| "But then I staved off an attack, using my great-axe for a..." | 72 |
| What's heard in the computer lab when the regular teachers are sick? | 72 |
| Slogan for a down-and-out Indiana city trying to attract creative types? | 72 |
| But neither would talk. So I said, "I'm going to ___" ... | 72 |
| What this puzzle's capitalized clues are, both by definition and pun | 72 |
| Julie London's sultry song in "The Girl Can't Help It" | 72 |
| "What would you like in your imported coffee?" "___" | 72 |
| Entertainer whose Broadway show was subtitled "The Royal Tour" | 72 |
| Jazz standard whose title is repeatedly sung after "Honey ..." | 72 |
| "An' they're hangin' Danny --- in the mornin'" | 72 |
| "The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country." | 72 |
| 1940s-'50s film/TV star with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | 72 |
| The title character in ''Dumbo'' is the only one that __ | 72 |
| One who believes there are two eternal principles, one good and one evil | 72 |
| Syllable between "do wah diddy diddy" and "diddy do" | 72 |
| Comedian who donned many big costumes in "The Nutty Professor" | 72 |
| "You're my pride and joy, et cetera" girl in a Turtles hit | 72 |
| TV character who came out of the closet in "The Puppy Episode" | 72 |
| "Better a friend's bite than an __ caress": Danish proverb | 72 |
| Debut album of 2010 "American Idol" runner-up Crystal Bowersox | 72 |
| "Charlie's Angels" costar of Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith | 72 |
| Bill Moyers speech on income inequality in America, with "The" | 72 |
| "In the Still of the Nite" doo-wop group, with "the" | 72 |
| Business model in which only the deluxe version of a product costs money | 72 |
| "Assemble the Fellowship," "Destroy the ring," etc.? | 72 |
| Cartoon whose guest voices have included Leonard Nimoy, Al Gore and Beck | 72 |
| Theme #3 (Nahnahnahnah nah-nah nah-nah ... nahnahnahnah nah-hah nah ...) | 72 |
| While working as a waiter, he annoyed a character only known as Fat Blue | 72 |
| Cable channel that airs reruns of "Press Your Luck," for short | 72 |
| Words with ''there'' and ''the balance'' | 72 |
| Film which featured Julianne Moore in a role once played by Jodie Foster | 72 |
| TV host/singer roomies' mailbox label that sounds like a vital sign? | 72 |
| "___ Myself" ("The Producers" number sung by Hitler) | 72 |
| Mineral found on Mars in 1998 that suggests the former presence of water | 72 |
| 1968 song with the lyric "Remember to let her into your heart" | 72 |
| 1993 hit with the lyric "Keep playin' that song all night" | 72 |
| "Alternate side parking regulations are suspended today," say? | 72 |
| Whence the line "A person's a person, no matter how small" | 72 |
| TIRED OF BREAKING UP! Separated white male, looking for togetherness ... | 72 |
| Most prone to play "Grand Theft Auto V" and eatDoritos all day | 72 |
| Yearly parody prize awarded at Harvard for various scientific categories | 72 |
| Comment to one, previously thought to be a stranger, after an aha moment | 72 |
| Kids' song about an acorn "lying on the cold, cold ground" | 72 |
| Sarcastic remark when your friend pays you back that quarter he borrowed | 72 |
| A. God of war B. Goddess of the earth C. God of love D.Ruler of the gods | 72 |
| "Unyielding Sweetheart: Autobiography of a Big-League Pitcher" | 72 |
| "Something's fishy," and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 72 |
| T. S. Eliot title character who measures out his life with coffee spoons | 72 |
| Status attained after passing the Trials of Skill, Spirit, and Knowledge | 72 |
| Monogram of Peter Parker's publisher boss, in "Spider-Man" | 72 |
| What the tabloids desperately searched for after a noted 2008 pregnancy? | 72 |
| Road in the title of an old Johnny Depp television show and recent movie | 72 |
| Fashion designer Michael who's a judge on "Project Runway" | 72 |
| Ronald Reagan is the only U.S. president who was also president of a ... | 72 |
| Rossellini film renamed "Ways of Love" in its American version | 72 |
| Kaufman play based on the Matthew Shepard incident, with "The" | 72 |
| Entertainer born in May 1919, the basis for five anagrams in this puzzle | 72 |
| Historic symbol whose shape can be found hidden in this completed puzzle | 72 |
| Epic battle in technology ... or a hint to four crossings in this puzzle | 72 |
| Palindromic phrase ostensibly spoken to a person with a palindromic name | 72 |
| Most successful recording artist of the 1990s, per "Billboard" | 72 |
| Prosecutor's claim upon submitting evidence at the trial of Viking 1 | 72 |
| Smetana symphonic suite whose title is Czech for "My Homeland" | 72 |
| Announcer who was the first to call DiMaggio "Joltin' Joe" | 72 |
| Facetious unit defined as the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship | 72 |
| Literary character whose name is said to mean "laughing water" | 72 |
| Murray, Akroyd, Ramis, and Weaver's "Ghostbusters" co-star | 72 |
| 1959 comedy featuring Peter Sellers in three roles, with "The" | 72 |
| Owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant on "The Simpsons" | 72 |
| "Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything" speaker | 72 |
| 2001 OutKast chart-topper whose title refers to Erykah Badu's mother | 72 |
| "Date ___" (MTV matchmaking show involving a mediating parent) | 72 |
| What Fido's recently purchased tether gave him (with "a")? | 72 |
| Age at which Gerald Ford, the longest-lived U.S. President, died in 2006 | 72 |
| 30 ... (when completed, a Hitchcock movie)(with ''The'') | 72 |
| Rectangular devices with a D-pad and the buttons A, B, START, and SELECT | 72 |
| Response to "Tom!" in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" | 72 |
| 1965 song with the lyric "Isn't he a bit like you and me?" | 72 |
| Ron Moody in "Oliver!" compared to others who played the part? | 72 |
| Mother Goose offerings, or in a different sense, this puzzle's title | 72 |
| Need to touch all the items on one's desk before leaving, say: Abbr. | 72 |
| Shakespeare on overthrowing first ("Julius Caesar," V, iii, 6) | 72 |
| Gabonese president for 41 years, the longest such run in African history | 72 |
| Best Picture inspired by a Pulitzer-winning series of newspaper articles | 72 |
| Invoice for loofahs with "No-Spin Zone" printed on the handle? | 72 |
| ___ the Jebusite (Biblical figure who sold his threshing floor to David) | 72 |
| Rocker with the 1981 triple-platinum album "Diary of a Madman" | 72 |
| Johnny Carson's co-writer of his "Tonight Show" theme song | 72 |
| Co-writer of Michael Jackson's posthumous hit "This Is It" | 72 |
| Scared the daylights out of Elijah in "The Lord of the Rings"? | 72 |
| "Then Curly ___ in and says, 'Do I smell donuts?' ..." | 72 |
| Magician, and word whose ten letters make up every answer in this puzzle | 72 |
| Bulwer-Lytton's "It was a dark and stormy night ...," e.g. | 72 |
| Spin, as a cue ball, and how to answer each starred clue in this puzzle? | 72 |
| Market value of a company's assets divided by their replacement cost | 72 |
| Complaint about which whiskey is being served at a Friars Club function? | 72 |
| Sitcom about the Connor family, which helped propel John Goodman to fame | 72 |
| Alan who played Cameron Frye in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 72 |
| Prince ___ Land (historical Canadian region that drains into Hudson Bay) | 72 |
| Female actress who played Hamlet in 1899 at LondonÂ’s Adelphi Theatre | 72 |