| In normal seasons, only month when the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL all have scheduled games | 85 |
| "Hamlet" woman at whose grave Gertrude says "Sweets to the sweet" | 85 |
| Thing that may appear to be symmetrical but isn't ... like this puzzle's grid | 85 |
| ___ Way (Block on Ninth Avenue in New York between 15th and 16th named after a sweet) | 85 |
| ... and the personality magazine created a new category of elite subscribers, the ___ | 85 |
| "I think about quitting every time I can't stand the Heat," quipped ___ | 85 |
| Arthur ___, banker in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 85 |
| "Elf shot the ___!" (classic line from the video game "Gauntlet") | 85 |
| Sports disks that can reach speeds of more than 100 miles per hour after being struck | 85 |
| Hodges who called "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" | 85 |
| 2014 NBC comedy starring David Walton ... and a hint to the puzzle theme which is ___ | 85 |
| With "The," "Hair" song that changes during January and February? | 85 |
| 1915 song that popularized the phrase "Hail! Hail! The gang's all here" | 85 |
| 2009 film for which Sandra Bullock won a Razzie for playing a crossword puzzle writer | 85 |
| "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of ___ ..." (Matthew 19:24) | 85 |
| "After the maid cleans out the ___ ___ going to polish the fireplace doors" | 85 |
| The Coasters' record label (coincidentally, all its letters appear in their name) | 85 |
| "For a righty, you hit the ball pretty well on your left side," and others? | 85 |
| Groening character whose theme song was co-written by Michael Jackson (Matt Groening) | 85 |
| Type of gear on which the letters in this puzzle's nine theme squares are arrayed | 85 |
| Tony-winning director of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | 85 |
| Roberto who said "There must be some terrible mistake!" in his Oscar speech | 85 |
| "Where the folks are fine / And the world is mine," in a Linda Ronstadt hit | 85 |
| "What did you try to do after the caution flag came out?" [The Doors, 1967] | 85 |
| MC Hammer song recorded again for a photography copyright lawyer, with "U"? | 85 |
| The first non-British to receive Britain's Dickin Medal for Gallantry was a _____ | 85 |
| Chelsea ___ News (Manhattan paper that covers the West Side from 14th to 59th Street) | 85 |
| Ingredient 1/8 cup of which is used in a bath at Pennsylvania's Hotel Hershey Spa | 85 |
| “... and use later in brilliant research papers, giving me something to ___!” | 85 |
| Blur frontman who sings "And the mind gets dirty / As you get closer to 30" | 85 |
| She played the witness for the prosecution in "Witness for the Prosecution" | 85 |
| "I have been half in love with ___ Death": "Ode to a Nightingale" | 85 |
| " . . . lightning, which doth cease to be/ ___ can say it lightens": Juliet | 85 |
| In poetry, when she passed, "it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music" | 85 |
| 1986 R.E.M. hit with the prechorus line "And tell the sky and tell the sky" | 85 |
| Hybrid car that runs a few seconds, then stops, then runs again, then stops again...? | 85 |
| Network where "The Newlywed Game" will feature its first gay couple in 2009 | 85 |
| "___ longer denies all the failures of the modern man" (Joy Division lyric) | 85 |
| Pain-reliever once trademarked by Bayer (slogan: "The sedative for coughs") | 85 |
| What 16th-17th century countess Elizabeth Bathory reputedly bathed in to stay younger | 85 |
| Periodical with the tagline "A home doesn't need to be big, just smart" | 85 |
| 1963 movie with the tagline "Everybody who's ever been funny is in it!" | 85 |
| 1994 "Saturday Night Live" movie spinoff on many "Worst Of" lists | 85 |
| R&B group with the 1995 #2 album "The Show, the After Party, the Hotel" | 85 |
| Nora who asked her husband "Why don't you write books people can read?" | 85 |
| Danny O'___ ("Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" singer-songwriter) | 85 |
| Crisis following the breakup of Guns N' Roses, the Eagles, and Mötley Crüe? | 85 |
| "But he forgot to place the order - we may be looking at a ___ here, folks" | 85 |
| "I've got a new job! Just call me ___" said Bonnie, the mortgage broker | 85 |
| Rolling Stones album that features "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | 85 |
