Bombeck who wrote "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" | 89 |
Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution | 89 |
"___ to Be ... You and Me" (1972 Marlo Thomas gender stereotype-fighting album) | 89 |
Magazine whose debut issue featured a cover photo of Cindy Crawford dressed as Washington | 89 |
Word with ''boat,'' ''fire'' or ''smith'' | 89 |
''... slithy toves did ___ and gimble'' (''Jabberwocky'') | 89 |
"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou __ been wise": "King Lear" | 89 |
"An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond / Splash! Silence again," e.g. | 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 |
"My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life" speaker | 89 |
Girl who's the "you" in the lyric "I'll see you in my dreams" | 89 |
Artist Krasner, for whose portrayal Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar in "Pollock" | 89 |
Pink Floyd hit with the lyric "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash" | 89 |
1,000 in the phrase "No, no a thousand times no!" is an example of a ___ number | 89 |
It's derived from the French word "hautbois," meaning "high wood" | 89 |
"Justitia ___" (District of Columbia motto meaning "Justice for all") | 89 |
Winfrey who said "I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes" | 89 |
Brother of Dori and Nori, in "The Hobbit: This Should Have Been Just One Movie" | 89 |
"Catch-22" character who "hasn't got brains enough to be unhappy" | 89 |
"Now is the winter of ___ discontent" (opening line of "Richard III") | 89 |
City of northern Spain featured in Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" | 89 |
California city that was the longtime host of the World's Wristwrestling Championship | 89 |
Swedish soccer player Sundhage who coached the U.S. women's team to two Olympic golds | 89 |
Browning work "__ Passes," source of "All's right with the world" | 89 |
Vehicle that will fly into a mountain if you switch your phone on below cruising altitude | 89 |
Doctor's self-employment, and a hint to the starts of the five longest across answers | 89 |
Shakespeare character who asks "To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king?" | 89 |
Word that can be inserted in "mound" to make a synonym for "stagnant" | 89 |
Sigur ___ (Icelandic post-rock band that sings in a fictional language called Hopelandic) | 89 |
Org. that replaced the "Drunk Driving" part of its acronym in the late '90s | 89 |
Guardian headline about the decline of a North London street? (The Beatles / The Ramones) | 89 |
Cheating euchre player in Bret Harte's "Plain Language From Truthful James" | 89 |
DESIGNER: "But I'm innocent!" LIEUT: "Maybe so, but we have ___." | 89 |
The zoo's masseuse had to rub the back of one of the gorilla's necks whenever ___ | 89 |
Ali G asked him, "Has journalists ever put out tomorrow's news by mistake?" | 89 |
Indie rock band whose "The Suburbs" was the Grammys' 2010 Album of the Year | 89 |
What the disappointed fan said after Rome's first emperor sang "Yesterday"? | 89 |
Item of clothing named for the site of a disastrous British military action of 10/25/1854 | 89 |
Family that first appeared in the 1962 children's book "The Big Honey Hunt" | 89 |
"He's looking for an opening, but she's doing a tremendous job of ___!" | 89 |
Leader of Husker Du whose "Dog On Fire" became the "Daily Show" theme | 89 |
Stars of "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," collectively | 89 |
With "The," 1985 coming-of-age comedy-drama featuring the "Brat Pack" | 89 |
What the plastic surgeon created after I asked to look like "The Man in Black"? | 89 |
"No, I don't think 'virgin wool' means that the sheep was ___, ___" | 89 |
"Jacques, I rate your face a perfect score, but your butt is très mediocre!" | 89 |
Group cannibals don't eat "because they taste funny," according to the joke | 89 |
Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue | 89 |
"Say hello to friends you know and __": ". . . Holly Jolly Christmas" | 89 |
Company whose founder first proposed the business concept in a college paper, earning a C | 89 |
Worst team's privilege in next year's draft or, with a comma, "premium" | 89 |
