Song by the Who with the lyric "Just one word from her and my troubles are long gone" | 95 |
Surviving Milli Vanilli member [avxword.com is home to the best indie xwords - subscribe today] | 95 |
Screenwriting Oscar winner for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies" | 95 |
Singer of the 1993 No. 1 hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" | 95 |
Source of the title material in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "The White Stuff" | 95 |
Service run by the band They Might Be Giants that was nothing more than their answering machine | 95 |
Son of a 1970s president, or host of the weekend edition of "Today" in the late 1990s | 95 |
Sales person's forte, and a synonym for the ends of this puzzle's three longest entries | 95 |
Source of illumination Harold Edgerton used for photographs of milk drops and bursting balloons | 95 |
Someone who isn't going to have a Four Loko and salvia cocktail before planking, obviously! | 95 |
Squirrel's staple [don't miss great indie puzzles from avxwords.com! subscribe today!] | 94 |
State celebrating its 50th anniversary in January 2009 (and a hint to the three theme entries) | 94 |
Shakespearean character who said "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war" | 94 |
Simpson's episode "___ First Word" (featuring Liz Taylor as the voice of Maggie) | 94 |
Song played at the 1920 Olympics when music for the Italian national anthem could not be found | 94 |
Sir Mix-a-Lot anthem with the line "...don't want none unless you got buns, hon" | 94 |
Science fiction classic to which the Harry Potter series bears more than a passing resemblance | 94 |
Start of a Bob Dole quip on how he fared the night after losing the 1988 New Hampshire primary | 94 |
Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue | 94 |
Soap introduced with the slogan "For the first time in your life, feel really clean" | 94 |
S(t)i(fled, i)n(hibited, sh)u(t, con)s(traine)d(, gated,) o(r) c(hecked, with "up") | 93 |
Song that ends "O dolcezze perdute! O speranze d'amor, d'amor, d'amor!" | 93 |
Sponsor of the contest wherein the Old Man wins the leg lamp in "A Christmas Story" | 93 |
Small clay wind instrument, notably seen in several popular "Legend of Zelda" games | 93 |
Sonnet whose fourth line begins "A mighty woman with a torch," with "The" | 93 |
Simple code that uses a half-alphabet shift and that's the key to this puzzle's theme | 93 |
Show with an "American Bandstand"-like spoof called "Mel's Rock Pile" | 93 |
Source of the phrases "cakes and ale" and "milk of human kindness": Abbr. | 93 |
Secluded room that makes you flash and become temporarily invincible, a la Super Mario Bros.? | 93 |
See the sound waves from the radiator vibrating in this totally pink and orange way, ya know? | 93 |
Start of a showbiz question about whether a hit in one town will be a hit in a different town | 93 |
Shuffle off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and join the bleedin' choir invisible | 92 |
Source of "Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark?" | 92 |
Sonny Corleone catchphrase which the go-go bar on "The Sopranos" helped popularize | 92 |
Singer with a 1962 #1 hit that started a dance craze (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 92 |
Section of "Carmina Burana" used in "battle to the death" movie trailers | 92 |
Southern city that's the setting for "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" | 92 |
Singer who plays the ex-husband of Helen Hunt's character in "Pay It Forward" | 91 |
Swiss mathmetician Daniel whose eponymous principle led to the carburetor and airplane wing | 91 |
Song with the lyric "And the painted ponies go up and down," with "The" | 91 |
Santayana defines it as "redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim" | 91 |
Site where Strong Bad, in message #100, tells how he got his "very own The Cheat" | 91 |
Saxophonist-composer Jimmy, known for his big-band arrangements for Benny Goodman and Count | 91 |
Senate candidate whose "proof" that she is 1/32nd Cherokee is her high cheekbones | 91 |
Swiss band with "Oh, Yeah" (as heard in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") | 91 |
Singer Paul who also wrote "Johnny's Theme" for "The Tonight Show" | 90 |
Secret get-together, or what occurs literally in each of this puzzle's circled squares | 90 |
Sports org. whose aim is "to contribute to building a peaceful and better world" | 90 |
