| Don't make it to a retrospective of Franz's German Expressionist works? | 79 |
| Don't mix your GLASS BOTTLES with the garbage; recycle them into ___, ideal for brightening up the room where you experiment | 128 |
| Don't throw away those PAPER PRODUCTS; recycle them into a ___, handy for carefully dressing french fries | 109 |
| Don't toss out that pile of OLD MAGAZINES; recycle them into a ___, perfect for keeping your beer clean at the beach | 120 |
| Donald Sutherland line in "The Dirty Dozen," cued by "Madison City, Missouri, sir" | 102 |
| Doomed Netflix offshoot on CNET's "20 Worst-Named Tech Products" | 78 |
| Doomsday expression, or what you might start to think if you stare at the Down answers for too long | 99 |
| Doors song off "Backstage and Dangerous" (with "Hyper") | 75 |
| Douglas Adams' facetious answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything | 98 |
| Dr. Jekyll's alter ego and family, were he to settle down with an evil wife and kids | 88 |
| Dr. Seuss title that completes the warning "Stop! You must not..." | 76 |
| Dr. whose final album (supposedly) will be the 2008 release "Detox" | 77 |
| Drama about an anonymous soldier who blogs about juicy military scandals? | 73 |
| Dramatic device about which Hamlet says "The play's the thing ..." | 80 |
| Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author" | 80 |
| Dress like Homer Simpson when he intentionally gained weight to get disability pay | 82 |
| Drink garnish ... or a hint to five letters in the answer to each starred clue | 78 |
| Drink made with tequila, rum, vodka, gin, bourbon, triple sec, sweet-and-sour mix and Coke | 90 |
| Drink Mencken called "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet" | 85 |
| Driveway stuff (and word that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers) | 85 |
| Drug company whose stock was the subject of Martha Stewart's conviction | 75 |
| Drug paraphernalia for those who aren't sure they want to go through with it? | 81 |
| Duane who was #2 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" | 87 |
| Dubliners add liquor to the circle (or a soap ad interrupted by a furniture store ad)? | 86 |
| Dudes who promise you rides to nu metal shows but keep forgetting to show up? | 77 |
| Duet from "Gigi" about a vivid recollection (I'm guessing here, I haven't listened to it) | 107 |
| Duettist with Elton John on 1976's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" | 81 |
| Duke played by Johnny Depp in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" | 72 |
| Duke ___ (Humphrey Bogart's role in "The Petrified Forest") | 73 |
| Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, familiarly—he holds the NCAA Division I men's basketball record for most wins | 113 |
| Dunn who set an American League record by striking out 222 times in 2012 | 72 |
| Duo with the 1985 hit "Shout" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| Dwelling section whose name comes from the Arabic for "forbidden place" | 81 |
| E.T.O. battleground that Samuel Beckett called "The Capital of the Ruins" | 83 |
| Each circled pair is an abbreviation for one; all 13 are arranged in the roughly north-to-south order in which their representatives (except for John Hancock) signed the Declaration of Independence | 197 |
| Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce | 90 |
| Eagles "Wonder why the right words never come. You just get __" | 73 |
| Eagles song with the line "She is headed for the cheatin' side of town" | 85 |
| Early film version of "The Maltese Falcon," "Satan Met ___" | 79 |
| Early production company for "I Love Lucy" and "Star Trek" | 78 |
| Early punk rock band with the song "Never Been in a Riot," with "the" | 89 |
| Early vehicle for Joaquin Phoenix, as a Star Wars-obsessed kid spending the summer near Cape Canaveral | 102 |
| Earned run average times innings pitched divided by earned runs given up | 72 |
| Easter bunny's spring, found in this puzzle's nine longest answers | 74 |
| Eccentric billionaire entrepreneur who holds the Guinness record for the largest single e-commerce transaction | 110 |
| Economic term named the 2011 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary...and a description of 6 squares in this puzzle | 126 |
| Eddie __, New York cop involved in the actual "French Connection" | 75 |
| Educator who once famously compared the lyrics of 2 Live Crew to Shakespeare's [sic] "O my luve's like a red, red rose" | 137 |
| Edward Cullen's rival for Bella's hand, in the "Twilight" series | 82 |
