| She played Olive Madison opposite Struthers's Florence Ungar in a 1985 Broadway version of "The Odd Couple" | 121 |
| Rita who shouted "Hey you guys!" on "The Electric Company" | 78 |
| Actress who had the Tomlin role in the sitcom version of "9 to 5" | 75 |
| "___ abed and daylight slumber / Were not meant for man alive": Housman | 81 |
| Robert who won a Tony for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | 86 |
| Inventor whose name is spelled out by the horizontal lines of special characters in this puzzle | 95 |
| "___ Inn! What's your price per night?" (misheard "Sister Christian" lyric) | 99 |
| When spelled out, word that follows the beginnings of the starred answers in a memorable kids' show theme song | 114 |
| Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues | 83 |
| According to legend, at age 2 he identified a pig's squeal as G sharp | 73 |
| One of Carrie Bradshaw's main love interests in "Sex and the City" | 80 |
| Old "S.N.L." character currently in MasterCard's "Priceless" ads | 88 |
| Subject of the lyric "A horse is a horse, of course, of course" | 73 |
| TV character who "will never speak unless he has something to say" | 76 |
| He "will never speak unless he has something to say," in a song | 73 |
| "He'll give you the answer that you endorse," according to song | 77 |
| 1983 comedy with the line "Kenny, don't paint your sister!" | 73 |
| Half a married detective team, heroes of 26 Frances and Richard Lockridge novels | 80 |
| "___ and Red Vines equals crazy delicious" ("Lazy Sunday" lyrics) | 85 |
| When he was a bodyguard, his business card read: "Next to God, there is no greater protector than I." | 111 |
| Star of the motivational video "Be Somebody ... or Be Somebody's Fool" | 84 |
| Mohawked actor whose voice was in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" | 79 |
| "Cut out the jibber-jabber" is one of his "Rules for Fools" | 79 |
| Maligned additive that the FDA "generally recognize[s] as safe" | 73 |
| Derivative '80s game in which one ghost's name was changed from Clyde to Sue | 84 |
| 1959 hit with the lyric "Did he ever return? No, he never returned" | 77 |
| 1959 hit with the line "Charlie couldn't get off of that train" | 77 |
| 1959 hit with a melody based on the folk song "The Wreck of the Old 97" | 81 |
| 1959 hit based on the traditional folk song "The Wreck of the Old 97" | 79 |
| Arkansas town that calls itself the "Quartz Crystal Capital of the World" | 83 |
| Production co. responsible for "Lou Grant" and "Rhoda" | 74 |
| Its second-ever video was for Pat Benatar's "You Better Run" | 74 |
| The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 97 |
| ''__ the word'' (''Don't tell anyone'') | 75 |
| Puff of smoke that makes you grow to twice your size, a la Super Mario Bros.? | 77 |
| Relieved comment from a "Next Food Network Star" contestant when the judge likes her fowl dish? | 105 |
| ''It's ___ in life'' (''It's the hand I've been dealt'') | 100 |
| News Corporation-owned Web site that's one of the 10 most visited sites in the world | 88 |
| Sinatra song people are sometimes killed for singing at karaoke in the Philippines | 82 |
| Hunky tennis star featured in Shakira's "Gypsy" music video | 73 |
| Chuck Berry title girl who's repeatedly asked "Is that you?" | 74 |
| The Magnetic Fields' "Wi' ___ Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget" | 77 |
| "I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for __-body" (Burns) | 75 |
| "Captain! The engines canna take ___ more!" (line from Scotty on "Star Trek") | 97 |
| Japanese city with the world's largest train station (in floor area) | 72 |
| Depilatory brand with a controversial "Pretty" line marketed to preteen girls | 87 |
| Brand once advertised with the jingle "We wear short shorts ..." | 74 |
| Brand name that may be a portmanteau of "no" and "hair" | 75 |
| Where GIs fought Charlie[LAST WEEK: "Lady X" was Ingrid Bergman, whose first name is revealed in the circled squares (IN + GRID). Seven of her one-word movie titles can be seen "straddling" black squa | 220 |
| "Smokey, this is not ___. This is bowling. There are rules." ("The Big Lebowski" quote) | 107 |
| Jets legend who drunkenly hit on ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber during a live TV interview | 94 |
