| Diggory who (spoiler alert!) is killed at the end of "Goblet of Fire" | 79 |
| "The Incredible Hulk" actor, through music, takes on a fluffier role? | 79 |
| “Vain are the thousand ___ that move men’s hearts...”: Emily Bronte | 79 |
| Actress Beverly who played Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter" | 79 |
| "Oh yeah? Let's see you hold your breath for TWO minutes!," e.g.? | 79 |
| The White Stripes's second album which was named after a Dutch art movement | 79 |
| Tycoon who was reputedly the first person in New York City to own an automobile | 79 |
| How a Southerner might begin a sentence about how they do things in these parts | 79 |
| "... and he's got Budweiser and Michelob on tap - excellent ___!" | 79 |
| “I may have discovered the key to the unconscious mind,” Freud said ___ | 79 |
| Ohio town where "there's a happiness" in an old Glenn Miller song | 79 |
| 1993 rap hit with the repeated lyric "Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay" | 79 |
| Mascot for a soup vendor, or a soda company's expansion into selling drugs? | 79 |
| Travel organization with the slogan "Adventures in lifelong learning" | 79 |
| Morricone who scored "The Thing" and "A Fistful of Dollars" | 79 |
| Mathematician who was the subject of "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" | 79 |
| Ancient court official who got his job because he could be trusted around women | 79 |
| Popular and bad-ass name for the Helix Nebula, which looks a little like Sauron | 79 |
| Someone safely in the middle class who puts on airs of an alternative lifestyle | 79 |
| Cartoon character that was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon | 79 |
| Useful type of hitch in a pickup truck, or an undesired part of a social circle | 79 |
| 90's group with the hit "Killing Me Softly," with "the" | 79 |
| Oft-riffed-on ad slogan since 1993 (California [dairy product] Processor Board) | 79 |
| Discussion between a former Colorado senator and a '70s-'90s rock band? | 79 |
| Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? | 79 |
| #1 hit between "Monster Mash" and "Big Girls Don't Cry" | 79 |
| Valentine's Day gifts that have to go back at the end of the night? (-Guns) | 79 |
| Traffic cop's answer upon being asked "Describe your job"? [1975] | 79 |
| Springsteen song that starts, "Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?" | 79 |
| Latin term for coming back to life at the exact midpoint of a video game level? | 79 |
| "A County in la Nazione: Autobiography of a 'Godfather' Star" | 79 |
| Start of a quote by James H. Boren, author of "When in Doubt, Mumble" | 79 |
| Classic 1978 rock song with the lyric "Nothing to do / Nowhere to go" | 79 |
| Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle | 79 |
| Novel that opens "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" | 79 |
| Dictionary term for any of the "self-defining" answers in this puzzle | 79 |
| "Rent" composer Jonathan and "The Far Side" cartoonist Gary | 79 |
| Person who believes that studying socks and shorts long enough will reveal god? | 79 |
| Internet writing system that popularized "pwn3d" and "n00b" | 79 |
| Why "there's no time for fussing and fighting," per a Beatles hit | 79 |
| “And thankfully, the graph’s final dimension is not within the ___” | 79 |
| Soldier's comment akin to "It's time to join the line, dear"? | 79 |
| "___ Jr." (Pixar's first film whose lamps are used in their logo) | 79 |
| ___ diet, food plan emphasizing olive oil, fish, fruit, vegetables and red wine | 79 |
| Exclusive group's limit, or dental restoration required to get into a club? | 79 |
| Don't make it to a retrospective of Franz's German Expressionist works? | 79 |
| Nickname for infielder Ernie Banks, who stayed with one team for eighteen years | 79 |
| 1980s group with two No. 1 hits, "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings" | 79 |
| "She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile" speaker | 79 |
| "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am" speaker | 79 |
| 1970 #1 hit that was later found to be a ripoff of "He's So Fine" | 79 |
| Boy band that reunited in 2008 with the album "Summertime," for short | 79 |
| "If you can't behave on this tour, I swear you'll be sorry!"? | 79 |
| Group whose "If You Leave" was written for "Pretty in Pink" | 79 |
| Most of "The Taming of the Shrew" characters, geographically speaking | 79 |
| Colored like the boat in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" | 79 |
| 11-part documentary with the episodes "Caves" and "Deserts" | 79 |
| Former New York Giants star currently in jail after shooting himself in the leg | 79 |
| "... Don't talk about ___! You kidding me?! ..." (Jim Mora, 2001) | 79 |
| “The neonatology department needs funding most of all,” Tom blurted ___ | 79 |
| 1894 novel describing the adventures of Rudolf Rassendyll, with "The" | 79 |
| Word accented on the antepenultimate syllable (the answer is an example of one) | 79 |
| "I could substitute better than you while standing on my head," e.g.? | 79 |
| Possible response to "My boss is leaving and I hate his replacement"? | 79 |
| One who maintains that scientists from another planet created all life on Earth | 79 |
| Conservative politician who wrote "Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century" | 79 |
| Having material that "may not be suitable for children," per the MPAA | 79 |
| Wheels on loan ... or, as the circles show, what four puzzle answers have done? | 79 |
| Decision between buying some caviar or a Miami Heat star's basketball card? | 79 |
| "Six of one, half a dozen of the other" (and this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| "The one beer to have when you're having more than one" sloganeer | 79 |
| Speak derisively, and a hint to how this puzzle's long answers were created | 79 |
| In computer science, a characterization of every possible solution to a problem | 79 |
| Sensible car, perhaps [avxwords.com has premium indie xwords - subscribe today] | 79 |
| "He's a complicated man/but no one understands him/but his woman" | 79 |
| Line of greeting cards billed as "a tiny little division of Hallmark" | 79 |
| Sochi alpine event with "giant" and "super giant" varieties | 79 |
| TV prog. that became the most Primetime Emmy-nominated show of all time in 2010 | 79 |
| "I'm all by myself, as I've always felt" song by the Pumpkins | 79 |
| Landmark in Elvis Presley's "It Happened at the World's Fair" | 79 |
| '60s song about an insect who "hid / Inside a doggie from Madrid" | 79 |
| Word fragment repeated by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October | 79 |
| Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? | 79 |
| Wright who quipped "What's another word for 'thesaurus'?" | 79 |
| On 8/21/1911 the subject (the letters dropped from the starred answers) was ___ | 79 |
| The Village ___ (musical group with the 1963 hit "Washington Square") | 79 |
| Hybrid fashion item named one of People.com's "2007 Worst Trends" | 79 |
| What it may take to answer the question "Does this make me look fat?" | 79 |
| What it may take to answer "Do you think I need to lose some weight?" | 79 |
| Appliance maker that produced the first microwave oven for household use (1955) | 79 |
| Beatles song with the line "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 79 |
| Certain filings, and what happens literally in six of this puzzle's answers | 79 |
| Diggs of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "Brown Sugar" | 79 |
| Duo with the 1985 hit "Shout" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| Subject of the biography "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" | 79 |
| "Inspector Gadget" bad guy whose hand was replaced with a steel glove | 79 |
| "And at 7 P.M. there'll be a showing of the 60's film ___..." | 79 |
| "How lowbrow!" said the cats. "We much prefer '__'" | 79 |
| 2013 Eminem hit featuring Rihanna (and inspiration for this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| What "they say our love won't pay," in "I Got You Babe" | 79 |