"A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain" Pulitzer winner Robert ___ Butler | 82 |
Huston's costar and fellow Best Supporting Actress nominee for "Enemies, A Love Story" | 100 |
"___ the other reindeer" (common mishearing of a Yuletide lyric) | 74 |
Triple Crown winner whose sire, Gallant Fox, was also a Triple Crown winner | 75 |
"STATE FAIR ___" (words on the Wizard of Oz's hot-air balloon) | 76 |
Source of the line "The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one" | 73 |
Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | 79 |
Gabonese president Bongo who's the world's longest-serving nonmonarchal head of state (he took office in 1967) | 118 |
Baseballer Vizquel who holds the record for most games played at shortstop | 74 |
"The Wire" character who whistles "The Farmer in the Dell" when entering a scene | 100 |
"The Wire" character Little who is murdered in the antepenultimate episode of the series | 98 |
Atlanta arena that hosted the 1988 Democratic National Convention, with "the" | 87 |
"Justitia ___" (District of Columbia motto meaning "Justice for all") | 89 |
1847 novel subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" | 76 |
Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" | 116 |
Book whose last chapter of Part I is titled "Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn--Friendships in Polynesia" | 110 |
Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay." | 120 |
"Swinging ___ Star" (Best Song Oscar winner from "Going My Way") | 84 |
"I'm ___ Boat" (single featured on "SNL" in 2009) | 73 |
Words with ''even keel'' or ''empty stomach'' | 77 |
God killed him but not specifically because he spilled his "seed," though that was also bad | 101 |
Jacqueline Susann novel, and the problem with some of the answers in this puzzle | 80 |
Song that follows "Sunday Bloody Sunday" on the album "U218 Singles" | 88 |
Number that "Sesame Street" was not "brought to you by" for many years | 90 |
Number of unique lineups U2 has had, as well as the name of a single from "Achtung Baby" | 98 |
Number of tiles per Scrabble set for the letter at the end of the answer to each starred clue | 93 |
Number of protons by which the elements in the four longest puzzle answers have been enhanced | 93 |
Distance forward in the alphabet that each changed letter in the theme entries has moved | 88 |
Tennessee Williams's "The Mutilated" or "Lifeboat Drill" | 80 |
Singer Jamie with the 2001 #1 country song "When I Think About Angels" | 80 |
Most recent player to win MVP, All-Star Game MVP, and Finals MVP in one season | 78 |
The earliest possible time that this crossword will be finished tonight, unfortunately | 86 |
When Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" is believed to have been published | 75 |
"Dedicated to the ___ Love" (1967 hit by the Mamas and the Papas) | 75 |
Baseball Hall of Famer Buck whose autobiography was "I Was Right On Time" | 83 |
Turow memoir subtitled "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" | 97 |
Reggae classic that ends "Let's get together and feel all right" | 78 |
1977 memoir with the subtitle "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" | 104 |
"I wonder what the word for 'dots' looks like in Braille," e.g. | 81 |
Song they played over and over at this Jamaican resort my wife and I went to | 76 |
Reggae song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right" | 80 |
Frat standard with the lyric "let's get together and feel all right" | 82 |
Classic 1977 song with the repeated line "Let's get together and feel all right" | 94 |
Upright, and what's been removed to form this puzzle's theme answers | 76 |
1995 song with the lyric "If God had a name, what would it be?" | 73 |
Small bills [alas, Ink Well ends 6/25/14 - sign up at avxword.com to get similar weekly puzzles] | 96 |
What rating does the Michelin Guide give to "a very good restaurant"? | 79 |
Source of the headline "World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent," with "The" | 103 |
Source of the headline "Study Finds Blame Now Fastest Human Reflex," with "The" | 99 |
"17. I'm psyched I get to write puzzles for 'The ___'" | 76 |
Words with ''step'' or ''I'll get right'' | 77 |
Words with ''lay it'' or ''the joke's'' | 75 |
"Grin __, and I will think thou smilest": "King John" | 73 |
Grateful Dead "Beggin' you baby, 'cause I'm ___ knees" | 76 |
She allowed "Across the Universe" to be performed at the Grammys | 74 |
Performance Artist who planted her "Wish Tree" in Peggy Guggenheim's Venice museum | 96 |
Musician who's probably going to end up in your grid when you've got 33 3-letter words | 94 |
Loser, with Bono, to Fabio, in a 1999 "Celebrity Deathmatch" episode | 78 |
Lennon reportedly described her as looking like "a bloke in drag" | 75 |
Her full name has just one vowel repeated four times (aaaaand this entry officially jumps the shark) | 100 |
Garden of ___ (outdoor Japanese lounge attached to the meatpacking district's Hotel Gansevoort) | 99 |
Author of the surreal Zen-like book of instructions "Grapefruit" | 74 |
"The Plastic ___ Band — Live Peace in Toronto 1969" (1970 album) | 78 |
"Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" singer | 93 |
"Be My Yoko ___" (song on the Barenaked Ladies album "Gordon") | 82 |
Temporarily not playing, in baseball lingo (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 82 |
"As we pulled out of the driveway, Dad started singing '___' ..." | 83 |
''Movin' __'' (''The Jeffersons'' theme) | 76 |
''Movin' ___'' (''The Jeffersons'' theme) | 77 |
"That hurts ..." [Ink Well ends forever on June 25. Sign up for avxwords.com to get great, similar puzzles] | 117 |
Start of many songs in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 74 |
Start of a number of ditties performed by creepy little orange dudes in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 123 |
Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" (and, fun fact, Charlie's granddaughter) | 83 |
Tic-Tac-Toe line after using the rare cheat rule that changes one of your opponents squares | 91 |
"How ___ Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" (Kaavya Viswanathan novel in the news) | 101 |
Material used in the faces of the clock above the information stand in Grand Central Terminal | 93 |
"How ___ Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" (plagiarized 2006 novel) | 87 |
"Which, like dumb mouths, do ___ their ruby lips" ("Julius Caesar") | 87 |
"Lulu," "Louise," "Norma," or "Carmen" | 78 |
It "sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other," according to Aristotle Onassis | 123 |
"What's ___, Doc?" (cartoon with the line "Kill the wabbit...") | 87 |
"How wonderful ___ would be if there were no singers": Rossini | 72 |
"___ in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian": H.L. Mencken | 103 |
"And Morning ___ with haste her lids" (line from Emerson's "The Problem") | 97 |
"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!" speaker, in Shakespeare | 80 |
"Hamlet" woman at whose grave Gertrude says "Sweets to the sweet" | 85 |
Name on "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Andy Griffith Show" | 74 |
Winfrey who said "I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes" | 89 |
She produced a musical version of "The Color Purple" on Broadway | 74 |
Number two on Forbes's 2011 list of The World's Most Powerful Celebrities | 81 |
Thing that may appear to be symmetrical but isn't ... like this puzzle's grid | 85 |
"tops pinwheels / to run in the wind with / ___ toy in 3 tiers to spin" (William Carlos Williams) | 107 |
"___ big tricked-out name tag" (punchline in a Progressive.com ad) | 76 |
''. . . good witch ___ bad witch?'' (Glinda's query) | 72 |
Ambient group who wrote "Little Fluffy Clouds," with "the" | 78 |
"... the inconstant moon ... that monthly changes in her circled __": Juliet | 86 |
"I must create a system, __ enslav'd by another Man's": Blake | 79 |
What this puzzle's eight concentric rings (uncircled and circled) represent | 79 |
What one of the hypocycloids in the Pittsburgh Steelers' logo represents | 76 |
Portland's st. [avxwords.com now has archived bundles - just $8/year] | 73 |