| Clothing impresario who bought Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball | 77 |
| Clothing store with models who weight A LOT less than Ralph Lauren's | 72 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," familiarly | 76 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," in song | 73 |
| Co-firing technique used to reduce pollution from electrical power plants | 73 |
| Co-owner of Paddy's Pub in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" | 80 |
| Co-writer of Michael Jackson's posthumous hit "This Is It" | 72 |
| Coach who said "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm" | 101 |
| Coastal irregularities, and word anagrammed in this puzzle's four longest answers | 85 |
| Cocktails made with Southern Comfort, sloe gin, amaretto and orange juice | 73 |
| Cofounder of Atlantic Records who was chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [39 47/127 inches] | 99 |
| Coke and Pepsi's nickname, in the soft drink business (with "The") | 80 |
| Cola brand that claimed to be "The Choice of a New Generation" | 72 |
| Collapsed company chronicled in the 2005 documentary subtitled "The Smartest Guys in the Room" | 104 |
| Colleague of John, Antonin, Anthony, Clarence, Ruth, Stephen, Samuel, and Sonia | 79 |
| Collection of stories that includes "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 78 |
| College basketball coach who was the subject of "A Season on the Brink" | 81 |
| College football circuit that's been finally retired for playoffs: Abbr. | 76 |
| College that, unabbreviated, is the punchline to a tasteless Michael Jackson joke | 81 |
| Colored like the boat in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" | 79 |
| Colorful title hit from a 1984 album with "Let's Go Crazy" and "When Doves Cry" | 103 |
| Colts fullback Alan who famously scored the winning touchdown in the 1958 NFL championship game | 95 |
| Colts owner Robert who spirited the team away from Baltimore to Indianapolis | 76 |
| Colts running back Ameche who scored the winning touchdown in overtime to end "The Greatest Game Ever Played," 12/28/58 | 129 |
| Columbian drug kingpin Pablo ranked the seventh richest man in the world by Forbes in 1989 | 90 |
| Comedian Bob who said, "'Full House' gave me Tourette's" | 78 |
| Comedian George who said, "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten" | 93 |
| Comedian on the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover | 81 |
| Comedian seen at the end of "Dodgeball" letting himself go in a big way | 81 |
| Comedian who donned many big costumes in "The Nutty Professor" | 72 |
| Comedian who was the only man on Maxim's 2012 Hot 100 list of most beautiful women | 86 |
| Comedian who was the Peace and Freedom Party's 2012 presidential nominee | 76 |
| Comedian who'll be playing George Burns's role in a remake of "Oh, God!" | 90 |
| Comedian with the 2010 Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, familiarly | 89 |
| Comedian/former ESPN host whose twin brother Randy is also a comedian/former ESPN host | 86 |
| Comedy about a government takeover that's alternately well-organized and absurdly sloppy? | 93 |
| Comedy group whose show sometimes opened with a naked guy playing the organ | 75 |
| Comedy writer Carol (whose new book, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying," inspired this puzzle) | 120 |
| Comet co-discoverer who shares his name with a father-and-son acting pair | 73 |
| Comic actor George who was nicknamed "Toastmaster General of the United States" | 89 |
| Comic actor who played Jeff Greene's dad on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 80 |
| Comic collected in "The Chickens Are Restless," with "The" | 78 |
| Comic strip character created by Frank Willard in 1923 and continued by Ferd Johnson from 1958 until 1991 | 105 |
| Comic strip character who said "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person" | 99 |
| Comic strip whose last collection was "Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet" | 79 |
| Comic that comes to an end on October 3rd, and whose catchphrase ends this puzzle's theme answers | 101 |
| Comic who coined the words "eneagled," "mantasy," and "freem" | 91 |
| Comic who declared "I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!" | 72 |
| Comic who occasionally contributes to the "Motormouth" column ofThe London Sunday Times | 97 |
| Comic who played Robin Williams's son in "Mork & Mindy" | 73 |
| Comic who said "A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now" | 88 |
| Comic who said "A short summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us. We won. Let's eat" | 112 |
| Comic who said "Adopted kids are such a pain — you have to teach them how to look like you" | 105 |
| Comics character who is 65 years old this month (and whose friends are answers to asterisked clues) | 99 |
| Comics character who said "Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life" | 88 |
| Comics character who said "Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help" | 98 |
| Command to the promiscuous widow in "The Night of the Iguana" to take her clothes off? | 96 |
| Commedia dell'arte character David Bowie dressed as on the cover of "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" | 117 |
| Comment to a baseballer from a fan who's studied his fly-catching technique? | 80 |
| Comment to one, previously thought to be a stranger, after an aha moment | 72 |
| Commercial interruptions literally found in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 89 |
| Commercially, it started in the U.S. around the time of the Boeing 707 launch | 77 |
| Common chamber music form that includes Beethoven's "Ghost" | 73 |
| Common misspelling online (or, on "___ Interwebz" if you prefer) | 74 |
| Common name for focal dystonia, characterized by the loss of fine motor skills | 78 |
| Common soap opera plot device (as in, "When will they wake up?") | 74 |
| Common word spelled in the "Spelling Bee" game on "The Price Is Right" | 90 |
| Communications device described by the first words of the puzzle's four longest answers | 91 |
| Company associated with the alcoholic "7" in a "7 and 7" | 76 |
| Company founded by and named after an MIT professor of electrical engineering | 77 |
| Company mascot introduced in the 1930s that has never been put out to pasture | 77 |
| Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end | 86 |
| Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" | 78 |
| Company that recalled "Active Maturity with Beef in Gravy" in 2007 | 76 |
| Company that was the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" | 73 |
| Company that won Harvard's 2002 IgNobel Prize for Most Creative Use of Imaginary Numbers | 92 |
| Company that would be crazy to use the slogan "We never let you down"? | 80 |
| Company whose founder first proposed the business concept in a college paper, earning a C | 89 |
| Company whose motto is "Our pilots are moderately intelligent"? | 73 |
| Company whose movies, not counting sequels, are all included in this puzzle [Circled Squares: 2009] | 99 |
| Company with the slogans "It's thinking" and "Up to 6 billion players" | 94 |
| Complaint about which whiskey is being served at a Friars Club function? | 72 |
| Complaint from one trying to concentrate, perhaps—and this puzzle's title | 81 |
| Complaint to the chiropractor from "American Idol" singer Clay? | 73 |
| Complete freedom ... and a hint to each half of the answer to each starred clue | 79 |
| Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s | 86 |
| Composer Khachaturian whose music was featured in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 83 |
| Composer of "1/1," "1/2," "2/1" and "2/2" | 81 |
| Composer of "Oedipus Tex" and "A Little Nightmare Music" | 76 |
| Composer of the one-act operas "Bertha" and "The Robbers" | 77 |
| Composer threatened with arrest in 1940 for adding a major seventh chord to the national anthem | 95 |
| Composer who orchestrated Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" | 80 |
| Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" | 81 |
| Composer who wrote piano transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies | 74 |
| Composer/humorist who said "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" | 77 |
| Compound based on the formula XeF (hey, cut me some slack; this was a tough one to find) | 88 |
| Computer malady (and what can follow the starts of the four longest puzzle answers) | 83 |
| Computer term, based on an arcade game, regarding the annoyance of fending off recurring spammers | 97 |
| Concept in modern feminism that covers things like slut-shaming and victim-blaming | 82 |
| Condition resulting from long-term dietary deficiencies or undernourishment | 75 |