| River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" | 89 |
| "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip ___": "Julius Caesar" [1974 novel] | 89 |
| 1951 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, featuring Gertrude Lawrence as a teacher in Siam | 89 |
| "___ aren't the droids you're looking for" ("Star Wars" line) | 89 |
| Show on which Hillary Clinton first alluded to the "vast right-wing conspiracy" | 89 |
| Poe poem with the lines "thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicean barks of yore" | 89 |
| Iggy wrote about the rising popularity of sleep shirts so he could yell "___!" | 89 |
| Age at which Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse died | 89 |
| Placekicker Lawrence whose 47-yard overtime field goal sent the Giants to Super Bowl XLII | 89 |
| It's part of the eight original "Public Ivy" schs., per author Richard Moll | 89 |
| "It can only be postponed to the advantage of others," according to Machiavelli | 89 |
| Wine that can't decide what it is (from a stand-up comedian and a fictional newsman)? | 89 |
| 2003 Penn/Watts drama with "The weight of a hummingbird" in one of its taglines | 89 |
| He wrote "It's certain that fine women eat / A crazy salad with their meat" | 89 |
| Variation of an online term that supposedly originated with someone missing the SHIFT key | 89 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| "__ & Son": "The Bullwinkle Show" feature involving morality tales | 90 |
| Literary character who says "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" | 90 |
| "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" boaster | 90 |
| "Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up" speaker | 90 |
| Name after "Chasing" in a movie title and "Judging" in a TV show title | 90 |
| Connector that completes a phrase made from the starts of the three longest across answers | 90 |
| Georges Perec's 1969 novel "La Disparition" is written entirely without this | 90 |
| Singer Paul who also wrote "Johnny's Theme" for "The Tonight Show" | 90 |
| "Have ___!" ("You're not going to like what I'm about to say") | 90 |
| "___ McGee" (2006 animated series about a detective with no head, torso or arms) | 90 |
| Mo. with very few holidays, though looks like it's got National Ice Cream Sandwich Day | 90 |
| Rock singer Rose who's been working on "Chinese Democracy" for over a decade | 90 |
| He sang "I've Got You Under My Skin" with Frank Sinatra on "Duets" | 90 |
| "A person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it," according to Henry Ford | 90 |
| Common word spelled in the "Spelling Bee" game on "The Price Is Right" | 90 |
| Ohio's ___ Point, home of the Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force roller coasters | 90 |
| Fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail | 90 |
| "__ High": 1975 film that inspired the sitcom "What's Happening!!" | 90 |
| Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce | 90 |
| "Russell Simmons' ___ Strawberry Jam" ("In Living Color" ad spoof) | 90 |
| "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" speaker | 90 |
| The only grading letters that appear anywhere in this puzzle (other than the present clue) | 90 |
| "Any man who wants to be president is either an ___ or crazy": Dwight Eisenhower | 90 |
| Comedian who'll be playing George Burns's role in a remake of "Oh, God!" | 90 |
| Event at the 2012 Olympics in which a Venezuelan won gold for his country's only medal | 90 |
| "Nine Stories" girl who says "I'm extremely interested in squalor" | 90 |
| Old-timey anesthetic [need a holiday gift? avxwords.com annual subscriptions are just $15] | 90 |
| Word with ''blue,'' ''green'' or ''brown'' | 90 |
| The "one man" in the tagline, "One man's struggle to take it easy" | 90 |
| Literary series with "Monster Blood" and "Night of the Living Dummies" | 90 |
| 1977 David Bowie album whose cover was altered for his 2013 album "The Next Day" | 90 |
| Response to Ebert when he asks, "What's your favorite Christmas decoration?" | 90 |
| Secret get-together, or what occurs literally in each of this puzzle's circled squares | 90 |
| "___ have what she's having" (line from "When Harry Met Sally...") | 90 |
| Sports org. whose aim is "to contribute to building a peaceful and better world" | 90 |
| "When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am" song | 90 |
| "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (Erma Bombeck book) | 90 |
| TV Judge who said: "If I could fine you for stupid, I would fine you for stupid" | 90 |
| "How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" quipper | 90 |
| The "she" in the lyric "She walked up to me and she asked me to dance" | 90 |
| "Like the measles, ___ is most dangerous when it comes late in life": Lord Byron | 90 |
| Only pitcher to win the deciding games of the ALCS, ALDS and World Series in the same year | 90 |
| Actress who said "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" | 90 |
| Oscar-winning actress in "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Sophie's Choice" | 90 |
| Manfred Mann "Runner" lyric, "See the ___ as your breath hits the air" | 90 |
| "The flavor can't be matched because only ___ knows the secret" (old slogan) | 90 |
| Whom Goldwater called "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life" | 90 |
| Words after ''see,'' ''hear'' or ''speak'' | 90 |
| "Bring this ship into the shore and throw away the ___ forever" (REO Speedwagon) | 90 |
| "Our remedies __ in ourselves do lie": "All's Well That Ends Well" | 90 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" | 90 |
| Its name comes from a Native American word meaning "land of the trembling earth" | 90 |
| Number that "Sesame Street" was not "brought to you by" for many years | 90 |
| Politician who said "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it" | 90 |
| When most top-rated shows are on, and a hint to the kind of numbers in the starred answers | 90 |
| Gertrude Stein's first novel, published posthumously as "Things As They Are" | 90 |
| She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar the same year that Charlize won for Best Actress | 90 |
| Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers | 90 |
| "Play it again, ___" (famous line never actually said in "Casablanca") | 90 |
| "Nick" name that goes with the first names in the grid's six longest entries | 90 |
| He wrote "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal" | 90 |
| 2004 horror film with the tagline "How much blood would you shed to stay alive?" | 90 |
| J. J. ___, co-creator of "Lost" and director of 2009's "Star Trek" | 90 |
| What the pool player started "playing" when his favorite song came on the radio? | 90 |
| Using both sides with equal frequency (like the letters in this puzzle's answer grid?) | 90 |
| What the self-contradictory words found in this puzzle's theme answers are examples of | 90 |
| Huffington who said "There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear" | 90 |
| "Turn me on, dead man," supposedly, in the Beatles' "Revolution 9" | 90 |
| Spinal Tap song with the lyric "I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day" | 90 |
| Simon & Garfunkel album featuring "Mrs. Robinson" and "At the Zoo" | 90 |
| "All right, y'all, let's get in the old-fashioned horse-drawn carriage!" | 90 |
| NFL quarterback whose signature move is kissing his flexed bicep after scoring a touchdown | 90 |
| Bygone publication subtitled "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" | 90 |
| The world's largest ..., in Wilmot, Ohio, unleashes mechanical Bavarian dancers hourly | 90 |
| Pop singer who appeared in the movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 90 |
| Lute player Karamazov who collaborated on Sting's "Songs From the Labyrinth" | 90 |
| Columbian drug kingpin Pablo ranked the seventh richest man in the world by Forbes in 1989 | 90 |
| German word (for "donkey") that's the origin of our word for a display stand | 90 |
| "Merry Christmas" is "Gojan Kristnaskon kaj felican novan jaron" in it | 90 |
| Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. | 90 |
| Display rate unit, in film and animation: Abbr. (hidden in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY) | 90 |
| Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll | 90 |
| Malia's command to the family dog when it's time to return to Pennsylvania Avenue? | 90 |
| Third base, in baseball lingo ... or a hint for answering eight other clues in this puzzle | 90 |