| "...that he may --- you as wheat" (Luke 22:31) | 56 |
| Frat. whose alumni include Dr. Seuss and John Goodman | 53 |
| First college frat to charter a chapter in all 50 states | 56 |
| College frat with the greatest number of chapter houses (200+) | 62 |
| Salman Rushdie's "The Moor's Last ___" | 56 |
| "And waft a ___ from Indus to the Pole": Pope | 55 |
| "Ahhh" and "Whew, that was close!" | 54 |
| Poet's creation, like "have" and "shave" | 64 |
| Movie musical featuring "Make 'Em Laugh" | 54 |
| ''Stop'' or ''Yield'' | 53 |
| ''Closed'' or ''Open'' | 54 |
| "Good night, Chet," "Good night, David," e.g. | 65 |
| "As a parent I immediately saw the ___ ..." | 53 |
| What a "Star Trek" tricorder might "show" | 61 |
| ... do you have a limited number of possible responses? | 55 |
| Tony's consigliere, familiarly, on "The Sopranos" | 63 |
| "The Sopranos" second in command, for short | 53 |
| First name of literature's "Weaver of Raveloe" | 60 |
| It's at the end of this puzzle's theme names | 52 |
| Fleetwood Mac's John or Christine, without any singing parts? | 65 |
| What repeats in solemn hymns but isn't in hymnals? | 54 |
| "The Tramp" and "The General," e.g. | 55 |
| Carson tale of well-behaved classroom clock watchers? | 53 |
| Region divided by the Munich Pact and again by the Potsdam agreement | 68 |
| Stuff in those packets you're not supposed to eat | 53 |
| Pertaining to the second most common element in the Earth's crust | 69 |
| More than a quarter of the earth's crust, by mass | 53 |
| AnÃbal Cavaco ___, Portuguese president beginning in 2006 | 60 |
| Futuristic car unveiled at the 1933 New York Auto Show | 54 |
| Christmas hit from the 1951 film 'The Lemon Drop Kid' | 61 |
| Film about winning the chicken breeder's trophy? | 52 |
| 2005 award for Leigh Ann Hester, the first woman to win it since WWII | 69 |
| 1976 comedy film, and a description of this puzzle's center | 63 |
| Actor who played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," 1951 | 63 |
| Matthew Broderick originally provided his adult voice | 53 |
| 1928 movie subtitled "The King of the Beasts" | 55 |
| "I'm gonna be King of Pride Rock" speaker | 55 |
| Hit computer game with the original working title Micropolis | 60 |
| Valley where the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is located | 62 |
| Valley that's the site of the Reagan Presidential Library | 61 |
| ___ Valley (site of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library) | 59 |
| ''My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,'' e.g. | 57 |
| "Good as gold" and "fresh as a daisy" | 57 |
| ...so the chef got a job at the pillow factory, but he... | 57 |
| "Still Hungry After All These Years" autobiographer | 61 |
| Nina who had a 1959 hit with "I Loves You, Porgy" | 59 |
| She had a 1959 hit with "I Loves You, Porgy" | 54 |
| Dollar bill featuring a portrait of Duran Duran's lead singer? | 66 |
| ___ Rock (Massachusetts college designed for younger teens) | 59 |
| Words that encourage people to do as they're told | 53 |
| WANTED: Dimwitted loiterer, for pie-tasting without intent to buy | 65 |
| Direct answer to "why can't you get it up?" | 57 |
| What to do when your ball is two inches from the hole? | 54 |
| "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" confessor | 60 |
| Yellow- and blue-haired family, with "the" | 52 |
| Game that spawned "The Urbz," with "The" | 60 |
| PC game sensation of the early 2000s, with "The" | 58 |
| Best-selling computer game from the early 2000s, with "The" | 69 |
| Peninsula with the world's oldest working Christian monastery | 65 |
| Mount ___, where the Commandments were given to Moses | 53 |
| Subject of the biography "All or Nothing at All" | 58 |
| His gravestone reads "The Best Is Yet to Come" | 56 |
| His first #1 song was "All or Nothing at All" | 55 |
| Frank of the original "Ocean's Eleven" | 52 |
| Artist whose name is an anagram of "artisan" | 54 |
| "The Worst Comedian of All Time," according to Maxim | 62 |
| One-named comedian in "Jingle All the Way" | 52 |
| Comedian with a name that sounds like a terse commentary on evil | 64 |
| "Arabian Nights" character who had seven voyages | 58 |
| ''The Thousand and One Nights'' voyager | 55 |
| "It feels like years ___ it's been clear" | 55 |
| "__ You Went Away": 1944 Best Picture nominee | 55 |
| Sermon subject + a letter + trial subject + cat sound = ? | 57 |
| "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer O'Connor | 52 |
| "I Can ___ Rainbow" (classic kids' tune) | 54 |
| Country that forbids the importation of nontherapeutic chewing gum | 66 |
| Asian country in which English is an official language | 54 |
| In a ___, there's at least one fluid ounce of ___ | 53 |
| Some sewing machines (and clue to this puzzle's theme) | 58 |
| Kip who released "In the Heart of the Young" | 54 |
| Movie featuring performers who croon into cans? (Greek, marriage) | 65 |
| Gary of "Forrest Gump" and "CSI: NY" | 56 |
| "My job does not end with being ___, however" | 55 |
| ___ Féin ("we ourselves" in Irish Gaelic) | 54 |
| What the priest yells when someone faints during confession? | 60 |
| Like the perfect working relationship of lazy, lusty, greedy people? | 68 |
| Fun or deadly things, depending on how one looks at the world | 61 |
| "Few love to hear the ___ they love to act": Shak. | 60 |
| Restraints to prevent the eating of forbidden fruit? | 52 |
| Priory of ___, group in "The Da Vinci Code" | 53 |
| Priory of ___ (group in "The Da Vinci Code") | 54 |
| Priory of __: "The Da Vinci Code" secret society | 58 |
| An elderly woman was having dinner with her husband and was ... | 63 |
| Word with ''yes'' or ''dear'' | 61 |
| Title for Manchester United's coach Alex Ferguson | 53 |
| Stevie Wonder's Ellington tribute "___ Duke" | 58 |
| Often-condescending word from a customer services person | 56 |
| Honorary title for both Bill Gates and Rudolph Giuliani | 55 |
| "Brave ___ Robin" ("Spamalot" song) | 55 |
| "Inside the NBA" analyst Barkley, familiarly | 54 |