| Real-life law enforcer in the "Doctor Who" episode "The Gunfighters" | 88 |
| Real-life opera composer who's a title character in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera | 79 |
| Real-life scientist played by David Bowie in "The Prestige," 2006 | 75 |
| Real-life talk show host played by Jay Mohr on 1990s "Saturday Night Live" episodes | 93 |
| Reality TV show won by Cris Judd and Lou Diamond Phillips in its first two seasons, familiarly | 94 |
| Really, really integral baseball stats (or a hair stylist ad interrupted by a cookie ad)? | 89 |
| Reason everyone whispered during the afternoon on Gilligan's island? | 72 |
| Reasonable response to "Do you think BP is handling the oil spill adequately?" | 88 |
| Rebate, and, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue can be | 76 |
| Rebel ape in "Planet of the Apes" played by Helena Bonham Carter | 74 |
| Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers) | 74 |
| Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
| Recently revived TV show with trivia-filled bubbles called "info nuggets" | 83 |
| Reception assistant, or what you might incite if you don't perform mitzvahs? | 80 |
| Recipient of all of Dale Cooper's tape-recorded messages on TV's "Twin Peaks" | 95 |
| Record for an individual athlete at a single Olympic Games that remained unbroken until 2008 | 92 |
| Record label that Paul McCartney blames for the Beatles' absence on iTunes | 78 |
| Record label that released the "Tommy" and "Grease" soundtracks | 83 |
| Record label whose first release was Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown" | 83 |
| Record producer who published the diary "A Year With Swollen Appendices" | 82 |
| Rectangular array that's identical when its rows and columns are transposed, as this puzzle's grid | 106 |
| Rectangular devices with a D-pad and the buttons A, B, START, and SELECT | 72 |
| Recurring movie character who "Goes to Jail," "Goes to Camp," and "Saves Christmas" | 113 |
| Red Sox catcher Carlton whose 12th-inning off-the-foul-pole home run won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series | 104 |
| Red Sox pitcher Bruce who was selected to be the 1986 World Series MVP just before the Mets forced Game 7 | 105 |
| Redistributionist's catchphrase ... or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters | 92 |
| Reed who sang "when the smack begins to flow/then I really don't care anymore" | 92 |
| Refrain lyric from "Do-Re-Mi" ("The Sound of Music") | 73 |
| Regained one's winning status ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 84 |
| Regarding Obamacare, she said "we have to pass the bill so that we can find out what is in it" | 104 |
| Reggae classic that ends "Let's get together and feel all right" | 78 |
| Reggae song with the lyric "Let's get together and feel all right" | 80 |
| Reindeer name rhymed with Blitzen in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" | 74 |
| Rejected Supreme Court nominee whose name has become a verb meaning "attack relentlessly" | 99 |
| Relieved comment from a "Next Food Network Star" contestant when the judge likes her fowl dish? | 105 |
| Remembrance word [CONTEST NOTE: My online crossword contest is ONE WEEK AWAY (Sept. 30). First prize, $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn.org.] | 145 |
| Remington owner Victor who said "I liked it so much, I bought the company" | 84 |
| REO Speedwagon "It's time to bring this ship in to the ___" | 73 |
| Repeated by rote ... or a word that's mixed up in three themed answers | 74 |
| Repeated phrase in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech | 81 |
| Repeated shout to a parent’s “You’re going to miss the school bus!” | 83 |
| Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in turn, of each starred answer would be touch-typed | 154 |
| Repetitive Brooklyn rockers with the 2008 album "Saint Dymphna" | 73 |
| Reply to "Lackaday, Lady Macbeth, what shouldst be said to the cursed dog to make it leave the castle?" | 113 |
| Reply to "Mark Antony, dost thou require any of my Spock accessories for the costume party?" | 102 |
| Reply to "Perchance, Hamlet, is this barbecue spice mix what ye seek?" | 80 |
| Reply to "Were any people left after Dick and Harry departed?" | 72 |
| Reply to "would Madame like fresh pepper on the beef bourguignon?" | 76 |
