| Richard ___, 2002 Pulitzer winner for the novel "Empire Falls" | 72 |
| Road in the title of an old Johnny Depp television show and recent movie | 72 |
| Ronald Reagan is the only U.S. president who was also president of a ... | 72 |
| Rossellini film renamed "Ways of Love" in its American version | 72 |
| Rectangular devices with a D-pad and the buttons A, B, START, and SELECT | 72 |
| Response to "Tom!" in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" | 72 |
| Ron Moody in "Oliver!" compared to others who played the part? | 72 |
| Rocker with the 1981 triple-platinum album "Diary of a Madman" | 72 |
| Randy Watson's overrated soul band, in "Coming to America" | 72 |
| Risky marketing of sports jackets on a city's outskirts? [Chevrolet] | 72 |
| Reply to "Were any people left after Dick and Harry departed?" | 72 |
| Rapper with the 1996 nine-time platinum album "All Eyez on Me" | 72 |
| Rhyme scheme at the beginning of "Can't Knock the Hustle" | 71 |
| Rapper on "Lady Marmalade" with Christina Aguilera and others | 71 |
| Rapper who got into a high-profile feud with journalist Lynn Hirschberg | 71 |
| Roman writer who originated the phrase "with a grain of salt" | 71 |
| Randy who played a homophobic rancher in "Brokeback Mountain" | 71 |
| R.E.M. song "All The Way To ___ (You're Gonna Be A Star)" | 71 |
| Role played by each of four actors in the year indicated in their clues | 71 |
| Rhetorical device like "this earth, this realm, this England" | 71 |
| Rapper who released his debut album "Beware of Dog" at age 13 | 71 |
| Rugged bi actor who played a boxer in "From Here to Eternity" | 71 |
| Reason to watch "Sesame Street" and "Nova" on mute? | 71 |
| Really come down, as illustrated by hidden words in six starred answers | 71 |
| Roles in "Julius Caesar" and "Antony and Cleopatra" | 71 |
| Reverend credited with saying "The Lord is a shoving leopard" | 71 |
| R&B artist with the 2005 hits "Oh" and "And I" | 70 |
| Reasons for the saying, "There's no 'I' in team" | 70 |
| Railroad company known as "The scarlet woman of Wall Street" | 70 |
| Rock-forming mineral that makes up nearly 60% of the Earth's crust | 70 |
| Response to ''What did you do when you saw the bear?'' | 70 |
| Repeated word in "Head On (Hold On To Your Heart)" band name | 70 |
| Realtor's "expansive backyard"? Honestly, there's __ | 70 |
| Religious leader who emigrated to America in 1774 to avoid persecution | 70 |
| Ravel's "Ma Mère ___," a k a "Mother Goose" | 70 |
| Russian billionaire Mikhail who recently purchased the New Jersey Nets | 70 |
| Reality show in which contestants get "voted off the island" | 70 |
| Robert Graves poem that starts "The bugler sent a call ... " | 70 |
| REO's "You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't ___ Fish" | 70 |
| Response to jazzman Peterson's "What's for dinner?"? | 70 |
| Rhyme scheme of the first verse of "Mary had a little lamb" | 69 |
| Record company that released Crosby's "White Christmas" | 69 |
| Rock producer Brian Peter George St. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle ___ | 69 |
| Religion to which 10% of American voters believe Barack Obama belongs | 69 |
| Rapper who played the first concert in Brooklyn's Barclays Center | 69 |
| Reeves who played Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 69 |
| Relient K "Two ___ Don't Make a Right ... But Three Do" | 69 |
| Range that was thesetting for the 1995 film "North Country" | 69 |
| River through Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, among others | 69 |
| Repeated interjection in the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" | 69 |
| Result of a fruitful plate appearance in the Grapefruit League: Abbr. | 69 |
| River rising in the Vosges Mountains on the border of Alsace-Lorraine | 69 |
| Ralph who co-wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | 69 |
| Rhode Island senator who created Basic Educational Opportunity Grants | 69 |
| Rolling Stones album featuring the song "Where the Boys Go" | 69 |
| Request that the bank not give out all their money before you arrive? | 69 |
| Rock band with multiple songs about "The Lord of the Rings" | 69 |
| Rodney Dangerfield's "I don't get no respect," e.g. | 69 |
| Rap duo arrested in 1990 for an "obscene, lewd performance" | 69 |
| Reference from the Hawaiian and Greek for "quick education" | 69 |
| Recording artist made famous by the BBC series "The Celts" | 68 |
| Rapper with the gold-record album "O.G. Original Gangster" | 68 |
| Rally speaker's emphatic response to his own rhetorical question | 68 |
| Ronald, Ernie, O'Kelly, Rudolph, Vernon, or Marvin of soul music | 68 |
| Relief pitcher Orosco who closed out Game 7 of the 1986 World Series | 68 |
| Rod "___ Goes By ... The Great American Songbook: Vol. II" | 68 |
| Result of having no room under the beach umbrella for your knapsack? | 68 |
| Response to comic Anderson's "What's for dinner?"? | 68 |
| Rolling Stones hit whose title follows the words "Hey you" | 68 |
| Rihanna's studio album with the hit single "Disturbia" | 68 |
| Role played by Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, and Angela Lansbury | 68 |
| Raskolnikov portrayer in 1935's "Crime and Punishment" | 68 |
| Response to actress Bracco's "What's for brunch?"? | 68 |
| Region divided by the Munich Pact and again by the Potsdam agreement | 68 |
| Ray of "My Favorite Martian" and "Picket Fences" | 68 |
| River phenomena (or what literally happens six times in this puzzle) | 68 |
| Real estate magnate Hirschfeld who often wore crossword puzzle ties | 67 |
| Role that won Costner his second of three Worst Actor Razzie Awards | 67 |
| Reagan cabinet member who was previously counselor to the president | 67 |
| Response to ''Where's that last piece of pie?'' | 67 |
| Role for diminutive Verne Troyer in "Austin Powers" films | 67 |
| Right-wing talking point word about the Occupy Wall Street protests | 67 |
| R&B singer with the 2014 single "Money Can't Buy" | 67 |
| Rap classic with the repeated chorus "Yeah, you know me!" | 67 |
| Religious sch. with the motto "Make no little plans here" | 67 |
| Roger who won the Best Actor Tony for "Nicholas Nickleby" | 67 |
| Rodgers and Hammerstein's "There Is Nothing Like ___" | 67 |
| Role played by Drew Barrymore in a 1993 TV movie based on real life | 67 |
| Raeburn van __, cartoonist who drew "Abbie an' Slats" | 67 |
| Region with the highest concentration of national parks in the U.S. | 67 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known as the White Lady of Soul | 67 |
| Rock-reggae singer with the 1983 #2 hit "Electric Avenue" | 67 |
| Rex Harrison-Maureen O'Hara drama of 1947, with "The" | 67 |
| Rating site that asks users whether they would use a given notepad? | 67 |
| Round Table knight in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" | 67 |
| Rock genre whose band names tend to use terrible puns of said genre | 67 |
| Record-holder for throwing a touchdown pass in 47 consecutive games | 67 |
| Realtor's "lavish landscaping"? Frankly, there are __ | 67 |
| Repetitive band fronted by Karen O with the single "Maps" | 67 |
| R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World ___ Know It" | 66 |