| Only pitcher to win the deciding games of the ALCS, ALDS and World Series in the same year | 90 |
| Actor who turned down the role of Dr. Shepherd on "Grey's Anatomy" | 80 |
| Test outcome that once might have classified someone as a "moron" | 75 |
| The Stones' "Sticky Fingers" and "Tattoo You," e.g. | 75 |
| It has ''arguments'' and ''logic games'' sections | 81 |
| Exams for students potentially most interested in this puzzle's theme, in brief | 83 |
| What the "turn on" part refers to in "Tune in, turn on, drop out" | 85 |
| Sch. whose alumni include Shaquille O'Neal, James Carville and Rex Reed | 75 |
| Size that's usually perfect for printing crosswords, but often not for mine because I tend to write really long clues and you might need more space, for short | 162 |
| Susan who filled in for vacationing Bernadette Peters in "Annie Get Your Gun" | 87 |
| Sitcom character discussed in the 2003 biography "Ball of Fire" | 73 |
| Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author" | 80 |
| Utterly unlistenable 2011 collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica (I got 90 seconds into it before quitting) | 113 |
| Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 72 |
| Old ___ (Connecticut town where a tick-borne disease was first reported) | 72 |
| ___ St. James, first woman to be named the Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, 1992 | 76 |
| Loretta who sang "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" | 99 |
| Fairy queen who carried a "whip of cricket's bone," in Shakespeare | 80 |
| In "Penny Lane," what the banker never wears in the pouring rain | 74 |
| Co-owner of Paddy's Pub in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" | 80 |
| Popular gambling tourist spot in China that was part of Portugal until 1999 | 75 |
| Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" | 83 |
| "If you haven't seen ___, you haven't seen New York" (old ad slogan) | 86 |
| It publishes an annual "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things" list | 76 |
| It facetiously calls its regular writers "the usual gang of idiots" | 77 |
| Source of the song "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" | 75 |
| Gp. whose logo is a martini glass and car key in a "no" symbol | 72 |
| When Hedy Lamarr co-invented a radio-frequency encryption system, she __ | 72 |
| Manicurist in Palmolive ads who said "You're soaking in it" | 73 |
| Emergency fund ... or what the second part of each answer to a starred clue ends with? | 86 |
| West with the autobiography "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" | 74 |
| Who said "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure" | 93 |
| Actress who said "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" | 90 |
| Newsstand buy, for short—one begins each of the four longest puzzle answers (and also ends the last one) | 108 |
| "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from ___": Arthur C. Clarke | 96 |
| In his first TV appearance, he played Scrooge in a 1962 animated special | 72 |
| Bill who said, "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 74 |
| Bill who said of his TV monologues "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 94 |
| Bill who said "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 73 |
| Brilliantly colored food fish that changes hues when removed from the water | 75 |
| Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s | 86 |
| German skier Hermann who won gold in the super G and giant slalom at the Nagano Olympics | 88 |
| One may be knocked over continually by those goddamn teenagers in their goddamned pickup | 88 |
| Rank to which Capt. Nelson was promoted in "I Dream of Jeannie" | 73 |
| First name of a civil rights activist who would turn 85 today, and whose adopted last name is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 127 |
| Like 49.1 pecent of the population, according to a 2000 report by the U.S. Census Bureau | 88 |
| Designed with a projecting part for fitting into a corresponding recessed part | 78 |
| Todd Snider "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing, Republican, Straight, White American ___" | 100 |
| Black Friday destination found in nine of this puzzle's Across answers | 74 |
| Only Semitic language that's an official language of the European Union | 75 |
| 31st best film of all time, according to AFI's tenth anniversary edition (with "The") | 99 |
| Owner of the bed that was too soft in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" | 80 |
| "That's all right, ___" (lyric from Elvis's first single) | 75 |
| "West Side Story" shout during "The Dance at the Gym" | 73 |
| Broadway title character whose "special fascination'll prove to be inspirational" | 95 |
| Title role that earned Angela Lansbury a Tony for Best Actress in a Musical | 75 |
| Musical about the eccentric widow of Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside | 72 |
| Broadway show whose title woman can "coax the blues right out of the horn" | 84 |
| Auntie who said "Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" | 93 |
| It forms a superhero when added to the start of the answer to each starred clue | 79 |
| "I go on four legs in the morning, on two legs in the afternoon, and on three legs in the evening ..." | 112 |
| "God created the integers; all the rest is the work of ___": Kronecker | 80 |
| World leader who was the first living person awarded honorary Canadian citizenship | 82 |
| Instrument played on the 2005 White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Satan" | 81 |
| Impressionist who painted people on lawns, in cafés, brutally murdering each other, etc. | 91 |
| ''Impossible headline!'': inventor DeForest/''Future headline!'': JFK | 101 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography subtitled "A Legend Like Lightning" | 73 |
| "I had not thought death had undone so ___": "The Waste Land" | 81 |
| Leader repeatedly praised in the (doctored) Mandarin edition of Bill Clinton's "My Life" | 102 |
| Chairman you shouldn't carry pictures of if you want to make it with anyone, per Lennon | 91 |
| Chairman who said "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" | 78 |
| "War cannot for a single minute be separated from politics" speaker | 77 |
| Rooney __, who played Salander in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" | 77 |
| Playwright Connelly who won a Pulitzer for "The Green Pastures" | 73 |
| Children's book author Brown who created the "Arthur" series | 74 |
| Speaker of the only word heard in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" | 75 |
| Star of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Best Years of Our Lives" | 87 |
| 1957 song that begins "The most beautiful sound I ever heard ..." | 75 |
| "I just met a girl named ___" ("West Side Story" lyric) | 75 |
| "All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word," according to song | 85 |
| Frank Delano Roosevelt’s phrase “New Deal” came from a book by ... | 78 |
| "I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way" | 75 |
| "Bob ___ Rises From Grave To Free Frat Boys From Bonds Of Oppression": "The Onion" headline | 111 |
| Trading center (or the start of a lifestyle arbiter's split personality) | 76 |
| "Who Needs the Kwik-E-___?" (song from "The Simpsons") | 74 |
| Drink Mencken called "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet" | 85 |
| "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," per H. L. Mencken | 83 |
| Oscar-winning actor who costarred in TV's "Mission: Impossible" | 77 |
| It's along the bus route of ''Canada's Walk of Fame''? | 78 |
| "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it" speaker | 84 |
| Who said "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce" | 78 |
| "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others" speaker | 85 |
| "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" theorist | 83 |
| "Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot" quipster | 78 |
| Richard Hooker book subtitled "A Novel About Three Army Doctors" | 74 |
| Virginian statesman George nicknamed "The Father of the Bill of Rights" | 81 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter pi | 112 |
| Art Spiegelman's book with the subtitle "A Survivor's Tale" | 77 |
| Graphic novel whose first section was titled "My Father Bleeds History" | 81 |
| Pulitzer-winning graphic novel subtitled "A Survivor's Tale" | 74 |