| Puzzle invented by Lewis Carroll (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 72 |
| "Interest paid on trouble before it falls due," per W. R. Inge | 72 |
| Short-lived gridiron org. that had a player named "He Hate Me" | 72 |
| Valentine's Day card signoff (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 72 |
| 1992 gold medalist who was a "Dancing With the Stars" champion | 72 |
| It's ''positively'' hidden four times in this puzzle | 72 |
| Line showing the relationship between an interest rate and maturity date | 72 |
| Where there are "many ways to have a good time," in a 1978 hit | 72 |
| Where "they can start you back on your way," according to song | 72 |
| Place to "get yourself clean" and "have a good meal" | 72 |
| Singer heard in the Cliff Hangers game on "The Price Is Right" | 72 |
| "What ___ Will" (alternate title to "Twelfth Night") | 72 |
| "I know it's not my business, but if you were a laser ..." | 72 |
| Mika Brzezinski's dad who was Carter's national security advisor | 72 |
| French dancer who played the title role in the ballet "Carmen" | 72 |
| "Higher, higher, to the left a smidge, that's it!" follower | 73 |
| '90s Britcom whose theme song is "This Wheel's on Fire" | 73 |
| Classic Dickens title (from whose 10 letters this puzzle was constructed) | 73 |
| Alfred who broke with Freud to focus on "individual psychology" | 73 |
| "Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's __ ...": Rolling Stones lyric | 73 |
| N.L. outfielder who won a Gold Glove in 1970 along with Clemente and Rose | 73 |
| James with the ironically titled "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" | 73 |
| Tuna that isn't actually a sushi fish, as I recently clued it (sorry) | 73 |
| Helping hand that's been "lent" to the four longest answers | 73 |
| Answer to the riddle "The higher it goes, the less you hear it" | 73 |
| Actor Ruck who played Cameron in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 73 |
| Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy winner between Fiona and Sheryl | 73 |
| Byron's words before "'Tis but the truth in masquerade" | 73 |
| Lovelace's addressee for "Stone walls do not a prison make" | 73 |
| "I'm gonna say it like a man and make you understand, ___!" | 73 |
| Response to "You're the most self-questioning person ever!" | 73 |
| Key in an Alicia Keys album title (though only one of its songs is in it) | 73 |
| Pro-___ (like someone who views an eating disorder as a lifestyle choice) | 73 |
| "Joy is __ of love by which you can catch souls": Mother Teresa | 73 |
| Rolling Stones song with the lyric "Let me whisper in your ear" | 73 |
| ''America'' singer in ''West Side Story'' | 73 |
| Singer Baker with the 1988 hit "Giving You the Best That I Got" | 73 |
| Coulter who called the members of a 9/11 widows group "harpies" | 73 |
| Bancroft who was the first woman to explore both the Arctic and Antarctic | 73 |
| "___ drink Pepsi, but ah'll have a Coke few don't mind" | 73 |
| Animated film featuring the voices of Gene Hackman and Sylvester Stallone | 73 |
| 1998 animated film released the month before "A Bug's Life" | 73 |
| One of Time's 1993 Men of the Year called "The Peacemakers" | 73 |
| "We have met the enemy, and they ___ ours": Oliver Hazard Perry | 73 |
| "The Man in the ___" (passage in a 1910 Teddy Roosevelt speech) | 73 |
| Title character portrayer in ''Thing From Another World'' | 73 |
| Kevin McHale's "Glee" character (no, not that Kevin McHale) | 73 |
| Robot who appeared with Joey Fatone on "Dancing With The Stars" | 73 |
| [*cross out* "Star Wars" character] Where droids go to dry out? | 73 |
| "___ uncertain actor on the stage" (Shakespearean sonnet start) | 73 |
| ''I trust him about ___ ...'' (start of skeptical phrase) | 73 |
| Words with ''standstill'' or ''distance'' | 73 |
| Words with ''crossroads'' or ''dead end'' | 73 |
| Ocean "crossing" this puzzle's four longest answers (abbr.) | 73 |
| Brand with the advertising slogan "Do You Pivot Every Morning?" | 73 |
| King who infamously demanded half of Rome's Western Empire as a dowry | 73 |
| "Voulez-vous coucher __ moi?": "Lady Marmalade" lyric | 73 |
| 1949 show tune with the lyric "Here am I, your special island!" | 73 |
| What Meat Loaf went around in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" | 73 |
| Arthur whom The Smoking Gun claims was "a truck-driving Marine" | 73 |
| "In ___" (jokey postscript tacked onto fortune cookie messages) | 73 |
| Busy one that has made its mark in this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| "Jive Talkin'" group, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| He jumped into Larsen's arms after the only World Series perfect game | 73 |
| Besch who played the mother of Kirk's son in "Star Trek II" | 73 |
| It's about 325 miles east of Texas's H-Town, with "the" | 73 |
| "Upon this ___ heath you stop our way ...": "Macbeth" | 73 |
| First tennis player to win more than a million dollars in a single season | 73 |
| Home of the civil-engineering boondoggle known as "The Big Dig" | 73 |
| To whom our ''millions'' are ''billions'' | 73 |
| Poet who originated the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" | 73 |
| Words between ''Would you'' and ''dance'' | 73 |
| Word that can follow the starts of this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| "Romeo and Juliet" : Paris :: "West Side Story" : ___ | 73 |
| Potentially stressful place to be, vis-a-vis one's sexual orientation | 73 |
| "I'm Mighty Glad I'm Living, That's All" songwriter | 73 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," in song | 73 |
| Classic cereal now sharing shelf space with Vanilla and Chocolate cousins | 73 |
| Name in Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" | 73 |
| Les Cowboys Fringants "La Grand-Messe" track "Ti-___" | 73 |
| Quayle, who can be "hunted" down in four answers of this puzzle | 73 |
| "Young ___ Boone" (1977 TV show that lasted only four episodes) | 73 |
| Spacey's co-star in the 1999 revival of "The Iceman Cometh" | 73 |
| Word with "Happy" and "Death Valley" in old TV titles | 73 |
| Third-place presidential candidate of 1920 who ran his campaign from jail | 73 |
| "Nothing runs like a ___" (slogan for a farm equipment company) | 73 |
| "___-in' in the Wind" (episode of "The Simpsons") | 73 |
| "The fool ___ think he is wise..." ("As You Like It") | 73 |
| "Higher and higher, straight up we'll climb" Van Halen song | 73 |
| Cannon who was Alice in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" | 73 |
| Society in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Fahrenheit 451" | 73 |
| They were invented by 15-year-old Chester Greenwood in the winter of 1873 | 73 |
| How to "make money the old-fashioned way," in a Smith Barney ad | 73 |
| Historical character in John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" | 73 |
| Crooner/actor whose albums are widely available in moldy garage sale bins | 73 |
| Actor who won Emmys for playing the same character on two different shows | 73 |
| Channel champ with a 24-year record that Chadwick's challenge changed | 73 |
| Most likely place you'd find REASSESSES in a themeless crossword grid | 73 |
| TV character who addresses a golf ball by saying "Hello, ball!" | 73 |
| With "The," classic writing guide (and this puzzle's title) | 73 |