| One who sets a VHS of "The Crying Game" precisely to the money shot? | 78 |
| Write down "Vast Asian country with a population of over a billion"? | 78 |
| Girlfriend whose name Jerry thinks is Mulva, in a "Seinfeld" episode | 78 |
| With "the", past decade name, to secret agents with license to kill? | 78 |
| What the four longest entries in this puzzle (except this one) are examples of | 78 |
| "I'm buying!," at a bar ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 78 |
| Genre that's so obviously, transcendently bad you have to hear more of it? | 78 |
| The "you" in the 1968 lyric "Gee I think you're swell" | 78 |
| Attorney General, or what each of six Across answers in this grid literally is | 78 |
| Band with the 1997 double platinum album "So Much for the Afterglow" | 78 |
| Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" | 78 |
| Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. | 78 |
| NBC reality show that taped contestants drinking donkey semen (it never aired) | 78 |
| Founding member of Public Enemy known for wearing large clocks around his neck | 78 |
| Feeling literal, the guy with the dead-end fast food job tattooed the word ___ | 78 |
| "Sleight of hand" used when solving trigonometry problems in groups? | 78 |
| "Let's ___" (Grammy-winning suggestion from the Black Eyed Peas) | 78 |
| The Rock of ___ (after translation, "The Rock of the Rock of Tariq") | 78 |
| 1969 song with the lyric "Once there was a way to get back homeward" | 78 |
| Proper sort ... or a cry upon solving each of this puzzle's theme answers? | 78 |
| Halloween costume that includes big ears, dark clothing and a bunch of charts? | 78 |
| Garden outside Jerusalem that was the scene of the agony and betrayal of Jesus | 78 |
| Genuine designer shades (and the department store was charging twice as much!) | 78 |
| 2001-'08 White House Deputy Chief of Staff whose middle name is Whitehouse | 78 |
| "... never thinks straight 'bout the shape that __": Dylan lyric | 78 |
| Fictional school whose motto is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" | 78 |
| "__ safe and warm if ...": "California Dreamin'" lyric | 78 |
| Movie co. behind "Wordplay" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 78 |
| Like fewer and fewer children, as from diseases like whooping cough (grrrr...) | 78 |
| "Good Eats" episode title where Alton Brown discusses lemon meringue | 78 |
| Talks that may ask "What's it like having a palace in Tatooine"? | 78 |
| Adam Sandler cringefest that topped many "Worst Movie of 2011" lists | 78 |
| Backup band for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, with "the" | 78 |
| Org. that suggests Obama's success is attributable to his being half-white | 78 |
| Geographical features ... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent | 78 |
| Ongoing NYC tribute project where musicians cover the works of other musicians | 78 |
| Marcel with the only audible line in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" | 78 |
| "Make sure to eat at this amazing Cuban place in South Beach," e.g.? | 78 |
| Charla's taller racing partner, on "The Amazing Race: All-Stars" | 78 |
| "Lady of letters" featured in this puzzle's four longest entries | 78 |
| Band with the 2007 #1 album "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" | 78 |
| John Zorn's avant jazz outfit named after an early ABC police drama series | 78 |
| Ship created by Jule Verne for “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” | 78 |
| Making out ... or a hint to this puzzle's four hidden articles of clothing | 78 |
| Baby moniker that became wildly popular in the 2000s (hint: read it backwards) | 78 |
| Finding from the "fifths" taken from this puzzle's theme answers | 78 |
| Medieval poem about fate set to music in Orff's "Carmina Burana" | 78 |
| Cigarette brand that once used the slogan "Not a cough in a carload" | 78 |
| On second thought, make it a horror film: "Big Momma's House..." | 78 |
| "This is to put you ___ ..." (phrase from many a lawyer's letter | 78 |
| Aptly named red tabby who played Cat in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" | 78 |
| They're found at the ends of this puzzle's three other longest answers | 78 |
| He guest-starred as a gay opera director in a 2003 "Frasier" episode | 78 |
| BABE MAGNET. Very tall, rugged outdoorsman. Enjoys cutting-edge technology ... | 78 |
| Basketball team that publicly protested Arizona's immigration laws in 2010 | 78 |
| Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" | 78 |
| On second thought, make it an inspirational film: "The Evil Dead..." | 78 |
| Head of the Catholic Church when Luther's "95 Theses" was posted | 78 |
| 1981 Hall & Oates song with the lyric "They're watching you" | 78 |
| Doomed Netflix offshoot on CNET's "20 Worst-Named Tech Products" | 78 |
| Band who was the subject of the documentary "Meeting People Is Easy" | 78 |
| With "The," 1960s series set in the North African desert during WWII | 78 |
| Jon ___, at 6'11" the tallest player in Major League Baseball history | 78 |
| Mel Gibson's co-star in "Lethal Weapon 3" and "Ransom" | 78 |
| Horror flick starring Humphrey Bogart as a mad scientist, with "The" | 78 |
| 1940 Crosby/Lamour/Hope film that was the first of a "travel" series | 78 |
| "Porphyria's Lover" poet with a pan of ground beef on the stove? | 78 |
| "The Night of the Hunter" star--his middle names are Charles Durman! | 78 |
| 1979 hit with the lyric "You don't have to put on the red light" | 78 |
| Unions in "Monsoon Wedding" and many other romantic Bollywood movies | 78 |
| He once wrote "Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague" | 78 |
| "I'm returning this room warmer-it makes my floor bend downward" | 78 |
| Song whose subject is encouraged to "hurry down the chimney tonight" | 78 |
| Show that's had Clay Aiken, Matthew Perry and Dick Van Dyke as guest stars | 78 |
| ''They ___'' (fitting anagram of ''the eyes'') | 78 |
| "I ___ red door and I want it painted black" (Rolling Stones lyrics) | 78 |
| "If you want to make a few bucks in the communications business ..." | 78 |
| Words before ''precedent'' or ''good example'' | 78 |
| Super Bowl XXI M.V.P., first to say "I'm going to Disney World!" | 78 |
| Her name is Norwegian for "beautiful woman who leads you to victory" | 78 |
| "Being on a __ stops me from getting Alzheimer's": Jerry Stiller | 78 |
| Critically acclaimed role-playing game in the "Elder Scrolls" series | 78 |
| The desire people have to do something good without getting out of their chair | 78 |
| Motown star who wrote the lyrics for and sang "The Tears of a Clown" | 78 |
| Electronica group behind that "I've got the power!" music sample | 78 |
| Carroll critter that "frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea" | 78 |
| NBC show that featured Janis Ian and Billy Preston as its first musical guests | 78 |
| "Judy's smile was ___" (from "Judy's Turn To Cry") | 78 |
| "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice versa" speaker | 78 |
| City with a landmark spelled out by the circled letters, reading left to right | 78 |
| What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series | 78 |
| Kerri who had that vault where her ankle was messed up but she won gold anyway | 78 |
| With "The," 1996 movie family headed by Tom Arnold and Jessica Lundy | 78 |
| It's depicted by a cello melody in "The Carnival of the Animals" | 78 |
| "Success is counted ___ / By those who ne'er succeed": Dickinson | 78 |
| Politician who read "Green Eggs and Ham" during a 21-hour filibuster | 78 |
| Golden Ticket finder Mike in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" | 78 |
| "... if you want to __ man's character, give him power": Lincoln | 78 |
| Set of which all seven elements are fittingly hidden in the solved puzzle grid | 78 |
| 2009 comedy whose tagline is "Some guys just can't handle Vegas" | 78 |