| Classic Dickens title (from whose 10 letters this puzzle was constructed) | 73 |
| Classic country song with the lyric "I've lived my life in vain" | 78 |
| Classic children's novel, and what to look for in this puzzle's three other longest answers | 99 |
| Classic cereal now sharing shelf space with Vanilla and Chocolate cousins | 73 |
| Classic cartoon in which "Kill da wabbit" is sung to a Wagner tune | 76 |
| Classic breakup line, and a hint to the formation of this puzzle's theme answers | 84 |
| Classic Belushi comedy, or an apt description of this puzzle's grid? | 72 |
| Classic ad line, and question you need to answer to find the hidden theme in four starred answers | 97 |
| Classic 1978 rock song with the lyric "Nothing to do / Nowhere to go" | 79 |
| Classic 1977 song with the repeated line "Let's get together and feel all right" | 94 |
| Classic 1934 novel set in Prohibition-era New York City, with "The" | 77 |
| Classic 1913 novel called "the tragedy of thousands of young men in England" by its author | 100 |
| Classic 1911 children's novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Classic 1890's song that ends "Sailor take care! ... Beware!" | 75 |
| Classic '90s album with a female transparent anatomical manikin on its cover | 80 |
| Clapton "I'm ___ down, I'm almost level with the ground" | 74 |
| Clapton "Don't want ___. Just another reason for another lie" | 75 |
| Claim from a video store stocking "Bulworth" and "Reds"? | 76 |
| Civil War movie that spawned a video game voted "Flat Out Worst" by GameSpot | 86 |
| City with a radio station that has the same call letters as the city's name | 79 |
| City with a landmark spelled out by the circled letters, reading left to right | 78 |
| City whose name is pronounced like the natives' word for "Where is ...?" | 86 |
| City where, in a letter from jail, King asserted "a moral duty to disobey unjust laws" | 96 |
| City that's home to a statue honoring the TV show "Bewitched" | 75 |
| City that was the source of the marble for Michelangelo's "David" | 79 |
| City of northern Spain featured in Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" | 89 |
| City in Saskatchewan that's home to the Royal Canadian Air Force's Snowbirds | 84 |
| City about which Gertrude Stein said, "There is no 'there' there" | 83 |
| Cirque du Soleil show subtitled "An immersion into the teeming and energetic world of insects" | 104 |
| Cigarette that once advertised the "health benefits" of its Micronite filter | 86 |
| Cigarette brand that once used the slogan "Not a cough in a carload" | 78 |
| Chuck Berry title girl who's repeatedly asked "Is that you?" | 74 |
| Chuck Berry "You Never Can Tell" aka "C'est ___" | 72 |
| Chronologically first but last-published of the Leatherstocking Tales, with "The" | 91 |
| Christopher who wrote "The Berlin Stories," inspiration for the play "I Am a Camera" | 104 |
| Christopher who directed "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" | 82 |
| Christmas season / Greet a villain / Speak aloud / Query / Monthly payment | 74 |
| Christine who directed the Oscar-winning short film "Lieberman in Love" | 81 |
| Christie who wrote a mystery novel about bridge (but presumably never closed one on purpose to be a dick) | 105 |
| Chris Rock's order in ''I'm Gonna Git You Sucka'' | 73 |
| Chris Rock "SNL" character with "the only 15-minute show on TV" | 83 |
| Chorus starter in a 1972 David Bowie song ... or the theme of this puzzle, phonetically | 87 |
| Cholesterol that doesn't start with H (I can never remember which is the good one) | 86 |
| Chip ___, whom many consider the greatest cash game poker player of all time | 76 |
| Chinese-American AIDS researcher who was Time Magazine's 1996 Man of the Year | 81 |
| Chinese general who fought in the sugary-chicken-cube-and-white-rice wars of the 19th century | 93 |
| Chimpanzee psychologist played by Kim Hunter in "Planet of the Apes" | 78 |
| Children's book author Brown who created the "Arthur" series | 74 |
| Children's author who wrote "A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly" | 84 |
| Child's word after ''one,'' ''two'' and ''three'' | 101 |
| Chicago-based insurance company that sponsors Manchester United's uniforms | 78 |