She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar the same year that Charlize won for Best Actress | 90 |
Spinal Tap song with the lyric "I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day" | 90 |
Simon & Garfunkel album featuring "Mrs. Robinson" and "At the Zoo" | 90 |
Start of a bumper sticker that may end with one's favorite (usually expensive) vehicle | 90 |
Star of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "As Good As It Gets" | 90 |
Sitcom character who said "Not many people know this, but I happen to be famous" | 90 |
Sinatra song with the lyric "All the love I have to give, I want to give to you" | 90 |
Subject of a 2006 biography with the subtitle "Sittin' on Top of the World" | 89 |
Singer who's the subject of Carl Perkins's "The Whole World Misses You" | 89 |
Source of the line "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind" | 89 |
Standard that begins "When we are dancing / And you're dangerously near me" | 89 |
Swedish soccer player Sundhage who coached the U.S. women's team to two Olympic golds | 89 |
Shakespeare character who asks "To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king?" | 89 |
Sigur ___ (Icelandic post-rock band that sings in a fictional language called Hopelandic) | 89 |
Stars of "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," collectively | 89 |
So-called explanation for an athlete's off-year after appearing on a video game cover | 89 |
Something to "call me" per an old song ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 89 |
Symphonic ode to a nation by Elgar that includes quotations from "Warszawianka" | 89 |
Summer blazer, which can come before the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 89 |
Some graffiti signatures (which were used to form this puzzle's four longest answers) | 89 |
Southern Florida "trail" that's a portmanteau of the two cities it connects | 89 |
Strapless, sleeveless women's garment that covers the breasts and part of the midriff | 89 |
Show on which Hillary Clinton first alluded to the "vast right-wing conspiracy" | 89 |
Song that follows "Sunday Bloody Sunday" on the album "U218 Singles" | 88 |
Spoiler: He's Hermione's hubby at the end of the "Harry Potter" series | 88 |
She had brief roles as Phyllis on "Rhoda" and Rhoda on "Dr. Kildare" | 88 |
Sci-fi urban transport vehicles (that will be for sale in California probably next year) | 88 |
Spinal Tap classic with the lines "Getting out my pitchfork / Poking your hay" | 88 |
Start of a definition of "elbonics" (a word that doesn't exist but should) | 88 |
Spiro who wrote, "If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all" | 87 |
Song standard with the lyric "Can't you see I'm no good without you?" | 87 |
Singer Lee whose 2011 album "Mission Bell" is the worst-selling #1 album ever | 87 |
Salary that the average crossword constructor makes annually, give or take, mostly take | 87 |
Singer who said, "Men should be like Kleenex—soft, strong and disposable" | 87 |
Sonnet that starts "My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming" | 87 |
Song parody with the lyric "You haven't even touched your tuna casserole" | 87 |
Sci-fi villain with the line "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" | 87 |
State where Don Ho was born (or was he? let's see the REAL birth certificate, Don!) | 87 |
Show with episodes "Pettycoat Injunction" and "His Suit is Hirsute" | 87 |
Sci-fi character who asks "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" | 87 |
Susan who filled in for vacationing Bernadette Peters in "Annie Get Your Gun" | 87 |
Star of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Best Years of Our Lives" | 87 |
Sweet talk that may be subjected to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy? | 87 |
Singer with the 2012 hit "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" | 87 |
Someone not on an evening guest list (by the way, two show up in this grid unannounced) | 87 |
Sign seen when approaching an exit road, perhaps, which limits a motorist's options | 87 |
Singer with the #1 R&B hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 87 |
Sylvia ___, whom Sinatra once called the "world's greatest saloon singer" | 87 |
Springsteen "If you've ever seen ___ trick pony then you've seen me" | 86 |
Song sampled on "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" | 86 |
Soul singer with the 2010 album "New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)" | 86 |
Self-described "short, stocky, slow-witted bald man" of "Seinfeld" | 86 |