| "Lick my stilettos, Mr. Chairman of the House Committee on the Budget"? | 81 |
| Individual string cheese: "Safety first! Open with hands, not teeth"... | 81 |
| Item in the hardware department with a "+" or "-" on its head | 81 |
| River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" | 81 |
| "I can remember when the air was clean and ___ was dirty": George Burns | 81 |
| The BBC's "Pinwright's Progress" is reportedly the first TV one | 81 |
| "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of ___" (W.C. Fields quote) | 81 |
| "Her loveliness I never knew / Until she ___ on me" (Hartley Coleridge) | 81 |
| Show that released the edited version of "I'm on a Boat," for short | 81 |
| "Sex and Suffering in the Afternoon," as per a 1976 Time magazine cover | 81 |
| "___ you can't get under it" ("Psychedelic Shack" lyrics) | 81 |
| Band that eats Peter Frampton's watermelon, in a "Simpsons" episode | 81 |
| Old draft agcy. [AVXwords.com has the freshest weekly crosswords - sign up today] | 81 |
| Comedian on the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover | 81 |
| Pitcher Mike who got the win in the first and last games of the 2000 World Series | 81 |
| He won a Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for "Breakfast on Pluto" | 81 |
| "Fiddler on the Roof" song suggested twice by this puzzle's circles | 81 |
| Beastie Boys "You can't, you won't and you don't stop" song | 81 |
| Yang ___ Young (gymnast involved in a scoring controversy at the Athens Olympics) | 81 |
| "At age 12 he started traveling with a fast crowd, which began ___ ..." | 81 |
| "American Idol" singer Gray with the 2004 album "The Dreamer" | 81 |
| It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's talking in a room | 81 |
| Classic music hall song that lent its melody to the "Howdy Doody" theme | 81 |
| Singer who draws a 13 on her hand before each concert (it's her lucky number) | 81 |
| Former NFL quarterback Tim whose name became a dictionary-recognized verb in 2012 | 81 |
| 2003 sci-fi disaster film featuring a subterranean team of "terranauts" | 81 |
| Bodies making their closest approach in more than 50,000 years on August 27, 2003 | 81 |
| She remembered having a high-school crush on a handsome, dark-haired boy with ... | 81 |
| Former U.S. Open champ Monica's cry upon seeing wooden rackets in her locker? | 81 |
| What the final episode of "Breaking Bad" may mean for fans of the show? | 81 |
| What the six puzzle answers graphically represented in this puzzle have in common | 81 |
| What the Once-ler's factory produces in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" | 81 |
| Items that Dr. Seuss's Once-ler knitted from the silk tufts of Truffula Trees | 81 |
| "__ who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it": Santayana | 81 |
| "Men are pigs. It's too bad we own everything, isn't it?" comic | 81 |
| Genghis's 100%-wooden cousin (as screamed in "Lumberjack Trek II")? | 81 |
| George "Kingfish" Stevens of TV's "Amos 'n' Andy" | 81 |
| Multiple Grammy winner who was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" | 81 |
| Only man to twice win the U.S. Open without losing a set in the entire tournament | 81 |
| “Character is like a ___ and reputation like its shadow”: Abraham Lincoln | 81 |
| Football Hall-of-Famer Ronnie, playing an extra in "Lord of the Rings"? | 81 |
| What Thoreau and Eisenhower have in common, or this puzzle's theme, literally | 81 |
| "You" affectionately in Yamachiche, followed by ubiquitous German auto? | 81 |
| Wee hr., and a hint to a feature common to this puzzle's four longest answers | 81 |
| Movie mogul whom Forbes magazine once named the highest-paid man in entertainment | 81 |
| Mixed martial arts co. that recently aired its first event on national television | 81 |
| One who "never was afraid of goons and ginks," in a Woody Guthrie title | 81 |
| Setting of much of the first Sherlock Holmes tale, "A Study in Scarlet" | 81 |
| Indian author ___ Mehta, a staff writer for The New Yorker for more than 30 years | 81 |
| Hipster magazine that seems, despite its protestations, persistently conservative | 81 |
