| <u>A</u> <u>founder</u> <u>of</u> <u>1</u> <u>Across</u> | 116 |
| <u>Billy,</u> <u>Fred</u> <u>or</u> <u>Vincent</u> | 98 |
| <u>Diamond,</u> <u>Sedaka</u> <u>or</u> <u>Moret</u> | 100 |
| <u>Fiorito</u> <u>and</u> <u>Koehler</u> | 76 |
| <u>President</u> <u>of</u> <u>1</u> <u>Across</u> | 97 |
| " . . . easier for ___ to go through the eye of a needle . . . ": Bible | 81 |
| " . . . I am disposed to harmony . . . incapable of ___": Lamb | 72 |
| " . . . if I should sleep ___/'Twere deadly sickness": Shak. | 74 |
| " . . . lightning, which doth cease to be/ ___ can say it lightens": Juliet | 85 |
| " . . . longest ___ is the shortest way home": Italian proverb | 72 |
| " . . . never blows so ___ Rose . . . ": "The Rubáiyát" | 81 |
| " . . . swine ran violently down ___ place . . . ": Matt. 8:32 | 72 |
| " . . . ___ achievement is only tomorrow's confusion": Howells | 76 |
| " .... inside of ___ it's too dark to read" (Groucho Marx punchline) | 82 |
| "'I've been doing exercises to strengthen my core muscles,' Brendan said obliquely," e.g. | 111 |
| "'Sblood, but you will not hear me: If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me" is his first line | 115 |
| "'Tis best to weigh the ___ more mighty than he seems": Shakespeare | 81 |
| "'Tis not the dying for ___ that's so hard . . . ": Thackeray | 79 |
| "'Tis __ that pulls the country down": "Othello" | 72 |
| "'Twas white then as the new-fa'en __": Alexander Anderson | 76 |
| "'___?' The light was ebbing, and Eddie Willers could not distinguish the bum's face." | 108 |
| "&" or "@," but not "and" or "at" | 77 |
| "<-- This Way to the ___" (exit sign in P.T. Barnum's museum, which some patrons thought was for an exotic attraction) | 135 |
| "(clap, clap) ___..." (children's song lyric about a dog's name) | 82 |
| "(That's it,) p(al, you've lo)s(t) y(our) ch(ance to watch anything tonight)!" | 96 |
| "(The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of) Santo Domingo" singer Phil | 80 |
| ". . . slithy toves did ___ and gimble" ("Jabberwocky") | 75 |
| "... 'Tis a pageant / To keep __ false gaze": "Othello" | 79 |
| "... '___ pageant to keep us in false gaze" ("Othello") | 79 |
| "... a man no mightier than thyself ___": "Julius Caesar" | 77 |
| "... abridging the freedom of speech, ___ the press ..." (Bill of Rights) | 83 |
| "... ain't quite as dumb as __": "How Long" lyrics | 74 |
| "... and he's got Budweiser and Michelob on tap - excellent ___!" | 79 |
| "... and I write '___' on the box, which seems to reassure him" | 81 |
| "... and in less than a ___ they were turned into great hairy warriors ..." | 85 |
| "... and it comes out here" (this last instrument, by the way, is often the subject of the song) | 106 |
| "... and that's why I ate all of your favorite cookies," e.g.? | 76 |
| "... and when I hand-deliver a package, the recipients are positively ___ - it's very satisfying!" | 112 |
| "... and while the royal subjects now debated who would be ___ in line to the throne ..." | 99 |
| "... as they shouted out with ___" ("Rudolph" lyric) | 72 |
| "... but dogs can't spoil how much I enjoy driving around in the ___" | 83 |
| "... but I've always thought ___ had a more fun job than I do" | 76 |
| "... but the daughters acted swiftly and drank from the enchanted waters of ___ Falls ..." | 100 |
| "... by good __, yonder's my lord": "Timon of Athens" | 77 |
| "... card, ___ card" (Last week: The two diagonally hidden 18-letter titles were "Up the Down Staircase" and "Upstairs, Downstairs." The latter answer turned downward at the D of "Downstairs.") | 235 |
| "... Don't talk about ___! You kidding me?! ..." (Jim Mora, 2001) | 79 |
| "... each armed with a double-bladed ___ (to cut both ways, of course) ..." | 85 |
| "... edged tools [to] be kept from children and from fools": Dryden | 77 |
| "... folks dressed up like ___" ("The Christmas Song") | 74 |
| "... for there is nothing / either good __, but thinking makes it so": Hamlet | 87 |
| "... heaven hath pleas'd it so, / To punish me ..." speaker | 73 |
| "... if the scale do turn/ But in the estimation of ___": "The Merchant of Venice" | 102 |
