| Shakespeare character who was the first to use the word "inauspicious" | 80 |
| Sing "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," say | 80 |
| Senior group's second-in-command permits a party with self-provided alcohol? | 80 |
| Song covered by Elvis Presley, Guy Lombardo, Bing Crosby, Sammy Kaye, and others | 80 |
| Serving it to children, not putting enough of it into a Black Russian, and so on | 80 |
| Space traveler whose first five letters, spelled backward, are oddly appropriate | 80 |
| Substance whose synthesis required a "life force," alchemists believed | 80 |
| Site affiliated with "WTF Tattoos" and "White Trash Repairs" | 80 |
| Song played by Elvis Costello on "SNL" that led to his twelve-year ban | 80 |
| Scottish sailor Alexander who was supposedly the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe | 80 |
| Say "I love you" by extending the thumb, index finger, and pinky, e.g. | 80 |
| Second of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 80 |
| Source of the line "What's past is prologue," with "The" | 80 |
| Strongest theory of where the next "Real Housewives" show will be set? | 80 |
| Screenwriter/actor roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an old announcer? | 80 |
| Summit attendee, and what the first word can be in each answer to a starred clue | 80 |
| She finished third behind Ohno and Fatone on "Dancing With the Stars" | 79 |
| Source of the sample in Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" | 79 |
| Song that begins "How come you're always such a fussy young man?" | 79 |
| Sylvia Plath poem featuring the line “I know it with my great tap root” | 79 |
| Soda whose original slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine" | 79 |
| Song that provided the melody for Elvis's "It's Now or Never" | 79 |
| Stream of radioactive particles with the lowest penetration of ordinary objects | 79 |
| Someone safely in the middle class who puts on airs of an alternative lifestyle | 79 |
| Springsteen song that starts, "Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?" | 79 |
| Start of a quote by James H. Boren, author of "When in Doubt, Mumble" | 79 |
| Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle | 79 |
| Soldier's comment akin to "It's time to join the line, dear"? | 79 |
| Speak derisively, and a hint to how this puzzle's long answers were created | 79 |
| Sensible car, perhaps [avxwords.com has premium indie xwords - subscribe today] | 79 |
| Sochi alpine event with "giant" and "super giant" varieties | 79 |
| Subject of the biography "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" | 79 |
| Start of a "grook" (an aphoristic poem) by Danish scientist Piet Hein | 79 |
| She played Appassionata von Climax in Broadway's "Li'l Abner" | 79 |
| Sch. whose women's basketball team is currently on a 76-game winning streak | 79 |
| Start of a proverb about consequences ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 79 |
| So-called "mansiere," essentially, in a "Seinfeld" episode | 78 |
| Short form of the formal name for mad cow disease (hidden in RUBS ELBOWS WITH) | 78 |
| San Antonio mayor Julián, keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic convention | 78 |
| Scholars doubt that he ever said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" | 78 |
| She beat out Renée, Sissy, Judi, and Nicole for the 2001 Best Actress Oscar | 78 |
| Shakespeare character who said "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 78 |
| Surname of literary characters Noah, Tom, Al, Rosasharn, Ruthie, and Winfield | 78 |
| Seuss character who "spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy" | 78 |
| Scarlett's sister-in-law and best friend in "Gone With the Wind" | 78 |
| Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | 78 |
| Songwriter who wrote "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Stoney End" | 78 |
| Scarlett whose final film words are "I'll never be hungry again" | 78 |
| Speaker of Shakespeare's "If music be the food of love, play on" | 78 |
| Seven-time Best Actor runner-up who finally received an honorary Oscar in 2003 | 78 |
| Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are determined by this | 78 |
| Simile words before "a hen's tooth" or "a day in June" | 78 |
| Supposed psychoactive substance outlined in "The Anarchist Cookbook" | 78 |
| Ship created by Jule Verne for “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” | 78 |
| Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" | 78 |
| Song whose subject is encouraged to "hurry down the chimney tonight" | 78 |
| Show that's had Clay Aiken, Matthew Perry and Dick Van Dyke as guest stars | 78 |
| Super Bowl XXI M.V.P., first to say "I'm going to Disney World!" | 78 |
| Set of which all seven elements are fittingly hidden in the solved puzzle grid | 78 |
| Setting of Shakespeare's "Two households, both alike in dignity" | 78 |
| Sports cars advertised with the slogan "Domesticated. Not declawed." | 78 |
| State for Snowflake, a town founded by Mormon pioneers E. Snow and W.J. Flake | 77 |
| Scottish historian Thomas who called economics "the dismal science" | 77 |
| Seasoning option for fries at the Japanese fast food restaurant First Kitchen | 77 |
| Stuff people want legalized so they can make shampoo and shirts (yeah, right) | 77 |
| Source of "The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside" | 77 |
| Supermodel who appeared in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" | 77 |
| She won her first Tony for playing Flora in "Flora, the Red Menace" | 77 |
| Shania Twain "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm ___ Here!" | 77 |
| Singer of 1976's "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 77 |
| Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" | 77 |
| Sec. of State who said "I am in control here" after Reagan was shot | 77 |
| Song originally from the Broadway musical "Everybody's Welcome" | 77 |
| Stadium billed as "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon opening in 1965 | 77 |
| Sudden reductions in loan availability, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
| Speech given by the policeman chasing James Cagney in "White Heat"? | 77 |
| Some film credits, and the idea behind the eight theme answers in this puzzle | 77 |
| Samuel Butler's satirical utopia whose name is an anagram of its location | 77 |
| Saint-___-du-Mont, church containing the remains of the patron saint of Paris | 77 |
| Say "Yes, officer, that's the singer that was using Auto-Tune"? | 77 |
| Soul singer James with the 1990 #1 hit "I Don't Have the Heart" | 77 |
| Singer who went looking for Mr. Right on the reality show “#1 Single” | 77 |
| Says "I tried needlepoint twice, but I was only so-so," for example | 77 |
| Shake-up in the global balance of power ... and a hint to the circled letters | 77 |
| Start of Seneca's quote that ends with "... what reason cannot" | 77 |
| Songwriter-husband of Minnie Riperton and father of "SNL" alum Maya | 77 |
| Sch. that if it were a country, it would rank 12th all-time in Olympic medals | 77 |
| Spanish-American bandleader once married to Abbe Lane born on January 1, 1900 | 77 |
| Speaker of "Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be" | 77 |
| Singer with the 2008 album "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)" | 76 |
| She "espied their tails side by side, / All hung on a tree to dry" | 76 |
| Secret military mission ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle? | 76 |
| Shakespeare villain who says "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" | 76 |
| Supermodel host of the version of "Project Runway" shown in Canada | 76 |
| She played Ursula Andress in "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" | 76 |
| Sportsman Hunt for whom the N.F.L.'s A.F.C. championship trophy is named | 76 |
| Sports org. whose out-of-market TV package is called "Direct Kick" | 76 |
| Soda with the slogan "Your Favorite Drink In Your Favorite Flavor" | 76 |
| State that shares the longest diagonal border in the country with California | 76 |
| Songwriter of both "Stoney End" and "Stoned Soul Picnic" | 76 |