| Egyptian polymath considered to be history's first physician and first architect | 84 |
| eHarmony employee's credo? (Elvis Costello / Toots & the Maytals) | 73 |
| Eight of the world's 10 highest mountains are entirely or partly in it | 74 |
| Eisenhower portrayer in the 2004 TV movie "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" | 77 |
| Either of a pair of stubborn Dr. Seuss characters in "The Sneetches and Other Stories" | 96 |
| Either of Heather's parents, according to a children's book title | 73 |
| Either of the first two runners-up to Rose for the 1968 N.L. batting title | 74 |
| Elaborate practical joke where the victim is left in the dark charged with an impossible task | 93 |
| Election Day "container" . . . and a hint to six symmetrically-placed containers hidden in this puzzle. Can you find them? | 132 |
| Electrical pioneer whose last known U.S. patent was for a helicopter-plane | 74 |
| Electrodynamics class: B -- “We thankfully skipped the history of the subject and jumped straight into ___” | 115 |
| Electronica group behind that "I've got the power!" music sample | 78 |
| Element 118, which has the highest atomic mass of all discovered elements | 73 |
| Elisabeth with a Best Actress nomination for "Leaving Las Vegas" | 74 |
| Elite Navy group that's fittingly camouflaged in the four longest answers in this puzzle | 92 |
| Elton John duettist on the #1 "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" | 72 |
| Elton John hit subtitled "I Think It's Going To Be a Long Long Time" | 82 |
| Elton John hit that begins "Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain" | 100 |
| Elton John song about a man who "wears his war wound like a crown" | 76 |
| Elton John's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" singing partner | 75 |
| Elvis standard that begins "Bright light city gonna set my soul / Gonna set my soul on fire" | 102 |
| Elvis's and Mariah's record number of weeks at Billboard's #1 | 73 |
| Embarking on something exciting, and a hint regarding what this puzzle's starred answers' endings have in common | 120 |
| Emergency fund ... or what the second part of each answer to a starred clue ends with? | 86 |
| Eminem rap with the lyric "Guarantee I'll be the greatest thing you ever had" | 91 |
| Emmy nominee for 11 straight years in the 1970s and '80s for lead actor in a comedy series (he won twice) | 109 |
| Emperor whose last words were "What an artist the world loses in me" | 78 |
| Empire whose main sport was tlachtli, wherein the loser was ritualistically executed | 84 |
| Employer of the "basterds" in "Inglourious Basterds": Abbr. | 79 |
| Enclosure ... and an alphabetical listing of letters not appearing elsewhere in this puzzle's answer | 104 |
| End of a nursery rhyme, or the fate of this puzzle's other three long answers | 81 |
| End of an idiom meaning "speaks evasively," whose beginning can be found around this answer | 101 |
| End of the count at the beginning of Kraftwerk's "Numbers" | 72 |
| End of the letter: "Thanks for the laugh. I'm voting for Obama/__." | 82 |
| End of the slogan that starts "Everybody doesn't like something" | 78 |
| End-of-the-week Twitter tag listing those you think others should be paying attention to | 88 |
| Ending with bunny or puppy or basically any animal you want to watch perpetually | 80 |
| Energy company whose bankrupcy took down the Arthur Andersen accounting firm | 76 |
| ENGLISH GIRL, cat lover, party-goer, seeks fellow-adventurer to share dreams ... | 80 |
| English illustrator who created the "St. Trinian's" cartoon series | 80 |
| English king said to have died from eating a "surfeit of lampreys" | 76 |
| English Lit class: A -- “All we had to do was read one book; a very ___” | 80 |
| English Midlands city that is home to the largest outdoor covered market in Europe | 82 |
| English philosopher who wrote "Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins" | 75 |
| Enjoy summer weather, and a hint to the beginning of the three other longest answers | 84 |
| Entertainer (1938-2007) whose first name is hidden in eight puzzle answers including this one | 93 |
| Entertainer born in May 1919, the basis for five anagrams in this puzzle | 72 |
| Entertainer whose Broadway show was subtitled "The Royal Tour" | 72 |
| Entertainer whose last name is the past tense of a synonym of his first name | 76 |
| Entertainment options so named because the audience is more detached, per McLuhan (not because he thought they were awesome) | 124 |
| Epic battle in technology ... or a hint to four crossings in this puzzle | 72 |