| Tigres del ___, Dominican team that has won the Caribbean World Series nine times | 81 |
| Biblically-minded rapper, or a story in which a 2008 runner-up kills his brother? | 81 |
| 1949 musical by Irving Berlin, featuring Eddie Albert as a newspaper photographer | 81 |
| What the treasurer of the United States and the secretary of the Treasury supply? | 81 |
| "How Are Things in Glocca ___?" ("Finian's Rainbow" song) | 81 |
| "Lady Marmalade" singer with Pink, Lil' Kim, and Christina Aguilera | 81 |
| 1979 new wave classic that begins "Oh my little pretty one, pretty one" | 81 |
| 1993 Brian Eno album named for an oil extracted from the flower of an orange tree | 81 |
| Gizmo often with five balls that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy | 81 |
| 1939 Greta Garbo Best Picture nominee (it lost to "Gone With the Wind") | 81 |
| trickyman: y0 im not a cr00k / uspubl200mil : cough bs / trickyman: ok i give up | 81 |
| They got back together to tour with 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men in 2013, for short | 81 |
| Nebraska town, named after an Indian tribe, featured in "Lonesome Dove" | 81 |
| Talking Heads' "As the days go by, let the water hold me down" song | 81 |
| "Coming ___ Parents" (book my mom bought me when she thought I was gay) | 81 |
| Kentucky city that's home to the Museum of the American Quilter's Society | 81 |
| "___ to Power" (Frederick J. Sheehan's exposé of Alan Greenspan) | 81 |
| Broadcasting award inscribed with the words "The University of Georgia" | 81 |
| Test subject #2 perceives 1 as yellow, 3 as red, 8 as black; maybe she owns a ... | 81 |
| " . . . never blows so ___ Rose . . . ": "The Rubáiyát" | 81 |
| New slogan for a Texas city trying to spread the word about its cheap ammunition? | 81 |
| Actress/comic roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an auto safety feature? | 81 |
| "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 |
| " .... inside of ___ it's too dark to read" (Groucho Marx punchline) | 82 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What lies flat when empty, sits up when full?" | 82 |
| Song that becomes the musical it's in if you add an "H" to the front | 82 |
| Its flag consists of a crimson St. Andrew's cross on a white background: Abbr. | 82 |
| He said "If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic" | 82 |
| "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!" speaker | 82 |
| "Interviewer" who asked Kobe Bryant how many springs are in a basketball | 82 |
| Food brand that was the sole sponsor of the first "60 Minutes" broadcast | 82 |
| Joseph who was the subject of the 2012 biographical play "The Columnist" | 82 |
| "... __ the dreadful thunder / Doth rend the region": "Hamlet" | 82 |
| According to folklore, European city that was named by the mythical giant Antigoon | 82 |
| 1998 movie with the tagline "See the world from a whole new perspective" | 82 |