| Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bill who played the character Stefon | 87 |
| "Hie thee __, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear": "Macbeth" | 87 |
| Movie with the first female winner of the Oscar for Best Director, with "The" | 87 |
| "The only time I'm nervous or scared is when I'm NOT talking" speaker | 87 |
| Fictional character who says "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" | 87 |
| Nation invented by a John Kerry flub in his first major speech as US Secretary of State | 87 |
| "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" author Bartolomé de ___ | 87 |
| Title on certain language videos ... with a hint to entering six answers in this puzzle | 87 |
| “My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons” | 87 |
| Sign seen when approaching an exit road, perhaps, which limits a motorist's options | 87 |
| Singer with the #1 R&B hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 87 |
| What someone who has to choose between singers Courtney and Eddie makes a decision for? | 87 |
| Broadway producer Liz, Tony winner for "Elephant Man" and "Amadeus" | 87 |
| Animator who created "Beavis & Butthead" and "King of the Hill" | 87 |
| "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live" speaker, for short | 87 |
| Response to "What's a six-letter answer for 'Silent performer'?"? | 87 |
| Charles Van Doren vis-Ã -vis the game show "Twenty-One"? [1976, 1989, 1985] | 87 |
| "You'll have to solve this puzzle on your own, I'm not going to help" | 87 |
| Answer to "which Rogers and Hammerstein musical do you want to see and when?" | 87 |
| "... for there is nothing / either good __, but thinking makes it so": Hamlet | 87 |
| Mammal whose name derives from the Latin words for "pig" and "fish" | 87 |
| Beatles hit with the line, "Treasure these few words till we're together" | 87 |
| From a star in "A Guide for the Married Man" to a telegrapher's language? | 87 |
| Long rant about how the captain was mean, the shanties sucked, and everyone got scurvy? | 87 |
| Pitcher Johnny who completes the old rhyme, "Spahn and ___ and pray for rain" | 87 |
| "And would you like anything else with your imported coffee?" "___" | 87 |
| One of the "Ten Worst Automobiles of 2007" as ranked by thetruthaboutcars.com | 87 |
| Belle Fourche, in this state, is about 20 mi. south of the U.S.'s geographic center | 87 |
| Mr. Zog's surfboard grip product that gained notoriety by being banned from schools | 87 |
| LaBeouf of acting petulant and then being excused by James Franco in the New York Times | 87 |
| Where "Ice Ice Baby" appeared on the "Play That Funky Music" single | 87 |
| Johnny Mercer jazz standard with the lyric "My heart is riding on your wings" | 87 |
| Bill Callahan covering Scottish math metal with "I Know What Boys Like" band? | 87 |
| One of Shakespeare's begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | 87 |
| "I wanted a DIESEL TRUCK, but got this ___! (Which'll never bear birds)" | 87 |
| 1984 Talking Heads film hailed as "one of the greatest rock movies ever made" | 87 |
| One of two cars besides a Cadillac named in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" | 87 |
| Classic novel subtitled "Adventures in a Desert Island," with "The" | 87 |
| Sylvia ___, whom Sinatra once called the "world's greatest saloon singer" | 87 |
| Upon reviewing the apprentice's work, the boss said, "Truly you are a __" | 87 |
| West Indian language that gave us the words "hammock" and "cassava" | 87 |
| He said "If playing chess were made illegal by law, I would become an outlaw" | 87 |
| An automatic one injured Vince Coleman in 1985, forcing him to sit out the World Series | 87 |
| Country singer with the 2012 #1 hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" | 87 |
| Newman who is running against Jerry Costello for Illinois' 12th congressal district | 87 |
| Band originally snubbed by a label that said "Guitar music is on the way out" | 87 |
| Poem featuring the line “O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more” | 87 |
| Poem with the line, "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" | 87 |
| It includes a vest ... and what can be found in each set of circles in the long answers | 87 |
