| Song title words before "music" or "rock 'n roll" | 73 |
| Schubert's Symphony No. 8 ___ Minor ("Unfinished Symphony") | 73 |
| Sutton Foster's role in Broadway's "Young Frankenstein" | 73 |
| Sci-fi character ranked #20 on Bravo's list of Ultimate Supervillains | 73 |
| Show with Michael Tucker and his wife Jill Eikenberry as a married couple | 73 |
| Short-lived 2005 Broadway musical with the song "Instant Karma" | 73 |
| Sitcom character discussed in the 2003 biography "Ball of Fire" | 73 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography subtitled "A Legend Like Lightning" | 73 |
| She played Romy in "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" | 73 |
| Sch. whose motto is "Mens et manus" ("Mind and hand") | 73 |
| Subject of the lyric "A horse is a horse, of course, of course" | 73 |
| Speechwriter who coined the phrase "Read my lips: no new taxes" | 73 |
| Source of the line "The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one" | 73 |
| Skater Brian who led the Canadian delegation at the 1988 Calgary Olympics | 73 |
| She beat out Judi, Charlize, Keira, and Felicity for Best Actress of 2005 | 73 |
| Shirt put on in hopes of being chosen for "The Price Is Right"? | 73 |
| Sobriquet for a couch potato's favorite singer, with "the"? | 73 |
| Start of a billboard catchphrase meaning "close to the highway" | 73 |
| Singer with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt on the album "Trio" | 73 |
| Spanish architect celebrated by the Alan Parsons Project's last album | 73 |
| Strip that accompanied Sunday "Dixie Dugan" comics in the 1930s | 73 |
| Start of an Einstein quote that holds true when solving clever crosswords | 73 |
| Solver's dilemma when faced with the clue "Telecom letters" | 73 |
| Subject of Ruth Montgomery's biography "A Gift of Prophecy" | 73 |
| Setting in Sherlock Holmes's "The Man with the Twisted Lip" | 73 |
| Sir William who wrote "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" | 73 |
| Stop at this North Dakota region that was the inspiration for a folk song | 73 |
| Shakespeare character who says "I have set my life upon a cast" | 73 |
| Skating maneuver by "Best Damn Sports Show Period" cohost John? | 73 |
| Something that's pressed, which helps explain this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| Someone who only watches Swedish cinema and eats grass-fed beef, probably | 73 |
| Signal that had only existed for a few years when the RMS Titanic used it | 73 |
| Sci-fi character who inspired "Harmonies for the Haunted" band? | 73 |
| Saying "I'm not sure that dress looks perfect on you," e.g. | 73 |
| Shade from the sun that's inserted in this puzzle's theme answers | 73 |
| Springsteen "His body hit the street with such a beautiful ___" | 73 |
| Subject of the Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" | 73 |
| Start of a bumper sticker that may end with one's favorite attraction | 73 |
| Short-lived and generally disastrous sports experiment of the early 2000s | 73 |
| Source of the saying "The gods help them that help themselves" | 72 |
| Shortstop teammate of Honus and Ernie on baseball's All-Century team | 72 |
| Sports org. in which the Toronto Argonauts have won the most titles (15) | 72 |
| Shakespearean character who introduced the phrase "salad days" | 72 |
| Scarlett's first daughter in the book "Gone With the Wind" | 72 |
| Simon & Garfunkel's "For ___, Whenever I May Find Her" | 72 |
| Stormers of Saruman's fortress, in "The Lord of the Rings" | 72 |
| Singer with the 1992 quintuple-platinum album "Shepherd Moons" | 72 |
| Singer with an Oscar-nominated song in "The Lord of the Rings" | 72 |
| Senate committee that censures its members for screwing interns and such | 72 |
| Sir ___ the Pure ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail" character) | 72 |
| Suffix with ''president'' or ''proverb'' | 72 |
| Show that's broken scores of generic, melismatic singers, familiarly | 72 |
| Ship, named after a French river, that transported the Statue of Liberty | 72 |
| Some of those who "hail the new" in "Deck the Halls" | 72 |
| Song on Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Green River" album | 72 |
| Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 72 |
| Springsteen "When they built you, brother, they broke the ___" | 72 |
| Spot of "bad intent" in Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" | 72 |
| Spots where ship passengers shout "I'm king of the world!" | 72 |
| Seattle suburb known as "the bicycle capital of the Northwest" | 72 |
| Sporting goods co-op once headed by the first American to summit Everest | 72 |
| She played Natasha in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" | 72 |
| Site of Floresta da Tijuca, one of the world's largest urban forests | 72 |
| Swift lyric "And I left my ___ at your sister's house ..." | 72 |
| Start of a quote by Lord Jeffery, 18th-century literary critic and judge | 72 |
| She received a Best Actress nomination for "A Man and a Woman" | 72 |
| Song on Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" | 72 |
| Slogan for a down-and-out Indiana city trying to attract creative types? | 72 |
| Syllable between "do wah diddy diddy" and "diddy do" | 72 |
| Sarcastic remark when your friend pays you back that quarter he borrowed | 72 |
| Status attained after passing the Trials of Skill, Spirit, and Knowledge | 72 |
| Smetana symphonic suite whose title is Czech for "My Homeland" | 72 |
| Shakespeare on overthrowing first ("Julius Caesar," V, iii, 6) | 72 |
| Scared the daylights out of Elijah in "The Lord of the Rings"? | 72 |
| Spin, as a cue ball, and how to answer each starred clue in this puzzle? | 72 |
| Sitcom about the Connor family, which helped propel John Goodman to fame | 72 |
| Serving in John Betjeman's poem "How to Get on in Society" | 72 |
| She won the 1992 U.S. Open without losing a set in the entire tournament | 72 |
| Street food magnate who failed despite having food from every continent? | 72 |
| Solar power plant that was raided by the FBI after filing for bankruptcy | 72 |
| Show with Jean-Luc Picard as captain of the Enterprise, in fan shorthand | 72 |
| Sitcom character with a leather jacket that's now in the Smithsonian | 72 |
| Song that bumped the Stones' "Miss You" out of the #1 slot | 72 |
| Start of a quip by hockey commentator Don Cherry about his autobiography | 72 |
| Song that starts “My friends feel it’s their appointed duty” | 72 |
| State whose ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment ended Prohibition | 72 |
| Sch. whose Board of Visitors once included presidents Madison and Monroe | 72 |
| Short-lived gridiron org. that had a player named "He Hate Me" | 72 |
| Singer heard in the Cliff Hangers game on "The Price Is Right" | 72 |
| Singer of "Skyfall," 2012 Oscar winner for Best Original Song | 71 |
| Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year between Jordan and Shula | 71 |
| Scientist whose theory leads to the wordplay in this puzzle's theme | 71 |
| Spanish-language newspaper that brings "light" to its readers | 71 |
| Suffix with ''Brooklyn'' or ''Vietnam'' | 71 |
| Start of a crash blossom that ran in the Gloucestershire Echo on 2/2/11 | 71 |
| Susan who wrote the 1978 best seller "Compromising Positions" | 71 |
| Sam Cooke's "That's ___ Quit - I'm Movin' On" | 71 |
| Surgeon general who pioneered techniques for separating conjoined twins | 71 |
| Stuart who directed "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 71 |
| Singer with the Grammy-winning R&B album "Because of You" | 71 |