| ''Glob,'' ''nod'' or ''mod'' finisher | 85 |
| Bill Withers song whose title follows "all you want to do is" in the lyrics | 85 |
| She played Blanche opposite Marlon's Stanley in "Streetcar" on Broadway | 85 |
| Martha's portrayer on Broadway in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | 85 |
| "I can teach you how to sew an artist's hat, if you're interested"? | 85 |
| Phase in which the moon's right half is mostly visible in the Northern Hemisphere | 85 |
| "Isn't it rich, are ___ pair..." ("Send in the Clowns" lyric) | 85 |
| Irving Berlin standard that begins "Gone is the romance that was so divine" | 85 |
| "I took you for that cunning ___ of Venice" (line from "Othello") | 85 |
| "Here lies One ___ Name was writ in Water" (words on Keats's tombstone) | 85 |
| Bob Woodward book subtitled "The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" | 85 |
| "Why, oh why isn't my boyfriend more like the 1999 sexiest man alive?"? | 85 |
| "... each armed with a double-bladed ___ (to cut both ways, of course) ..." | 85 |
| Its first notable orchestral use was in Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" | 85 |
| "A place you can go ... when you're short on your dough," in a 1979 hit | 85 |
| "Will it ever stop? ___ don't know..." ("Ice Ice Baby" lyric) | 85 |
| Vegetarian's "Duh!" response to why they hate their formerly vegan pal? | 85 |
| Band with the second-highest-selling album of all time (behind "Thriller") | 84 |
| Whence the line "Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts" | 84 |
| "Flowers for __": story from which the film "Charly" was adapted | 84 |
| Only player other than Sheffield to make the All-Star team with five different clubs | 84 |
| "All I want is __ somewhere": "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" lyric | 84 |
| "___ does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection": Cervantes | 84 |
| Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses | 84 |
| New York stadium that was the site of the first professional outdoor basketball game | 84 |
| ''Don't ___!'' (''I haven't the foggiest!'') | 84 |
| "... nor his ___, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's": Exodus 20:17 | 84 |
| "Gigantic (___ of Two Johns)," 2002 documentary about They Might Be Giants | 84 |
| She said "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" | 84 |
| Rand who said "A culture is made, or destroyed, by its articulate voices." | 84 |
| Empire whose main sport was tlachtli, wherein the loser was ritualistically executed | 84 |
| Looks proudly [get xword deals by signing up for our free news list! - avxwords.com] | 84 |
| Words repeated by Samuel L. Jackson in the diner scene from "Pulp Fiction" | 84 |
| Disease whose name is a reduplication of the Sinhalese word for "weakness" | 84 |
| Musical character who sings "Leavin' fo' de Promise' Lan'" | 84 |
| "I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history" speaker, familiarly | 84 |
| "Reporter" who made a popular 2006 documentary on the "US and A" | 84 |
| Campbell who captained the Canadian women's hockey team to gold in 2002 and 2006 | 84 |
| Roman who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" | 84 |
| Noble headpiece that becomes a brass instrument if you remove it's middle letter | 84 |
| Its episode titles have included "Got Murder?" and "You Kill Me" | 84 |
| Junot ___, 2008 Pulitzer winner for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" | 84 |
| Catchphrase introduced around the same time as "don't have a cow, man" | 84 |
| "Cinque, dieci, venti, trenta" in "The Marriage of Figaro," e.g. | 84 |
| "___ People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs" | 84 |
| Shopping venue with the options "Books" and "Toys & Hobbies" | 84 |
| Author whose initials can be anagrammed into the second word of his most famous work | 84 |
| "The ___ is here to stay" (ill-considered corporate pronouncement of 1957) | 84 |
| Something associated with the first words of this puzzle's seven longest answers | 84 |
| Puppet in Kevin Clash's autobiography "My Life as a Furry Red Monster" | 84 |
| Artist with the #1 albums "Relapse" (2009) and "Recovery" (2010) | 84 |
| "Big" or "Little" character in "Smokey and the Bandit" | 84 |
| Image in the final scene of Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 84 |
| Band with the lyric "We're heading for Venus, and still we stand tall" | 84 |
| Lifeline removed from the latest season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 84 |
| Natural talent[For the explanation of last week's theme, see the last Down clue] | 84 |
| Show whose cast holds the record for the most charted songs on the Billboard Hot 100 | 84 |
| Spock sported one in the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of "Star Trek" | 84 |
| Visit to one's parents, even though you could've gone somewhere fun instead? | 84 |
| Sci-fi character who says "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" | 84 |
| They're gonna do what they do so just turn your head away and hold your palm out | 84 |
| Rapper who recently called guns "the last form of defense against tyranny" | 84 |
| "Don't lose faith ___"[SEE NOTE ABOVE for last week's explanation] | 84 |
| "Crazy ___ And The Douche" ("Parks and Recreation" morning show) | 84 |
| ___ Spalko, ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" villain) | 84 |
| Fisher who plays "Mytle Wilson" in 2013's "The Great Gatsby" | 84 |
| "___ be a lot cooler if you did ..." ("Dazed and Confused" line) | 84 |
| Classic breakup line, and a hint to the formation of this puzzle's theme answers | 84 |
| First person to win a Smarties Prize, for children's books, three years in a row | 84 |
| "American Top 40" host (and the voice of Shaggy on "Scooby-Doo") | 84 |
| Time magazine called her "a first responder in the advance guard of style" | 84 |
| Instrument Paul McCartney played on Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen" | 84 |
| "Finger lickin' good" sloganeer, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 84 |
| "Casablanca" words repeated before "as if it were the last time" | 84 |
| Grassy ___ (part of Dealey Plaza of interest to Kennedy assassination investigators) | 84 |
| "Seinfeld" character who dreams up a coffee table book about coffee tables | 84 |
| "___ & Order" (show in which "vic" means "victim") | 84 |
| Who once remarked "You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh" | 84 |
| Enjoy summer weather, and a hint to the beginning of the three other longest answers | 84 |
| Mexican singer Downs who performed on the Oscar-winning "Frida" soundtrack | 84 |
| "A bullet from a fucking gun!," per Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet" | 84 |
| Broadway show whose title woman can "coax the blues right out of the horn" | 84 |
| "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it" speaker | 84 |
| Physics unit of measurement that's another unit of measurement spelled backwards | 84 |
| Italian city where Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" takes place | 84 |
| Children's author who wrote "A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly" | 84 |
| "Voulez-vous coucher avec ___ ce soir?" ("Lady Marmalade" lyric) | 84 |
| "Shirley, Good Mrs. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life" is one | 84 |
| Star of the motivational video "Be Somebody ... or Be Somebody's Fool" | 84 |
| Derivative '80s game in which one ghost's name was changed from Clyde to Sue | 84 |
| Monogram of a one-time New York governor who became Gerald Ford's vice president | 84 |
| "Where and when do the main characters work?" (highly literal TV title #3) | 84 |
| Villain to "avoid" in vintage Domino's Pizza ads (with "the" | 84 |
| Word repeated in Shelley's line "___ happiness, ___ majesty, ___ fame" | 84 |
| Woodwind with the "swan" melody in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" | 84 |
| Character who said "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 84 |
| "Swinging ___ Star" (Best Song Oscar winner from "Going My Way") | 84 |
| Opera character who cries "Il fazzoletto!" ("The handkerchief!") | 84 |
| He replaced Foxx as baseball's youngest player when he debuted at age 17 in 1926 | 84 |
| "The Simpsons" character with a habit of calling things "gnarly" | 84 |