| Fictional pitchman whom Michael Dukakis likened to George H.W. Bush during a debate | 83 |
| Show with episodes “Pettycoat Injunction” and “His Suit is Hirsute” | 83 |
| Avant-garde filmmaker Paul whose "Rebus-Film Nr. 1" is a crossword puzzle | 83 |
| "Prisoners of Love (___ & Max)" (song from "The Producers") | 83 |
| Pepe who said "You are ze corned beef to me, and I am ze cabbage to you." | 83 |
| Hybrid cat "bred for its skills in magic," according to Napoleon Dynamite | 83 |
| "She was ___ in slacks" (part of an opening soliloquy by Humbert Humbert) | 83 |
| "___ Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" (album by the Kinks) | 83 |
| Exams for students potentially most interested in this puzzle's theme, in brief | 83 |
| Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" | 83 |
| "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," per H. L. Mencken | 83 |
| "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" theorist | 83 |
| One-named singer/songwriter of the 1970 Woodstock-inspired hit "Lay Down" | 83 |
| Gilbert (who I was kind of in love with) on "Little House on the Prairie" | 83 |
| Alla ___ (dipped in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs/Parmesan, and fried in butter) | 83 |
| Who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 83 |
| Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 83 |
| When repeated, Harold Rome song lyric before "I fear you reared me wrong" | 83 |
| Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues | 83 |
| Arkansas town that calls itself the "Quartz Crystal Capital of the World" | 83 |
| "Three o'clock is always too late or too early . . ." literary source | 83 |
| Org. in which "everybody played with a gay teammate," per Charles Barkley | 83 |
| "___, My God, to Thee" (supposed last song played on the sinking Titanic) | 83 |
| "Homer and ___ Hail Mary Pass" (2005 episode of "The Simpsons") | 83 |
| Other name of the hit song "Volare," "___ Blu, Dipinto di Blu" | 83 |
| "La Bestia ___ Cuore" (2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film nominee) | 83 |
| "La Bestia ___ Cuore" (2005 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film) | 83 |
| "Sweet ___ Con" (2005 Rolling Stones song from "A Bigger Bang") | 83 |
| ''___ won't be afraid'' (''Stand by Me'' lyric) | 83 |
| "___ shall pass" (warning in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail") | 83 |
| "The world will little note, __ long remember, what we say here": Lincoln | 83 |
| Black Kids "I'm ___ Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" | 83 |
| One famously begins "O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" | 83 |
| Ukrainian port whose staircase is a setting for "The Battleship Potemkin" | 83 |
| Yello song heard in the closing credits of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 83 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Buck whose autobiography was "I Was Right On Time" | 83 |
| "As we pulled out of the driveway, Dad started singing '___' ..." | 83 |
| Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" (and, fun fact, Charlie's granddaughter) | 83 |
| Town on the SE tip of Italy that's the title setting for a Horace Walpole novel | 83 |
| "An article of clothing that children are always losing." "___" | 83 |
| "Tout le monde en ___" ("Everyone's talking about it": Fr.) | 83 |
| "Moon Over ___" (original theme song for "The Drew Carey Show") | 83 |
| Arizona Indians whose name comes from a phrase meaning "I don't know" | 83 |
| Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" | 83 |
| One of two school colors (along with heliotrope) of New York's Purchase College | 83 |
| PLAYGIRL, soft-hearted, huggable. Red hair, brown eyes, great smile. Loves kids ... | 83 |
| Successor of Bernadette and Cheryl in the revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" | 83 |
| Where "I shot a man" in Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" | 83 |
| Speaker of the "most memorable film quote ever," according to a 2005 poll | 83 |
| 1984 Tommy Lee Jones film set on the banks of the Mississippi, with "The" | 83 |
| "For you there's rosemary and ___": "The Winter's Tale" | 83 |
