| Matriarch of the Patterson family in the comic strip "For Better or for Worse" | 88 |
| ... using ___: “Mary had a little lamb / Its fleece was white as chowder (clam)” | 88 |
| 1960's pop group named after a phrase from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | 88 |
| What Sgt. Schultz really knew (but would never admit) on "Hogan's Heroes"? | 88 |
| Joseph Wapner: "Who won the 1984 Best Actress Oscar?" Bailiff: "___" | 88 |
| "Two Weeks" R&B singer whose stage name starts with a three letter acronym | 88 |
| Compound based on the formula XeF (hey, cut me some slack; this was a tough one to find) | 88 |
| He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" | 88 |
| "Who are these people, and how are they related?" (highly literal TV title #2) | 88 |
| "Bernie & ___" (parody of a children's show on "Family Guy") | 88 |
| Jokey alternative spelling for "fish" widely attributed to George Bernard Shaw | 88 |
| Newly-introduced element that alters the situation in a significant way, in modern lingo | 88 |
| Nickname for the lead singer of Aerosmith, who keeps spilling glittery paint on himself? | 88 |
| Pop punk band with the 2002 triple-platinum album "The Young and the Hopeless" | 88 |
| Term borrowed from a board game to describe an easy means of escape from a bad situation | 88 |
| End-of-the-week Twitter tag listing those you think others should be paying attention to | 88 |
| Sci-fi urban transport vehicles (that will be for sale in California probably next year) | 88 |
| "In what way?"/Like overcooked steak/Possess/European capital on a gulf (1985) | 88 |
| Dr. Jekyll's alter ego and family, were he to settle down with an evil wife and kids | 88 |
| "So ___ be on my way / In the early mornin' rain" (Gordon Lightfoot lyric) | 88 |
| Band that headlines the annual "Gathering of the Juggalos" festival, for short | 88 |
| Literary character played in film by Charles Laughton, Anthony Perkins and Geoffrey Rush | 88 |
| Nickname of the British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo (with "The") | 88 |
| White Queen's response to "I can't remember things before they happen" | 88 |
| D.C. landmark whose interior walls contain excerpts from the Declaration of Independence | 88 |
| Mixed martial arts fighter Rolling Stone called "The King of the Web Brawlers" | 88 |
| With "The," TV series whose relationships were mapped by "The Chart" | 88 |
| Celebrity chef Matsuhisa who had cameos in "Casino" and "Goldmember" | 88 |
| Hardly a model of perfection, and a hint to how this puzzle's theme puns are derived | 88 |
| '90s-'00s Lifetime sitcom in which viewers chose the name of the title character | 88 |
| Words to a kidder, and a hint to how this puzzle's five longest answers were created | 88 |
| "Variety" headline about jazz pianist Peterson's acclaimed TV performance? | 88 |
| Like the NCAA basketball tournament's opening game between the two last-seeded teams | 88 |
| "Lord of the Rings" villain whose eye symbol looks like a giant flaming vagina | 88 |
| Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor based on a "Saturday Night Live" sketch | 88 |
| Final attempt to hook up among college students ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 88 |
| Number for soccer legend Andriy Shevchenko--at least, when he played for an Italian club | 88 |
| Spinal Tap classic with the lines "Getting out my pitchfork / Poking your hay" | 88 |
| Ocean predator, of which there are five types starting this puzzle's longest answers | 88 |
| With “The,” 1929 William Faulkner novel whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 88 |
| Leonard McCoy: "Why is your tennis serve so darn good?" Spock: "___" | 88 |
| Actress Keanan of "My Two Dads" (who now spells her name with a Y, apparently) | 88 |
| It once had a jingle with the line "One little can will keep you running free" | 88 |
| "The pizzeria's out of mushrooms, though, so he'll need to make a ___" | 88 |
| Office purchase, and in a way, what can be seen in this puzzle's sequence of circles | 88 |
| Actress Polo who played a presidential candidate's wife on "The West Wing" | 88 |
| Start of a definition of "elbonics" (a word that doesn't exist but should) | 88 |
| "If we just allow them to keep merging, everything will be okay," for example? | 88 |
