| Blue Jays pitcher Dave who holds his team's record for most All-Star selections | 83 |
| Bill who was rumored to have written Obama's "Dreams from My Father" | 82 |
| Beginning of the line that precedes "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" | 82 |
| Body part that 2012 Summer Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville each have one of | 82 |
| Band with the "Worst Music Marketing" of 2008, according to BusinessWeek | 82 |
| Book from which the film "What's Love Got to Do With It" was adapted | 82 |
| Band with the multiplatinum albums "Out of Time" and "Monster" | 82 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer mistakenly listed in "The Chanukah Song" as a Jew | 82 |
| Best-selling novelist of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records | 82 |
| Britney Spears hit with the lyric "A guy like you should wear a warning" | 82 |
| Baseball div. that provided a wild-card 10 out of the 14 years wild-cards existed | 81 |
| Breadless KFC sandwich on Newsweek's "13 Worst Trends of 2010" list | 81 |
| Band with the hits "Evil Woman" and "Sweet Talkin' Woman" | 81 |
| Beatles song that begins "Is there anybody going to listen to my story" | 81 |
| British regime in India that ends when "Midnight's Children" begins | 81 |
| Besides Olivier, he's the only person to direct himself to a Best Actor Oscar | 81 |
| Biblically-minded rapper, or a story in which a 2008 runner-up kills his brother? | 81 |
| Broadcasting award inscribed with the words "The University of Georgia" | 81 |
| Band that eats Peter Frampton's watermelon, in a "Simpsons" episode | 81 |
| Beastie Boys "You can't, you won't and you don't stop" song | 81 |
| Bodies making their closest approach in more than 50,000 years on August 27, 2003 | 81 |
| Band featured in the 2002 documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" | 81 |
| British actor Robert, the original Colonel Pickering in "My Fair Lady" | 80 |
| Boxer Griffith who's the subject of the documentary "Ring of Fire" | 80 |
| Bible book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia" | 80 |
| Boy band with the song "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" | 80 |
| Bothersome phrase indicating a show randomly won't air again until next year | 80 |
| Billy Joel hit that begins "You'll have to learn to pace yourself" | 80 |
| Brownish photo tint [Coming to avxwords.com this fall - celebrity puzzle series] | 80 |
| Blender magazine ranked him #1 on its list of 40 worst lyricists in rock in 2007 | 80 |
| Beatles song with the lyric "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 80 |
| Boston station that produces most of PBS's prime-time television programming | 80 |
| Blood-typing letters, and a hint to the "transfusions" in this puzzle | 79 |
| Beverage whose homonym describes what you'll do if you drink too much of it | 79 |
| Bernie's "Crocodile Rock" and "Rocket Man" collaborator | 79 |
| Besides Davis, only person to receive five consecutive Best Actress nominations | 79 |
| Broadway lyricist/composer who wrote "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" | 79 |
| Biblical figure who says to God "Make me understand how I have erred" | 79 |
| Brand at a checkout counter that's also the name of a Phoenix radio station | 79 |
| Bear: sp. (I'm not even going to dignify this crap fill with a clever clue) | 79 |
| Boy band that reunited in 2008 with the album "Summertime," for short | 79 |
| Beatles song with the line "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 79 |
| Broadway hit with the song "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" | 78 |
| Byrne's "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" collaborator | 78 |
| Brian who hasn't yet joined Neil Diamond in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 78 |
| Bombeck who wrote "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" | 78 |
| Book that begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ..." | 78 |
| Brian McKnight/Vanessa Williams duet with the line "It conquers all" | 78 |
| Baseball legend mentioned in Ogden Nash's "Lineup for Yesterday" | 78 |
| Band whose 1994 song "I'll Make Love to You" was #1 for 14 weeks | 78 |
| Board game with the categories "Data Head" and "Word Worm" | 78 |
| Band with the 1997 double platinum album "So Much for the Afterglow" | 78 |
| Backup band for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, with "the" | 78 |
| Band with the 2007 #1 album "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" | 78 |
| Baby moniker that became wildly popular in the 2000s (hint: read it backwards) | 78 |
| BABE MAGNET. Very tall, rugged outdoorsman. Enjoys cutting-edge technology ... | 78 |
| Basketball team that publicly protested Arizona's immigration laws in 2010 | 78 |
| Band who was the subject of the documentary "Meeting People Is Easy" | 78 |
| Bygone sports org. for which Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura was a TV analyst | 78 |
| Brazilian midfielder on back-to-back World Cup winners in '58 and '62 | 77 |
| Besides Chile, the only South American country that doesn't border Brazil | 77 |
| Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located | 77 |
| But in the end, the sheep had their way, and they all watched "__" | 77 |
| Boston College quarterback with a famous game-ending Hail Mary pass, 11/23/84 | 77 |
| Bonjour cockzilla, want to ___? Woman scream at this more than luxury present | 77 |
| Bill Barber played it on Miles Davis' "Birth of the Cool" album | 77 |
| Begin tax calculation: Enter the amount you earned last year from all sources | 77 |
| Book including chapters titled "Solitude" and "The Ponds" | 77 |
| Band whose "Only You" was featured in "Napoleon Dynamite" | 77 |
| British singer with the age-related albums "19" and "21" | 76 |
| Band that won five MTV Video Music Awards for "Take on Me" in 1986 | 76 |
| Boxer who told Will Smith "you ain't pretty enough to play me" | 76 |
| Best Picture between "The Artist" and "12 Years a Slave" | 76 |
| Basic cable channel ... or a phonetic explanation of this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Billie Holiday's "You Can't Be Mine (And Someone ___ Too)" | 76 |
| Beatles tune that starts, "When I find myself in times of trouble" | 76 |
| Boy who pulls the sword from the stone in "The Sword in the Stone" | 76 |
| Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | 76 |
| Best Original Song Oscar winner from ... Disney's "Pocahontas" | 76 |
| Beck song that starts "See me comin' to town with my soul ..." | 76 |
| Blueprint spec ... or a '60s-'70s rock group conceding a poker hand? | 76 |
| Beverage dispensed from a machine in Lyndon Johnson's Oval Office lounge | 76 |
| Ballplayer arrested for battery, abuse, and possession of drugs and firearms | 76 |
| Book about how it would be great to stop being nomadic and farm the prairie? | 76 |
| Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood | 76 |
| Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" | 76 |
| Briefly, Bay Area forcE [avxwords.com has the edgiest weekly indie puzzles!] | 76 |
| Bit of footwear that appears at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 76 |
| Brief version of this puzzle's title hidden in eight long puzzle answers | 76 |
| Billing option that favors purchasing individual items rather than packages | 75 |
| Brown who got injured during the miniseries "Feasting on Asphalt" | 75 |
| Briefly, one is aptly placed in the grid in the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| Band whose "Saturday Morning" is featured in "Wordplay" | 75 |
| Biblical character who had a son at age 90 and then lived another 815 years | 75 |
| Ben Franklin's ''Little strokes fell great oaks,'' e.g. | 75 |
| Brockovich who helped build a case against Pacific Gas and Electric Company | 75 |
| Backdrop for the final scene of Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 75 |
| Burly Burl whose first Broadway show was "The Boys from Syracuse" | 75 |
| Bush who was the first Republican to be reelected as Florida's governor | 75 |
| Beach Boys hit of the '80s that I'm going to pretend they never did | 75 |