| Crystal ___ (singer of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") | 72 |
| Cryptographers' successes (and what can be found in the circles in this puzzle's long answers) | 102 |
| Cry in Metropolis while pointing ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 74 |
| Cry a channel surfer might hear a few minutes after the final ticks of "60 Minutes" | 93 |
| Crooner/actor whose albums are widely available in moldy garage sale bins | 73 |
| Critter that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers | 74 |
| Critically acclaimed Scottish actor Williamson who died in the Netherlands | 74 |
| Critically acclaimed role-playing game in the "Elder Scrolls" series | 78 |
| Critic's complaint about the new restaurant "Double Fault"? | 73 |
| Critic's complaint about the new restaurant "Charley Horse"? | 74 |
| Critic who wrote the shortest review ever given to a motion picture: "No" for 1948's "Isn't It Romantic?" | 133 |
| Crisis following the breakup of Guns N' Roses, the Eagles, and Mötley Crüe? | 85 |
| Crime novelist Walters who won a 1994 Edgar for "The Sculptress" | 74 |
| Crime in which a vehicle's serial numbers, licence plates, etc. are copied and used on a new vehicle | 104 |
| Credit card purchase a little kid was forbidden to make, but made anyway? | 73 |
| Creator of the solid-body electric guitar, a model of which still bears his name | 80 |
| Creator of the currency system consisting of galleons, sickles and knuts | 72 |
| Creator of the "Microsoft sound" played when Windows 95 starts | 72 |
| Creatively-censored 4/28/10 New York Post headline about the foul-mouthed Senate/Wall Street hearings | 101 |
| Creatively spelled Christina Aguilera single (I know, can you believe Miley wasn't the first one desperate to look sexy?) | 125 |
| Cream that proto-Nissan owners had to apply to their vehicles on summer days? | 77 |
| Crafty person's shopping destination? (... Ã la Elizabeth Warren in 1995) | 80 |
| Craft whose existence may be denied by government officials, thus proving its existence | 87 |
| Cracker variety with the slogan "The snacking crunch with a punch" | 76 |
| Cracker that is the "apple" in an 80-year-old mock apple pie recipe | 77 |
| Coward who said "I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise" | 88 |
| Coveted [subscribe to avxwords.com for the best indie puzzles in the land ...] | 78 |
| Courtney Love wore one on the cover of the "Live Through This" album | 78 |
| County that is home to Death Valley and has Mount Whitney on its western border | 79 |
| Country-pop star with the 2008 six-time platinum album "Fearless" | 75 |
| Country whose national anthem's title means "The Hope": Abbr. | 75 |
| Country whose name becomes its capital when you drop its last two letters | 73 |
| Country where it's customary to have diamond-encrusted prophylactics? | 73 |
| Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally | 121 |
| Country that recently "built 500 objects contributable to raising the level of modernization," per its website | 120 |
| Country that becomes its official language when you drop the final letter | 73 |
| Country singer with the 2012 #1 hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" | 87 |
| Country singer with the 1997 triple platinum hit "How Do I Live" | 74 |
| Country singer with the #1 album and single "Killin' Time" [New Hampshire] | 88 |
| Country singer David Allan ___, writer of "Take This Job and Shove It" | 80 |
| Country bordered by Den., Pol., the Czech Rep., Aus., Switz., Fr., Lux., Belg., and the Neth. | 93 |
| Counterculture author who wrote about and drove the psychedelic "Furthur" school bus | 94 |
| Count played by Jim Carrey in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 93 |
| Coulter whose jaw was wired shut in November, according to the New York Post | 76 |
| Coulter who called the members of a 9/11 widows group "harpies" | 73 |
| Coulter parodied on "SNL" with the line "I think torture is good and Christiany” | 99 |
| Cote d'Ivoire's prime minister Guillaume ___ (hidden in WINDSOR, ONTARIO) | 84 |
| Costar of Bateman and Arnett in the rumored "Arrested Development" movie | 82 |
| Costar of Andy Samberg in a popular "Saturday Night Live" video | 73 |
| Cosmetics company that has released brands by Faith Hill and Halle Berry | 72 |
