| "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of ___, of most excellent fancy": "Hamlet" [1996 novel] | 125 |
| Variant spelling for an eskimo boat recently added to the Scrabble dictionary (you'll need at least one blank to play it) | 125 |
| The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ | 125 |
| Director of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" (who is no relation to the author of this puzzle) | 125 |
| A. "Mommie Dearest" B. "Lonesome Dove" C. "Angela's Ashes" D. "Times to Remember" | 125 |
| "The Simpsons" character who graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute of Technology | 124 |
| Sci-fi character who says "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." | 124 |
| "I'm ___, Indiana Jones, and Bladerunner. I'm Fuckin' Over It!": shirt Photoshopped onto Harrison Ford | 124 |
| "You won't have ___ to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference" (1962 quote) | 124 |
| Bush aide who claimed knowledge of "THE math" before incorrectly predicting the outcome of the 2006 U.S. elections | 124 |
| Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" | 124 |
| "Under a ___" (Durante's clue to where the money is buried in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World") | 124 |
| Entertainment options so named because the audience is more detached, per McLuhan (not because he thought they were awesome) | 124 |
| Social reformer whose correspondence with Millard Fillmore is the subject of the book "The Lady and the President" | 124 |
| "West Side Story" song, or a hoped-for response after experiencing the transition in this puzzle's word ladder | 124 |
| Start of remark to me by a guy in a coffee shop in March 2011 about his observations in my traffic courtroom not long before | 124 |
| "Then Larry starts begging to play Moe's role for a change, and Curly says to ___, so Moe happily obliges ..." | 124 |
| History class: F -- “The professor ignored my attendance record and class participation, judging me entirely on ___” | 124 |
| “The good news is, I told the professor about your lab contributions and she gave us an A for our assignment on ...” | 124 |
| 1981 comedy with the tagline "The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls" | 124 |
| Settings where the main characters get chased by sharks, in both "Finding Nemo" and "The Little Mermaid" | 124 |
| Guest speakers on the subject "Does the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' Story Perpetuate Offensive Sterotypes?"? | 124 |
| Theodore Roosevelt, who was never known as the modest type, is the only U.S. president ever to give an inaugural address ... | 124 |
| Add vertical line 13 (word 3) and vertical line 3 (word 1) together and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 123 |
| Salinger character who says “I’d be extremely flattered if you’d write a story exclusively for me sometime” | 123 |
| Celeb in "The First Wives Club" with the cameo line "Remember girls, don't get mad, get everything" | 123 |
| Connecticut politician Lamont who beat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Senate primary only to lose to him in the general election | 123 |
| Start of a number of ditties performed by creepy little orange dudes in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 123 |
| It "sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other," according to Aristotle Onassis | 123 |
| Word form made with the big letter depicted in this puzzle's diagram (this letter is entirely absent from the solution) | 123 |
| What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style | 123 |
| "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more ___?": "Twelfth Night" [1930 novel] | 123 |
| Fashion designer Marc who bought Barry Bonds's 756th home run ball and let the public vote to brand it with an asterisk | 123 |
| "South Pacific" song that asks "If you don't have a dream, / How you gonna have a dream come true?" | 123 |
| Good day sir, I am Joseph Komalo, son of a ___. I wish to transfer 1,594,976 ZAR ($14.9. million USD) direct to you account | 123 |
| Pitcher with a 168-mph fastball dreamed up by George Plimpton for the 1985 April Fools' Day issue of Sports Illustrated | 123 |
| It's the end of The World!...actually, it's a radio station mentioned at the end of PRI's "The World" | 123 |
| A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value" | 122 |
| "I loaned a friend of mine $8,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like" comic Philips | 122 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight" (penultimate line of "A Visit From St. Nicholas") | 122 |
| "If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public" speaker | 122 |
| "O, swear not by ... the fickle moon ... __ that thy love prove likewise variable": "Romeo and Juliet" | 122 |
| Politician who had a voice that "could boil the fat off a taxicab driver's neck," according to Norman Mailer | 122 |
| Winner of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" | 122 |
| Answer to the question, "In your opinion, what do you suppose is the object most likely to scare away Dracula?"? | 122 |
| And you even managed to do 24 ___ in the strip mall parking lot, when the sign clearly said Five Guys Burgers and Fries... | 122 |
| Acme vehicle made for those who are a bit "unbalanced" (like coyotes), from "Hot Rod & Reel," 1959 | 122 |
| Where Kenny's ashes are put in a "South Park" episode, after which Cartman puts them in milk and drinks them | 122 |
| With "The," band with a remastered box set of albums released 9/9/09 (the date referring to one of their songs) | 121 |