| Chicago-area institution home to the world's most powerful particle accelerator | 83 |
| Chicago band whose one-take 2005 video was choreographed and filmed in their backyard | 85 |
| Chic scientists love these Day-Glo accessories for Special Forces troops... | 75 |
| Cheri who was the voice of Sleeping Beauty in "Shrek the Third" | 73 |
| Cheri who portrayed the cheerleader Arianna on "Saturday Night Live" | 78 |
| Cheri who portrayed a "Morning Latte" co-host on "SNL" | 74 |
| Chemical reaction phenomenon, and what occurs in four symmetrical pairs of long answers in this puzzle | 102 |
| Chemical element #38 (also part of the name of a pre-Police Sting/Stewart Copeland band) | 89 |
| Chelsea ___ News (Manhattan paper that covers the West Side from 14th to 59th Street) | 85 |
| Chef who made a cameo as Marlon the Gator in "The Princess and the Frog" | 82 |
| Cheers bartender Woody's slimy menu addition, in his new Brooklyn bar? | 74 |
| Cheer ending the first name of each of this puzzle's featured ladies | 72 |
| Cheating euchre player in Bret Harte's "Plain Language From Truthful James" | 89 |
| Chase scene locale in "Die Hard," "Jurassic Park," and others | 81 |
| Charmer who "walks like a woman and talks like a man," in a 1970 hit | 78 |
| Charlie's last name in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" | 72 |
| Charles who had mutton chops before he got older and grew a long white beard | 76 |
| Charles Van Doren vis-Ã -vis the game show "Twenty-One"? [1976, 1989, 1985] | 87 |
| Charles Gounod piece based on the first prelude of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" | 95 |
| Charla's taller racing partner, on "The Amazing Race: All-Stars" | 78 |
| Charge carrier that forms a bond within each of this puzzle's four longest answers | 86 |
| Characters in "Julius Caesar" and "The Merchant of Venice" | 78 |
| Characteristic of this puzzle's circled letters, which suggest a 1991 Oscar-winning film | 92 |
| Characteristic of ''fat'' but not ''fate'' | 74 |
| Character whose last words are "For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." | 93 |
| Character who, in an 8/15/1939 Hollywood premiere, speaks the first words of this puzzle's five other longest answers | 121 |
| Character who sings "She's a super King Kamehameha bee-yotch" | 75 |
| Character who shared a cameo with Tinkerbell in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" | 83 |
| Character who says "talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee." | 101 |
| Character who said "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." | 84 |
| Character who runs around in a dark room munching yellow pills while repetitive electronic music plays | 102 |
| Character who made his debut in the 1945 cartoon "Hare Trigger" | 73 |
| Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" | 83 |
| Character voiced by Demi Moore in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 73 |
| Character in the comic strip "Garfield," "Hi and Lois," or "Nancy" | 96 |
| Character in Chesterton's "What's Wrong With the World" | 73 |
| Character in "The Producers" who sings "I Wanna Be a Producer" | 82 |
| Character in "The Godfather" who "sleeps with the fishes" | 77 |
| Character in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" | 72 |
| Character actor who played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," 1951 | 73 |
| Chaplin of "Game of Thrones" (and, fun fact, Charlie's granddaughter) | 83 |
| Channel with programming such as "The Real Lunch Ladies of Lincoln Middle School"? | 92 |
| Channel champ with a 24-year record that Chadwick's challenge changed | 73 |
| Channel between mainland England and the Isle of Wight, with "the" | 76 |
| Change the condition of a fish part? (and three words that can follow BLUE and RED, but not WHITE) | 98 |
| Chairman you shouldn't carry pictures of if you want to make it with anyone, per Lennon | 91 |
| Chairman who said "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" | 78 |
| Certification requirement from the American Turntablist's Association? | 74 |
| Certain sporting equipment (especially useful for keeping the old heart in shape) | 81 |