| Loser, with Bono, to Fabio, in a 1999 "Celebrity Deathmatch" episode | 78 |
| "The Plastic ___ Band — Live Peace in Toronto 1969" (1970 album) | 78 |
| "Lulu," "Louise," "Norma," or "Carmen" | 78 |
| Ambient group who wrote "Little Fluffy Clouds," with "the" | 78 |
| Speaker of Shakespeare's "If music be the food of love, play on" | 78 |
| "The fractions of her faith, __ of her love": "Troilus..." | 78 |
| Govt. agcy. with a "Whistleblower Protection" section on its website | 78 |
| The Tony Martin hit "There's No Tomorrow" is based on its melody | 78 |
| Cheri who portrayed the cheerleader Arianna on "Saturday Night Live" | 78 |
| Seven-time Best Actor runner-up who finally received an honorary Oscar in 2003 | 78 |
| Baseball legend mentioned in Ogden Nash's "Lineup for Yesterday" | 78 |
| Prof. Lidenbrock of Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" | 78 |
| Item: 1937 memoir. Problem: Sent to us by wrong supplier (text is in Swahili). | 78 |
| Actor with three quotes on AFI's "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list | 78 |
| "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil" writer | 78 |
| "We'll always have __": Rick, to Ilsa, in "Casablanca" | 78 |
| ''When ___ fly!'' (''It'll never happen'') | 78 |
| "The ___" (Mortal Kombat arena where the loser falls to their death) | 78 |
| "A woman's ___ often opens the door to love": Henry Ward Beecher | 78 |
| Historical figure in Isabel Allende's novel "Inés of My Soul" | 78 |
| "Willie and the ___ boys are playing, bring a nickel, tap your feet" | 78 |
| Characters in "Julius Caesar" and "The Merchant of Venice" | 78 |
| Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program are determined by this | 78 |
| One's favorite decades old concert tee, in the eye's of one's wife | 78 |
| Pharmaceutical company budget line generally dwarfed by ad expenditures: Abbr. | 78 |
| Simile words before "a hen's tooth" or "a day in June" | 78 |
| "Weed 'em and ___: A Weed Eater Reader" (2006 Roger Welsch book) | 78 |
| My wife's third most-hated band (behind Big Country and Phil Collins solo) | 78 |
| "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" band | 78 |
| Hall & Oates "You're a ___ girl and you've gone too far" | 78 |
| One protected by une dame, deux tours, deux fous, deux cavaliers et huit pions | 78 |
| Material my stepfather's old Ford Pinto was made of, or so it seemed to me | 78 |
| Comedian Bob who said, "'Full House' gave me Tourette's" | 78 |
| Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music" | 78 |
| Plant known as "seer's sage" because of its hallucinatory effect | 78 |
| End of the slogan that starts "Everybody doesn't like something" | 78 |
| Vujacic of the Los Angeles Lakers, who's nicknamed "The Machine" | 78 |
| 2005 horror sequel with the tagline "Oh yes ... there will be blood" | 78 |
| The longest one in English is the Navy term "ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC" | 78 |
| First-century governor of Britain, whose name was Latin for "farmer" | 78 |
| "___ is only an egg's way of making another egg" (Samuel Butler) | 78 |
| 1990 film with the tagline "The few. The proud. The totally insane." | 78 |
| How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture | 78 |
| Device used in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" | 78 |
| "I would give all my fame for ___ of ale" ("King Henry V") | 78 |
| Collection of stories that includes "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" | 78 |
| Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role | 78 |
| ... using ___: “Gladys had a bantam lamb / Its hide was white as rice” | 78 |
| "Hark, hark! the lark ___ sings": "Cymbeline" [1943 novel] | 78 |
| "Poverty is ___ that obscures the face of greatness" (Kahlil Gibran) | 78 |
| "For Christmas my uncle gave me a palm-tree coffee mug from ___ ..." | 78 |
| Supposed psychoactive substance outlined in "The Anarchist Cookbook" | 78 |
| "Let's see who can prepare for their colonoscopy first," et al.? | 78 |
| Extended piece by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin or John Entwistle of the Who | 78 |
| In other words, mom or dad will be out at midnight searching for an open store | 78 |
| Former teen heartthrob James Van Der ___ ("Dawson's Creek" star) | 78 |
| Fictional barbershop quartet on "The Simpsons," with "The" | 78 |
| Feature hidden in the starred answers (and suggested by the grid's center) | 78 |
| ...a Heyman/Sour/ Eyton/Green collaboration with Isaac Hayes and David Porter? | 78 |
| Classic country song with the lyric "I've lived my life in vain" | 78 |
| Band whose 1994 song "I'll Make Love to You" was #1 for 14 weeks | 78 |
| Part of a U.S. president's name that's Dutch for "neighbors" | 78 |
| Philosopher who wrote "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds" | 78 |
| Leave the infant of "In Treatment" star Gabriel in the sun too long? | 78 |
| With "The," former sketch comedy program on CBS ... fittingly enough | 78 |
| Close attention to one's cook-off entry? (... Ã la Jerry Brown in 1998) | 78 |
| 2003 Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for "Adaptation" | 78 |
| '70s TV host who purportedly led a double life as a decorated CIA assassin | 78 |
| Only female to have received jazz, pop, and classical music Grammy nominations | 78 |
| Where to meet for drinks with Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Chandler | 78 |
| Lower-tract product whose instructions say "Fasten your seat belts"? | 78 |
| Active Ecuadorean volcano whose name means "Smooth neck of the moon" | 78 |
| “Fortunately, allied forces have entered the graph and are busily ___” | 78 |
| Board game with the categories "Data Head" and "Word Worm" | 78 |
| 1986 comedy with the tagline "The Wizard of Auz hits The Big Apple!" | 78 |
| One who sets a VHS of "The Crying Game" precisely to the money shot? | 78 |
| Write down "Vast Asian country with a population of over a billion"? | 78 |
| Girlfriend whose name Jerry thinks is Mulva, in a "Seinfeld" episode | 78 |
| With "the", past decade name, to secret agents with license to kill? | 78 |
| What the four longest entries in this puzzle (except this one) are examples of | 78 |
| "I'm buying!," at a bar ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 78 |
| Genre that's so obviously, transcendently bad you have to hear more of it? | 78 |
| The "you" in the 1968 lyric "Gee I think you're swell" | 78 |
| Attorney General, or what each of six Across answers in this grid literally is | 78 |
| Band with the 1997 double platinum album "So Much for the Afterglow" | 78 |
| Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" | 78 |
| Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. | 78 |
| NBC reality show that taped contestants drinking donkey semen (it never aired) | 78 |
| Founding member of Public Enemy known for wearing large clocks around his neck | 78 |
| Feeling literal, the guy with the dead-end fast food job tattooed the word ___ | 78 |
| "Sleight of hand" used when solving trigonometry problems in groups? | 78 |
| "Let's ___" (Grammy-winning suggestion from the Black Eyed Peas) | 78 |
| The Rock of ___ (after translation, "The Rock of the Rock of Tariq") | 78 |
| 1969 song with the lyric "Once there was a way to get back homeward" | 78 |
| Proper sort ... or a cry upon solving each of this puzzle's theme answers? | 78 |
| Halloween costume that includes big ears, dark clothing and a bunch of charts? | 78 |
| Garden outside Jerusalem that was the scene of the agony and betrayal of Jesus | 78 |
| Genuine designer shades (and the department store was charging twice as much!) | 78 |
| 2001-'08 White House Deputy Chief of Staff whose middle name is Whitehouse | 78 |
| "... never thinks straight 'bout the shape that __": Dylan lyric | 78 |