| "Heart and Soul" '80s band with a strange name (hidden in PREGNANT PAUSE) | 87 |
| Molecule that sends amino acids to ribosomes ... and a hint to the theme of this puzzle | 87 |
| Q: How many ___ agents does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Please remove your pants. | 87 |
| Craft whose existence may be denied by government officials, thus proving its existence | 87 |
| 1965 Righteous Brothers hit repopularized by its use in the 1990 film "Ghost" | 87 |
| Genghis Khan reportedly decided not to conquer India after meeting one on a mountaintop | 87 |
| With "The," NBC drama inspired by the film "The American President" | 87 |
| "___ happened?" (Fred Willard's catchphrase in "A Mighty Wind") | 87 |
| "Hey, what did you think when you missed that last pit stop?" [The Who, 1971] | 87 |
| Old film actress who starred in 1950's TV's "The Pride of the Family" | 87 |
| "Place you can go ... when you're short on your dough," according to song | 87 |
| "Butterfly" co-star who won the 1982 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress | 87 |
| Tropical insect whose name is the last word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary | 87 |
| Movie org. that created a top-100 list from which all of this puzzle's quotes come | 86 |
| Its name is derived from Provençal words for "garlic" and "oil" | 86 |
| TV interviewer who called astronaut "Buzz" Aldrin "Buzz Lightyear" | 86 |
| "Goodbye, Farewell and ___" (title of the final episode of "MASH") | 86 |
| Ethel Waters title line following "Now he's gone, and we're through" | 86 |
| ___ Blaine, protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" | 86 |
| Animated movie with the tagline "See the world from a whole new perspective" | 86 |
| Springsteen "If you've ever seen ___ trick pony then you've seen me" | 86 |
| Song sampled on "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" | 86 |
| "I am just __ boy, though my story's seldom told": "The Boxer" | 86 |
| "I fell right into the ___ of Venus de Milo" (chorus by the band Television) | 86 |
| 97-year-old entertainment personality who wrote "Old Age is Not for Sissies" | 86 |
| Equally influenced right now by Nam June Paik's video work and Bedouin poetry, say | 86 |
| Rare key in which a section of Chopin's "Polonaise Fantaisie" is written | 86 |
| Phrase before a sportswriter's name on the cover of an athlete's autobiography | 86 |
| "___ Lee" (Civil War song from which "Love Me Tender" was adapted) | 86 |
| Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end | 86 |
| Soul singer with the 2010 album "New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)" | 86 |
| Legend born 4/24/1942 whose name's 9 letters are the only ones in this puzzle grid | 86 |
| Informal chat, and based on the starts of the starred answers, this puzzle's title | 86 |
| Nile Rodgers band I can't believe aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet | 86 |
| Actor Fogler who won a Tony for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" | 86 |
| Third-place candidate in the 1920 presidential election who ran his campaign from jail | 86 |
| Game my dad refused to install on our computer in 1993 because it took up 40 megabytes | 86 |
| Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" | 86 |
| Prominent figure in the 1996 book "John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was" | 86 |
| "The eating of omelets is hereafter punishable by death," e.g.? [See byline] | 86 |
| "You can't spell 'elite' without ___" (Super Bowl XLVI aphorism) | 86 |
| Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" | 86 |
| "We'll give a long cheer for ___ men" ("Down the Field" lyric) | 86 |
| Hypocritical pejorative when used by millionaire senators born into political families | 86 |
| Book subtitled "Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef" | 86 |
| One-named model who wrote the children's book "What Are You Hungry For?" | 86 |
| Appropriately named monthly of the National Puzzlers' League, with "The" | 86 |
| "___ Knievel To Attempt Huge Leap In Logic" ("The Onion" headline) | 86 |
| "Something you'd hate to discover living in your attic." "___" | 86 |
| Self-described "short, stocky, slow-witted bald man" of "Seinfeld" | 86 |
| Product whose infomercial coined the phrase "But wait ... there's more!" | 86 |