Sequel to Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" which Entertainment Weekly named "Worst Book of 2005" | 118 |
"The other day my nephew's computer beat me at chess. But it was no match for me at kickboxing" comedian | 118 |
"Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ___ the other side he see." | 118 |
Gabonese president Bongo who's the world's longest-serving nonmonarchal head of state (he took office in 1967) | 118 |
Word that goes in either blank in the classic movie quote "___? Where we're going we don't need ___" | 118 |
Radio personality who said "Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom" | 118 |
"Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes," a.k.a. "Fleas," in its entirety (world's shortest poem?) | 118 |
"Sleepless in Seattle II: We Need to Get to the Hospital Now"? (Happy New Year to baby Hildegard of Bingen!) | 118 |
With "The," country that's already a U.S. state by 2010, in the 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" | 118 |
It's crafted in prison movies to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually escaped | 118 |
She said, “Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case” | 118 |
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought ___" (one of Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts") | 117 |
"Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word" is his last line | 117 |
Word that can precede each set of circled letters, forming a literal hint for entering certain answers in this puzzle | 117 |
Only tree in the Monty Python sketch "How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away" | 117 |
"18. In kindergarten art class, while other boys were drawing things like tanks and dinosaurs, I drew ___," | 117 |
"Annie" song with the lyric "Too busy / Too crazy / Too hot / Too cold / Too late / I'm sold" | 117 |
"That hurts ..." [Ink Well ends forever on June 25. Sign up for avxwords.com to get great, similar puzzles] | 117 |
Player behind Bonds, Henderson, Ruth, Williams, Morgan, Yastrzemski, and Mantle on the all-time leader list for walks | 117 |
Danish cyclist Bjarne who admitted in 2007 to taking performance-enhancing drugs when winning the 1996 Tour de France | 117 |
The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 117 |
___ Snow, Russell Brand's character in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek" | 117 |
One with an important role in the production of a fantasy film or period drama (not so important for a porno, though) | 117 |
"Gosh!" (or, based on the starts of starred answers, one who is expert at solving this puzzle's theme?) | 117 |
Name Jerry accidentally calls a girlfriend whose name rhymes with part of the female anatomy, on "Seinfeld" | 117 |
Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect" | 117 |
Commedia dell'arte character David Bowie dressed as on the cover of "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" | 117 |
Adjective for the man who shirtlessly plays "Careless Whisper" on his saxophone in malls and grocery stores | 117 |
Russell Byars is one: He set the Guinness World Record of 51 times from the shore of the Allegheny River on 7/19/2007 | 117 |
French Stewart's response when asked to "write a number" in an SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skit | 117 |
EPILOGUE: Band member: Where can we possibly go where they won't find us? T: I'm thinking __ (Frankie Avalon) | 117 |
"I would venture to guess that __, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman": Woolf | 116 |
Shakespeare title character whose first line is "There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd" | 116 |
"All My ___ Live in Texas" (song with the lyric "And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee") | 116 |
Agcy. that sets (often surprisingly high) maximum standards for the amounts of the circled materials in edible goods | 116 |
Princess who says "This is some rescue! You came in here, but didn't you have a plan for getting out?" | 116 |
"The occupation of the idle man, the distraction of the warrior, the peril of the sovereign," per Napoleon | 116 |
<u>A</u> <u>founder</u> <u>of</u> <u>1</u> <u>Across</u> | 116 |
Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" | 116 |
"House of Bush, House of ___: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties" | 116 |
Solution to the classic riddle "What force or strength cannot get through, / I, with gentle touch, can do" | 116 |
Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #2: grab a broom, put a book under your arm and like magic, you're a ___ | 116 |
Money ... or a hint to how six crossings in this puzzle are to be represented, superimposing one letter over another | 116 |
Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #3: slap on a sheet, borrow some Birkenstocks and suddenly you're an ___ | 116 |
"I will always wear black; even when I enjoy a concert I will never do more than sway disaffectedly," etc. | 116 |
"I'm kind of embarrassed how many people mistake me for George Clooney and ask for my autograph," e.g. | 116 |
"I wanted a TWIN-NOSED JET, but all I got were these ___! (Which don't bend like normal salamanders)" | 116 |
London venue where plays based on "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and "Mr. Ice Cream Man" are performed? | 116 |
It has "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects," according to Aldous Huxley | 116 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic song with the lyric "Think about nutrition, wonder what's inside it now" | 116 |
