1950s actress who was on the cover of Matthew Sweet's 1991 cult classic "Girlfriend" | 98 |
1950's-90's singer called "The High Priestess of Soul" | 72 |
1950's doo-wop group with the hit "A Thousand Miles Away," with "the" | 93 |
1950 musical by Irving Berlin, featuring Ethel Merman as a socialite ambassador | 79 |
1949 show tune with the lyric "Here am I, your special island!" | 73 |
1949 musical by Irving Berlin, featuring Eddie Albert as a newspaper photographer | 81 |
1949 comedy about husband-and-wife lawyers on opposing sides of a murder case | 77 |
1945 film mystery starring Dorothy McGuire and Ethel Barrymore (with "The") | 85 |
1942 film with the line "What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish?" | 73 |
1940s-'50s film/TV star with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | 72 |
1940s quartet with the #1 hit "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall," with "the" | 98 |
1940 Crosby/Lamour/Hope film that was the first of a "travel" series | 78 |
1940 Arthur Koestler novel that inspired George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | 93 |
1939 retiree who said "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" | 99 |
1939 Greta Garbo Best Picture nominee (it lost to "Gone With the Wind") | 81 |
1937 hit with the lyric "You're like the fragrance of blossoms fair" | 82 |
1937 Best Picture nominee (and what you might shout after finishing this puzzle) | 80 |
1932 dystopian novel in which humans give up individuality to mindlessly pursue pleasure | 88 |
1930's-60's columnist who wrote "Washington Merry-Go-Round" | 77 |
1930 novel that takes its title from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" | 80 |
1929 #1 hit whose title follows the line "Now he's gone and we're through" | 92 |
1928 hit with the lyric "I'm in heaven when I see you smile" | 74 |
1926 "Moby-Dick" adaptation starring John Barrymore, with "The" | 83 |
1919 Broadway musical that set a record for most performances up to that time | 77 |
1915 song that popularized the phrase "Hail! Hail! The gang's all here" | 85 |
1905 Belmont Stakes winner, the only filly to win besides Ruthless in 1867 and Rags to Riches in 2007 | 101 |
18th-century Venetian master who painted "Adoration of the Magi" | 74 |
1894 novel describing the adventures of Rudolf Rassendyll, with "The" | 79 |
1889 work of art deemed unsuitable for general display at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair | 91 |
1864 battle site that was the source of the quote "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" | 99 |
1847 novel subtitled "A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas" | 76 |
1830 novel with the same historical backdrop as "Les Miserables" | 74 |
1815 title character who "thought a little too well of herself" | 73 |
1800s marshal associated with poker's "dead man's hand" | 73 |
1799 discovery that made possible the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics | 76 |
16 of these are hidden in the answer grid, each reading left, right, up, down or diagonally in an unbroken straight line | 120 |
13-year-old Jimmy with the #1 1952 hit "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" | 82 |
124 minutes of Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore doing nothing to distinguish themselves? | 94 |
11-part documentary with the episodes "Caves" and "Deserts" | 79 |
1,000,000 in the phrase "When I win a million dollars" is an example of an ___ number | 95 |
1,000 in the phrase "No, no a thousand times no!" is an example of a ___ number | 89 |
007: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you ___!" | 98 |
...while Mark L. Walberg currently hosts PBS's "___ Roadshow" | 75 |
...while Henry Gibson presented satirical poetry on the 1960s comedy show "___" | 89 |
...while actor Bill Nighy costarred with many ___ in a 2000s movie trilogy | 74 |
...a Heyman/Sour/ Eyton/Green collaboration with Isaac Hayes and David Porter? | 78 |
..."I Just Can't Help Believing She Blinded Me With Science" | 74 |
... using ___: “Mary’s microscopic lamb / So white, it struck me blind!” | 84 |
