| It publishes an annual "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things" list | 76 |
| Trading center (or the start of a lifestyle arbiter's split personality) | 76 |
| Like the Wicked Witch of the West at the end of "The Wizard of Oz" | 76 |
| "A living faith will last in the __ of the blackest storm": Gandhi | 76 |
| Sports org. whose out-of-market TV package is called "Direct Kick" | 76 |
| Painting partly shown on the original cover of "The Da Vinci Code" | 76 |
| [Getting milked is sort of annoying, but I don't feel like running away] | 76 |
| Historic figures disputed in a "Seinfeld" Trivial Pursuit question | 76 |
| TV character who "will never speak unless he has something to say" | 76 |
| He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with Staubach and Simpson | 76 |
| Amateur detective in 1967's "The Clue in the Crossword Cipher" | 76 |
| Soda with the slogan "Your Favorite Drink In Your Favorite Flavor" | 76 |
| "Regnava ___ silenzio" (aria from "Lucia di Lammermoor") | 76 |
| State that shares the longest diagonal border in the country with California | 76 |
| Vardalos who played Toula Portokalos in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | 76 |
| "__ will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .": JFK | 76 |
| ___ Roberts, first inductee into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame | 76 |
| Songwriter of both "Stoney End" and "Stoned Soul Picnic" | 76 |
| Oddly, newspaper that is a minority stakeholder in the Boston Red Sox: Abbr. | 76 |
| A famous one begins "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness" | 76 |
| "Love, Reign ___ Me" (The Who song covered by Pearl Jam and Heart) | 76 |
| Response to "Swiper, no swiping!" on "Dora the Explorer" | 76 |
| Tallinn's St. ___ Church, once said to be the tallest building in Europe | 76 |
| Words before ''Methuselah'' or ''the hills'' | 76 |
| "STATE FAIR ___" (words on the Wizard of Oz's hot-air balloon) | 76 |
| 1847 novel subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" | 76 |
| Song they played over and over at this Jamaican resort my wife and I went to | 76 |
| Upright, and what's been removed to form this puzzle's theme answers | 76 |
| "17. I'm psyched I get to write puzzles for 'The ___'" | 76 |
| Grateful Dead "Beggin' you baby, 'cause I'm ___ knees" | 76 |
| ''Movin' __'' (''The Jeffersons'' theme) | 76 |
| "___ big tricked-out name tag" (punchline in a Progressive.com ad) | 76 |
| What one of the hypocycloids in the Pittsburgh Steelers' logo represents | 76 |
| "Either that wallpaper goes ___ do" (Oscar Wilde's last words) | 76 |
| Words with ''I'm told'' or ''I thought'' | 76 |
| Whence the phrase "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" comes from | 76 |
| "If it were now to die, / 'Twere now to be most happy" speaker | 76 |
| MMA fighter John (don't know if he's related to baseball player Mel) | 76 |
| Reply to "would Madame like fresh pepper on the beef bourguignon?" | 76 |
| Jack who quipped "A funny thing happened to my mother one day: Me" | 76 |
| He wrote "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of" | 76 |
| "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus" author Broadwell | 76 |
| Composer of "Oedipus Tex" and "A Little Nightmare Music" | 76 |
| Essential legume in a porridge served hot, cold, or in the pot nine days old | 76 |
| Three of the first five words of a "Funny Girl" song, or its title | 76 |
| Org. that campaigned unsuccessfully to change the name of Fishkill, New York | 76 |
| Institution at which this puzzleÂ’s honoree earned a Ph.D. in mathematics | 76 |
| "Doing a crossword with a broken pencil is pointless," for example | 76 |
| Modern-day monarch who addresses her nation on Christmas annually, for short | 76 |
| George of "Night After Night" (source of this puzzle's quotes) | 76 |
| With ''K'' or ''C,'' military food allotment | 76 |
| Team whose playing venue appears on the National Register of Historic Places | 76 |
| Chip ___, whom many consider the greatest cash game poker player of all time | 76 |
| Event (as opposed to a sit-in) that might legitimize the use of pepper spray | 76 |
| Entertainer whose last name is the past tense of a synonym of his first name | 76 |
| "___ Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" (Stephen King novella) | 76 |
| Word after ''last'' or before ''of passage'' | 76 |
| César of fancy hotels [subscribe to great weekly puzzles at avxwords.com] | 76 |
| Kardashian who's on this season's "Dancing With the Stars" | 76 |
| ___ Martins, main character in Graham Greene's "The Third Man" | 76 |
| Miniseries whose final episode was the 3rd-most-watched show in U.S. history | 76 |
| Hodges who called baseball's "shot heard 'round the world" | 76 |
| Sports star who wrote the 2008 best seller "A Champion's Mind" | 76 |
| The last song on Bob Dylan's "Desire," named for his then-wife | 76 |
| Rhyme scheme in Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | 76 |
| "Captain Phillips" Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Barkhad ___ | 76 |
| "I'm On ___" (2009 song by The Lonely Island featuring T-Pain) | 76 |
| Summer coolers, briefly, and a hint to this puzzle's six longest answers | 76 |
| Program parodied on "Futurama" as "Single Female Lawyer" | 76 |
| Product once pitched with the line "Sometimes you feel like a nut" | 76 |
| His right arm was severed in a light saber duel before he became Darth Vader | 76 |
| On second thought, make it a costume drama: "Stop Making Sense..." | 76 |
| French forest region that was the site of the final offensive of World War I | 76 |
| Talk show host on the current season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" | 76 |
| Boy who pulls the sword from the stone in "The Sword in the Stone" | 76 |
| Part of the Constitution that deals with judicial powers and defines treason | 76 |
| She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "A Passage to India" | 76 |
| "We'll give it ___" ("Livin' on a Prayer" lyric) | 76 |
| "Like ___ train up your spine" (Pink Floyd, "Cymbaline") | 76 |
| ___ Shinrikyo (Japanese group that carried out a 1995 sarin attack in Tokyo) | 76 |
| "___, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!": "King John" | 76 |
| "___ be murder'd by his enemies": "Henry VI, Part 3" | 76 |
| Tubful Roger Daltrey lounged in on the cover of "The Who Sell Out" | 76 |
| College football circuit that's been finally retired for playoffs: Abbr. | 76 |
| Its unique bites are referred to as "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" | 76 |
| "There Shall ___ Night" (Pulitzer-winning Robert E. Sherwood play) | 76 |
| With "The," 1978 horror mystery with John Huston--refilmed in 3-D? | 76 |
| Profanely-named song from the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" | 76 |
| Unnominated film about the recipe that got Hans Christian Andersen arrested? | 76 |
| "Bigger & ___," 1999 Grammy-winning comedy album by Chris Rock | 76 |
| "I'll Make Love to You" group exchanged for Japanese currency? | 76 |
| Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | 76 |
| Neal Cassady's occupation in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" | 76 |
| Rebate, and, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue can be | 76 |
| Many skiers use these when they [see diagonal starting in upper left corner] | 76 |
| A "career associate scanning professional" used to be called a ___ | 76 |
| Cracker variety with the slogan "The snacking crunch with a punch" | 76 |
| Things that hear "All That Jazz" and "Cell Block Tango"? | 76 |
| Team that staged the infamous Disco Demolition Night, which led to a forfeit | 76 |
| Event when one might ask "is it just me, or is it getting hotter?" | 76 |