| Record label that released the "Tommy" and "Grease" soundtracks | 83 |
| Roman philosopher who originated the phrase "What fools these mortals be" | 83 |
| Record label whose first release was Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown" | 83 |
| Rihanna lyric "Got my Ray ___ on and I'm feeling hella cool tonight" | 82 |
| Robert who won Oscars for both writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer" | 82 |
| Ray Charles's backup singers pair with "Sunshine of Your Love" band? | 82 |
| Record producer who published the diary "A Year With Swollen Appendices" | 82 |
| Response to "Who wants to blow off school and go to the amusement park?" | 82 |
| Role played by Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" ... | 82 |
| Revolutionary War general with the nickname "The Hero of the Two Worlds" | 82 |
| Rapper with an MTV show ... whose name sounds like a word meaning "show" | 82 |
| R&B singer with "Like a Surgeon" (no relation to the Weird Al song) | 81 |
| Richard ___, director of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" | 81 |
| Reviewer on "The Luck of Roaring Camp": "It needs more humor" | 81 |
| Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech | 81 |
| River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" | 81 |
| Radio station whose call letters include the first three letters of its Ohio city | 81 |
| Rapper who said, "the 'P.' was getting between me and my fans" | 80 |
| Race that takes a northern trail in even years and a southern trail in odd years | 80 |
| Reggae song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right" | 80 |
| Real-life actor Joe who is a character in Broadway's "Jersey Boys" | 80 |
| Reception assistant, or what you might incite if you don't perform mitzvahs? | 80 |
| Richards who played Lex Murphy in the first two "Jurassic Park" movies | 80 |
| Reply to "Perchance, Hamlet, is this barbecue spice mix what ye seek?" | 80 |
| Roman numeral hidden (in left-to-right order) in the four longest Across answers | 80 |
| Racehorse whose 1955 Kentucky Derby win kept Nashua from taking the Triple Crown | 80 |
| Rock band whose first album was titled, appropriately, "High Voltage" | 79 |
| Ripley who wrote the "Gone With the Wind" sequel "Scarlett" | 79 |
| R&B group with the 1972 hit "Back Stabbers," with "the" | 79 |
| Real-life opera composer who's a title character in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera | 79 |
| Record label that Paul McCartney blames for the Beatles' absence on iTunes | 78 |
| Rita who shouted "Hey you guys!" on "The Electric Company" | 78 |
| Rapper with the recent "Illmatic XX" twentieth-anniversary rerelease | 78 |
| Reggae classic that ends "Let's get together and feel all right" | 78 |
| Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role | 78 |
| Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. | 78 |
| Rule for finding buried treasure ... and a hint to making sense of this puzzle | 78 |
| Ron who was the 1981 World Series co-MVP with Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager | 77 |
| Result of black's move from the upper-left board to the lower-right board | 77 |
| Runner Sebastian who headed London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics | 77 |
| Roosevelt who said "You must do the things you think you cannot do" | 77 |
| Radio personality who said "I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary" | 77 |
| Rooney __, who played Salander in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" | 77 |
| Rush's song off "Presto" that went long? (with "The") | 77 |
| Rock group whose members all assumed the same last name, with "the" | 77 |
| Rhyme scheme for Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | 77 |
| Rock song with the lyric "A big-legged woman ain't got no soul" | 77 |
| Response to Revolutionary Arnold's "What's for breakfast?"? | 77 |
| Request that could elicit a, "not until you finish your vegetables" | 77 |
| Ralph Kramden catchphrase on old TV ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
| Rapper with the 3x platinum single "Hold On, We're Going Home" | 76 |
| Rice-___ Stadium (setting of the ceremonies for the Salt Lake City Olympics) | 76 |
| Rock grp. once promoted as "the English guys with the big fiddles" | 76 |
| Rock photographer Russell who shot the cover for "Who's Next?" | 76 |
| Response to "Swiper, no swiping!" on "Dora the Explorer" | 76 |
| Reply to "would Madame like fresh pepper on the beef bourguignon?" | 76 |
| Rhyme scheme in Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | 76 |
| Rebate, and, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue can be | 76 |
| Robin Williams flick that was Roger Ebert's pick for worst movie of 2002 | 76 |
| Ring of ___ (mythological Greek artifact that rendered its wearer invisible) | 76 |
| Racer who has led the most number of laps in Indianapolis 500 history (644) | 75 |
| Reply to "You're not even smart enough to be in fourth grade" | 75 |
| Restaurant chain where you can (aptly) get French toast and Belgian waffles | 75 |
| Robb Stark's realm in "Game of Thrones," with "the" | 75 |
| Ratt "Feel the heat of the rhythm. Feel the heat of my hand. ___" | 75 |
| Real-life scientist played by David Bowie in "The Prestige," 2006 | 75 |
| Robert Frost poem that includes "Good fences make good neighbors" | 75 |
| Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
| Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers) | 74 |
| Response to "Are not!" that's unlikely to resolve the matter | 74 |
| Rebel ape in "Planet of the Apes" played by Helena Bonham Carter | 74 |
| Republican candidate whose campaign manager is the "smoking man" | 74 |
| Richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood, according to Forbes | 74 |
| Rapper with the multi-platinum debut album "The College Dropout" | 74 |
| Richard Hooker book subtitled "A Novel About Three Army Doctors" | 74 |
| Repeated by rote ... or a word that's mixed up in three themed answers | 74 |
| Response to the debut of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," e.g. | 74 |
| Richard D. James covering "Seventeen" with Pat Smear's band? | 74 |
| Rapper who dropped part of his name after 2001's "Doggy Bag" | 74 |
| Rock-album cover on which this puzzle's celebrities appear, familiarly | 74 |
| Role played by Pepe the Prawn in "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" | 74 |
| Reindeer name rhymed with Blitzen in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" | 74 |
| Ring org. with a "Minimumweight" category (less than 105 pounds) | 74 |
| Response to "You're the most self-questioning person ever!" | 73 |
| Rolling Stones song with the lyric "Let me whisper in your ear" | 73 |
| Robot who appeared with Joey Fatone on "Dancing With The Stars" | 73 |
| Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning role in "Life Is Beautiful" | 73 |
| Rank to which Capt. Nelson was promoted in "I Dream of Jeannie" | 73 |
| Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is set at the end of it | 73 |
| Response to Spanish tenor Kraus's "What's for dinner?"? | 73 |
| Refrain lyric from "Do-Re-Mi" ("The Sound of Music") | 73 |
| Repetitive Brooklyn rockers with the 2008 album "Saint Dymphna" | 73 |
| Rock group whose name is an appropriate alternative title for this puzzle | 73 |
| REO Speedwagon "It's time to bring this ship in to the ___" | 73 |
| Russian pop duo with the hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 73 |
| Roger Waters "4:37 AM (___ With Knives and West German Skies)" | 72 |
| Rod Stewart cover "When it comes to being lucky she's ___" | 72 |
| Reason everyone whispered during the afternoon on Gilligan's island? | 72 |
| Rick Wakeman "Anne Boleyn: The Day Thou Gavest Lord ___ Ended" | 72 |
| Ravel's "Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé," e.g. | 72 |