| The sculptures "Cloud Shepherd" and "Coquille Crystals" | 75 |
| "Overturned Blue Shoe With Two Heels Under a Black Vault" and others | 78 |
| Toiletry product whose slogan once began "Don't be half-safe" | 75 |
| "Sine scientia ___ nihil est" ("Without knowledge, skill is nothing") | 89 |
| "___ est celare artem" ("true art conceals the means by which it's achieved") | 101 |
| The "her" in Beethoven's question "Who comprehends her?" | 80 |
| It "enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time": Merton | 87 |
| "Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable": Shaw | 87 |
| "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to ___": Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 79 |
| "The only way to run away without leaving home," per Twyla Tharp | 74 |
| "The lie that enables us to realize the truth," according to Picasso | 78 |
| "Making something out of nothing and selling it," per Frank Zappa | 75 |
| "___ does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection": Cervantes | 84 |
| "___ begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome" (Andre Gide) | 95 |
| __ Vandelay, recurring fake "Seinfeld" character who turns out to be a real judge in the final episode | 112 |
| Johnson who said "Verrrry interesting" on "Laugh-In" | 72 |
| Kevin McHale's "Glee" character (no, not that Kevin McHale) | 73 |
| 97-year-old entertainment personality who wrote "Old Age is Not for Sissies" | 86 |
| Words preceding "Love," "War" and "the Deal" in book titles | 89 |
| Robot who appeared with Joey Fatone on "Dancing With The Stars" | 73 |
| Movie robot whose voice was made with an ARP 2600 analog synthesizer, familiarly | 80 |
| [*cross out* "Star Wars" character] Where droids go to dry out? | 73 |
| Equally influenced right now by Nam June Paik's video work and Bedouin poetry, say | 86 |
| Who quipped "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way" | 89 |
| He conducted the premiere performances of "Pagliacci" and "La Bohème" | 92 |
| Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses | 84 |
| Actor Butterfield who will play Ender in the forthcoming "Ender's Game" | 85 |
| "One Life to Live" character Buchanan who's been divorced 10 times | 80 |
| "___ uncertain actor on the stage" (Shakespearean sonnet start) | 73 |
| "Have ___!" ("You're not going to like what I'm about to say") | 90 |
| "A hillside near ____ farm" (opening "Peer Gynt" scene) | 75 |
| "I trust him about ___ ..." (start of a leery person's statement) | 79 |
| ''I trust him about ___ ...'' (start of skeptical phrase) | 73 |
| ''I trust him about ___ ...'' (start of a skeptic's phrase) | 79 |
| Rare key in which a section of Chopin's "Polonaise Fantaisie" is written | 86 |
| "I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments" speaker | 83 |
| The cover photo of him from the 1992 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue was used in 2005 as a postage stamp | 119 |
| New York stadium that was the site of the first professional outdoor basketball game | 84 |
| Athlete who said: "I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments" | 93 |
| Word that goes in either blank of the David Bowie classic "___ to ___" | 80 |
| The ___ (trophy for the annual test cricket match between England and Australia) | 80 |
| Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" | 87 |
| Band with the albums "Alpha," "Astra," "Aqua"... (you get the point) | 98 |
| Shylock's first one begins "How like a fawning publican he looks!" | 80 |
| Valley girl's "yeah, right" [IMPORTANT: SEE THE 'NOTE' (above) for key info about this week's puzzle and SEE THE LAST CLUE DOWN for the explanation of last week's puzzle.] | 201 |
| Derisive response to "She thinks she's going to be homecoming queen" | 82 |
| Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" | 78 |
| "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do" quipster | 108 |
| "All I ___ Of You" (song from "The Phantom of the Opera") | 77 |
| ''Don't ___!'' (''I haven't the foggiest!'') | 84 |
| "What ___ of the face is here!": Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" | 81 |
| "And the world will live ___" (closing lyric of "Imagine") | 78 |
| "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of ___": Deuteronomy | 88 |
| "___ ... very dangerous.You go first." (classic line in "Raiders of the Lost Ark") | 102 |
| "I have sinned against my brother the ___" (dying words of St. Francis of Assisi) | 91 |
| "... nor his ___, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's": Exodus 20:17 | 84 |
| "You are ___ for street repairs" (Community Chest card in Monopoly) | 77 |
| "___ McGee" (2006 animated series about a detective with no head, torso or arms) | 90 |
| Phrase before a sportswriter's name on the cover of an athlete's autobiography | 86 |
| Bogart told her "You're good ... you're very good" in "The Maltese Falcon" | 102 |
| 2005 World Series player (his team's only appearance, and they lost) | 72 |
| Winners of the longest postseason game in major-league history (18 innings, 2005) | 81 |
| "Where the bold saguaros raise their arms on high," according to its alma mater: Abbr. | 96 |
| Words with ''standstill'' or ''distance'' | 73 |
| Words with ''distance'' or ''disadvantage'' | 75 |
| Words with ''crossroads'' or ''dead end'' | 73 |
| "Gigantic (___ of Two Johns)," 2002 documentary about They Might Be Giants | 84 |
| Words with ''impasse'' or ''all-time high'' | 75 |
| "7. I was so into video games as a kid (I drove at least two ___ into the ground), I was convinced I was going to make them as an adult." | 147 |
| Massive mover in the Hoth battle sequence of "The Empire Strikes Back" | 80 |
| Mariano Rivera has had only one in his career (not surprisingly, he struck out) | 79 |
| Word that homophonically forms a familiar word when attached to the end of the answer to each starred clue | 106 |
| TV show with the catchphrase "I love it when a plan comes together," with "The" | 99 |
| TV show that gave us the classic line "I love it when a plan comes together," with "The" | 108 |
| 2010 movie Roger Ebert called "an incomprehensible mess with the 1980s TV show embedded inside," with "The" | 127 |
| Song by the Who with the lyric "Just one word from her and my troubles are long gone" | 95 |
| Musketeer Salim imagined himself to be, in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 74 |
| Words before "to be born" and "to die" in Ecclesiastes | 74 |
| "You risk your skin ... For what? For __ star": "High Noon" | 79 |
| ''Take ___ from me'' (''Here's my advice'') | 79 |
| ''Take ___ from me!'' (''Here's some advice'') | 82 |
| Ocean "crossing" this puzzle's four longest answers (abbr.) | 73 |
| You need to put a lot of money into it if you want it to be fully loaded | 72 |
| Place where you'll hear a bum say "Remember me on the way out" | 76 |
| 79, for the chem. symbol at the heart of the four longest puzzle answers | 72 |
| Phrase indicating slight progress, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 72 |
| Possessive for Pierre (or, a dictionary volume that wouldn't include "jabber", I guess) | 101 |
| "Bonne fete ___..." ("Happy Birthday" line, in Quebec) | 74 |
| The works ... or how each set of circled letters in this puzzle is arranged | 75 |
| The whole nine yards, or a hint about how the starred answers are formed | 72 |
| Brand with the advertising slogan "Do You Pivot Every Morning?" | 73 |
| Word of encouragement with ''boy'' or ''girl'' | 78 |
| Instantly ... or how this puzzle's other three longest answers came about? | 78 |
| King who infamously demanded half of Rome's Western Empire as a dowry | 73 |
| Historical figure kidnapped in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" | 83 |
| "A little thing that makes a big difference," according to Churchill | 78 |
| About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about" | 94 |
| " . . . I am disposed to harmony . . . incapable of ___": Lamb | 72 |
| Add vertical line 13 (word 3) and vertical line 3 (word 1) together and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 123 |
| "___ Wiederhoren" (German "goodbye" when speaking on the phone) | 83 |