| Beliefs [Ink Well is always free, but yr tips help sustain us!: bentausig.com/tip.htm] | 86 |
| Manhattan Transfer classic with the line "A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup" | 86 |
| He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" | 86 |
| Cigarette that once advertised the "health benefits" of its Micronite filter | 86 |
| Prince song with the line "You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on" | 86 |
| "Carry the ___ that's born to be king" ("Skye Boat Song" line) | 86 |
| 1980s-'90s series based on the fictional firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak | 86 |
| Brand whose limited edition wasabi ginger flavor had damn well better become permanent | 86 |
| Cholesterol that doesn't start with H (I can never remember which is the good one) | 86 |
| Oscar who said "Under this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character" | 86 |
| "That it will never come again is what makes ___ so sweet" (Emily Dickinson) | 86 |
| "If you haven't seen ___, you haven't seen New York" (old ad slogan) | 86 |
| Emergency fund ... or what the second part of each answer to a starred clue ends with? | 86 |
| Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s | 86 |
| Only baseball player to hit a home run in every inning from the first through the 16th | 86 |
| Robert who won a Tony for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | 86 |
| ''. . . would thou hadst ___ been born'' (''Othello'') | 86 |
| 2003 film title character who's supposed to be Darla's eighth birthday present | 86 |
| September 8, 1974 pard recipient - and what the constructor did throughout this puzzle | 86 |
| ''___ won't be afraid'' (lyric in ''Stand by Me'') | 86 |
| City whose name is pronounced like the natives' word for "Where is ...?" | 86 |
| The earliest possible time that this crossword will be finished tonight, unfortunately | 86 |
| "... the inconstant moon ... that monthly changes in her circled __": Juliet | 86 |
| "Either that wallpaper goes ___ do" (Oscar Wilde's supposed dying words) | 86 |
| Winner of the 1970 Hart Trophy, Conn Smythe Trophy, Norris Trophy, and Art Ross Trophy | 86 |
| Palindromically surnamed swimmer Kristin who won six gold medals at the Seoul Olympics | 86 |
| Baseball Hall-of-Famer with the autobiography "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" | 86 |
| 1966 Rolling Stones hit ... or an instruction to be followed four times in this puzzle | 86 |
| Ostensible composer of "The Abduction of Figaro" and "Oedipus Tex" | 86 |
| Animated skunk Le Pew [get the 2013 rate at avxwords.com while it lasts - sign up now] | 86 |
| "Pearls Before Swine" character [See the NOTE for the theme of this puzzle.] | 86 |
| Parlor game, and word that can follow the last word of the answers to asterisked clues | 86 |
| "Objects in the ___ View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" (Meat Loaf) | 86 |
| 1984 film with the tagline "It's 4 a.m., do you know where your car is?" | 86 |
| "___ Builds Levee Out Of Poor People To Protect Convention Site" --The Onion | 86 |
| First publisher of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" | 86 |
| 1976 best seller that opens "four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia" | 86 |
| On second thought, make it a grim futuristic epic: "Zorro, the Gay Blade..." | 86 |
| Restaurant in Manhattan's theater district famous for the caricatures on its walls | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with the hit "Konvict in Tight Fittin' Jeans"? | 86 |
| Role for which George Burns won Best Supporting Actor in "The Sunshine Boys" | 86 |
| Ryan Piers Williams's romp on a waterbed with "Ugly Betty" star Ferrera? | 86 |
| Eugene's violin piece, recorded on the D-Day beaches, was known as "___" | 86 |
| "I'll climb on your kitchen countertop, if it makes you feel alright..." | 86 |
| "You can get anything you want ..." opens the chorus of his most famous song | 86 |
| Answer to the folk riddle "Over the hills, over the hills / Goes a fur coat" | 86 |
| Guy de Maupassant novel published in English as "The History of a Scoundrel" | 86 |
| Reviewer on "Look Homeward, Angel": "It's overlong and clunky" | 86 |
| R&B singer arrested in 1993 for an "overly suggestive stage performance" | 86 |
| Presidential candidate who said "No one can earn a million dollars honestly" | 86 |