| He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with Staubach and Simpson | 76 |
| ___ Flanagan (American Vampire League spokeswoman on TV's "True Blood") | 85 |
| Amateur detective in 1967's "The Clue in the Crossword Cipher" | 76 |
| Titular musical character who wants to "taste the Roaring Twenties" before settling down | 98 |
| Actress in "Dracula's Daughter" and "The Invisible Man Returns" | 87 |
| Model namechecked along with Linda and Christy in RuPaul's "Supermodel" | 85 |
| "In ___, where love is king" (start of "That's Amore") | 78 |
| Monogram of a one-time New York governor who became Gerald Ford's vice president | 84 |
| Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | 78 |
| Rapper with the recent "Illmatic XX" twentieth-anniversary rerelease | 78 |
| Poet who wrote, about children, "And if they are popular / The phone they monopular" | 94 |
| Only NBA player to shoot at least 50% on field goals, 40% on three-pointers and 90% on free throws for five consecutive seasons | 127 |
| Humorist who wrote "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long" | 99 |
| Humorist who wrote "Happiness is having a scratch for every itch" | 75 |
| His poem "Fleas" reads, in its entirety, "Adam / Had 'em" | 81 |
| Sports org. whose last game was the Chicago Sting over the Toronto Blizzard | 75 |
| Political cartoonist called "our best recruiting sergeant" by Lincoln | 79 |
| "___, brutish, and short" (how Hobbes described the life of man) | 74 |
| "The Confessions of ___ Turner" (book that won the 1968 Pulitzer for Fiction) | 87 |
| With "The," magazine described as "the flagship of the left" | 80 |
| Grp. whose members account for more than 50% of the world's defense spending | 80 |
| "___ never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves": Rousseau | 82 |
| "Three o'clock is always too late or too early . . ." literary source | 83 |
| GOP senator's vote on anything that would in any way make Obama look good | 77 |
| Org. whose champion is determined at the beginning of each season by a cackling David Stern | 91 |
| Org. that has four teams with non-plural nicknames, which begin this puzzle's four longest answers | 102 |
| Org. in which "everybody played with a gay teammate," per Charles Barkley | 83 |
| Org. of which Lebron James, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant were never members | 77 |
| TV series that originally had the redundant "Navy" in its title for the first season | 94 |
| Noted children's book illustrator (one of six "middle C" people in this puzzle) | 93 |
| Org. with the slogan "Because a great country deserves great art" | 75 |
| Org. using the scare tactic that "Congress will rewrite No Child Left Behind next year" to get out the vote this year | 127 |
| John Mason ___, English priest who wrote "Good King Wenceslas" | 72 |
| "___, My God, to Thee" (supposed last song played on the sinking Titanic) | 83 |
| ''You can hide __ your covers . . .'' (Springsteen lyric) | 73 |
| Beatty who voiced Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in "Toy Story 3" | 73 |
| First name of Professor Brainard in "The Absent Minded Professor" | 75 |
| Longtime Red Sox announcer Martin whose signature call was "Mercy!" | 77 |
| Connecticut politician Lamont who beat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Senate primary only to lose to him in the general election | 123 |
| "Homer and ___ Hail Mary Pass" (2005 episode of "The Simpsons") | 83 |
| "Homer and ___ Hail Mary Pass" ("The Simpsons" episode) | 75 |
| "___ Declassified School Survival Guide" (former Nickelodeon sitcom) | 78 |
| ''. . . would thou hadst ___ been born'' (''Othello'') | 86 |
| "Such heavenly touches ___ touch'd earthly faces" (Shakespeare) | 77 |
| "Success is counted sweetest by those who ___ succeed": Emily Dickinson | 81 |
| "He ___ is crowned with immortality / Who fears to follow where airy voices lead" (Keats) | 99 |
| Give poor feedback to, online [visit us at avxword.com to get more great puzzles every week] | 92 |
| 1,000 in the phrase "No, no a thousand times no!" is an example of a ___ number | 89 |
| "... with no ___ dialect, unless he wanted to have one" (Harry Reid on Barack Obama, 2008) | 100 |