| "Journey to ___" (recurring "Sesame Street" segment) | 72 |
| ___ Erdai (character in Scott Turow's "Reversible Errors") | 72 |
| Brand named after the pronunciation of its parent company's initials | 72 |
| Senate committee that censures its members for screwing interns and such | 72 |
| British school from which Dominic West of "The Wire" graduated | 72 |
| Blake, the first African-American to write and direct a Broadway musical | 72 |
| Best Musical the year "Children of a Lesser God" was Best Play | 72 |
| Title surname in a novel originally published under the name Currer Bell | 72 |
| Joe DiMaggio's "I'll finally get to see Marilyn," e.g. | 72 |
| "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on ___" (Camus) | 72 |
| "The Marriage of ___" (opera by today's birthday composer) | 72 |
| "The ___ of forty thousand years" ("Thriller" lyric) | 72 |
| Sir ___ the Pure ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail" character) | 72 |
| Crystal ___ (singer of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") | 72 |
| The Sphinx's is "blank and pitiless as the sun," per Yeats | 72 |
| Prefix with ''political'' or ''logical'' | 72 |
| Halliwell with the 1997 movie line "Now that's girl power" | 72 |
| Lead-in for "across," "along," or "around" | 72 |
| Reason everyone whispered during the afternoon on Gilligan's island? | 72 |
| "... as they shouted out with ___" ("Rudolph" lyric) | 72 |
| TV show that was pitched as "a High School Musical for adults" | 72 |
| Esmeralda's dance partner in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 72 |
| Tennyson poem that begins "I waited for the train at Coventry" | 72 |
| When Harriet Farnam invented her "Non-Swarmer" beehive, she __ | 72 |
| Car that's "really lookin' fine," in a 1960's song | 72 |
| "... would thou ___ ne'er been born" ("Othello") | 72 |
| Modern-day locale of the place where the Santa Maria ran aground in 1492 | 72 |
| Pro Football Hall of Fame coach who once played for the New York Yankees | 72 |
| Animal in the children's book "Guess How Much I Love You?" | 72 |
| Only nonvocal instrument in Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" | 72 |
| "The Sun ___ Got His Hat On" ("Me and My Girl" song) | 72 |
| ___ It Leaked? (website to check if that upcoming record is on torrents) | 72 |
| The last word of this puzzle's five longest answers is a type of one | 72 |
| Rick Wakeman "Anne Boleyn: The Day Thou Gavest Lord ___ Ended" | 72 |
| "It's my work, ___ say, and I do it for pay" (Dylan lyric) | 72 |
| Type of collarless shirt that shares a name with an English regatta town | 72 |
| "__ Just Not That Into You": 2004 self-improvement best-seller | 72 |
| "O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's ___!": Shak. | 72 |
| "I Got Lost in ___ Arms" ("Annie Get Your Gun" tune) | 72 |
| "I Got Lost in ___ Arms" ("Annie Get Your Gun" song) | 72 |
| "And what's he then that says I play the villain?" speaker | 72 |
| Suffix with ''president'' or ''proverb'' | 72 |
| Janis who was the first musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" | 72 |
| Golfer's lament about failing to recognize different ball positions? | 72 |
| 2002 animated film with a 2006 sequel subtitled "The Meltdown" | 72 |
| Artist with the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker | 72 |
| Show that's broken scores of generic, melismatic singers, familiarly | 72 |
| "We can dance ___ want to" ("The Safety Dance" line) | 72 |
| Grateful Dead "Yes ___ the gist of it, but it's all right" | 72 |
| "South Park" kid whose head is drawn in two unconnected pieces | 72 |
| Lennon song with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." | 72 |
| "___ to Wake Up," 2006 Oscar-winning song by Melissa Etheridge | 72 |
| Ship, named after a French river, that transported the Statue of Liberty | 72 |
| Best-selling children's book series by Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo | 72 |
| Hughes poem with the line "They send me to eat in the kitchen" | 72 |
| "A bird," "a plane" or "Superman" preceder | 72 |
| Conglomerate whose N.Y.S.E. symbol is the same as the company's name | 72 |
| He played President Russell P. Kramer in "My Fellow Americans" | 72 |
| "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" author ___-Dominique Bauby | 72 |
| Lady in the 1965 sitcom pilot episode "The Lady in the Bottle" | 72 |
| Its first issue featured Sugar Ray Robinson's wife Edna on the cover | 72 |
| Only non-actor ever chosen as People's Sexiest Man Alive, familiarly | 72 |
| Creator of the currency system consisting of galleons, sickles and knuts | 72 |
| Work unit that appears far less often in crosswords than "erg" | 72 |
| About whom Obama said "He is a jackass. But he's talented" | 72 |
| Casey who provided Shaggy's voice in TV's "Scooby-Doo" | 72 |
| It stands for "Committee for State Security" after translation | 72 |
| Pirate whose treasure is recovered in Poe's "The Gold-Bug" | 72 |
| Danish philosopher who said: "Boredom is the root of all evil" | 72 |
| Elton John duettist on the #1 "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" | 72 |
| 1987 #1 hit with the line "Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán" | 72 |
| Some of those who "hail the new" in "Deck the Halls" | 72 |
| Chuck Berry "You Never Can Tell" aka "C'est ___" | 72 |
| ___ Soundsystem (band with the 2010 album "This Is Happening") | 72 |
| Michele whose Twitter describes her as a "Streisand Worshiper" | 72 |
| Bob Marley "The Complete ___ 'Scratch' Perry Sessions" | 72 |
| His statue (minus its head) can be found in Arlington's Freedom Park | 72 |
| Author of "How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World" | 72 |
| #1 Beatles hit with the only known vocal contribution by Linda McCartney | 72 |
| "He's for the money, he's for the show," to Boz Scaggs | 72 |
| ''You look . . . umm . . . great in that bikini,'' e.g.? | 72 |
| U.S. city whose name is pronounced differently from its foreign namesake | 72 |
| Song on Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Green River" album | 72 |
| Jennifer who got the 2007 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist | 72 |
| Dobbs who blasted "The Lorax" for its environmentalist message | 72 |
| Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 72 |
| Old ___ (Connecticut town where a tick-borne disease was first reported) | 72 |
| Gp. whose logo is a martini glass and car key in a "no" symbol | 72 |
| When Hedy Lamarr co-invented a radio-frequency encryption system, she __ | 72 |
| In his first TV appearance, he played Scrooge in a 1962 animated special | 72 |
| Musical about the eccentric widow of Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside | 72 |
| Position that probably won't get you invited to a work holiday party | 72 |
| "How Can You ___ a Broken Heart?" (1971 Bee Gees chart-topper) | 72 |
| Character in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" | 72 |
| Baseball team with a losing record every year since moving to Citi Field | 72 |
| 1992 Disney film for which a hockey team was named, with "The" | 72 |
| Judge of the underworld, in Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" | 72 |
| Title for the mascots who appear at the beginning of the starred entries | 72 |
| Springsteen "When they built you, brother, they broke the ___" | 72 |
| Home to Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World," informally | 72 |