| Rita who shouted "Hey you guys!" on "The Electric Company" | 78 |
| River facetiously described as "a mile wide at the mouth, but only six inches deep" | 93 |
| River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" | 89 |
| River that's the site of Javert's demise in "Les Misérables" | 81 |
| Road in the title of an old Johnny Depp television show and recent movie | 72 |
| Robb Stark's realm in "Game of Thrones," with "the" | 75 |
| Robert Frost poem that includes "Good fences make good neighbors" | 75 |
| Robert who won a Tony for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | 86 |
| Robert who won Oscars for both writing and directing "Kramer vs. Kramer" | 82 |
| Robert ___, transgender rights pioneer and subject of the documentary "Southern Comfort" | 98 |
| Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning role in "Life Is Beautiful" | 73 |
| Roberto who said "There must be some terrible mistake!" in his Oscar speech | 85 |
| Robin Williams flick that was Roger Ebert's pick for worst movie of 2002 | 76 |
| Robot who appeared with Joey Fatone on "Dancing With The Stars" | 73 |
| Rock band whose first album was titled, appropriately, "High Voltage" | 79 |
| Rock group whose members all assumed the same last name, with "the" | 77 |
| Rock group whose name is an appropriate alternative title for this puzzle | 73 |
| Rock grp. once promoted as "the English guys with the big fiddles" | 76 |
| Rock photographer Russell who shot the cover for "Who's Next?" | 76 |
| Rock singer Rose who's been working on "Chinese Democracy" for over a decade | 90 |
| Rock song with the lyric "A big-legged woman ain't got no soul" | 77 |
| Rock star who offered his help to Nixon in combating "the hippie elements" | 84 |
| Rock-album cover on which this puzzle's celebrities appear, familiarly | 74 |
| Rocker Bonnie [CONTEST NOTE: My online all-skill crossword contest is Sept. 30. First prize is $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn.org.] | 138 |
| Rocker Case who tweeted "If a dude called me a 'cougar' I'd be more likely to kill him bare-handed and shit him out in front of his parents than fuck him" | 176 |
| Rocker with the 1981 triple-platinum album "Diary of a Madman" | 72 |
| Rod Stewart cover "When it comes to being lucky she's ___" | 72 |
| Roger Waters "4:37 AM (___ With Knives and West German Skies)" | 72 |
| Role for which George Burns won Best Supporting Actor in "The Sunshine Boys" | 86 |
| Role played by Pepe the Prawn in "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" | 74 |
| Role played by Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House" ... | 82 |
| Rolling Stones album that features "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | 85 |
| Rolling Stones song with the lyric "Let me whisper in your ear" | 73 |
| Roman numeral hidden (in left-to-right order) in the four longest Across answers | 80 |
| Roman philosopher who originated the phrase "What fools these mortals be" | 83 |
| Roman who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" | 84 |
| Roman writer who originated the phrase "Where there's life, there's hope" | 91 |
| Romanian-born composer of the famously eerie theme music for "The Twilight Zone" | 90 |
| Ron Moody in "Oliver!" compared to others who played the part? | 72 |
| Ron who was the 1981 World Series co-MVP with Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager | 77 |
| Ronald Reagan is the only U.S. president who was also president of a ... | 72 |
| Rooney __, who played Salander in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" | 77 |
| Roosevelt who said "You must do the things you think you cannot do" | 77 |
| Rossellini film renamed "Ways of Love" in its American version | 72 |
| Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them | 87 |
| Rule for finding buried treasure ... and a hint to making sense of this puzzle | 78 |
| Rumored reason for the stock market plunge of 5/6/10, whose effect is seen in this puzzle's theme answers | 109 |
| Run in the wash[To fully understand this week's and last week's puzzles, SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 96 |
| Runner Sebastian who headed London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics | 77 |
| Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
