| Pearl Jam "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter ___ Small Town" | 69 |
| "Stranger ___ Strange Land" (1961 Robert A. Heinlein novel) | 69 |
| "The ___ of the Sixth Happiness" (1958 Ingrid Bergman film) | 69 |
| "First ___, first ..." (eulogy words for George Washington) | 69 |
| Gershwin who wrote with Kern, Weill, and Arlen after his brother died | 69 |
| ___ Szewinska, Olympic sprinting gold medalist of 1964, 1968 and 1976 | 69 |
| Sci-fi film with the tagline "What will you do with yours?" | 69 |
| Jeremy who plays Antonio in "The Merchant of Venice" (2004) | 69 |
| Source of "let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die" | 69 |
| It ends "... and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh" | 69 |
| "___ a man in Reno" ("Folsom Prison Blues" lyric) | 69 |
| Religion to which 10% of American voters believe Barack Obama belongs | 69 |
| "There ___ there there" (Gertrude Stein comment on Oakland) | 69 |
| Prefix with ''thermal'' or ''metric'' | 69 |
| ''Social'' or ''Brooklyn'' attachment | 69 |
| Letters within the theme entries that are, literally, next to nothing | 69 |
| Handler best seller "Are You There, Vodka? ___ Me, Chelsea" | 69 |
| "Never in my wildest imagination did I see this happening!" | 69 |
| 1959 Ricky Nelson hit with the lyric "We gotta get on home" | 69 |
| Team originally owned by the Labatt's Brewing Company, familiarly | 69 |
| Rapper who played the first concert in Brooklyn's Barclays Center | 69 |
| Only US president to receive both a Purple Heart and a Pulitzer Prize | 69 |
| 2001 album including the song "Love Don't Cost a Thing" | 69 |
| "What to Expect When You're Expecting" star, familiarly | 69 |
| State with a recent controversy over the teaching of evolution: Abbr. | 69 |
| Pittsburgh radio station since 1920, said to be the world's first | 69 |
| Reeves who played Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 69 |
| Charlize and Al's co-star in "The Devil's Advocate" | 69 |
| Mayor who later served as judge on "The People's Court" | 69 |
| She was on the cover of back-to-back issues of Time in September 1997 | 69 |
| Essayist who wrote "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once" | 69 |
| First language of Hank's neighbor on "King of the Hill" | 69 |
| "Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy" philosopher | 69 |
| Sixpence None the Richer covered them with "There She Goes" | 69 |
| "I'll have a grande decaf triple vanilla 2% __, please" | 69 |
| Golfer Davies, seven-time Ladies European Tour Order of Merit awardee | 69 |
| Fall faller [an avxwords.com subscription makes a great holiday gift] | 69 |
| Shakespearean king who partly inspired Kurosawa's "Ran" | 69 |
| Relient K "Two ___ Don't Make a Right ... But Three Do" | 69 |
| "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?" speaker | 69 |
| Actress Headey of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" | 69 |
| Author of the children's book "If Roast Beef Could Fly" | 69 |
| Brian Eno "Small Craft on a Milk Sea" collaborator Abrahams | 69 |
| What Archers of Loaf's "Seconds Before the Accident" is | 69 |
| "Mahalo nui ___" ("Thank you very much," in Hilo) | 69 |
| Actor Rob who played a presidential aide on "The West Wing" | 69 |
| What some thought "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was about | 69 |
| Star of "The Death Kiss" and "The Phantom Creeps" | 69 |
| Country singer on whom "Coal Miner's Daughter" is based | 69 |
| Merchant played by Harry Antrim in "Miracle on 34th Street" | 69 |
| Obama daughter whose Secret Service code name is "Radiance" | 69 |
| Broadway musical with the song "We Need a Little Christmas" | 69 |
| He wrote "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" | 69 |
| Language that gave us the words "tiki" and "kiwi" | 69 |
| "Say it soft and it's almost like praying" girl of song | 69 |
| Home of the invaders in Wells's "The War of the Worlds" | 69 |
| It can follow the last word of this puzzle's five longest answers | 69 |
| Class that's "hard," according to a talking Barbie doll | 69 |
| Comic actress who co-starred on "Archie Bunker's Place" | 69 |
| Singer/actress who made her Broadway debut in "Hair" (1968) | 69 |
| Its youngest British member, Elise Tan Roberts, was admitted at age 2 | 69 |
| "Ma momma's from Virginny, and ma daddy's from ___" | 69 |
| Range that was thesetting for the 1995 film "North Country" | 69 |
| Part of Bette Midler's nickname (and what the starred answers do) | 69 |
| Year that "Shrek" and "A Beautiful Mind" came out | 69 |
| "The Simpsons" character who says "Oh geez" a lot | 69 |
| Marshmallow-and-chocolate treat that some people apparently microwave | 69 |
| Word with ''detector'' or ''picture'' | 69 |
| AWOL chasers ... or a hint to the answers to the six italicized clues | 69 |
| "___ Robinson" (1968 chart-topper by Simon & Garfunkel) | 69 |
| "Rocky III" actor with the line "I pity the fool" | 69 |
| Kingston Trio hit with the lyric "Fight the fare increase!" | 69 |
| Word with ''elevator'' or ''chamber'' | 69 |
| Where Joan's husband is serving on "Mad Men," for short | 69 |
| Grp. whose initials in French are the reverse of its English initials | 69 |
| They compete with the O's for local baseball fans' affections | 69 |
| Org. with a self-serving category called "student athletes" | 69 |
| Word with ''miss'' or ''catastrophe'' | 69 |
| "The Simpsons" character who says "Okily-dokily!" | 69 |
| "When I ___ you, I just close my eyes and I'm with you" | 69 |
| '-- Blu Dipinto di Blu' (song also known as 'Volare') | 69 |
| One-hit wonder named after lead singer Gabriele Kerner's nickname | 69 |
| 2006 "Weird Al" Yankovic parody "White & ___" | 69 |
| First name of the ''Contract with America'' architect | 69 |
| Long whose voice was formerly heard on "The Cleveland Show" | 69 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre play that opens with "Hm! So here we are?" | 69 |
| Ace who threw the first no-hitter at Denver's Coors Field in 1996 | 69 |
| Description of a man who isn't a Riviera city dweller any longer? | 69 |
| Second word of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" (1987) | 69 |
| Org. Giuliani was addressing when interrupted by a call from his wife | 69 |
| Org. that's the subject of the book "The Puzzle Palace" | 69 |
| Anthem singers at the closing ceremony of the Salt Lake City Olympics | 69 |
| "Mahalo ___ loa" ("Thank you very much," in Maui) | 69 |
| Presidential candidate and author of "The Audacity of Hope" | 69 |
| Brit's honorary title won by J. K. Rowling and Hugh Laurie: Abbr. | 69 |
| Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women | 69 |
| Award won in 2011 by "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" | 69 |
| Instrument heard in Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" | 69 |
| Instruments featured in the first of Bach's Brandenburg concertos | 69 |
| National anthem that ends with "we stand on guard for thee" | 69 |