| Reply to "You're not even smart enough to be in fourth grade" | 75 |
| Republican candidate whose campaign manager is the "smoking man" | 74 |
| Request that could elicit a, "not until you finish your vegetables" | 77 |
| Response to "Are not!" that's unlikely to resolve the matter | 74 |
| Response to "Swiper, no swiping!" on "Dora the Explorer" | 76 |
| Response to "Tom!" in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" | 72 |
| Response to "What's a six-letter answer for 'Silent performer'?"? | 87 |
| Response to "Who wants to blow off school and go to the amusement park?" | 82 |
| Response to "You're the most self-questioning person ever!" | 73 |
| Response to a polite refusal / (next line) It's spelled out in a Tammy Wynette hit | 86 |
| Response to Ebert when he asks, "What's your favorite Christmas decoration?" | 90 |
| Response to Revolutionary Arnold's "What's for breakfast?"? | 77 |
| Response to Spanish tenor Kraus's "What's for dinner?"? | 73 |
| Response to the debut of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," e.g. | 74 |
| Restaurant chain where you can (aptly) get French toast and Belgian waffles | 75 |
| Restaurant in Manhattan's theater district famous for the caricatures on its walls | 86 |
| Restrictions, like the ones on PA systems that necessitate the "human microphone" at Occupy Wall Street | 113 |
| Result of "too much change in too short a period of time" (Alvin Toffler) | 83 |
| Result of an Oscar nominee's disappearance at an awards ceremony? [releases of 1968, 1982 and 1982] | 104 |
| Result of black's move from the upper-left board to the lower-right board | 77 |
| Result of not following through (of which there are four examples in this puzzle's grid) | 92 |
| Retailer whose "Gutvik" children's bed translates to "good fuck" in German | 98 |
| Reverend whose name is linked to terms like "Pazz and Jop," and this puzzle's theme answers | 105 |
| Reviewer on "Das Kapital": "Its arguments don't hold water" | 83 |
| Reviewer on "Look Homeward, Angel": "It's overlong and clunky" | 86 |
| Reviewer on "The French Lieutenant's Woman": "It gets bogged down in excessive detail" | 110 |
| Reviewer on "The Luck of Roaring Camp": "It needs more humor" | 81 |
| Reviewer on "The Road to Wellville": "I got whiplash from the runaway plot" | 95 |
| Revolutionary James ___, famous for saying "Taxation without representation is tyranny" | 97 |
| Revolutionary War general with the nickname "The Hero of the Two Worlds" | 82 |
| Reynolds who renamed himself "Turd Ferguson" on SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy!" | 99 |
| Reynolds' impressions of an MTV dimwit (or a cosmetics ad interrupted by a rental car ad)? | 94 |
| Rhett Butler's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," e.g. | 78 |
| Rhyme scheme for Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | 77 |
| Rhyme scheme in Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | 76 |
| Rhyming phrase that highlights one of the benefits of having sex with full-figured individuals | 94 |
| Ricardo Montalbán's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" role | 78 |
| Rice-___ Stadium (setting of the ceremonies for the Salt Lake City Olympics) | 76 |
| Richard D. James covering "Seventeen" with Pat Smear's band? | 74 |
| Richard Hooker book subtitled "A Novel About Three Army Doctors" | 74 |
| Richard who played the garage attendant in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 83 |
| Richard who quipped "I never met anybody who said, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic'" | 103 |
| Richard ___, 2002 Pulitzer winner for the novel "Empire Falls" | 72 |
| Richard ___, director of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" | 81 |
| Richards who played Lex Murphy in the first two "Jurassic Park" movies | 80 |
| Richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood, according to Forbes | 74 |
| Rick Wakeman "Anne Boleyn: The Day Thou Gavest Lord ___ Ended" | 72 |
| Rihanna lyric "Got my Ray ___ on and I'm feeling hella cool tonight" | 82 |
| Ring of ___ (mythological Greek artifact that rendered its wearer invisible) | 76 |
| Ring org. with a "Minimumweight" category (less than 105 pounds) | 74 |
| Ripley who wrote the "Gone With the Wind" sequel "Scarlett" | 79 |
| Risky marketing of sports jackets on a city's outskirts? [Chevrolet] | 72 |