| Cosmetics brand with the classic slogan "Because I'm worth it" | 76 |
| Corporation that received an Oscar for scientific and technical achievement in 1997 | 83 |
| Copies of "Our Man in Havana," "The Quiet American" and "The End of the Affair"? | 110 |
| Cop show that claimed "the story you are about to see is true" | 72 |
| Contralto Susannah Maria __ who debuted in her brother Thomas's first opera | 79 |
| Contraction with ''a prayer'' or ''a clue'' | 75 |
| Contract in which the parties promise to keep proprietary information secret: abbr. | 83 |
| Contract extras, and read differently, a hint to this puzzle's theme | 72 |
| Contest where you'd hear words like "euonym" and "autochthonous" | 88 |
| Content of Muhammad Ali's supposed shortest poem in the English language | 76 |
| Container that holds two generous glasses of wine (as well as a double dose of this puzzle's theme?) | 104 |
| Constellation seen on the flags of Australia, Samoa and Papua New Guinea | 72 |
| Console advertised in Fred Savage's "The Wizard," casually | 72 |
| Conservative politician who wrote "Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century" | 79 |
| Connector that completes a phrase made from the starts of the three longest across answers | 90 |
| Connecticut town nicknamed "The Submarine Capital of the World" | 73 |
| Connecticut politician Lamont who beat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Senate primary only to lose to him in the general election | 123 |
| Conglomerate whose N.Y.S.E. symbol is the same as the company's name | 72 |
| Confuse—or what to do to four common phrases to form this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| Confucius say "Passionate kiss like spider's web; leads to ___" | 77 |
| Confronting unpleasant consequences of one's actions (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 96 |
| Conduct a smear campaign against a bull's-eye covered in fish sauce? | 72 |
| Condition resulting from long-term dietary deficiencies or undernourishment | 75 |
| Concept in modern feminism that covers things like slut-shaming and victim-blaming | 82 |
| Computer term, based on an arcade game, regarding the annoyance of fending off recurring spammers | 97 |
| Computer malady (and what can follow the starts of the four longest puzzle answers) | 83 |
| Compound based on the formula XeF (hey, cut me some slack; this was a tough one to find) | 88 |
| Composer/humorist who said "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" | 77 |
| Composer who wrote piano transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies | 74 |
| Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" | 81 |
| Composer who orchestrated Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" | 80 |
| Composer threatened with arrest in 1940 for adding a major seventh chord to the national anthem | 95 |
| Composer of the one-act operas "Bertha" and "The Robbers" | 77 |
| Composer of "Oedipus Tex" and "A Little Nightmare Music" | 76 |
| Composer of "1/1," "1/2," "2/1" and "2/2" | 81 |
| Composer Khachaturian whose music was featured in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 83 |
| Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s | 86 |
| Complete freedom ... and a hint to each half of the answer to each starred clue | 79 |
| Complaint to the chiropractor from "American Idol" singer Clay? | 73 |
| Complaint from one trying to concentrate, perhaps—and this puzzle's title | 81 |
| Complaint about which whiskey is being served at a Friars Club function? | 72 |
| Company with the slogans "It's thinking" and "Up to 6 billion players" | 94 |
| Company whose movies, not counting sequels, are all included in this puzzle [Circled Squares: 2009] | 99 |
| Company whose motto is "Our pilots are moderately intelligent"? | 73 |
| Company whose founder first proposed the business concept in a college paper, earning a C | 89 |
| Company that would be crazy to use the slogan "We never let you down"? | 80 |
| Company that won Harvard's 2002 IgNobel Prize for Most Creative Use of Imaginary Numbers | 92 |
| Company that was the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" | 73 |
| Company that recalled "Active Maturity with Beef in Gravy" in 2007 | 76 |
| Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" | 78 |