| Award-winning author of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" | 83 |
| Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | 82 |
| Awards won by "Les Misérables" and "The Book of Mormon" | 78 |
| Â Â Add light, or not (and do this 13 more times to solve this puzzle) | 76 |
| “... and use later in brilliant research papers, giving me something to ___!” | 85 |
| “A great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”: Berlioz | 77 |
| “All-out war was launched on the graph today when the ___ attacked” | 75 |
| “And I could barely keep my eyes open in Economics, where the topic of the day was ___” | 95 |
| “And thankfully, the graph’s final dimension is not within the ___” | 79 |
| “Character is like a ___ and reputation like its shadow”: Abraham Lincoln | 81 |
| “Chariot” in von Däniken’s “Chariots of the Gods?” | 73 |
| “Cupid is a knavish ___”: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” | 73 |
| “Fortunately, allied forces have entered the graph and are busily ___” | 78 |
| “Getting feedback from hospital occupants is a good use of funding,” Tom agreed ___ | 91 |
| “Harvard Beats ___, 29-29” (1968 “Harvard Crimson” headline) | 76 |
| “I may have discovered the key to the unconscious mind,” Freud said ___ | 79 |
| “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family ...” | 80 |
| “I ___ my soul to the company store” (“Sixteen Tons” line) | 74 |
| “I’m determined to finish my behavioral experiments,” Pavlov said ___ | 81 |
| “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born ...” | 119 |
| “Iggy, these biographies of Stokowski and Toscanini don’t really apply to our project on ...” | 105 |
| “Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ...” | 109 |
| “Iggy, your stirring Duncan Hines batter has no relevance to our experiment on ...” | 91 |
| “In my Soil Mechanics class, the professor droned on about how to use ___” | 82 |
| “Lord High Everything ___” (one of Pooh-Bah’s titles in “The Mikado”) | 89 |
| “Maybe this study on sudden consciousness loss does need funding,” Tom whispered ___ | 92 |
| “More research on sneezing and sniffling is ridiculous,” Tom declared ___ | 81 |
| “My dull day began in my History of Free Silver class, where we were discussing 1878’s ___” | 103 |
| “My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons” | 87 |
| “Next I endured the tedium of my Home Economics class, where the lecture was all about ___” | 99 |
| “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for ___”: Samuel Johnson | 74 |
| “Now ___ the one half-world/Nature seems dead.”" (Shakespeare) | 75 |
| “One man’s ___ is another man’s reminiscence”: Ogden Nash | 73 |
| “Should that say ‘American,’ or will we really be studying the past by watching widescreen ’60s films in ___?” | 130 |
| “Should that say ‘Art,’ or will we really be practicing psychology on rodents in ___?” | 102 |
| “Should that say ‘English,’ or will we really be reading nothing but roofing manuals in ___?” | 109 |
| “Should that say ‘Forensic,’ or will we really be practicing criminology on trees in ___?” | 106 |
| “Still, I’m imparting loads of useful information that I hope they’ll ___...” | 93 |
| “The cruelest ___ are often told in silence”: Robert Louis Stevenson | 76 |
| “The dermatology study shouldn’t be funded,” Tom decided ___ | 72 |
| “The good news is, I told the professor about your lab contributions and she gave us an A for our assignment on ...” | 124 |
| “The leaders of the hostiles are said to comprise a particularly ___” | 77 |
| “The neonatology department needs funding most of all,” Tom blurted ___ | 79 |
| “The research study on fevers needs lots of funding,” Tom said ___ | 74 |
| “The surgery department’s budget may have to be slashed,” Tom stated ___ | 84 |
| “Vain are the thousand ___ that move men’s hearts...”: Emily Bronte | 79 |
| “We’ve just learned that two of the graph’s dimensions have been secured by a squadron of ___!” | 111 |
| “You can’t be a real country unless you have a ___ and an airline”: Frank Zappa | 91 |
| “You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ but that ain’t no matter” | 150 |
| “___ Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up": Barack Obama | 140 |
| BABE MAGNET. Very tall, rugged outdoorsman. Enjoys cutting-edge technology ... | 78 |
