| Only U.S. state in which the name of the state and its capital share no letters: Abbr. | 86 |
| Word with ''down,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 86 |
| Bruce Springsteen hit whose first words are "With her killer graces …" | 86 |
| ___ Crosley, author of the 2008 best seller "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" | 86 |
| "No! No! Tzat guy's try to take my drink way but I not finisht!" speaker | 86 |
| Phone company ranked first in msn.com's "Customer Service Hall of Shame" | 86 |
| "Make sure the ___ above and on line 6c are correct" (Form 1040 instruction) | 86 |
| Writer of the lines "Pigeons on the grass alas. / Pigeons on the grass alas" | 86 |
| Product with the old jingle line "One little can will keep you running free" | 86 |
| "Hey, I'm not afraid of commitment; I just don't care," for example? | 86 |
| Events in which you pin your victim, go after their sensitive spots, and show no mercy | 86 |
| Pioneering black comedian (whose signature line was "Oh, yeah!"), ___ Rogers | 86 |
| Ballplayer Martinez who played in the postseason eight straight years starting in 1995 | 86 |
| TV character who said "Him a beauty. Like mountain with snow - silver-white" | 86 |
| Subject of "The Word" on the first episode of "The Colbert Report" | 86 |
| "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" singer (hate me later for giving you the earworm) | 86 |
| 1952 revue with lyrics by Ogden Nash, featuring Bette Davis in song-and-dance routines | 86 |
| Singer with the hits "U Got It Bad" and "U Don't Have to Call" | 86 |
| Players on the game show "Bumper Stumpers" had to figure out what they meant | 86 |
| Author of "Paris in the 20th Century," an 1863 novel first published in 1994 | 86 |
| When Alfred Eisenstaedt shot his famous Times Square photo of a sailor kissing a nurse | 86 |
| Alcohol rumored to spoil after opening, in an "Arrested Development" episode | 86 |
| Only major U.S. city with a radio station whose call letters spell the city's name | 86 |
| Nebraska city that serves as David Letterman's Top 10 List "home office" | 86 |
| Campaigner's contest (or the start of a 1930s movie actor's split personality) | 86 |
| "___ does not determine who is right - only who is left." (Bertrand Russell) | 86 |
| "Drink! for you know not ___ you came, nor why" ("Rubáiyát") | 86 |
| Former U.S. Open champ Chris's answer to "Who'll be tops this year?" | 86 |
| "Then another cop said, 'Awright, tough guy, ___, let's go' ..." | 86 |
| Atmospheric condition in which there is no visibility both horizontally and vertically | 86 |
| When Jaques says, "All the world's a stage" in "As You Like It" | 87 |
| When the witches in "Macbeth" say "Double, double toil and trouble" | 87 |
| Wordplay expert Jon who wrote the spoonerism book "Smart Feller Fart Smeller" | 87 |
| Spiro who wrote, "If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all" | 87 |
| "The stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think," according to Housman | 87 |
| Four-time Pro Bowl tight end Crumpler whose first name sounds like a microbiology topic | 87 |
| He shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | 87 |
| Song standard with the lyric "Can't you see I'm no good without you?" | 87 |
| Movie with the line "I'm a vulgar man. But I assure you, my music is not" | 87 |
| Singer Lee whose 2011 album "Mission Bell" is the worst-selling #1 album ever | 87 |
| Tony winner between "A Chorus Line" and "Ain't Misbehavin'" | 87 |
| "The Simpsons" character who debuted in "The Telltale Head" episode | 87 |
| "Simpsons" character who debuted in the episode "The Telltale Head" | 87 |
| 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 |
| Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" | 87 |
| Rand referenced by Rand Paul-supporting PAC "Stand With Rand," or so they say | 87 |
| "Saturday Night Live" character who introduced herself with "Hewwo" | 87 |
| ___ to school . . . or a hint to the puzzle theme suggested by the ends of five answers | 87 |
| Literary reply to "What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough" | 87 |
| Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them | 87 |
