| Role played by Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" ... | 82 |
| Grotesquely fat beast of early French literature that existed solely by devouring virtuous husbands | 99 |
| Shirt put on in hopes of being chosen for "The Price Is Right"? | 73 |
| Phenomenon evidenced in the 2011 film subtitled "Never Say Never" | 75 |
| Reviewer on "Look Homeward, Angel": "It's overlong and clunky" | 86 |
| Spinal Tap song with the lyric "I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day" | 90 |
| "21. I have a tough time listening to ___ in front of women ('Ready To Die' is too misogynist)" | 113 |
| Loose collection of influential corporations from Alf's home planet? | 72 |
| 1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace" | 97 |
| Football coach Bill Parcells's nickname (not a standard sushi option) | 73 |
| Coke and Pepsi's nickname, in the soft drink business (with "The") | 80 |
| "Under a ___" (Durante's clue to where the money is buried in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World") | 124 |
| Ex-coach of the 2006 Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers who is now a game analyst for "The NFL Today" | 115 |
| A clip of his "Inside Edition" meltdown made Huffington Post's #1 spot on "YouTube's Best of 2008: Top Ten" | 135 |
| Singer (with the Dakotas) for whom Lennon & McCartney wrote songs in the early 1960s, ___ Kramer | 101 |
| Possible result of a waiter misunderstanding an order for broth with perch? | 75 |
| City where, in a letter from jail, King asserted "a moral duty to disobey unjust laws" | 96 |
| Profanely-named song from the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" | 76 |
| Reasonable response to "Do you think BP is handling the oil spill adequately?" | 88 |
| "If my article doesn't get published, I'll be ___," said the antiquities professor | 100 |
| Host: "Champ, this seemed like a grudge match. Do I detect some ... ___?" Flay: "Well, yeah, he kept calling me 'Flabby Boy'!" | 154 |
| ..."I Just Can't Help Believing She Blinded Me With Science" | 74 |
| Feature hidden in the starred answers (and suggested by the grid's center) | 78 |
| Unnominated film about the recipe that got Hans Christian Andersen arrested? | 76 |
| "Bigger & ___," 1999 Grammy-winning comedy album by Chris Rock | 76 |
| "TV Party" punks covering some '80s Hollywood glam metal with "Scrape" punks? | 101 |
| 1987 market crash, and this puzzle's title, whose first word can precede each word in the starred answers | 109 |
| What Attila reputedly demanded 3,000 pounds of as a ransom for the city of Rome | 79 |
| "The greatest threat to the internal security of the country," according to J. Edgar Hoover in 1969 | 109 |
| Movie based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" | 72 |
| What you might do if you get a dent from someone who slaps your car's hood while crossing the street? | 105 |
| Heroine who declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" | 84 |
| “My dull day began in my History of Free Silver class, where we were discussing 1878’s ___” | 103 |
| Sitcom (as pronounced on CBS ads) that made tvsquad.com's "Worst of TV in 2010" list | 98 |
| Illegal saloon offering "complimentary" drinks to those who paid to see an animal curiosity | 101 |
| Meat that everyone thinks is rotten but then it turns out to be some of the best barbecue ever? | 95 |
| "He's looking for an opening, but she's doing a tremendous job of ___!" | 89 |
| 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme film, or where an L.A. gang docks their boats? | 73 |
| Procedure improved by physician Alexander Bogdanov that left him dead of TB and malaria | 87 |
| Servant's complaint about serving a British queen one course of a meal? | 75 |
| Jazz singer and pianist who sang "Figure Eight" on "Schoolhouse Rock" (1924-2009) | 101 |
| Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the object found by connecting the four circled letters in a diamond | 100 |
| "Where the folks are fine / And the world is mine," in a Linda Ronstadt hit | 85 |
| Violet Beauregarde is transformed into one in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" | 91 |
| "That high lonesome sound," as played by Atlantic crustaceans? | 72 |
| One feeling sad, perhaps because rejecting all truth isn't going so well? | 77 |
| "They'd assembled what could only be described as a ___..." | 73 |
| Democratic territory / Cardinal, e.g. / "Over the Rainbow" flier | 74 |
| R&B singer arrested in 1993 for an "overly suggestive stage performance" | 86 |
