| California city that was the longtime host of the World's Wristwrestling Championship | 89 |
| Cheating euchre player in Bret Harte's "Plain Language From Truthful James" | 89 |
| Company whose founder first proposed the business concept in a college paper, earning a C | 89 |
| Comic actor George who was nicknamed "Toastmaster General of the United States" | 89 |
| Commercial interruptions literally found in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 89 |
| Chemical element #38 (also part of the name of a pre-Police Sting/Stewart Copeland band) | 89 |
| Confuse—or what to do to four common phrases to form this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| Contest where you'd hear words like "euonym" and "autochthonous" | 88 |
| Comics character who said "Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life" | 88 |
| Coward who said "I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise" | 88 |
| Comic who said "A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now" | 88 |
| Country singer with the #1 album and single "Killin' Time" [New Hampshire] | 88 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #4: "Cheers" actor and "U.N.I.T.Y." rapper | 88 |
| Compound based on the formula XeF (hey, cut me some slack; this was a tough one to find) | 88 |
| Celebrity chef Matsuhisa who had cameos in "Casino" and "Goldmember" | 88 |
| Cyclist Armstrong, or what completes the ensemble found in the four long across answers | 87 |
| Classic song with the lyric "Hear your lonesome, lovesick sweetheart calling" | 87 |
| Chorus starter in a 1972 David Bowie song ... or the theme of this puzzle, phonetically | 87 |
| Car that George buys, thinking it was once owned by Jon Voight, on "Seinfeld" | 87 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #2: "Roseanne" co-star and "Cheers" actor | 87 |
| Charles Van Doren vis-Ã -vis the game show "Twenty-One"? [1976, 1989, 1985] | 87 |
| Classic novel subtitled "Adventures in a Desert Island," with "The" | 87 |
| Country singer with the 2012 #1 hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" | 87 |
| Craft whose existence may be denied by government officials, thus proving its existence | 87 |
| Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end | 86 |
| Charge carrier that forms a bond within each of this puzzle's four longest answers | 86 |
| Cigarette that once advertised the "health benefits" of its Micronite filter | 86 |
| Cholesterol that doesn't start with H (I can never remember which is the good one) | 86 |
| Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s | 86 |
| City whose name is pronounced like the natives' word for "Where is ...?" | 86 |
| Comedian who was the only man on Maxim's 2012 Hot 100 list of most beautiful women | 86 |
| Civil War movie that spawned a video game voted "Flat Out Worst" by GameSpot | 86 |
| Clears out an accumulation of garbage (perhaps after eight years of being preoccupied) | 86 |
| Comedian/former ESPN host whose twin brother Randy is also a comedian/former ESPN host | 86 |
| Campaigner's contest (or the start of a 1930s movie actor's split personality) | 86 |
| Coastal irregularities, and word anagrammed in this puzzle's four longest answers | 85 |
| Chelsea ___ News (Manhattan paper that covers the West Side from 14th to 59th Street) | 85 |
| Crisis following the breakup of Guns N' Roses, the Eagles, and Mötley Crüe? | 85 |
| Chicago band whose one-take 2005 video was choreographed and filmed in their backyard | 85 |
| Carlos ___ (Mexican businessman who has a controlling interest in the New York Times) | 85 |
| Campbell who captained the Canadian women's hockey team to gold in 2002 and 2006 | 84 |
| Catchphrase introduced around the same time as "don't have a cow, man" | 84 |
| Classic breakup line, and a hint to the formation of this puzzle's theme answers | 84 |
| Children's author who wrote "A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly" | 84 |
| Character who said "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 84 |
| City in Saskatchewan that's home to the Royal Canadian Air Force's Snowbirds | 84 |
| Cote d'Ivoire's prime minister Guillaume ___ (hidden in WINDSOR, ONTARIO) | 84 |
| Composer Khachaturian whose music was featured in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 83 |
| Corporation that received an Oscar for scientific and technical achievement in 1997 | 83 |
| Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" | 83 |
| Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" (and, fun fact, Charlie's granddaughter) | 83 |
| Chicago-area institution home to the world's most powerful particle accelerator | 83 |
| Celebrity mentioned in Warren Zevon's 1978 hit "Werewolves of London" | 83 |
| Cause a sensation, or what the first words of the answers to starred entries may do | 83 |
| Chris Rock "SNL" character with "the only 15-minute show on TV" | 83 |
| Contract in which the parties promise to keep proprietary information secret: abbr. | 83 |
| City about which Gertrude Stein said, "There is no 'there' there" | 83 |
| Character who shared a cameo with Tinkerbell in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" | 83 |
| Computer malady (and what can follow the starts of the four longest puzzle answers) | 83 |
| Chef who made a cameo as Marlon the Gator in "The Princess and the Frog" | 82 |
| Cereal that once offered a radiation-detecting ring as part of a box top promotion | 82 |
| Character in "The Producers" who sings "I Wanna Be a Producer" | 82 |
| Christopher who directed "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" | 82 |
| Classic role played by Gérard Depardieu in "The Man in the Iron Mask" | 82 |
| Costar of Bateman and Arnett in the rumored "Arrested Development" movie | 82 |
| Cereal for people with good fortune during a fictional "Simpsons" month? | 82 |
| Concept in modern feminism that covers things like slut-shaming and victim-blaming | 82 |
| Call hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers that's apt for May Day? | 82 |
| Canonized monk who introduced the custom of dating events from the birth of Christ | 82 |
| Canadian figure skater Elvis who won silver at the Lillehammer and Nagano Olympics | 82 |
| College basketball coach who was the subject of "A Season on the Brink" | 81 |
| College that, unabbreviated, is the punchline to a tasteless Michael Jackson joke | 81 |
| Chase scene locale in "Die Hard," "Jurassic Park," and others | 81 |
| Composer of "1/1," "1/2," "2/1" and "2/2" | 81 |
| Certain sporting equipment (especially useful for keeping the old heart in shape) | 81 |
| Catalan composer ___ Nunó, who wrote the music for the Mexican national anthem | 81 |
| Cackling cry from a mad scientist before unleashing havoc on southern California? | 81 |
| Christine who directed the Oscar-winning short film "Lieberman in Love" | 81 |
| Carruth of the Carolina Panthers who was convicted of conspiring to commit murder | 81 |
| Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" | 81 |
| Comedian seen at the end of "Dodgeball" letting himself go in a big way | 81 |
| Classic R & B song with the repeated lyric "See what you have done" | 81 |
| Chinese-American AIDS researcher who was Time Magazine's 1996 Man of the Year | 81 |
| Cable network concerned with feminist movements between France and Great Britain? | 81 |
| Comedian on the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover | 81 |
| Classic music hall song that lent its melody to the "Howdy Doody" theme | 81 |
| Complaint from one trying to concentrate, perhaps—and this puzzle's title | 81 |
| Country singer David Allan ___, writer of "Take This Job and Shove It" | 80 |
| Classic '90s album with a female transparent anatomical manikin on its cover | 80 |
| Co-owner of Paddy's Pub in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" | 80 |
| Company that would be crazy to use the slogan "We never let you down"? | 80 |
| Composer who orchestrated Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" | 80 |
| Certain character set ... and a hint to translating this week's final answer | 80 |
| Crafty person's shopping destination? (... Ã la Elizabeth Warren in 1995) | 80 |
| Coke and Pepsi's nickname, in the soft drink business (with "The") | 80 |
| Classic Mike Myers "S.N.L." sketch ... or an apt title for this puzzle | 80 |
| Comment to a baseballer from a fan who's studied his fly-catching technique? | 80 |
| Comic actor who played Jeff Greene's dad on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 80 |
| Creator of the solid-body electric guitar, a model of which still bears his name | 80 |
| Classic Xavier Cugat song ... or a hint to the invitation in the circled letters | 80 |