| Salary that the average crossword constructor makes annually, give or take, mostly take | 87 |
| He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame the same year as Billie Jean | 87 |
| "I Saw Her Standing There," vis-Ã -vis "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | 87 |
| "The Color Purple" character who refers to her husband as "Mr. ___" | 87 |
| Isolated prison area (represented by this 4x4 corner) from which the solver must escape | 87 |
| Singer who said, "Men should be like Kleenex—soft, strong and disposable" | 87 |
| Sonnet that starts "My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming" | 87 |
| "He phones the pizzeria and tells them he wants full cheese and mushroom ___" | 87 |
| "The stuff that belongs to the person you just broke up with" (George Carlin) | 87 |
| Actor with the memoir "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" | 87 |
| He called wedlock "The most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised" | 87 |
| "In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice" speaker | 87 |
| Like St. Nick's "little mouth," in "The Night Before Christmas" | 87 |
| Lady who "had class with a capital 'K,'" per a 1932 Ethel Merman tune | 87 |
| Song parody with the lyric "You haven't even touched your tuna casserole" | 87 |
| Mayor who appeared as himself in "Sex and the City" and "Spin City" | 87 |
| Util. bill usually paid monthly, or in my case, when it's threatened to be shut off | 87 |
| The "her" in Broadway's "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" | 87 |
| Philips who said "I've learned about women the hard way - through books." | 87 |
| It was once voted "America's Most Innovative Company" by Fortune magazine | 87 |
| He sings "Rubber Duckie, you're the one / You make bath time lots of fun" | 87 |
| Leave that asshole zookeeper behind forever, provided you can find a way into the sewer | 87 |
| "As if you could kill time without injuring ___": Thoreau, "Walden" | 87 |
| "Le Foyer des artistes - La Difficulté d'___" (Jean Cocteau criticism) | 87 |
| "___ Final Broadcast" (Broadway song sung by Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin) | 87 |
| Word with ''when,'' ''what'' or ''who'' | 87 |
| Item missing in this puzzle's theme that's absent as well in the fill and clues | 87 |
| Debra Messing character, whose name goes "around" four answers in this puzzle | 87 |
| ___ Torrence, American sprinter who won three gold medals at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics | 87 |
| Sci-fi villain with the line "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" | 87 |
| Job, figuratively, and what's inside each of this puzzle's four longest entries | 87 |
| State where Don Ho was born (or was he? let's see the REAL birth certificate, Don!) | 87 |
| Group dance song with the repeated lyric "that's what it's all about" | 87 |
| Moorish ___ (kind of fish that Willem Dafoe's Gill is, in "Finding Nemo") | 87 |
| "___ the need ... the need for speed" (Classic line from "Top Gun") | 87 |
| Old bandleader with the catch phrase "That's right–you're wrong!" | 87 |
| Show with episodes "Pettycoat Injunction" and "His Suit is Hirsute" | 87 |
| Cyclist Armstrong, or what completes the ensemble found in the four long across answers | 87 |
| "Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful" espouser | 87 |
| Final (and a word that can precede the first word of this puzzle's longest answers) | 87 |
| ___ Soundsystem (subject of the 2012 documentary "Shut Up and Play the Hits") | 87 |
| Actress Seydoux of the 2013 Palme d'Or winner "Blue Is the Warmest Color" | 87 |
| Sci-fi character who asks "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" | 87 |
| "___ Substitute" ("Simpsons" episode guest-starring Dustin Hoffman) | 87 |
| Nirvana song beginning "I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends" | 87 |
| Off one's rocker, and a hint to what the four longest puzzle answers have in common | 87 |
| "It's better than your drawings of naked ___" (Retort by Elaine to Jerry) | 87 |
| Hit song with the line "When she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine" | 87 |
| "___ Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China" (1990 Caldecott Medal winner) | 87 |