| "... if you want to __ man's character, give him power": Lincoln | 78 |
| "... imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing ___." | 74 |
| "... Love at first sight? No, she just didn't want to ___ any more! Then I woke up" | 97 |
| "... never thinks straight 'bout the shape that __": Dylan lyric | 78 |
| "... nor his ___, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's": Exodus 20:17 | 84 |
| "... slithy toves did ___ and gimble ..." ("Jabberwocky") | 77 |
| "... slithy toves did ___ and gimble" ("Jabberwocky") | 73 |
| "... that draweth from my snow-white pen the __-coloured ink": Shak. | 78 |
| "... the inconstant moon ... that monthly changes in her circled __": Juliet | 86 |
| "... the king said, 'Never mind that. Let's ___!'" | 72 |
| "... the morn ... Walks o'er the dew of __ high eastward hill": "Hamlet" | 96 |
| "... the slithy toves / Did __ and gimble ...": "Jabberwocky" | 81 |
| "... They lived peacefully in the land of ___, until one day ..." | 75 |
| "... when I am king, claim thou of me / The ___ of Hereford": "Richard III" | 95 |
| "... with no ___ dialect, unless he wanted to have one" (Harry Reid on Barack Obama, 2008) | 100 |
| "... With one swing they struck the evil one right in the ___! (dispatching him instantly) ..." | 105 |
| "... would thou ___ ne'er been born" ("Othello") | 72 |
| "... __ an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers": "Romeo and Juliet" | 93 |
| "... __ the dreadful thunder / Doth rend the region": "Hamlet" | 82 |
| "...and point out that only the souls of the righteous will be ___" | 77 |
| "...Bring this ship into the shore, and throw away the ___ forever" | 77 |
| "...but he decided on life instead, with time off for my stupendously ___" | 84 |
| "...but __ without a cat!" ("Alice's Adventures in Wonderland") | 87 |
| "...depressed, or is ___ mess?" (lyrics to They Might Be Giants' "Particle Man") | 104 |
| "...do not know how to kiss, ___ would kiss you" ("For Whom the Bell Tolls") | 96 |
| "...there are evils ___ to darken all his goodness": Shakespeare | 74 |
| "...___ player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage...": Macbeth | 83 |
| "1. My ideal night of drinking involves knocking back a couple ___" | 77 |
| "10 ___ or less" (checkout line sign that grates on grammarians) | 74 |
| "11. Every year for Halloween I go as ___ (except for the one year I went as Senator Lieberman)" | 106 |
| "12. I burst into tears after seeing the second to last episode of the fifth season of '___'" | 111 |
| "15. Me and my buddy Stephen built a ___ after seeing a documentary about the instrument" | 99 |
| "17. I'm psyched I get to write puzzles for 'The ___'" | 76 |
| "18. In kindergarten art class, while other boys were drawing things like tanks and dinosaurs, I drew ___," | 117 |
| "2. I've never been more drunk than the New Years Eve night 1999 when I polished off three bottles of ___" | 120 |
| "21. I have a tough time listening to ___ in front of women ('Ready To Die' is too misogynist)" | 113 |
| "24. The first crossword I ever wrote I sold to the ___.It ran on 8/7/1996" | 85 |
| "25. I'm supposed to come up with 25 random things?Sorry, I think that's all I've ___" | 108 |
| "3. The first song I learned how to play on guitar was '___' (albeit in a very punk rock style)" | 114 |
| "6. I was mildly disappointed when I walked down ___ Road in London.I wanted it to be more magical, I guess" | 118 |
| "7. I was so into video games as a kid (I drove at least two ___ into the ground), I was convinced I was going to make them as an adult." | 147 |
| "8. When I was in the Campaign for Real-Time, I went by All-World ___ 'Big Game' Bronson" | 107 |
| "9. I wrote a paper in college on Poe's 'The ___' exclusively using just the footnotes!" | 110 |
| "A bird," "a plane" or "Superman" preceder | 72 |
| "A Buddhist walks up to a ___ stand and says, 'Make me one with everything'" | 94 |
| "A bullet from a fucking gun!," per Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet" | 84 |
| "A Chorus Line" character who sings "The Music and the Mirror" | 82 |
| "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing" comedian Philips | 104 |