The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 116 |
The sculpture "Kryptos," which has never been fully deciphered, stands at its main entrance and courtyard | 115 |
"I am so ___ that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying" (Oscar Wilde quote) | 115 |
Electrodynamics class: B -- “We thankfully skipped the history of the subject and jumped straight into ___” | 115 |
"Die Luft ___ Freiheit weht" (motto of Stanford University meaning "The wind of freedom blows") | 115 |
Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" | 115 |
"Surgeon General Mills Recommends Three to Five Servings of ___ Per Day" ("The Onion" headline) | 115 |
"'Sblood, but you will not hear me: If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me" is his first line | 115 |
Its D.C. building has the Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society" | 115 |
Basketball player who was part of Time Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Most Influential People in the World" | 115 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" setting that answers the question "Where else could Sabbath be so sweet?" | 115 |
Ex-coach of the 2006 Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers who is now a game analyst for "The NFL Today" | 115 |
Yankees manager of the '70s between two Billy Martin stints and of the '80s between two Gene Michael stints | 115 |
Artist and chess player who said "While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists" | 115 |
"I mean, isn't she worth, like, a ___ dollars?" (line from the pilot of "Will & Grace") | 115 |
It follows "Plastics" and "We'll always have Paris" on the AFI list of top 100 movie quotes | 115 |
Movie in which Europe's "The Final Countdown" doesn't actually appear, contrary to popular belief | 115 |
What word precedes "Eyes," "Girl," "Love" and "Mama" in Top 40 song titles? | 115 |
Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” | 115 |
"And that's how it always ends, with me typing up a script for the Three Stooges! ___! Just kidding." | 115 |
Anti-abuse org. [To see the original color version of this puzzle's unusual grid, visit sundaycrosswords.com.] | 115 |
The "who" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this quadrant | 115 |
Hybrid citrus that's hidden in Marconi's first name (and you thought we'd run out of ways to clue this) | 115 |
"Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe" (inscription on René Magritte's "The Treachery of Images") | 115 |
Singer of "Like a Surgeon" (with the lyric "I can hear your heart beat for the very last time") | 115 |
In the end, though, the media portrayed the press conference as bland and amicable -- the latest in a series of ___ | 115 |
Words after "here," "there" and "everywhere" in "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" | 114 |
"I live on ___-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there." (Steven Wright) | 114 |
A: You have 24 hours to arrange payment. T: (to himself) Looks like we'll be a __ (Paul McCartney & Wings) | 114 |
"Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to, and the one white people used to go to." | 114 |
It's classified by the U.S.D.A. as red meat under cooking guidelines and as poultry under inspection standards | 114 |
Add vertical line 1 (word 1) and vertical line 15 (word 3) and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 114 |
"___ is sad" (Internet meme which involved photoshopping an actor eating a sandwich into other pictures) | 114 |
When spelled out, word that follows the beginnings of the starred answers in a memorable kids' show theme song | 114 |
Add vertical line 15 (word 1) and vertical line 1 (word 3) and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 114 |
Pithy sayings (four well-known ones containing the circled word are the keys to unlocking this puzzle's theme) | 114 |
Music releases like "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes," and "Narrow Stairs," to fans | 114 |
"3. The first song I learned how to play on guitar was '___' (albeit in a very punk rock style)" | 114 |
"___ around around around around" (repeated line in Dion and the Belmonts' "The Wanderer") | 114 |
Old song with the lyric "When he would ride in the afternoon / I'd follow him with my hickory broom" | 114 |
Example or attribute of something used to represent the whole, as "sword" for "military power" | 114 |
Her "Can't Be Tamed" video made Yahoo! Music's "The Least Awesome Videos of 2010" list | 114 |
Mariah Carey song title that completes the lyric "I'd give ___ to have just one more night with you" | 114 |
"Now he's got the pizza - but the TV's showing nothing but snow! He quickly gives it an ___ ..." | 114 |
One of two reserve components (the other being its "Army" counterpart) of the United States Armed Forces | 114 |
___ Building, company headquarters erected in 1908 in New York City, at the time the tallest building in the world | 114 |
Sextet of cancellations that produced the starred entries...or an oversexed MTV production now facing cancellation | 114 |
"The ___ Not Falling!: Why It's Ok to Chill About Global Warming" (Holly Fretwell book for children) | 114 |
Box sets containing "The Right Stuff," "A Man in Full" and "I Am Charlotte Simmons"? | 114 |
Rare occurrence at the U.S. Open on Father's Day that's a common occurrence at the U.S. Open on Labor Day | 113 |