| Letters for the names "buried" in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
| Morning co-host Kelly who was on "All My Children" for 12 years | 73 |
| Wisconsin city billed as the "Birthplace of the Republican Party" | 75 |
| Entertainer whose last name is the past tense of a synonym of his first name | 76 |
| Moreno who was the second actress to win an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Tony | 80 |
| "___ Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" (Stephen King novella) | 76 |
| "___ Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (Stephen King novella) | 72 |
| Word after ''last'' or before ''of passage'' | 76 |
| Cracker that is the "apple" in an 80-year-old mock apple pie recipe | 77 |
| César of fancy hotels [subscribe to great weekly puzzles at avxwords.com] | 76 |
| Journalist Geraldo responsible for the "Al Capone's vault" debacle | 80 |
| 1984 Tommy Lee Jones film set on the banks of the Mississippi, with "The" | 83 |
| "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of ___ Nabisco" (1990 bestseller) | 77 |
| Studio that produced Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Notorious" | 84 |
| Hollywood studio that released "King Kong" and "Citizen Kane" | 81 |
| "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" author's initials | 74 |
| Letters with ''messenger'' or ''transfer'' | 74 |
| Letters after "messenger," "ribosomal" or "transfer" | 82 |
| "___ Builds Levee Out Of Poor People To Protect Convention Site" --The Onion | 86 |
| Word that goes in either blank in the classic movie quote "___? Where we're going we don't need ___" | 118 |
| There are four hidden in this puzzle, which together suggest a familiar five-word saying (3,5,4,2,4) | 100 |
| "Where'er I _____...": Goldsmith, "The Traveller" | 73 |
| Kardashian who's on this season's "Dancing With the Stars" | 76 |
| “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family ...” | 80 |
| What writer Malcolm Peltu predicted could "cross a busy highway without being hit" by 2010 | 100 |
| Def Leppard song that begins with the gibberish "Gunter, glieben, glauten, globen" | 92 |
| Twins player with the team's all-time highest single-season batting average (.388 in 1977) | 94 |
| Only American League player to win a batting crown without hitting a home run | 77 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer mistakenly listed in "The Chanukah Song" as a Jew | 82 |
| His "Crouching Woman" is in the Hirshhorn's sculpture garden | 74 |
| Dennis who said "Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money." | 105 |
| Dangerfield whose headstone reads "There goes the neighborhood" | 73 |
| "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man" speaker | 80 |
| British rocker with the 1979 #1 hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | 73 |
| ''. . . as light of foot as a wild ___'' (2 SAMUEL 2:18) | 73 |
| Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" | 77 |
| One protected by une dame, deux tours, deux fous, deux cavaliers et huit pions | 78 |
| Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers | 90 |
| First publisher of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" | 86 |
| ___ Martins, main character in Graham Greene's "The Third Man" | 76 |
| Shakespeare character who was the first to use the word "inauspicious" | 80 |
| Master P's son who used to have "Lil'" in front of his name | 77 |
| Spoiler: He's Hermione's hubby at the end of the "Harry Potter" series | 88 |
| Spoiler alert: He's married to Hermione at the end of the Harry Potter series | 81 |
| "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" lead___ Lisa Peretti | 75 |
| The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 117 |
| Miniseries whose final episode was the third-most-watched scripted show in U.S. history | 87 |
| Miniseries whose final episode was the 3rd-most-watched show in U.S. history | 76 |
| 1976 best seller that opens "four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia" | 86 |
| Sigur ___ (Icelandic post-rock band that sings in a fictional language called Hopelandic) | 89 |
| <u>Billy,</u> <u>Fred</u> <u>or</u> <u>Vincent</u> | 98 |
| New Jersey borough where Edison built the first electric lighting system | 72 |
| O'Donnell who hosted a widely panned 2008 Thanksgiving variety special | 74 |
| Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" | 81 |
| Bush aide who claimed knowledge of "THE math" before incorrectly predicting the outcome of the 2006 U.S. elections | 124 |
| ___ Garden (variety crossword in which answers are entered in "blooms") | 81 |
| "What's playin' at the ___?" ("Guys and Dolls" line) | 80 |
| 9/15/63 site of the only concert including both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones | 82 |
| Mnemonic that figures into each theme entry's "color shift" (from top to bottom) | 94 |
| Letters automatically displayed in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round | 79 |
| Album whose American version opens with "I've Just Seen a Face" | 77 |
| "House in the __ Plumet" (book of "Les Misérables") | 74 |
| "For you there's rosemary and ___": "The Winter's Tale" | 83 |
| "And all too soon, I fear, the king shall ___": "Richard II" | 80 |
| Govern, or word that can follow the first word of the four longest puzzle answers | 81 |
| "You do not talk about Fight Club" for "Fight Club," e.g. | 77 |
| 1961 #1 hit for Dion, and a literal hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 74 |
| "Kickin' Out the ___" Ken Will Morton & the Wholly Ghosts | 75 |
| On second thought, make it a grim futuristic epic: "Zorro, the Gay Blade..." | 86 |
| Asimov called it "bad . . . but it is immortal for that one word" | 75 |
| Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
| Radio personality who said "Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom" | 118 |
| 1998 movie with the quote "I saved Latin. What did you ever do?" | 74 |
| Hodges who called baseball's "shot heard 'round the world" | 76 |
| Hodges who called "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" | 85 |
| Richard ___, 2002 Pulitzer winner for the novel "Empire Falls" | 72 |
| Material my stepfather's old Ford Pinto was made of, or so it seemed to me | 78 |
| Loaf reliably available at cousin Lotte's house when we used to go up to Cleveland for brunch | 97 |
| Org. that replaced the "Drunk Driving" part of its acronym in the late '90s | 89 |
| "I couldn't unfasten her ___ belt" ("No Particular Place to Go" lyric) | 94 |
| Comedian Bob who said, "'Full House' gave me Tourette's" | 78 |
| Bob who gets away with saying "just for shiggles" on "1 vs. 100" | 84 |
| "The ostrich roams the great ___. / Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra": Ogden Nash | 95 |
| Wit who recorded the classic 1960 comedy album "At the Hungry I" | 74 |
| Comic who said "A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now" | 88 |
| Comic who declared "I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!" | 72 |
| "When I die, I want to still remain active politically" speaker | 73 |
| What the Magic Eye picture ends up being in a scene from "Mallrats" | 77 |
| Game show host Pat who had a cameo in "Airplane II: The Sequel" | 73 |
| Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" | 107 |
| Where Mirabelle Buttersfield sells gloves in the movie "Shopgirl" | 75 |
| "___ the Stockbroker" ("The Howard Stern Show" personality) | 79 |
| Teammate of Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Vida on the 1970s Oakland A's | 74 |
| Pitcher Maglie who in 1950 had baseball's highest winning percentage (.818) | 79 |
| "Send a ___ to your boy in the army" (Katz's Delicatessen sign) | 77 |
| Massachusetts city where Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" | 81 |
| City that's home to a statue honoring the TV show "Bewitched" | 75 |
| You won't encounter one in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, or Oregon | 82 |
| Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music" | 78 |
| Real-life opera composer who's a title character in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera | 79 |