| Rush's song off "Presto" that went long? (with "The") | 77 |
| Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is set at the end of it | 73 |
| Russell Byars is one: He set the Guinness World Record of 51 times from the shore of the Allegheny River on 7/19/2007 | 117 |
| Russell parodied on "South Park" with the show "Fightin' Around the World" | 98 |
| Russian girl pop group with the 2002 hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 85 |
| Russian peasants (and the highest-scoring opening word in Scrabble--it's worth 128 points) | 94 |
| Russian pop duo with the hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 73 |
| Ryan Piers Williams's romp on a waterbed with "Ugly Betty" star Ferrera? | 86 |
| S(t)i(fled, i)n(hibited, sh)u(t, con)s(traine)d(, gated,) o(r) c(hecked, with "up") | 93 |
| Saint-___-du-Mont, church containing the remains of the patron saint of Paris | 77 |
| Salary that the average crossword constructor makes annually, give or take, mostly take | 87 |
| Sales person's forte, and a synonym for the ends of this puzzle's three longest entries | 95 |
| Salinger character who says “I’d be extremely flattered if you’d write a story exclusively for me sometime” | 123 |
| Salinger character who says, "I'm extremely interested in squalor" | 80 |
| Samuel Butler's satirical utopia whose name is an anagram of its location | 77 |
| San Antonio mayor Julián, keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic convention | 78 |
| San Francisco rock venue associated with psychedelic posters, with "The" | 82 |
| Santayana defines it as "redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim" | 91 |
| Sarah McLachlan song that says "I do believe I've failed you" | 75 |
| Sarcastic remark when your friend pays you back that quarter he borrowed | 72 |
| Satirical program originally hosted by Craig Kilborn, with "The" | 74 |
| Saturn's confession to his wife after eating another of their offspring? | 76 |
| Savvy film/TV character whose name, paradoxically, is Spanish for "idiot" | 83 |
| Saxophonist-composer Jimmy, known for his big-band arrangements for Benny Goodman and Count | 91 |
| Say "I love you" by extending the thumb, index finger, and pinky, e.g. | 80 |
| Say "Yes, officer, that's the singer that was using Auto-Tune"? | 77 |
| Saying "I'm not sure that dress looks perfect on you," e.g. | 73 |
| Says "I tried needlepoint twice, but I was only so-so," for example | 77 |
| Scared the daylights out of Elijah in "The Lord of the Rings"? | 72 |
| Scarlett whose final film words are "I'll never be hungry again" | 78 |
| Scarlett's first daughter in the book "Gone With the Wind" | 72 |
| Scarlett's sister-in-law and best friend in "Gone With the Wind" | 78 |
| Sch. that if it were a country, it would rank 12th all-time in Olympic medals | 77 |
| Sch. whose alumni include Shaquille O'Neal, James Carville and Rex Reed | 75 |
| Sch. whose Board of Visitors once included presidents Madison and Monroe | 72 |
| Sch. whose motto is "Mens et manus" ("Mind and hand") | 73 |
| Sch. whose women's basketball team is currently on a 76-game winning streak | 79 |
| Scholars believe that "A Musical Joke" by Mystery Person was ... | 74 |
| Scholars doubt that he ever said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" | 78 |
| Scholastic mean, briefly, hidden in this puzzle's seven longest answers | 75 |
| School plagued by Andrew Martinez, the "naked guy," in the 1990s | 74 |
| School whose motto is Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" | 74 |
| School with the U.S.'s oldest continuously operating music conservatory | 75 |
| Schoolhouse Rock cartoon that begins "You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington" | 135 |
| Schubert's Symphony No. 8 ___ Minor ("Unfinished Symphony") | 73 |
| Sci-fi acceleration technology (that I think I actually figured out how to make if I just had this one part) | 108 |
| Sci-fi character ranked #20 on Bravo's list of Ultimate Supervillains | 73 |
| Sci-fi character who asks "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?" | 87 |
| Sci-fi character who inspired "Harmonies for the Haunted" band? | 73 |
| Sci-fi character who said "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever" | 111 |