| Fictional character whose name the Beastie Boys chant in "Rhymin & Stealin" | 89 |
| "I was volunteering at the orphanage at the time of the murder," e.g. | 79 |
| "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!" speaker | 82 |
| "Dilbert" engineer whose "cardiovascular system is basically coffee" | 88 |
| Byron's words before "'Tis but the truth in masquerade" | 73 |
| "I cannot tell ___" (admission attributed to a young Washington) | 74 |
| 1979 film with the tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" | 74 |
| TV interviewer who called astronaut "Buzz" Aldrin "Buzz Lightyear" | 86 |
| He once asked Buzz Aldrin, "When is man going to walk on da sun?" | 75 |
| "Interviewer" who asked Kobe Bryant how many springs are in a basketball | 82 |
| "___ volat propriis" (motto of Oregon meaning "She flies with her own wings") | 97 |
| Past-tense verb that is the same as its present-tense form minus the fourth and fifth letters | 93 |
| Next to his Princeton yearbook picture it says he "intends to go to law school and eventually to warm a seat on the Supreme Court" | 140 |
| Justice who mouthed "not true" during Obama's 2010 State of the Union address | 91 |
| Justice who Joe Lieberman recently announced that he regrets voting against | 75 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography with the subtitle "Sittin' on Top of the World" | 89 |
| "It was ___ dream/I used to read Word Up magazine" (Biggie lyric) | 75 |
| One who's called "the Merciful" and "the Compassionate" | 79 |
| "Us" or "them" in "It's us against them" | 74 |
| 2012 Paula Broadwell biography subtitled "The Education of General David Petraeus" | 92 |
| Words with ''a sudden'' or ''the above'' | 72 |
| Song standard with the lyric "Can't you see I'm no good without you?" | 87 |
| Helen Mirren's real-life role in the upcoming drama "Hitchcock" | 77 |
| Classic song that begins "Proudly swept the rain cloud by the cliffs" | 79 |
| 1987 #1 Heart song that starts "I hear the ticking of the clock" | 74 |
| Explorer ___ Ãlvarez de Pineda, first European to see the Mississippi | 72 |
| Mourning who won an NBA championship after receiving a kidney transplant | 72 |
| 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 |
| Player who scored the tying run in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series | 93 |
| Only player other than Sheffield to make the All-Star team with five different clubs | 84 |
| Last name of brothers who combined for 6,916 total bases (60 more than all-time leader Hank Aaron) | 98 |
| Either of the first two runners-up to Rose for the 1968 N.L. batting title | 74 |
| Dominican Republic teammate of Encarnación and Guerrero in the World Baseball Classic | 88 |
| Food brand that was the sole sponsor of the first "60 Minutes" broadcast | 82 |
| "That's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" speaker | 128 |
| "Here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" speaker | 77 |
| "And here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" speaker | 81 |
| Old political journalist with the newspaper column "Matter of Fact" | 77 |
| Joseph who was the subject of the 2012 biographical play "The Columnist" | 82 |
| Lovelace's addressee for "Stone walls do not a prison make" | 73 |
| ___ Leasure (Courtney Love's role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt") | 80 |
| Brown who got injured during the miniseries "Feasting on Asphalt" | 75 |
| Racer who has led the most number of laps in Indianapolis 500 history (644) | 75 |
| Org. with a "How Will Health Reform Affect You?" page on its site | 75 |
| Org. that called chiropractic an "unscientific cult" in the '60s | 78 |
| Gp. whose members might greet each other with "What's up, doc?" | 77 |
| Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" | 87 |
| Movie whose last lines are "Mediocrities everywhere ... I absolve you." | 81 |
| Word meaning "Indian nurse" that Jim Horne of the New York Times crossword blog says "you just have to learn" | 129 |
| "I'm ___" (Lemmon's last words in "Some Like It Hot") | 81 |
| "I'm gonna say it like a man and make you understand, ___!" | 73 |
| "___ victoria curam" ("Victory favors the prepared") | 72 |
| Site with a "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section | 74 |
| "That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays ___ pinball!" ("Tommy" lyric) | 91 |
| Colts fullback Alan who famously scored the winning touchdown in the 1958 NFL championship game | 95 |
| Joni Mitchell song with the lyric "She was swallowed by the sky" | 74 |
| "Goodbye, Farewell and ___" (title of the final episode of "MASH") | 86 |
| Place with millions of inhabitants at the time of its "discovery" | 75 |
| "I believe in ___" (opening line of "The Godfather") | 72 |
| Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers | 79 |
| Teen movie franchise whose box set is titled "The Full Reveal" | 72 |
| Response to "You're the most self-questioning person ever!" | 73 |
| "Why ___ so shy when ...?" ("It's Only Love" lyric) | 75 |
| Standard with the lyric "Ain't these tears in my eyes tellin' you?" | 85 |
| Ethel Waters title line following "Now he's gone, and we're through" | 86 |
| 1929 #1 hit whose title follows the line "Now he's gone and we're through" | 92 |
| Key in an Alicia Keys album title (though only one of its songs is in it) | 73 |
| Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order | 92 |
| "___ Paradise" ("Weird Al" Yankovic song with the lyric "I never wear buttons but I got a cool hat, and my homies agree I really look good in black") | 179 |
| Anterograde ___ (affliction suffered by the protagonist of "Memento") | 79 |
| Words after "here," "there" and "everywhere" in "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" | 114 |
| "Everyone is ___, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody" (Mark Twain) | 93 |
| Apt subject for today that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| "When the stars make you drool just like pasta fazool" emotion | 72 |
| ___ Blaine, protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" | 86 |
| Singer Lee whose 2011 album "Mission Bell" is the worst-selling #1 album ever | 87 |
| Response to "Are not!" that's unlikely to resolve the matter | 74 |
| One of the girls in the Madonna children's book "The English Roses" | 81 |
| Name after "Chasing" in a movie title and "Judging" in a TV show title | 90 |
| Girl's name that becomes a different girl's name if you switch the first two letters | 92 |
| Pro-___ (like someone who views an eating disorder as a lifestyle choice) | 73 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," describes names like Vivian Darkbloom and Mr. Mojo RisiN' | 97 |
| "___ Ng" (They Might Be Giants' first song on the US charts) | 74 |
| Product with the old ad catchphrase "Mother, please, I'd rather do it myself!" | 92 |
| 1997 horror film with the tagline "If you can't breathe, you can't scream" | 92 |
| What each of today's four long answers is vis-Ã -vis New Year's Eve | 77 |
| One of four in "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house" | 91 |
| "Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than ___": Aesop | 76 |
| Connector that completes a phrase made from the starts of the three longest across answers | 90 |
| Words drawn out before "... will always love you" in a 1992 Whitney Houston cover | 91 |
| "After the Gold Rush" lyric "___ felt like getting high" | 76 |
| Alternative words used as alternatives for each other in this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| Georges Perec's 1969 novel "La Disparition" is written entirely without this | 90 |
| "Corporations have been enthroned and ___ of corruption in high places will follow": Lincoln | 102 |
| "Joy is __ of love by which you can catch souls": Mother Teresa | 73 |
| "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" role that launched a spinoff series | 72 |
| Rolling Stones song with the lyric "Let me whisper in your ear" | 73 |
| Assistant director for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" | 78 |
| "Gimme ___!" (repeated cry of a University of Mississippi cheerleader) | 80 |
| Classic Belushi comedy, or an apt description of this puzzle's grid? | 72 |