| "(That's it,) p(al, you've lo)s(t) y(our) ch(ance to watch anything tonight)!" | 96 |
| There is an important one spelled out by the last characters of this puzzle's clues, starting from the top | 110 |
| Winner over Ohio State in 1935's so-called "Game of the Century" | 78 |
| "À ___ la Liberté" (1931 classic film directed by René Clair) | 81 |
| Without any chance at all (and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme) | 74 |
| Org. that held a 2010 "Trigger the Vote" registration campaign | 72 |
| Govt. org. with an "Information Assurance" section on its website | 75 |
| Govt. agency whose motto (it's joked) is "never say anything" | 75 |
| Branch of the govt. whose number of employees and annual budget are classified, aptly | 85 |
| Agcy. whose careers page says "Where Intelligence Goes to Work" | 73 |
| Boy band with the song "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" | 80 |
| Boy band that appeared on the "New Kids on the Blecch" episode of "The Simpsons" | 100 |
| Band who appeared on "The Simpsons" in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch" | 95 |
| Band that sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" a cappella at the 2000 World Series | 87 |
| Like Michelangelo's "David" or Rodin's "The Thinker" | 80 |
| Eagles "Wonder why the right words never come. You just get __" | 73 |
| Helpful track off "Get Behind Me Satan" (with "The") | 72 |
| Football target, in a lot of "America's Funniest Home Videos" submissions | 87 |
| "Annie" song with the lyric "Too busy / Too crazy / Too hot / Too cold / Too late / I'm sold" | 117 |
| Word before and after "Tovarich" in a "Doctor Zhivago" number | 81 |
| Org. with a flag of five alternating green and white stripes and a blue union with 24 white stars | 97 |
| Songwriter who wrote "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Stoney End" | 78 |
| Songwriter of both "Stoney End" and "Stoned Soul Picnic" | 76 |
| Singer-songwriter with the 1993 album "Walk the Dog and Light the Light" | 82 |
| Oddly, newspaper that is a minority stakeholder in the Boston Red Sox: Abbr. | 76 |
| "24. The first crossword I ever wrote I sold to the ___.It ran on 8/7/1996" | 85 |
| "Bring this ship into the shore and throw away the ___ forever" (REO Speedwagon) | 90 |
| "...Bring this ship into the shore, and throw away the ___ forever" | 77 |
| Pulitzer nominee for the novels "Black Water" and "Blonde" | 78 |
| O. Henry Award winner for "In the Region of Ice" (1967) and "The Dead" (1973) | 97 |
| Author of the Oprah's Book Club selection "We Were the Mulvaneys" | 79 |
| Toasted pieces in a bowl of "Magically Delicious" Lucky Charms | 72 |
| His second book is subtitled "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" | 82 |
| Future senator who delivered the 2004 Democratic convention keynote address | 75 |
| First First Lady to announce the Best Picture winner at an Academy Awards ceremony | 82 |
| School with the U.S.'s oldest continuously operating music conservatory | 75 |
| Officer who arrested Arlo for illegally dumping garbage in "Alice's Restaurant" | 93 |
| Woodwind with the "swan" melody in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" | 84 |
| It's derived from the French word "hautbois," meaning "high wood" | 89 |
| Hoobastank "Did it ever ___ to you that this could be your final day" | 79 |
| Calle ___ (main drag in Miami's "Little Havana," literally "8th Street") | 96 |
| "(The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of) Santo Domingo" singer Phil | 80 |
| Mo. in which chemistry nerds celebrate Mole Day (between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, precisely) | 88 |
| Month that "Peanuts" and the Model T debuted (not the same year) | 74 |
| In normal seasons, only month when the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL all have scheduled games | 85 |
| Adopted last name of singer Anita Colton (it's pig Latin for what she hoped to make) | 88 |
| Atmosphere lyric "___ enough, I'm happy I ain't famous." | 74 |
| "And you coming back to me, is against all ___" (Phil Collins) | 72 |