| Big Band star who sang "I Wanna Be Like You" in "The Jungle Book" | 85 |
| Eagles song with the line "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town" | 85 |
| Publication founded in 1952 featuring artwork that does the same thing as this puzzle | 85 |
| Girl's name that begins the lyrics of Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" | 85 |
| "I'd rather be on ___ than be emperor of the world" (George Washington) | 85 |
| "I don't have the right equipment to make coffee this morning :( #___"? | 85 |
| Argument that doesn't exist until created for political gain, in modern-day slang | 85 |
| Chicago band whose one-take 2005 video was choreographed and filmed in their backyard | 85 |
| Invention by tailor Franz Reichelt in which he fell to his death (as seen on YouTube) | 85 |
| LIEUT: "He says you're ___." DESIGNER: "That's not true!" | 85 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan character who sings "Under the brave black flag I fly" | 85 |
| Holder of the world record for the longest ovation on the operatic stage (80 minutes) | 85 |
| "... and in less than a ___ they were turned into great hairy warriors ..." | 85 |
| Three words describing the horrible "Dancing Santa" act in the talent show? | 85 |
| Brit with the B-side "Love Cheat" on his 1998 "Millennium" single | 85 |
| "Shaggy! It's a giant arachnid that's apparently been working out!" | 85 |
| "Strangers on a Train" actress who survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria | 85 |
| "Antony and Cleopatra" is the only Shakespeare play to have one (in Act IV) | 85 |
| Meal at which "Why is this night different from all other nights?" is asked | 85 |
| Other than Cain and Abel, the only son of Adam and Eve mentioned by name in the Bible | 85 |
| Italian word that becomes English after deleting its third, fourth, and fifth letters | 85 |
| "You're rich, with cabbage delish/Once tried, always on my side," e.g.? | 85 |
| Metaphorical political term for a system with no purpose other than to sustain itself | 85 |
| Carlos ___ (Mexican businessman who has a controlling interest in the New York Times) | 85 |
| "An' singin there, an' dancin here, / Wi' great and ___": Burns | 85 |
| [*cross out* Symbols of happiness] Transmissions with colons, dashes and parentheses? | 85 |
| React angrily toward (while thinking, "I'll see you in court!" perhaps) | 85 |
| Washed-up-but-still-nominally-entertaining "Dogg After Dark" host, casually | 85 |
| "I don't mean to sound bitter, cold or cruel, but I am ___": Bill Hicks | 85 |
| I arrived at the crime scene at 9 a.m. The kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Ladey, ___ ... | 85 |
| 1945 film mystery starring Dorothy McGuire and Ethel Barrymore (with "The") | 85 |
| "U.S. Presidents by Last Name Length" or "Can you spell Gadaffi?" | 85 |
| Rank of Barry Sadler, the singer of "The Ballad of the Green Berets": Abbr. | 85 |
| Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? | 85 |
| "Guys and Dolls" song whose title follows "Call a lawyer and ..." | 85 |
| Legendary Memphis site where Jerry Lee Lewis recorded "Great Balls of Fire" | 85 |
| "I found a ___, which blended into the beige. No way am I going to eat it." | 85 |
| Driveway stuff (and word that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers) | 85 |
| ___ D-Lite (gross frozen dessert place that appeared on "Sex and the City") | 85 |
| (Slaps)ti(ck s)t(ar,) "Par(ade" ac)t(or, a)n(d Oscar nomin)e(e of F)r(ance) | 85 |
| Russian girl pop group with the 2002 hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 85 |
| Sinatra classic, and hint to what's missing from this puzzle's other classics | 85 |
| Show with mystery numbers like "Lost," only they're all divisible by 2? | 85 |
| "___ Do It Every Time" (Jimmy Hatlo comic strip that ran from 1929 to 2008) | 85 |
| Purple-suited superhero whose ring leaves a skull imprint on bad guys that he punches | 85 |
| Day of the wk. the world ends in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 85 |
| "What I look forward __ continued immaturity followed by death": Dave Barry | 85 |
| Just about the hardest (and least sanitary) game ever, unless you're an anteater? | 85 |
| Hall of Fame pop group The Four __, and last of this puzzle theme's five anagrams | 85 |
| __-Chung (T.C.) Chen, first golfer in U.S. Open history to make a double eagle (1985) | 85 |