| Landmark in Elvis Presley's "It Happened at the World's Fair" | 79 |
| Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? | 79 |
| Librettist who rhymed "a lot o' news" with "hypotenuse" | 79 |
| Literary character whose last words are "Thus, I give up the spear!" | 78 |
| Literary captain who says "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" | 78 |
| Legendary crooner who entertained tourists wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses | 78 |
| LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" | 78 |
| Language producing ''shampoo'' and ''pajamas'' | 78 |
| Little ___ (nickname for the Russian neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) | 78 |
| Loser, with Bono, to Fabio, in a 1999 "Celebrity Deathmatch" episode | 78 |
| Leave the infant of "In Treatment" star Gabriel in the sun too long? | 78 |
| Lower-tract product whose instructions say "Fasten your seat belts"? | 78 |
| Like fewer and fewer children, as from diseases like whooping cough (grrrr...) | 78 |
| Letter abbr. that tells the reader there's something else in the envelope | 77 |
| Little ___ Burdette (character in the “Smokey and the Bandit” movies) | 77 |
| Locale of a John McCain statue that calls him a "famous air pirate" | 77 |
| Language we got the words "basmati" and "juggernaut" from | 77 |
| Landmark named "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon completion in 1936 | 77 |
| Lindsay who tied with herself for a Worst Actress Razzie by playing two roles | 77 |
| Longtime Red Sox announcer Martin whose signature call was "Mercy!" | 77 |
| Literary captain who says "I am not what you call a civilized man!" | 77 |
| Line from 1989's "Dead Pesto Society" about grabbing ten cents? | 77 |
| Lorin __, who succeeded Szell as the Cleveland Orchestra's music director | 77 |
| Like computer operating systems that allow many people to work simultaneously | 77 |
| Lindsay Lohan's role in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" | 76 |
| Like the Wicked Witch of the West at the end of "The Wizard of Oz" | 76 |
| List that includes "full," "round" and "wide"? | 76 |
| Lee who got a Best Actress nomination for "Days of Wine and Roses" | 76 |
| Like the haircut I just got from this old Polish dude that then I had to fix | 76 |
| Lion's combatant for the crown, in "Through the Looking-Glass" | 76 |
| Lead-in to ''kidding'' and ''gonna take it'' | 76 |
| Ludlum's ''Identity'' and ''Ultimatum'' | 75 |
| Language where "Jak se máš?" means "How are you?" | 75 |
| Lennon reportedly described her as looking like "a bloke in drag" | 75 |
| Latin phrase in the etymology of the word whose symbol is "&" | 75 |
| Letters for the names "buried" in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
| Lurid 1979 film about John Dillinger's girlfriend, with "The" | 75 |
| Like the Jordan River, according to "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" | 75 |
| Lead-in to "Five Dollars" and "Sixpence" in song titles | 75 |
| Literary character whose last words are "The horror! The horror!" | 75 |
| Literary experimentalist Georges with "Life: A User's Manual" | 75 |
| Lying in the mud during a freezing storm, in "The Divine Comedy"? | 75 |
| Lowish varieties of "vertical deflection traffic calming devices" | 75 |
| Letter that some feel should have its own day, rather than pi having Pi Day | 75 |
| Literary character who says "I'll chase him round Good Hope" | 74 |
| Like one wearing a studded belt, black wristbands and black-rimmed glasses | 74 |
| Lang. that doesn't really contain that many words for "snow" | 74 |
| Los Pollos Hermanos businessman Fring on TV's "Breaking Bad" | 74 |
| Like the upcoming elections, and a hint to the four longest Across answers | 74 |
| Letters with ''messenger'' or ''transfer'' | 74 |
| Literary character who asks "Would you, could you, in the dark?" | 74 |
| Like a "Better active today than radioactive tomorrow" sentiment | 74 |
| Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) | 74 |
| Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Katy Perry's "Roar" | 74 |
| London-based dubstep artist whose name is pronounced like a math operation | 74 |
| Lauren who played cruise director Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat" | 74 |
| Like dictionaries without a word meaning "raisable castle door"? | 74 |
| Lovelace's addressee for "Stone walls do not a prison make" | 73 |
| Les Cowboys Fringants "La Grand-Messe" track "Ti-___" | 73 |
| Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length | 73 |
| Language from which "jungle" and "pundit" are derived | 73 |
| Lawrence who wrote the screenplay for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 73 |
| Like some elite U.S. athletes (or an apt alternate title for this puzzle) | 73 |
| Like fish for fish & chips -- or this puzzle's four theme entries | 73 |
| Longtime New York chef and writer who hosted the first food program on TV | 73 |
| Live video of the 2008 presidential runner-up going about his daily life? | 73 |
| Louis ___ (trial lawyer and author of "My Life in Court," 1962) | 73 |
| LaBeouf of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" | 73 |
| Long-distance runner Ron once married to long-distance runner Mary Decker | 73 |
| Language in which "Pakistan" means "land of the pure" | 73 |
| Language from which "cotton" and "candy" are derived | 72 |
| Lead-in for "across," "along," or "around" | 72 |
| Lennon song with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." | 72 |
| Lady in the 1965 sitcom pilot episode "The Lady in the Bottle" | 72 |
| Lefty with the fourth-highest career batting average in baseball history | 72 |
| Lady Vols coach Summitt who is the winningest NCAA basketball coach ever | 72 |
| Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band "Instant Karma! (We ___)" | 72 |
| Loose collection of influential corporations from Alf's home planet? | 72 |
| Literary character whose name is said to mean "laughing water" | 72 |
| Leader's name that's etymologically related to "chess" | 72 |
| Like this puzzle's theme, to solvers concerned with puzzle symmetry? | 72 |
| Line showing the relationship between an interest rate and maturity date | 72 |
| Leadoff hitter in the baseball rulebook example for batting out of turn | 71 |
| Literary character who says "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy" | 71 |
| Like "Spring" from Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" | 71 |
| Language that gave us the words "kayak" and "igloo" | 71 |
| Living area that becomes an adverb with an "A" in front of it | 71 |
| Laura who composed "Stoned Soul Picnic" for the 5th Dimension | 71 |
| Language whose insults include "toDSaH" and "petaQ" | 71 |
| Longtime N.F.L. coach whose name is French for "the handsome" | 71 |
| Light, easy listening tunes, that may improve one's emotional state | 71 |
| Long-running Off-Broadway show featuring unusual percussion instruments | 71 |
| Language from which "mongoose" and "patchouli" come | 71 |
| Letter that appears at least once in every single answer in this puzzle | 71 |
| Lead role in the film known in France as "L'Or de la Vie" | 71 |
| Letter presets used in place of arrows in keyboard-based computer games | 71 |
| Like this answer, or a two-word description of this puzzle's theme | 70 |
| Like the last movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" | 70 |
| Letters next to Katarina Witt's name at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics | 70 |
| Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper right | 70 |