| Landmark in Elvis Presley's "It Happened at the World's Fair" | 79 |
| '60s song about an insect who "hid / Inside a doggie from Madrid" | 79 |
| Word fragment repeated by Herman Cain when discussing foreign policy in October | 79 |
| Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? | 79 |
| Wright who quipped "What's another word for 'thesaurus'?" | 79 |
| On 8/21/1911 the subject (the letters dropped from the starred answers) was ___ | 79 |
| The Village ___ (musical group with the 1963 hit "Washington Square") | 79 |
| Hybrid fashion item named one of People.com's "2007 Worst Trends" | 79 |
| What it may take to answer the question "Does this make me look fat?" | 79 |
| What it may take to answer "Do you think I need to lose some weight?" | 79 |
| Appliance maker that produced the first microwave oven for household use (1955) | 79 |
| Beatles song with the line "There's one for you, nineteen for me" | 79 |
| Certain filings, and what happens literally in six of this puzzle's answers | 79 |
| Diggs of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "Brown Sugar" | 79 |
| Duo with the 1985 hit "Shout" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| Subject of the biography "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" | 79 |
| "Inspector Gadget" bad guy whose hand was replaced with a steel glove | 79 |
| "And at 7 P.M. there'll be a showing of the 60's film ___..." | 79 |
| "How lowbrow!" said the cats. "We much prefer '__'" | 79 |
| 2013 Eminem hit featuring Rihanna (and inspiration for this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| What "they say our love won't pay," in "I Got You Babe" | 79 |
| "___ have to pry the buzzer out of my cold, dead hands"--Ken Jennings | 79 |
| How the fact that "The Internship" is just an ad for Google is veiled | 79 |
| "Here's what I'll give you if you'll feed my pet zombie"? | 79 |
| Extremely versatile material the Once-ler manufactures in "The Lorax" | 79 |
| Musician Dolby who returned in 2011 with "A Map of the Floating City" | 79 |
| Start of a "grook" (an aphoristic poem) by Danish scientist Piet Hein | 79 |
| Three-letter combinations hidden in this puzzle's six other longest answers | 79 |
| Tiny ___, singer of 1968's "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips With Me" | 79 |
| She played Appassionata von Climax in Broadway's "Li'l Abner" | 79 |
| Internationally popular comic book character created by Belgian artist Hergé | 79 |
| "... '___ pageant to keep us in false gaze" ("Othello") | 79 |
| "Variety" headline about actor Randall's successful screen debut? | 79 |
| "It's ___, though we really did try to make it ..." (Carole King) | 79 |
| "Johnny ___" (children's book set during the American Revolution) | 79 |
| "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" five-part series, jokingly | 79 |
| How long it takes to get something back (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| "Puts the keys of the future at your fingertips" (Philadelphia, 1876) | 79 |
| Sch. whose women's basketball team is currently on a 76-game winning streak | 79 |
| "... 'Tis a pageant / To keep __ false gaze": "Othello" | 79 |
| Writer of the song "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" | 79 |
| (Thomas Pynchon, 1963) Its formula is 4/3 x pi x r³ (Michael Crichton, 1987) | 79 |
| City with a radio station that has the same call letters as the city's name | 79 |
| Dionne Warwick song that says "Foolish pride is all that I have left" | 79 |
| "Our experts predict that a pekoe tariff would cause widespread joy"? | 79 |
| The half of the keyboard on which all of this puzzle's answers can be typed | 79 |
| Start of a proverb about consequences ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 79 |
| Waistcoat-wearing lagomorph in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | 79 |
| On second thought, make it a gangster film: "Charlie's Angels..." | 79 |
| "Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News" musical, with "The" | 79 |
| Game from IGNPC's Best of E3 2003 Awards (for Best Persistent Online Title) | 79 |
| It "gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere": Glenn Turner | 79 |
| Librettist who rhymed "a lot o' news" with "hypotenuse" | 79 |
| Paper with "Marketplace" and "Money & Investing" sects. | 79 |
| Interplanetary dictator in Scientology who we're not supposed to talk about | 79 |
| "The Mayor of Simpleton" band whose name sounds like a state of bliss | 79 |
| When pretty much every fruit and vegetable is available, in modern supermarkets | 79 |
| Michelle who's the greatest action heroine of all time, per Rotten Tomatoes | 79 |
| Do the "I am not a crook" thing with the double V-signs, for example? | 79 |
| "Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies" Nabokov girl | 78 |
| ___ Annie (singer of "I Cain't Say No" in "Oklahoma!") | 78 |
| "Outside of ___, a book is man's best friend ..." (Groucho Marx) | 78 |
| Literary character whose last words are "Thus, I give up the spear!" | 78 |
| Literary captain who says "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" | 78 |
| "You Will Be My ___ True Love" (song from "Cold Mountain") | 78 |
| "Wearing the face that she keeps in ___ by the door" (Beatles lyric) | 78 |
| "Ask ___" (current "Jeopardy!" segment during commercials) | 78 |
| Four-time winner of Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award in the 1970s | 78 |
| Org. that called chiropractic an "unscientific cult" in the '60s | 78 |
| Assistant director for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" | 78 |
| Chicago-based insurance company that sponsors Manchester United's uniforms | 78 |
| They had knives on Roger Waters' "Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" | 78 |
| Oscar-winning film based partly on the book "The Master of Disguise" | 78 |
| "Overturned Blue Shoe With Two Heels Under a Black Vault" and others | 78 |
| "The lie that enables us to realize the truth," according to Picasso | 78 |
| Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" | 78 |
| "And the world will live ___" (closing lyric of "Imagine") | 78 |
| Word of encouragement with ''boy'' or ''girl'' | 78 |
| Instantly ... or how this puzzle's other three longest answers came about? | 78 |
| "A little thing that makes a big difference," according to Churchill | 78 |
| "Histoire de ___," first in a popular series of children's books | 78 |
| Arthur who played Larry David's mother on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 78 |
| Michael Jackson "it doesn't matter who's wrong or right" hit | 78 |
| 1999 #1 hit that introduced the "Cher-bot" vocal recording technique | 78 |
| "I got this hat at a thrift store; all I had to do was clean it..." | 78 |
| "If you prick us, do we not __?": "The Merchant of Venice" | 78 |
| "A person who talks when you wish him to listen," per Ambrose Bierce | 78 |
| Goes on and on about the recent changes in your child's nap schedule, e.g. | 78 |
| So-called "mansiere," essentially, in a "Seinfeld" episode | 78 |
| European city whose airport is the world's largest chocolate-selling point | 78 |
| Short form of the formal name for mad cow disease (hidden in RUBS ELBOWS WITH) | 78 |
| Mad cow disease or, if you prefer a less off-putting clue, Indian trading org. | 78 |
| Broadway hit with the song "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" | 78 |
| He said Beat literature "isn't writing at all - it's typing" | 78 |
| San Antonio mayor Julián, keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic convention | 78 |
| 1980s-'90s slugger who ranks fourth in career home runs by a switch hitter | 78 |
| Word of greeting and parting with the derivation "I am your servant" | 78 |
| Movie with the refrain "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" | 78 |
| "Narrator" of Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" | 78 |
| "L'Elephante Giraffe" and "Lobster Telephone," for two | 78 |