| "And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou ___ every act of thy life as if it were the last" (Marcus Aurelius) | 121 |
| "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives" speaker | 121 |
| Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally | 121 |
| He told the Once-ler, "Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!" | 121 |
| She played Olive Madison opposite Struthers's Florence Ungar in a 1985 Broadway version of "The Odd Couple" | 121 |
| Theme #2 (Bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum), with "the" | 121 |
| Mark that appears four times in this puzzle (hint: the baseball player who's the answer to this puzzle uses one, too) | 121 |
| Character who, in an 8/15/1939 Hollywood premiere, speaks the first words of this puzzle's five other longest answers | 121 |
| Q: "So, Lone Ranger (whinny, neigh), what do you call these undies of yours (neigh, snort)?" A: "___" | 121 |
| Author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" | 121 |
| It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's calling them (as in "Manhattan Murder Mystery") | 121 |
| "Why leave a city that has six professional sports teams, and ___?" (Manhattan Mini Storage advertising slogan) | 121 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| "Drink ___ Hearties Yo Ho" (song on the soundtrack to "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End") | 121 |
| What the ten movie titles in this puzzle do at their intersections -- or a 2005 movie spelled out by those intersections | 120 |
| "2. I've never been more drunk than the New Years Eve night 1999 when I polished off three bottles of ___" | 120 |
| Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay." | 120 |
| "So, if she weighs the same as ___, then she's made of wood" ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail") | 120 |
| Deadly; understood; take a flat; show-off; drew a blank; New York nickname; pro; director Hartley; 2000 Ethan Hawke role | 120 |
| Acme product intended for recreational use (not for dropping bombs on roadrunners), from "Zipping Along," 1953 | 120 |
| Comedy writer Carol (whose new book, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying," inspired this puzzle) | 120 |
| Most likely to go way too far, for example to get drunk and expose one's ass and then shake it in people's faces | 120 |
| 16 of these are hidden in the answer grid, each reading left, right, up, down or diagonally in an unbroken straight line | 120 |
| Country that recently "built 500 objects contributable to raising the level of modernization," per its website | 120 |
| Embarking on something exciting, and a hint regarding what this puzzle's starred answers' endings have in common | 120 |
| Don't toss out that pile of OLD MAGAZINES; recycle them into a ___, perfect for keeping your beer clean at the beach | 120 |
| Place that it wouldn't kill you to go one of these Fridays, or maybe you think you're too important for G-d now? | 120 |
| Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin | 120 |
| Novel that begins "When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and an owner of property" | 120 |
| Job for which the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner said Sarah Palin was picked for "reasons of image, not substance" | 120 |
| Youtube clip of a chat with the author of "Myra Breckenridge"? (party-hopping à la Charles Barkley in 2006) | 120 |
| Julian Assange's controversial website, and a hint to what's missing from this puzzle's four longest answers | 120 |
| Flying by the bookstore, you were caught doing "One Hundred ___" in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" zone... | 120 |
| Player who tried to catch the ball that Cubs fan Steve Bartman reached for in the 8th inning of Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS | 119 |
| The cover photo of him from the 1992 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue was used in 2005 as a postage stamp | 119 |
| Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle's six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid) | 119 |
| When repeated, 1963 hit with alleged obscene lyrics determined by the FBI to be "unintelligible at any speed" | 119 |
| Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
| It's put in front of a window to fool people into thinking someone is standing there (as in "Home Alone") | 119 |
| Food that "did fall on the Israelites most gently, vexing those burdened with meathead pride" (Exodus 17:17)? | 119 |
| “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born ...” | 119 |
| Today, to Caesar—and a hint to the hidden word appearing in this puzzle 15 times (including the one in this answer) | 119 |
| International standardized measurement promotion that may get more attention next year, since it's held on 10/10/10 | 119 |
| Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
| We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!] | 119 |
| Guitarist's cheat sheet (Abbr.) © 2010 Todd Santos Written By: Todd Santos | 119 |
| French Stewart's response to the category "Write a Number" in an SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skit | 119 |
| "6. I was mildly disappointed when I walked down ___ Road in London.I wanted it to be more magical, I guess" | 118 |
| Speaker of "I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean I make medicine sick!" | 118 |
| Memorable repeated question by the economics teacher (played by Ben Stein) in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 118 |
| Singer who redefined double standards by recording both "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer" in 1961 | 118 |