| Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" | 90 |
| Its name comes from a Native American word meaning "land of the trembling earth" | 90 |
| Number that "Sesame Street" was not "brought to you by" for many years | 90 |
| Politician who said "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it" | 90 |
| When most top-rated shows are on, and a hint to the kind of numbers in the starred answers | 90 |
| Gertrude Stein's first novel, published posthumously as "Things As They Are" | 90 |
| She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar the same year that Charlize won for Best Actress | 90 |
| Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers | 90 |
| "Play it again, ___" (famous line never actually said in "Casablanca") | 90 |
| "Nick" name that goes with the first names in the grid's six longest entries | 90 |
| He wrote "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal" | 90 |
| 2004 horror film with the tagline "How much blood would you shed to stay alive?" | 90 |
| J. J. ___, co-creator of "Lost" and director of 2009's "Star Trek" | 90 |
| What the pool player started "playing" when his favorite song came on the radio? | 90 |
| Using both sides with equal frequency (like the letters in this puzzle's answer grid?) | 90 |
| What the self-contradictory words found in this puzzle's theme answers are examples of | 90 |
| Huffington who said "There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear" | 90 |
| "Turn me on, dead man," supposedly, in the Beatles' "Revolution 9" | 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 |
| "All right, y'all, let's get in the old-fashioned horse-drawn carriage!" | 90 |
| NFL quarterback whose signature move is kissing his flexed bicep after scoring a touchdown | 90 |
| Bygone publication subtitled "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" | 90 |
| The world's largest ..., in Wilmot, Ohio, unleashes mechanical Bavarian dancers hourly | 90 |
| Pop singer who appeared in the movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 90 |
| Lute player Karamazov who collaborated on Sting's "Songs From the Labyrinth" | 90 |
| Columbian drug kingpin Pablo ranked the seventh richest man in the world by Forbes in 1989 | 90 |
| German word (for "donkey") that's the origin of our word for a display stand | 90 |
| "Merry Christmas" is "Gojan Kristnaskon kaj felican novan jaron" in it | 90 |
| Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. | 90 |
| Display rate unit, in film and animation: Abbr. (hidden in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY) | 90 |
| Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll | 90 |
| Malia's command to the family dog when it's time to return to Pennsylvania Avenue? | 90 |
| Third base, in baseball lingo ... or a hint for answering eight other clues in this puzzle | 90 |
| Lone Star beverage intended to rival baked Alaska in popularity but which never caught on? | 90 |
| "___ You Better Before You Were Naked on the Internet" (From First to Last song) | 90 |
| "Sesame Street" song with the lyric "Anything dirty or dingy or dusty" | 90 |
| It's what Jack Benny says twice after being told, "Your money or your life!" | 90 |
| "Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe" comic | 90 |
| "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters" speaker | 90 |
| "Futurama" character who grew up in the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium | 90 |
| Politician who wrote "The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath" | 90 |
| Romanian-born composer of the famously eerie theme music for "The Twilight Zone" | 90 |
| 20th-century cartoonist who wrote "He Done Her Wrong," a 300-page pantomime tale | 90 |
| Pageant winner who also won at the "USA" and "Universe" levels in 2012 | 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 |
| 1990s boy band accused of lip syncing by people who were obviously just jealous, for short | 90 |
| New slogan for a California city trying to advertise its wild playground basketball games? | 90 |
| "I can see you on a cold day and you're like a cloud...I'm impressed..." | 90 |
| 1985 Ready for the World hit that knocked "Money for Nothing" out of the #1 spot | 90 |
| New 13th zodiac sign that would cause all these changes (if astrologers took it seriously) | 90 |
| Metaphor for kinetic grace ... or what this puzzle's six eight-letter answers display? | 90 |
| Description of a computer algorithm which resembles (but isn't actually) formal syntax | 90 |
| Sitcom character who said "Not many people know this, but I happen to be famous" | 90 |
| "___ is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good": golfer Johnny Miller | 90 |
| Explosive fragments named after the British inventor of an artillery shell containing them | 90 |
| "The arms of the garment were stitched together from previously worn shirts..." | 90 |
| "The only reason for time is __ everything doesn't happen at once": Einstein | 90 |
| Sinatra song with the lyric "All the love I have to give, I want to give to you" | 90 |
| "The wretched refuse of your ___ shore" (line from "The New Colossus") | 90 |
| Drink made with tequila, rum, vodka, gin, bourbon, triple sec, sweet-and-sour mix and Coke | 90 |
| "Well, sir, it's this rug I have - it really tied the room together" speaker | 90 |
| Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed | 90 |
| "You don't have to be a gardener to dig this book about Kerouac's tools" | 90 |
| His best-known song includes ''Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame'' | 90 |
| New slogan for an Arizona city trying to emphasize strong elementary school math programs? | 90 |
| "__ Hunters": History Channel show with the tagline "Hoax or History?" | 90 |
| British politician lands a devastating uppercut against Phoenix Suns' star Steve Nash? | 90 |
| "Met our mothers in the ___" (lyric from Billy Joel's "Allentown") | 90 |
| This puzzle's honorees, one of which is spread out in each of the four longest answers | 90 |
| Oscar-winning star of "A World for Two" in 1954's "A Star Is Born" | 90 |
| Irish writer who said "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much" | 90 |
| Architect whose epitaph says "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you" | 90 |
| Greek new age musician who performed at the Acropolis, the Taj Mahal, and the Burj Khalifa | 90 |
| Michelle ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' "25 Best Action Heroines of All Time" | 90 |
| Word that completes the song titles "___ Baby" and "Baby It's ___" | 90 |
| The only U.S. president whose vice president ran against him to succeed him was John .... | 89 |
| First female singer to have three different singles in Billboard's Top 10 at one time | 89 |
| "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you": Maya Angelou | 89 |
| Fictional character whose name the Beastie Boys chant in "Rhymin & Stealin" | 89 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography with the subtitle "Sittin' on Top of the World" | 89 |
| "Sine scientia ___ nihil est" ("Without knowledge, skill is nothing") | 89 |
| Words preceding "Love," "War" and "the Deal" in book titles | 89 |
| Who quipped "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way" | 89 |
| "When I am dead and gone, remember to ___ me ...": "Henry VI, Part I" | 89 |
| ___ Robbins, co-lyricist of the #1 "Rocky" theme song "Gonna Fly Now" | 89 |
| 1988 Tom Hanks film (and a link to the starts of this puzzle's other six film titles) | 89 |
| What Van Halen's "hot shoe" would do down the avenue, in "Panama" | 89 |
| Kind of cuisine in which onions, bell peppers and celery are the "holy trinity" | 89 |
| Big letters, for short (and what your answers must be written in to understand the theme) | 89 |
| Deer discovered that subsist solely on cacao beans; appropriately, they're called ... | 89 |
| Comedian with the 2010 Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, familiarly | 89 |
| "Home work" letters that appear at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 89 |
| "L'Âge ___" (1930 film scripted by Luis Buñuel and Salvador DalÃ) | 89 |
| ___ Chao, only cabinet member to serve through George W. Bush's entire administration | 89 |
| Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" | 89 |
| “Lord High Everything ___” (one of Pooh-Bah’s titles in “The Mikado”) | 89 |
| Singer who's the subject of Carl Perkins's "The Whole World Misses You" | 89 |
| "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's ___ ..." (Semisonic) | 89 |