| Celebrity chef and host of the Food Network's "Boy Meets Grill" | 77 |
| Winner of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" | 122 |
| Yankees manager of the '70s between two Billy Martin stints and of the '80s between two Gene Michael stints | 115 |
| Leader of Husker Du whose "Dog On Fire" became the "Daily Show" theme | 89 |
| ...a Heyman/Sour/ Eyton/Green collaboration with Isaac Hayes and David Porter? | 78 |
| Phineas ___ (lead role on the 1980s sci-fi series "Voyagers!") | 72 |
| "Scènes de la Vie de ___" (novel on which a Puccini opera is based) | 80 |
| Intrepid [Editor's note: This clue appears in heavier type (without the asterisks) in the print version of the puzzle. AcrossLite can't handle that, so just imaging that it's written in darker type.] | 211 |
| Actress Beulah who played James Stewart's mother in "It's A Wonderful Life" | 93 |
| 2011 Record of the Year nominee whose name roughly translates to "good winter" | 88 |
| "Pygmy chimpanzee" found only in the Democratic Republic of Congo | 75 |
| Simon & Garfunkel album featuring "Mrs. Robinson" and "At the Zoo" | 90 |
| G. Love & Special Sauce song that repeats "I can tell that we're gonna be friends" | 100 |
| “In my Soil Mechanics class, the professor droned on about how to use ___” | 82 |
| Classic country song with the lyric "I've lived my life in vain" | 78 |
| hancox73: gtg, lets dump these mofos / notindians50: hurl the cr8s into the harbor / britzred: wtf?? | 102 |
| Actress Thurman, after joining the "More Than a Feeling" band? | 72 |
| 1980s South African leader P.W., controversial for maintaining apartheid | 72 |
| TV jargon term for Seinfeld's "The Chinese Restaurant" and others, in which all of the action takes place on a single set with only a few characters | 162 |
| There's one at the beginning of each of this puzzle's four theme entries | 80 |
| Band whose 1994 song "I'll Make Love to You" was #1 for 14 weeks | 78 |
| "I'll Make Love to You" group exchanged for Japanese currency? | 76 |
| Flight-ending words from the captain of the "Miracle on the Hudson" | 77 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #2: grab a broom, put a book under your arm and like magic, you're a ___ | 116 |
| "What did you try to do after the caution flag came out?" [The Doors, 1967] | 85 |
| An arachnid that sucks the juices of its prey was named after this author | 73 |
| Dodger who threw the pitch Bobby Thomson hit for the "shot heard 'round the world" | 96 |
| "The Godfather" enforcer who "sleeps with the fishes" | 73 |
| Stars of "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," collectively | 89 |
| The world's largest ..., prepared in Campbellsport, Wisconsin, required four gallons of relish | 98 |
| 1932 dystopian novel in which humans give up individuality to mindlessly pursue pleasure | 88 |
| "How beauteous mankind is! O ___, that has such people in't!": "The Tempest" [1932 novel] | 113 |
| Team that has won the World Series three times while based in three different cities | 84 |
| Fragile articles ... or a hint to the things named by the circled letters | 73 |
| With "The," 1985 coming-of-age comedy-drama featuring the "Brat Pack" | 89 |
| Guinness record-setter for "highest-rated TV series" (scoring 99 out of 100 on Metacritic.com) | 104 |
| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
| "Uh-oh, there's a ball and glass shards under the window"? | 72 |
| Expand the intrapleural space, automatically allowing entry through the pharynx and beyond, then allow the diaphragm to relax, contract, and expel contents | 155 |
| "The Puzzling World of Winston ___" (kids puzzle book by Eric Berlin) | 79 |
| Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | 76 |
| Giants hurler (2010 champs) / Beach Boys vocalist on "Help Me, Rhonda" (#1 in 1965) | 93 |
| Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them | 112 |
| The crooked realty agent tried to sell some sucker the Golden Gate by offering a... | 83 |
| What's taken by someone visiting a person who recants on the other side of a river? | 87 |
| Company whose motto is "Our pilots are moderately intelligent"? | 73 |
| Transvestite Maxwell with a Martha Stewart-like show on the Style Network | 73 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #3: "Toxic" singer and Stooges frontman | 75 |
| Result of not following through (of which there are four examples in this puzzle's grid) | 92 |
| Song that begins "Hey, where did we go, days when the rains came" | 75 |
| “Iggy, your stirring Duncan Hines batter has no relevance to our experiment on ...” | 91 |