Band whose frontman passes through the audience in a plastic bubble, with "The" | 89 |
Q: "What do you see lots of at Jerry's family reunions?" A: "___" | 89 |
If one were to ___, one would discover that they have 8 million articles in 253 languages | 89 |
It's easy to do if you're hungry, hard if it's late and the shops have closed | 89 |
"The ___ and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality" (1982 best seller) | 89 |
1962 chart topper whose title subject "doesn't do what everybody else does" | 89 |
Words from Pope's "An Essay on Man" (1940, 1942-43, 1960-62, 1965-68, 1978) | 89 |
The genie studies it for a while and finally says, "This is impossible. So ..." | 89 |
"So why on earth should ___ ..." (line from "A Hard Day's Night") | 89 |
"When __ she comes to me with a thousand smiles": "Little Wing" lyric | 89 |
Part of the earth whose temperature Al Gore claims is "several million degrees" | 89 |
Comic actor George who was nicknamed "Toastmaster General of the United States" | 89 |
"I only spend these quarters on video games that involving drawing partitions"? | 89 |
Blanche __, pseudonymous author of the 1983 best-seller "Truly Tasteless Jokes" | 89 |
...while Henry Gibson presented satirical poetry on the 1960s comedy show "___" | 89 |
Best-selling novelist who wrote the children's poetry volume "Father Goose" | 89 |
So-called explanation for an athlete's off-year after appearing on a video game cover | 89 |
Early punk rock band with the song "Never Been in a Riot," with "the" | 89 |
"This is Spinal Tap" star who played Lenny on "Laverne & Shirley" | 89 |
Mixed drink #1: A friar's riding sport (vodka, cranberry juice, triple sec, and lime) | 89 |
Something to "call me" per an old song ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 89 |
Physical principle whose equation explains the changes in this puzzle's theme entries | 89 |
___ One (political idea-sharing .org site with the slogan "You Set the Agenda") | 89 |
There are ones named after all the men featured on current U.S. banknotes except Hamilton | 89 |
Noises you're guaranteed to hear after opting out of the naked body scanner machines? | 89 |
First of 12 popes (just put the Roman numeral in now and get the name from the crossings) | 89 |
Symphonic ode to a nation by Elgar that includes quotations from "Warszawianka" | 89 |
Art punk band whose members appear as tophat-wearing giant eyeballs, with "The" | 89 |
Actor who played Hamlet in a 1964 production deliberately staged to look like a rehearsal | 89 |
You might get them for having seen an Arcade Fire show before they were signed to a label | 89 |
"And I've got one, two, three, four, five ___ working overtime" (XTC lyric) | 89 |
Band that will change your life, according to Natalie Portman in "Garden State" | 89 |
His only line in "Clerks" ends in "Most of 'em just cheat on you" | 89 |
Broadway composer Matthew who was nominated for a Tony for "The Wedding Singer" | 89 |
Pseudonymous surname used by a director who doesn't want to be associated with a film | 89 |
Mock rock band with the albums "Smell The Glove" and "Shark Sandwich" | 89 |
Commercial interruptions literally found in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 89 |
Word with ''forward,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 89 |
Chemical element #38 (also part of the name of a pre-Police Sting/Stewart Copeland band) | 89 |
Word that could mean “not entirely disobedient” or “headed for the metro” | 89 |
Summer blazer, which can come before the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 89 |
Really, really integral baseball stats (or a hair stylist ad interrupted by a cookie ad)? | 89 |
It's easy to do with the right connections, hard if you can't find a good hotspot | 89 |
Velvet Underground song ranked#335 on Rolling Stones's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time | 89 |
Some graffiti signatures (which were used to form this puzzle's four longest answers) | 89 |
Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle | 89 |
Southern Florida "trail" that's a portmanteau of the two cities it connects | 89 |
"I found a ___, which blended into the beige, but no way am I going to eat it." | 89 |