Crosswordsonline - Questions

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Its D.C. building has the Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society"	115
Its cause is what rocket scientist Robert Truax predicted would be found and corrected by 2010	94
Items that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula Trees	81
Item: 1966 true-crime work. Problem: Pages soaked with viscous red substance.	77
Item: 1947 novel. Problem: Currently inaccessible; also probably sustaining fire damage.	88
Item: 1937 memoir. Problem: Sent to us by wrong supplier (text is in Swahili).	78
Item that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula trees	80
Item on a safari guide's "least recommended activities" list?	75
Item of clothing named for the site of a disastrous British military action of 10/25/1854	89
Item of clothing named for the major general who led the action of 10/25/1854	77
Item of clothing named for the commander in chief who ordered the action of 10/25/1854	86
Item missing in this puzzle's theme that's absent as well in the fill and clues	87
Item in the hardware department with a "+" or "-" on its head	81
Item in SchrÃ¶dinger's box (and in this puzzle) that exists in two different states simultaneously	104
Item in a sealed box, in a famous thought experiment by Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger	76
Item for Gil Grissom's team--one begins the answer to each starred clue	75
Item deemed by a hi-tech company president in 1977 to be unreasonable for home use	82
Italian word that becomes English after deleting its third, fourth, and fifth letters	85
Italian city where Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" takes place	84
It's zero in free-fallÂ—and, put another way, a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers were formed	110
It's what Jack Benny says twice after being told, "Your money or your life!"	90
It's usually set at lower amounts in the first years of a player's contract	83
It's the end of the world!...or, the country home to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world	100
It's the end of The World!...or not, since that was the first company to provide access to it in 1989	105
It's the end of The World!...or at least it's seen in the bottom corner of the tarot card The World	107
It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it	75
It's the end of the world!...if you sort the countries alphabetically	73
It's the end of The World!...actually, it's a radio station mentioned at the end of PRI's "The World"	123
It's soft, strong, and demonstrated by this puzzle's four theme answers	79
It's put in front of a window to fool people into thinking someone is standing there (as in "Home Alone")	119
It's put in front of a window to fool people into thinking someone is standing there	88
It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's talking in a room	81
It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's calling them (as in "Manhattan Murder Mystery")	121
It's pictured in Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhone"	75
It's part of the eight original "Public Ivy" schs., per author Richard Moll	89
It's more of a privilege, really, in countries like Canada that have fairly strict gun laws	95
It's made with bread at the bottom, bananas and fish in the middle, and potato chips on top	95
It's listed as "(annoyed grunt)" in "The Simpsons" scripts	82
It's good for "absolutely nothing," according to a 1970 #1 hit	76
It's good for "absolutely nothing" according to a 1970 hit	72
It's found in dairy products, poultry, fish, lean meats, nuts, and eggs	75
It's featured in the Marx Brothers' "A Night at the Opera"	76
It's easy to do with the right connections, hard if you can't find a good hotspot	89
It's easy to do if you've got a book, hard if kids are bugging you	74
It's easy to do if you're not traveling alone, hard if you're surrounded by strangers	97
It's easy to do if you're hungry, hard if it's late and the shops have closed	89
It's easy to do if you brought a headset, hard if your batteries died	73
It's derived from the French word "hautbois," meaning "high wood"	89
It's depicted by a cello melody in "The Carnival of the Animals"	78
It's crafted to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually gone (as in "Escape From Alcatraz")	139
It's crafted in prison movies to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually escaped	118
It's classified by the U.S.D.A. as red meat under cooking guidelines and as poultry under inspection standards	114
It's calculated based on the position of the sun relative to fixed stars, and is roughly 6 hours longer than its solar counterpart	134
It's bordered by three countries with "-stan" in their names	74
It's been replaced on food labels by the Reference Daily Intake (abbr.)	75
It's along the bus route of ''Canada's Walk of Fame''?	78
It's about 325 miles east of Texas's H-Town, with "the"	73
It's "no longer current in natural colloquial speech," per the OED	80
It's "more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much," according to Buddy Hackett	109
It's "heavier freight for the shipper than it is for the consignee": Augustus Thomas	98
It's ''positively'' hidden four times in this puzzle	72
It was once voted "America's Most Innovative Company" by Fortune magazine	87
It was once advertised as "Your favorite drink in your favorite flavor"	81
It was 2nd (behind New York City) on Travel and Leisure's list of America's Rudest Cities	97
It was "boil'd in broo'," in the ballad "Lord Randal"	81
It uses only the 12 letters A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U and W (like eight long answers in this puzzle)	106
It states that a planet's orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus	75
It states "as a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"	129
It stands for "Committee for State Security" after translation	72
It put out the first crossword book in 1924 (and soon changed its name to Simon & Schuster)	95
It publishes an annual "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things" list	76
It precedes "Substituted Ball" in the Definitions section of the "Rules of Golf"	100
It once had a jingle with the line "One little can will keep you running free"	88
It might say "What part of 'cookie' don't you understand?"	80
It might include the adverbs "forthwith" and "heretofore"	77
It may be given to a turkey before roasting, or a person during a massage	73
It may be charged by airport shuttle services if you're late from a flight	78
It lost out to "Spirited Away" for Best Animated Feature of 2002	74
It lost out to "Leonard Part 6" for the 1987 Razzie Award for Worst Picture	85
It includes a vest ... and what can be found in each set of circles in the long answers	87
It has counties named Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison	101
It has "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects," according to Aldous Huxley	116
It has ''arguments'' and ''logic games'' sections	81
It forms a superhero when added to the start of the answer to each starred clue	79
It follows "Plastics" and "We'll always have Paris" on the AFI list of top 100 movie quotes	115
It features John Trumbull's painting "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence"	99
It facetiously calls its regular writers "the usual gang of idiots"	77
It doesn't portray a big win nearly as well when it's regular-sized	75
It doesn't convey ferocious fuel-burning action, action, action! when it's regular-sized	96
It comes from the Japanese words for "slice" and "broil"	76
It can be heard in Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Lucky Man"	73
It blows; I just got scolded for using portable electronic devices and they're out of peanuts	97
It begins: "It was the best of times . . . " (with "A")	75
It begins "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"	88
It answers the question "Do you know how fast you were going?"	72
It "sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other," according to Aristotle Onassis	123
It "is no problem. You just have to live long enough": Groucho Marx	77
It "is easy, and has infinite forms," according to Blaise Pascal	74
It "gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere": Glenn Turner	79
It "enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time": Merton	87