| One famously begins "O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" | 83 |
| A famous one begins "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness" | 76 |
| "The ___ Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within" (Stephen Fry book) | 79 |
| "___ to the Motherland" (performance at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony) | 88 |
| Nancy who's slated to replace Mary Hart on "Entertainment Tonight" | 80 |
| Digby ''Digger'' ___ of ''The Life of Riley'' | 77 |
| TriBeCa restaurant in "Bright Lights, Big City," with "the" | 79 |
| Ukrainian port whose staircase is a setting for "The Battleship Potemkin" | 83 |
| Texas city that's the setting for the film "Friday Night Lights" | 78 |
| Texas city obsessed with the Permian Panthers in "Friday Night Lights" | 80 |
| Little ___ (nickname for the Russian neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) | 78 |
| 1974 thriller that begins with the Kennedy assassination, with "The" | 78 |
| Any characters on "Friday Night Lights" (geographically speaking) | 75 |
| Lefty with the fourth-highest career batting average in baseball history | 72 |
| "Reading the ___" (2008 book subtitled "One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages") | 93 |
| Thoreau's "On Fields ___ Which the Reaper's Hand Has Pass'd" | 82 |
| “Now ___ the one half-world/Nature seems dead.”" (Shakespeare) | 75 |
| "Love, Reign ___ Me" (The Who song covered by Pearl Jam and Heart) | 76 |
| James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography ___ Ex-Colored Man" | 75 |
| Where Claudius is during Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy | 79 |
| Grateful Dead "Yes I get the gist ___, but it's all right" | 72 |
| "The good is ___ interred with their bones": "Julius Caesar" | 80 |
| "Our remedies __ in ourselves do lie": "All's Well That Ends Well" | 90 |
| "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more" writer | 73 |
| When repeated, one of Piers Anthony's "Xanth" fantasy novels | 74 |
| "The Odious ___" (children's book written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer) | 106 |
| Scarlett whose final film words are "I'll never be hungry again" | 78 |
| Kelli who will star in Broadway's "Nice Work If You Can Get It" | 77 |
| Character who said "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 84 |
| Movie in which the title character says "The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets" | 92 |
| Film in which the title character says "I don't permit the suffering—you do" | 94 |
| "__ just can't wait to be king": "The Lion King" lyric | 78 |
| Title locale in a Leonard Bernstein song where "life was so cozy" | 75 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" | 90 |
| Response to "Swiper, no swiping!" on "Dora the Explorer" | 76 |
| Speedskater who won the fourth season of "Dancing With the Stars" | 75 |
| Yello song heard in the closing credits of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 83 |
| Upton Sinclair novel that was the inspiration for "There Will Be Blood" | 81 |
| ABUNDANT RUSSIAN RESOURCE THAT ONLY NICE, NON-SANCTIONING NATIONS CAN HAVE | 74 |
| R&B group with the 1972 hit "Back Stabbers," with "the" | 79 |
| 1970s R&B trio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "the" | 74 |
| Painter of "Pelvis with Shadow and the Moon" and "Cow's Skull with Calico Roses" | 104 |
| Its name comes from a Native American word meaning "land of the trembling earth" | 90 |
| Island called "The Keystone of the Pacific" by the Department of Defense | 82 |
| Count played by Jim Carrey in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 93 |
| Norwegian king who ... oh, as if you know anything about Norwegian kings | 72 |
| Tallinn's St. ___ Church, once said to be the tallest building in Europe | 76 |
| Grate, with "get," or what this puzzle's theme answers get | 72 |
| Words before ''Methuselah'' or ''the hills'' | 76 |
| Cassini who said "To be well dressed is a little like being in love" | 78 |
| ___ Kalugin, former K.G.B. general with the 1994 book "Spymaster" | 75 |
| Nickname of the university that was the site of a 1962 desegregation drama | 74 |