| U.S. official whose office has been vacant for more than nine of the last 50 years | 82 |
| Actor who announced in December that he was leaving "Grey's Anatomy" | 82 |
| President who said, "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em" | 82 |
| He said the most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible | 82 |
| A sudden rise or fall of seawater level is an unmistakable sign that one is coming | 82 |
| Lizzie Borden's blows – "Easy Pieces" ÷ proverbial crowd = | 82 |
| In the United States, it began with the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists | 82 |
| You can find one in the four longest puzzle answers, even if you don't believe | 82 |
| Event that often provides occasion for Kanye West to make a fool of himself: Abbr. | 82 |
| "Mr. Roboto" effects device invented as a military encryption technology | 82 |
| Dress like Homer Simpson when he intentionally gained weight to get disability pay | 82 |
| 2010 #1 hit by Ke$ha (the 17th song in Billboard history to debut at the top spot) | 82 |
| Last part of the country to report election returns, usually, with "the" | 82 |
| "I'm going to ___" White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" lyric | 82 |
| "Congratulations! You ___ million dollar lottery" (classic spam opening) | 82 |
| Answer to "who's responsible for eating all the cheese I left out?"? | 82 |
| After a single hearing of a sacred piece in the Sistine Chapel, Mystery Person ... | 82 |
| Who said "I believe in censorship. After all I made a fortune out of it" | 82 |
| Rapper with an MTV show ... whose name sounds like a word meaning "show" | 82 |
| Native American group (and source of a Washington city that differs by one letter) | 82 |
| Slow down for this Wyoming site that was the inspiration for the Yogi Bear cartoon | 82 |
| British sitcom with the theme song "This Wheel's on Fire," familiarly | 83 |
| Place to live (different ones are hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers) | 83 |
| When Stanley cries "Hey, Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 83 |
| "___ Wet" (prankster's rearrangement of a "Wet Paint" sign) | 83 |
| Garlic sauce in Guy Fieri's unfortunate "Tex Wasabi's Fish Tacos" | 83 |
| "___ of life, an imp of fame; / Of parents good ...": "Henry V" | 83 |
| "__, I am not coop'd here for defence!": "Henry VI, Part 3" | 83 |
| Title name after the lyric "What's it all about when you sort it out" | 83 |
| "...___ player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage...": Macbeth | 83 |
| When "you're ridin' high" in the song "That's Life" | 83 |
| Composer Khachaturian whose music was featured in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 83 |
| "___ you a little short for a stormtrooper?" ("Star Wars" line) | 83 |
| "I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments" speaker | 83 |
| Historical figure kidnapped in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" | 83 |
| "___ Wiederhoren" (German "goodbye" when speaking on the phone) | 83 |
| Rand who wrote "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" | 83 |
| 2003 film with the tag line "He's very naughty ... and not very nice" | 83 |
| "I hate that screaming 'So You Think You Can Dance' judge...___!" | 83 |
| Big fight, and clue to this puzzle's theme that begins the four longest answers | 83 |
| "I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age" speaker | 83 |
| "Here Come the ___" (Abbott and Costello film set at a girls' school) | 83 |
| The starts of answers to asterisked clues are the most popular adult Halloween ones | 83 |
| ___ Nelson who on 4/7/10 became the NBA's all-time coaching leader in victories | 83 |
| George who played the title character in the 2004 TV movie "Evel Knievel" | 83 |
| Words "beautifully marked in currants" in "Alice in Wonderland" | 83 |
| Site that was super fun before they had rules; once I sold a deed to the moon on it | 83 |
| Guest commenter Roger on the 70th Anniversary DVD edition of "Casablanca" | 83 |
| Publication founded in 1843 to campaign against the Corn Laws, with "The" | 83 |
| Harry who played the Artful Dodger in Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" | 83 |
| "It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it" speaker | 83 |
| Susan who was the original Belle in Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" | 83 |
| Monthly release [the American Values Club xword is at avxwords.com - subscribe now] | 83 |
| Winner, with Tippi and Ursula, of the 1963 female New Star of the Year Golden Globe | 83 |
| "Sesame Street" character who sang "Hot N Cold" with Katy Perry | 83 |
| Vulture, e.g. (hey, they started running metas by Matt Gaffney; you should do them) | 83 |
| "I'm not a Republican, but I'm saving up to be one" comic Philips | 83 |
| Singer with a "Best of" album titled "Paint the Sky With Stars" | 83 |
| Bombeck who said "A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat." | 83 |
| Language that gave us "slogan," originally meaning "battle cry" | 83 |
| "Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once" quipper | 83 |
| ''For,'' ''how'' or ''what'' ending | 83 |
| "I ate his liver with some ___ beans and a nice Chianti": Hannibal Lecter | 83 |
| Where Maria and the Captain have their first kiss in "The Sound of Music" | 83 |
| In the first line of a novel, he wrote, "and the clocks were striking 13" | 83 |
| She says "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" in "Hamlet" | 83 |
| She was Cruella de Vil in "101 Dalmatians" and "102 Dalmatians" | 83 |
| "I ___ Feeling" (Black Eyed Peas earworm that causes brain damage, sorry) | 83 |
| Meal blessing that's 'mixed' and hidden in seven answers in this puzzle | 83 |
| 1980s-'90s women's tennis player who was #1 for a record total of 377 weeks | 83 |
| Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" word for "scratch, dog-style" | 83 |
| "Shakespeare of Hollywood" who wrote the "Notorious" screenplay | 83 |
| "Marry ___: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough" (2010 best-seller) | 83 |
| To whom Mortimer declares "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" | 83 |
| Only 20th-century president whose three distinct initials are in alphabetical order | 83 |
| "Othello" character who says "Who steals my purse steals trash" | 83 |
| "What More Can ___" (unreleased post-9/11 Michael Jackson charity single) | 83 |
| "___ for Innocent" (novel featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone) | 83 |
| Corporation that received an Oscar for scientific and technical achievement in 1997 | 83 |
| Repeated shout to a parent’s “You’re going to miss the school bus!” | 83 |
| "Be Honest—You're Not That __ Him Either": Ian Kerner best-seller | 83 |
| "___ Ho" (Academy Award-winning song from "Slumdog Millionaire" | 83 |
| Fictional pitchman whom Michael Dukakis likened to George H.W. Bush during a debate | 83 |
| Show with episodes “Pettycoat Injunction” and “His Suit is Hirsute” | 83 |
| Avant-garde filmmaker Paul whose "Rebus-Film Nr. 1" is a crossword puzzle | 83 |
| "Prisoners of Love (___ & Max)" (song from "The Producers") | 83 |
| Pepe who said "You are ze corned beef to me, and I am ze cabbage to you." | 83 |
| Hybrid cat "bred for its skills in magic," according to Napoleon Dynamite | 83 |
| "She was ___ in slacks" (part of an opening soliloquy by Humbert Humbert) | 83 |
| "___ Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" (album by the Kinks) | 83 |
| Exams for students potentially most interested in this puzzle's theme, in brief | 83 |
| Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" | 83 |
| "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," per H. L. Mencken | 83 |
| "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" theorist | 83 |
| One-named singer/songwriter of the 1970 Woodstock-inspired hit "Lay Down" | 83 |
| Gilbert (who I was kind of in love with) on "Little House on the Prairie" | 83 |
| Alla ___ (dipped in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs/Parmesan, and fried in butter) | 83 |
| Who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 83 |
| Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 83 |
| When repeated, Harold Rome song lyric before "I fear you reared me wrong" | 83 |