| Baby moniker that became wildly popular in the 2000s (hint: read it backwards) | 78 |
| Backdrop for the final scene of Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 75 |
| Backup band for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, with "the" | 78 |
| Bacterial issue potentially treatable by drinking cranberry juice: Abbr. | 72 |
| Baffles (ABOUT THIS PUZZLE: If you saw the headline "Fiend Found!" you might instantly notice that, between the two words, only the vowels change — the consonants stay put. Okay, if you were me, you' | 221 |
| Ballplayer arrested for battery, abuse, and possession of drugs and firearms | 76 |
| Ballplayer arrested for possession of cocaine, driving under the influence, and battery | 87 |
| Ballplayer Campaneris who was the first ever to play all nine positions in a single game | 88 |
| Ballplayer Martinez who played in the postseason eight straight years starting in 1995 | 86 |
| Ballplayer who hit home runs in a record 45 different major league parks | 72 |
| Ballplayer who's the subject of a museum at Montclair State University | 74 |
| Baltimore specialty / Effortless task / Move on all fours with the belly up | 75 |
| Bancroft who was the first woman to explore both the Arctic and Antarctic | 73 |
| Band featured in the 2002 documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" | 81 |
| Band originally snubbed by a label that said "Guitar music is on the way out" | 87 |
| Band that eats Peter Frampton's watermelon, in a "Simpsons" episode | 81 |
| Band that headlines the annual "Gathering of the Juggalos" festival, for short | 88 |
| Band that sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" a cappella at the 2000 World Series | 87 |
| Band that sang the "Friends" theme song "I'll Be There for You," with "the" | 109 |
| Band that simultaneously released the albums "Greatest Hits" and "Greatest Misses" | 102 |
| Band that will change your life, according to Natalie Portman in "Garden State" | 89 |
| Band that won five MTV Video Music Awards for "Take on Me" in 1986 | 76 |
| Band who appeared on "The Simpsons" in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch" | 95 |
| Band who guest starred on "The Simpsons" episode "Homer the Moe" | 84 |
| Band who settled on their name by flipping randomly through the dictionary | 74 |
| Band who was the subject of the documentary "Meeting People Is Easy" | 78 |
| Band whose "Only You" was featured in "Napoleon Dynamite" | 77 |
| Band whose "Saturday Morning" is featured in "Wordplay" | 75 |
| Band whose "Shadow Stabbing" is featured in "Wordplay" | 74 |
| Band whose 1994 song "I'll Make Love to You" was #1 for 14 weeks | 78 |
| Band whose frontman passes through the audience in a plastic bubble, with "The" | 89 |
| Band whose name comes from the Latin for "all-encompassing," not from a movie character | 97 |
| Band whose name is based on the name of several members' high school gym teacher | 84 |
| Band with the "Worst Music Marketing" of 2008, according to BusinessWeek | 82 |
| Band with the 1997 double platinum album "So Much for the Afterglow" | 78 |
| Band with the 2006 album "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" | 84 |
| Band with the 2007 #1 album "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" | 78 |
| Band with the albums "Alpha," "Astra," "Aqua"... (you get the point) | 98 |
| Band with the albums "Intravenus de Milo," "Shark Sandwich," and "Smell The Glove" | 112 |
| Band with the hits "Evil Woman" and "Sweet Talkin' Woman" | 81 |
| Band with the lyric "We're heading for Venus, and still we stand tall" | 84 |
| Band with the multiplatinum albums "Out of Time" and "Monster" | 82 |
| Band with the record for most Top 40 hits without ever having a #1 single | 73 |
| Band with the second-highest-selling album of all time (behind "Thriller") | 84 |
| Bandleader Xavier who led the Waldorf-Astoria's orchestra for 16 years | 74 |
| Baseball div. that provided a wild-card 10 out of the 14 years wild-cards existed | 81 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Buck whose autobiography was "I Was Right On Time" | 83 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer mistakenly listed in "The Chanukah Song" as a Jew | 82 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer with the autobiography "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" | 86 |