| Former senator for whom Georgia Tech's School of International Affairs is named | 83 |
| "It's true whether or not you believe in it," per Neil deGrasse Tyson | 83 |
| "Under ___, whose antique root peeps out..." ("As You Like It") | 83 |
| Disposition to credulity (and the longest common word that alternates typing hands) | 83 |
| One of the things "I've been" in the song "That's Life" | 83 |
| 1959 hit with the lyric "One day I feel so happy, next day I feel so sad" | 83 |
| "Feliz cumpleaños ___" ("Happy Birthday To You," in Spanish) | 83 |
| Fundraisers where Federer and Nadal sell Rice Krispies Treats and upside-down cake? | 83 |
| Inauguration Night protest activity for vandalizing foes of the new administration? | 83 |
| It's usually set at lower amounts in the first years of a player's contract | 83 |
| Leader played by Rod Steiger in the 1981 Libyan film "Lion of the Desert" | 83 |
| Philosopher whose fully-dressed skeleton is on display at University College London | 83 |
| The crooked realty agent tried to sell some sucker the Golden Gate by offering a... | 83 |
| Gibby Haynes' band, or the crowd participants who got in my way at the concert? | 83 |
| Annual three-day music festival named after the California Valley it takes place in | 83 |
| "And the mountains should ___ to the sea" ("Stand By Me" lyric) | 83 |
| Long-running western anthology, the only American TV series with its three initials | 83 |
| Foodie who's the "Lady" of the Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah | 83 |
| License plate (and character played by Michael Douglas) in "Falling Down" | 83 |
| Eponymous star of a 1960s sitcom, the only American TV star with his three initials | 83 |
| "Arrrr, keep your electroshock weapon away from this here chicken stock!" | 83 |
| Espresso order, or what each word pair in the theme answers synonymously represents | 83 |
| Simple, wholesome, and unpretentious, like country cooking or old-time fiddle music | 83 |
| Richard who played the garage attendant in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 83 |
| Test subject #1 perceives 1 as brown, 2 as red, 8 as gray; maybe he works as an ... | 83 |
| Highest-rated movie quote on AFI's top 100 list not spoken by a human character | 83 |
| Reviewer on "Das Kapital": "Its arguments don't hold water" | 83 |
| Chicago-area institution home to the world's most powerful particle accelerator | 83 |
| Result of "too much change in too short a period of time" (Alvin Toffler) | 83 |
| 1997 sci-fi film with the tagline "There is no gene for the human spirit" | 83 |
| Group that performs "White & Nerdy" by "Weird Al" Yankovic? | 83 |
| "An oh, what ___ we'll hit!" (lyric from Bugs Bunny's theme song) | 83 |
| Actress who famously said, "Acting is the perfect idiot's profession" | 83 |
| Poet giving a reading of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" at the saloon? | 83 |
| Where this answer is located (and, if you add a word to the front, a former sitcom) | 83 |
| "So his next stop was inevitable: Owlcatraz. He became just another ___." | 83 |
| Quote from caveman Kimmel: "Me ready to consider a variety of options..." | 83 |
| John Cho's co-star in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" | 83 |
| One place to follow the object named in the circled letters (reading left to right) | 83 |
| Judy who was the singing voice of Pocahontas in Disney's "Pocahontas" | 83 |
| Explanatory information about this puzzle is revealed by reading these in the clues | 83 |
| What a cadet won't do (or tolerate those who do), per the West Point honor code | 83 |
| "All of Me" actress whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 83 |
| ___ system, part of the brain that regulates emotion, behavior and long-term memory | 83 |
| Celebrity mentioned in Warren Zevon's 1978 hit "Werewolves of London" | 83 |
| Pessimistic J. Geils Band hit with the line "It's gonna make you cry" | 83 |
| "___ Yu" (collection also known as "The Analects of Confucius") | 83 |
| Cause a sensation, or what the first words of the answers to starred entries may do | 83 |
| "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon ___" (Pulitzer-winning play) | 83 |