what four puzzle answers have done? | 79 |