| Heavy metal band with the triple-platinum album "Out of the Cellar" | 77 |
| Former "Headbangers Ball" regulars with "Round and Round" | 77 |
| Songwriter-husband of Minnie Riperton and father of "SNL" alum Maya | 77 |
| Impressionist whom Mel Blanc labeled "The Man of a Thousand Voices" | 77 |
| "Shaggy! There are monsters under this bridge with terrible colds!" | 77 |
| Flower mentioned initially by character on TV's "Entourage" (8) | 77 |
| "... edged tools [to] be kept from children and from fools": Dryden | 77 |
| "Now you ___ ..." (magician's comment about disappearing cards) | 77 |
| Eisenhower portrayer in the 2004 TV movie "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" | 77 |
| Word that "run" replaced as the OED entry with the most definitions | 77 |
| Under [like contemporary crosswords? Become an AVXWORDS.com subscriber today] | 77 |
| First professional musician to become Chairman of the Board of Lincoln Center | 77 |
| They're "in flight," according to "Afternoon Delight" | 77 |
| "All ___ is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry": G. K. Chesterton | 77 |
| "I give you the steel-handed stingray, Captain James Hook!" speaker | 77 |
| One of the three subjects of the sports book "American Triumvirate" | 77 |
| Inappropriate Neil Diamond single "Girl, You'll Be a Woman ___" | 77 |
| The longest word containing only letters from the second half of the alphabet | 77 |
| TV character who says "Captain, you almost make me believe in luck" | 77 |
| ___ Dan (sexual device in William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch") | 77 |
| Group whose 1972 debut album "Can't Buy a Thrill" went platinum | 77 |
| The earliest surviving one, made in 1932, features the Philadelphia Orchestra | 77 |
| One who follows tornados (or a hint to the opener in four horizontal answers) | 77 |
| "Equus" character Alan transforms to become useful to a lumberjack? | 77 |
| ___ Nahan (real-life boxing commentator who appeared in all six Rocky movies) | 77 |
| "Mr. Roboto" band appearing with the "Ruby Tuesday" band? | 77 |
| Indonesian island separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca | 77 |
| Asset in answering the question "Does this dress make me look fat?" | 77 |
| Grunge band whose final album was 1995's "Infrared Riding Hood" | 77 |
| Many people get one in the summer (and so do this puzzle's theme entries) | 77 |
| Govt. agcy. whose headquarters house the partially unsolved Kryptos sculpture | 77 |
| "This gallery's artist-in-residence is the Prince of Darkness!" | 77 |
| Mountaintop castle in "Game of Thrones" where Tyrion was imprisoned | 77 |
| How you know that it's St. Patrick's Day in kin¬der¬gar¬ten? | 77 |
| TV show that debuted on 11/3/93 (and start of a parent's distressed cry?) | 77 |
| Tyrone Power film remake with the line "This mask is really itchy"? | 77 |
| Answer to ''Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?'' | 77 |
| John Travolta film reject about a Detroit gridder embarrassed by weight loss? | 77 |
| Classic 1934 novel set in Prohibition-era New York City, with "The" | 77 |
| Name for London's subway system and an outdated slang term for television | 77 |
| This animal presumably hunts its prey in the jungle ... correction: the ocean | 77 |
| “A great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”: Berlioz | 77 |
| 1997 movie with the line "It was the most erotic moment of my life" | 77 |
| Begin tax calculation: Enter the amount you earned last year from all sources | 77 |
| Ralph Kramden catchphrase on old TV ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
| "Though banish'd, yet a ___ Englishman": "Richard II" | 77 |
| "I know someone who can help you purchase a vintage stereo system"? | 77 |
| "Dream if ___ a courtyard" (Prince lyric, as it is in fact notated) | 77 |
| Its women's basketball team holds the consecutive victories record(abbr.) | 77 |
| Nintendo product on many "worst game controllers of all time" lists | 77 |
| "Seinfeld" character with the catchphrase "Jerry! Hello!" | 77 |
| Confucius say "Passionate kiss like spider's web; leads to ___" | 77 |
| Novelist who wrote the screenplay for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" | 77 |
| Sch. that if it were a country, it would rank 12th all-time in Olympic medals | 77 |
| "What's the ___ Wond'rin'?" ("Carousel" song) | 77 |
| "Complete 360s", as mistakenly said by those who don't get math | 77 |
| "Walk" or "crawl" or "sink" or "swim" | 77 |
| “The leaders of the hostiles are said to comprise a particularly ___” | 77 |
| Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 | 77 |
| Book including chapters titled "Solitude" and "The Ponds" | 77 |
| "The sea ___ that day, my friends" (line from "Seinfeld") | 77 |
| 1997 Jennifer Jason Leigh adaptation of a Henry James novel--refilmed in 3-D? | 77 |
| "And so she ___ steadily, And little other care has she" (Tennyson) | 77 |
| Novel with the subtitle "A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns" | 77 |
| Hit song from 2000 ... and a hint to 10 symmetrically arranged Across answers | 77 |
| 22-year-old Stanford graduate who became a pro golfer more than six years ago | 77 |
| He wrote "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies" | 77 |
| Spanish-American bandleader once married to Abbe Lane born on January 1, 1900 | 77 |
| TV series whose finale was titled "The Truth," with "The" | 77 |
| Band whose "Only You" was featured in "Napoleon Dynamite" | 77 |
| ''... _____ to breathe free'' (Statue of Liberty inscription) | 77 |
| Prog band with a Grammy-nominated concert video directed by Steven Soderbergh | 77 |
| Speaker of "Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be" | 77 |
| "Star Wars" saga character who speaks in object-subject-verb format | 77 |
| "Cliff Hangers" theme music on "The Price Is Right," e.g. | 77 |
| Of whom Hamlet said "He hath borne me on his back a thousand times" | 77 |
| If one were to ___, one would see a bunch of social networking parody videos | 77 |
| "On the Case with Paula ___" (Investigation Discovery channel show) | 77 |
| Number in the Cookie Monster song "They Not Take That Away From Me" | 77 |
| Masked hero who debuted in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" | 77 |
| Organization whose members are at least halfway toward becoming centenarians | 76 |
| "What Do You Do With ____ in English?" ("Avenue Q" song) | 76 |
| Fictional manufacturer of disintegrating pistols and jet-propelled unicycles | 76 |
| British singer with the age-related albums "19" and "21" | 76 |
| Band that won five MTV Video Music Awards for "Take on Me" in 1986 | 76 |
| Hill staffer [sign up to get the AVCX celebrity puzzle series--avxwords.com] | 76 |
| ___ Wuornos, "Monster" role for which Charlize Theron won an Oscar | 76 |
| Playwright who wrote the collection of essays "Stretching My Mind" | 76 |
| Trumpeter and bandleader who was called "The Round Mound of Sound" | 76 |
| Boxer who told Will Smith "you ain't pretty enough to play me" | 76 |
| "Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than ___": Aesop | 76 |
| "After the Gold Rush" lyric "___ felt like getting high" | 76 |
| Coulter whose jaw was wired shut in November, according to the New York Post | 76 |
| Word with ''day now'' or ''other questions'' | 76 |
| Quantity that makes another quantity by adding an "m" at the front | 76 |
| ''I got an ___ my test!'' (student's cry of achievement) | 76 |
| "I only run the Mac as needed, turning it off when not in use..." | 76 |
| "Much ___ About Nothing" (title of a "Simpsons" episode) | 76 |
| Best Picture between "The Artist" and "12 Years a Slave" | 76 |
| Hollywood agent Emanuel whose brother Rahm is the White House chief of staff | 76 |