| "Add ___ a tiger's chaudron, / For the ingredients of our cauldron": Shak. | 88 |
| 1988 Errol Morris documentary about the murder of a police officer, with "The" | 88 |
| Title for an (as-yet) unmade show about being duped into buying unaffordable real estate | 88 |
| "Why don't you discuss that with your urologist instead of me? Sheesh ..." | 88 |
| "The Chronicles of Vladimir ___" (hit young adult book series about a vampire) | 88 |
| "The Lone Ranger and ___ Fistfight in Heaven" (1993 Sherman Alexie collection) | 88 |
| What Tyra Banks's competition winner is expected to become, per the show's title | 88 |
| "I could ___ referee" (line from Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind") | 88 |
| Film with the tagline "TV the way it was meant to be seen: in a movie theatre" | 88 |
| Item: 1947 novel. Problem: Currently inaccessible; also probably sustaining fire damage. | 88 |
| "The teacher found that ___ ___-a-longs helped her pupils remember their ABCs" | 88 |
| Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "The People Under the Stairs" (1991) | 88 |
| With “The,” 1973 Alistair MacLean novel whose title comes from “Macbeth” | 88 |
| His tombstone reads "Cast a cold Eye / On Life, on Death. / Horseman, pass by" | 88 |
| The point at which people will see me as "The War of the Worlds" author Wells? | 88 |
| Best Supporting Actress of 1990 who later supplied a voice for "The Lion King" | 88 |
| "The refuge of people who have nothing better to do," according to Oscar Wilde | 88 |
| "I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams ..." poet | 88 |
| Issue of a U.S. beauty magazine historic for being the first sent to post-Soviet Russia? | 88 |
| 1978 hit with the lyric "You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal" | 88 |
| "___ Mamá También" (film nominated for Best Original Screenplay of 2002) | 88 |
| When Jaques says, "All the world's a stage" in "As You Like It" | 87 |
| When the witches in "Macbeth" say "Double, double toil and trouble" | 87 |
| Wordplay expert Jon who wrote the spoonerism book "Smart Feller Fart Smeller" | 87 |
| Spiro who wrote, "If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all" | 87 |
| "The stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think," according to Housman | 87 |
| Four-time Pro Bowl tight end Crumpler whose first name sounds like a microbiology topic | 87 |
| He shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | 87 |
| Song standard with the lyric "Can't you see I'm no good without you?" | 87 |
| Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" | 87 |
| Singer Lee whose 2011 album "Mission Bell" is the worst-selling #1 album ever | 87 |
| Tony winner between "A Chorus Line" and "Ain't Misbehavin'" | 87 |
| "The Simpsons" character who debuted in "The Telltale Head" episode | 87 |
| "Simpsons" character who debuted in the episode "The Telltale Head" | 87 |
| It "enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time": Merton | 87 |
| "Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable": Shaw | 87 |
| Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" | 87 |
| Rand referenced by Rand Paul-supporting PAC "Stand With Rand," or so they say | 87 |
| "Saturday Night Live" character who introduced herself with "Hewwo" | 87 |
| ___ to school . . . or a hint to the puzzle theme suggested by the ends of five answers | 87 |
| Literary reply to "What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough" | 87 |
| Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them | 87 |
| Salary that the average crossword constructor makes annually, give or take, mostly take | 87 |
| He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame the same year as Billie Jean | 87 |
| "I Saw Her Standing There," vis-Ã -vis "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | 87 |
| "The Color Purple" character who refers to her husband as "Mr. ___" | 87 |
| Isolated prison area (represented by this 4x4 corner) from which the solver must escape | 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 |
| "He phones the pizzeria and tells them he wants full cheese and mushroom ___" | 87 |
| "The stuff that belongs to the person you just broke up with" (George Carlin) | 87 |
| Actor with the memoir "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" | 87 |