| Ostensible backdrop of the 2003 roman à clef "The Devil Wears Prada" | 81 |
| 63-year-old Vera reportedly dating 27-year-old skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek | 81 |
| Radio station whose call letters include the first three letters of its Ohio city | 81 |
| "Baseball Tonight" segment featuring the day's best defensive plays | 81 |
| Olympic figure skater Johnny who skated to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" | 81 |
| The "home" in John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | 81 |
| Message spelled out by punked Harvard fans at the 2004 Harvard-Yale football game | 81 |
| Complaint from one trying to concentrate, perhaps—and this puzzle's title | 81 |
| Band featured in the 2002 documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" | 81 |
| Pieces of pasteboard with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" printed on them? | 81 |
| Title under which "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" originally charted, in 1952 | 81 |
| Leader who said "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind" | 81 |
| Ohio city where a Burger King worker YouTubed himself bathing in the sink in 2008 | 81 |
| You might have one to visit Japan, but you'll need a bunch once you get there | 81 |
| Many a ''Lord of the Rings'' extra (with ''New'') | 81 |
| 1980 text adventure that introduced the line "You were eaten by a grue" | 81 |
| Quartet that broke out in spring 1972, and the scheme of this puzzle's theme | 80 |
| "Hair" song with the lyrics "four score and seven years ago" | 80 |
| When ''eye of newt'' is mentioned in ''Macbeth'' | 80 |
| Gilbert ___, author of "A Void," a 290-page novel without the letter E | 80 |
| "Here, __ Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift": "The Tempest" | 80 |
| Only outfielder besides Winfield to win Gold Gloves in both leagues in the 1900s | 80 |
| ___ grecque (cooked in olive oil, lemon juice, wine, and herbs, and served cold) | 80 |
| Author of the 2009 book subtitled "A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" | 80 |
| "When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble" speaker | 80 |
| ___ Leasure (Courtney Love's role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt") | 80 |
| "Gimme ___!" (repeated cry of a University of Mississippi cheerleader) | 80 |
| ___ Perkins (Leslie Knope's best friend on "Parks and Recreation") | 80 |
| ___ Wintour, real-life editor on whom "The Devil Wears Prada" is based | 80 |
| "Bond Smells ___" ("Diamonds Are Forever" soundtrack number) | 80 |
| "___ Ready: The Business of Singing" (career guide with a punny title) | 80 |
| "Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist | 80 |
| The "her" in Beethoven's question "Who comprehends her?" | 80 |
| Movie robot whose voice was made with an ARP 2600 analog synthesizer, familiarly | 80 |
| "One Life to Live" character Buchanan who's been divorced 10 times | 80 |
| Word that goes in either blank of the David Bowie classic "___ to ___" | 80 |
| The ___ (trophy for the annual test cricket match between England and Australia) | 80 |
| Shylock's first one begins "How like a fawning publican he looks!" | 80 |
| Massive mover in the Hoth battle sequence of "The Empire Strikes Back" | 80 |
| Author who wrote "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today" | 80 |
| "___ O'Riley" (first song on the album "Who's Next") | 80 |
| Arthur who was the first Yente in Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" | 80 |
| "Get lost!," and a hint to the beginnings of the three longest entries | 80 |
| It might say "What part of 'cookie' don't you understand?" | 80 |
| Pasadena institute where most of "The Big Bang Theory" characters work | 80 |
| Ending with bunny or puppy or basically any animal you want to watch perpetually | 80 |
| "The best debater since ___" (The Bush campaign on John Kerry in 2004) | 80 |
| Country singer David Allan ___, writer of "Take This Job and Shove It" | 80 |
| British actor Robert, the original Colonel Pickering in "My Fair Lady" | 80 |
| They were "Grateful" for their hippie following (with "The") | 80 |