... using ___: “Mary had no giant lamb / Its fleece was not unwhite” | 76 |
... using ___: “Mary had a wee lamb -- baa! / Its fleece was snowy -- whoosh!” | 86 |
... using ___: “Mary had a little lamb / Its fleece was white as chowder (clam)” | 88 |
... using ___: “Lisa loved her little lamb / Its wool was white and waxen” | 82 |
... using ___: “Gladys had a bantam lamb / Its hide was white as rice” | 78 |
... the one for Medicine by this "Midnight in Paris" actress, ... | 75 |
... Massachusetts birthplace of the 19th-century feminist Elizabeth Packard | 75 |
... HIT A RA(W)(N)(E)RVE, ARE (W)(E)(N)OT ME(N)(W)(E) ARE DEVO, and SPOK(E)(N)(W)ORD | 84 |
... Basketball Hall of Fame [1959] and College Football Hall of Fame [1951] | 75 |
... and the personality magazine created a new category of elite subscribers, the ___ | 85 |
... "Do household chores seem like a ___ to keep you home? Again, Unlimited Limo to the rescue!" | 106 |
(Thomas Pynchon, 1963) Its formula is 4/3 x pi x r³ (Michael Crichton, 1987) | 79 |
(South)western (college team play)in(g at Sun Bowl Sta)di(um near the Rio Gr)an(de) | 83 |
(Slaps)ti(ck s)t(ar,) "Par(ade" ac)t(or, a)n(d Oscar nomin)e(e of F)r(ance) | 85 |
(Martin Amis, 1984) House that needs endless repairs (Stephen King, 1986) | 73 |
(Mark Kurlansky, 1997) Supplement that some claim eases arthritis (Upton Sinclair, 1927) | 88 |
(B)la(cken or b)u(rn sli)gh(tly by leaving ato)p (the b)ar(becue, as mea)t | 74 |
(((One Week Later))) LIEUT: "What happened? I thought we had him!" INSP: "He gave us ___." | 110 |
"___: The Battle for Endor" (Wilford Brimley made-for-TV classic) | 75 |
"___: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968" | 77 |
"___: Countdown to D-Day" (made-for-TV movie starring Tom Selleck) | 76 |
"___-peanut-butter-sandwiches!" (magic words of the Amazing Mumford on "Sesame Street") | 107 |
"___-in' in the Wind" (episode of "The Simpsons") | 73 |
"___, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!": "King John" | 76 |
"___, My God, to Thee" (supposed last song played on the sinking Titanic) | 83 |
"___, gorgeous!" (Fanny Brice's comment to herself when looking in the mirror) | 92 |
"___, don't tell me there's no hope at all" Pink Floyd lyric | 78 |
"___, dislike it" (start of Marianne Moore's "Poetry") | 78 |
"___, brutish, and short" (how Hobbes described the life of man) | 74 |
"___ Yu" (collection also known as "The Analects of Confucius") | 83 |
"___ you can't get under it" ("Psychedelic Shack" lyrics) | 81 |
"___ You Better Before You Were Naked on the Internet" (From First to Last song) | 90 |
"___ You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)" (2005 #1 album by Kenny Chesney) | 87 |
"___ you a little short for a stormtrooper?" ("Star Wars" line) | 83 |
"___ Wood would saw wood ..." (part of a classic tongue twister) | 74 |
"___ with a wonderful guy" (lyric from "South Pacific") | 75 |
"___ Wiederhoren" (German "goodbye" when speaking on the phone) | 83 |
"___ Wet" (prankster's rearrangement of a "Wet Paint" sign) | 83 |
"___ well here in Camelot" (line from a "Spamalot" song) | 76 |
"___ we came forth to rebehold the stars" (last line of Dante's "Inferno") | 98 |
"___ was in our lips and eyes": "Antony and Cleopatra" | 74 |
"___ Warns Russkies to Knock it Off" (1963 "Our Dumb Century" headline) | 91 |
"___ Waltz," which begins "Hush-a-bye, ma baby, slumbertime is comin' soon" | 99 |
"___ vuelta de tuerca" (Spanish version of Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw") | 105 |
"___ volat propriis" (motto of Oregon meaning "She flies with her own wings") | 97 |
"___ victoria curam" ("Victory favors the prepared") | 72 |
"___ Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One" (album by the Kinks) | 83 |
"___ uncertain actor on the stage" (Shakespearean sonnet start) | 73 |
"___ Transform Entertainment" (Celebrate the Century stamp for the 1970s) | 83 |
"___ to Wake Up," 2006 Oscar-winning song by Melissa Etheridge | 72 |
"___ to the Motherland" (performance at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony) | 88 |
"___ to Power" (Frederick J. Sheehan's exposé of Alan Greenspan) | 81 |