| Question for someone who's already written "beta" and "kappa"? | 86 |
| Mascot for a sports psychologist, or a cereal company's expansion into newspapers? | 86 |
| Jazz legend who recorded "Porgy & Bess" as a duet album with Ray Charles | 86 |
| Comedian who was the only man on Maxim's 2012 Hot 100 list of most beautiful women | 86 |
| Kid's art activity ... or something seen four times in this puzzle's solution? | 86 |
| What might determine if the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie is truly amore? | 86 |
| Poem featuring the line “Sunset and evening star / And one clear call for me!” | 86 |
| Board game where you might hear, "Colonel Ecru, with the riata, in the oda"? | 86 |
| Program about a crime-fighting unit from the South that stages Civil War reenactments? | 86 |
| 1965 Beatles hit that begins "Got a good reason for taking the easy way out" | 86 |
| "The man who can dominate a London ___ can dominate the world" (Oscar Wilde) | 86 |
| Website with a focus on step-by-step instructions to "just about everything" | 86 |
| Disparaging name for someone who wears glasses (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 86 |
| Approach to arithmetic that emphasizes underlying ideas rather than exact calculations | 86 |
| Suspected spy's fashionable garb, in Simon and Garfunkel's "America" | 86 |
| Blitzen's seating instruction to his sleigh driver? (No dark forces at work here!) | 86 |
| Paul from "American Splendor," one of Salon.com's 10 Best Movies of 2003 | 86 |
| Civil War movie that spawned a video game voted "Flat Out Worst" by GameSpot | 86 |
| Overachievers, and a hint to a word that can precede both words of the starred answers | 86 |
| ___ worm (punch line to a "What's worse ...?" riddle involving an apple) | 86 |
| Fast-food chain that peddles a 1,010-calorie Six Dollar Super Bacon Cheese Thickburger | 86 |
| "May I introduce the lovely couple: actress Melissa Joan and singer Bonnie!" | 86 |
| Clears out an accumulation of garbage (perhaps after eight years of being preoccupied) | 86 |
| Actress Martha who played Sinatra's love interest in "Some Came Running" | 86 |
| Response to a polite refusal / (next line) It's spelled out in a Tammy Wynette hit | 86 |
| Most-distributed publication in the world, with over twice as many copies as The Bible | 86 |
| Dubliners add liquor to the circle (or a soap ad interrupted by a furniture store ad)? | 86 |
| Author of the children's book "Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born" | 86 |
| Comedian/former ESPN host whose twin brother Randy is also a comedian/former ESPN host | 86 |
| Then-obscure actor who played a victim in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with the album "Defying Gravity with Dr. Octagon"? | 86 |
| Rap/country collaboration with an extremely crunk version of "Ring of Fire"? | 86 |
| "Are you enjoying your time out on the Nascar circuit?" [Ricky Martin, 1999] | 86 |
| ___ ipsum (faux-Latin phrase frequently used by publishers in placeholder text blocks) | 86 |
| Peter who bought Manhattan in 1626 for the modern equivalent of a few thousand dollars | 86 |
| With only ~66,000 inhabitants, it's still the second most populous city in Montana | 86 |
| Gridiron players who make "snap" judgments ... or a hint to the puzzle theme | 86 |
| "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ___": Montaigne | 86 |
| ... using ___: “Mary had a wee lamb -- baa! / Its fleece was snowy -- whoosh!” | 86 |
| "Be sure to drink your ___" (coded message in "A Christmas Story") | 86 |
| Only men's basketball coach to lead three different schools to the NCAA Final Four | 86 |
| Sci-fi geek who loves a "Deep Space Nine" alien and a Robin Williams sitcom? | 86 |
| Author who used the pseudonym “Alcofribas Nasier,” an anagram of his full name | 86 |
| Item of clothing named for the commander in chief who ordered the action of 10/25/1854 | 86 |
| "The best part of the job, of course, is when I'm out on the street ___" | 86 |
| "___ Most Wanted" ("best-of" compilation of a popular TV cop show) | 86 |
| Like pronouns such as "myself" which refer back to the subject of the clause | 86 |
| Antiperspirant that comes in "Fresh Blast" and "Fast Break" scents | 86 |
| Only Secretary of Defense to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected President | 86 |
| He came out of retirement to play Winston Churchill in "Inglorious Basterds" | 86 |