| Regular stuff found inside this puzzle's three longest answers | 66 |
| Regular on "The Odd Couple" and "Happy Days" | 64 |
| Regular guest on "The O'Reilly Factor" | 52 |
| Regret some stupidity ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 64 |
| Registers one's answer on a computerized true-false quiz? | 61 |
| Region with the highest concentration of national parks in the U.S. | 67 |
| Region with many Shintoists, Confucians, and Buddhists | 54 |
| Region of France that borders Germany and Switzerland | 53 |
| Region divided by the Munich Pact and again by the Potsdam agreement | 68 |
| Reggie White's team when he was named N.F.L. M.V.P. | 55 |
| Reggie and the Full Effect: "Under the ___" | 53 |
| Reggie and the Full Effect "Under the ___" | 52 |
| Reggae icon on Beastie Boys "Hello Nasty" album | 57 |
| Reggae hitmakers of the 1970s-1980s, with "The" | 57 |
| Reggae group that released "Burnin'" in 1973 | 58 |
| Refusenik, after she's been granted an exit visa | 52 |
| Refuse to fire "Gangsta's Paradise" hip-hopper? | 61 |
| Refrigerator feature that may hold a carton's worth | 55 |
| Refrigerator company named for the town it started in | 53 |
| Refrigeration mechanic's "Stay cool!"? | 52 |
| Refrain from the song ''Hot Hot Hot'' | 53 |
| Reference from the Hawaiian and Greek for "quick education" | 69 |
| Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass | 63 |
| Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman" | 62 |
| Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman" | 64 |
| Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass | 53 |
| Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society | 62 |
| Ref. books with almost two million quotations: Abbr. | 52 |
| Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete | 55 |
| Ref's tool when reviewing a play that's been challenged | 63 |
| Reeves who played Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 69 |
| Reese Witherspoon's role in "Legally Blonde" | 58 |
| Reese Witherspoon's Oscar role in "Walk the Line" | 63 |
| Reenactment of a memorable scene from "The Exorcist"? | 63 |
| Reds great Roush with a .323 lifetime batting average | 53 |
| Redding covered his "A Change is Gonna Come" | 54 |
| Red's pal in "The Shawshank Redemption" | 53 |
| Red ___ ("Captain America: The First Avenger" villain) | 64 |
| Red Sox rookie in 2006, surprisingly super addition (6,7) | 57 |
| Red MacGregor, McEwan's Lager, or Tennent's Super, in pubs | 66 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers song that runs down your cheek? | 53 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers "The Uplift ___ Party Plan" | 59 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers '85 album "Freaky ___" | 58 |
| Recycling device in which you insert cans and get back money | 60 |
| Recurring sound effect in the comic "B.C." | 52 |
| Recurring SNL twosome played by Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig | 63 |
| Recurring character who dies in the novel "Curtain" | 61 |
| Recurring Broadway role first played by Maude Adams, 1905 | 57 |
| Recurring "SNL" character inspired by "Jaws" | 64 |
| Recurring "Seinfeld" character from Pakistan | 54 |
| Recruiting slogan that replaced "Be All You Can Be" | 61 |
| Records "broken" in this puzzle's nine theme answers | 66 |
| Recording artist made famous by the BBC series "The Celts" | 68 |
| Recordholder for most completions by a left-handed quarterback | 62 |
| Recordholder before Ichiro for most hits in a season | 52 |
| Record-holder for throwing a touchdown pass in 47 consecutive games | 67 |
| Record-holder for most Emmy nominations without a win | 53 |
| Record store whose physical locations closed in 2006 | 52 |
| Record producer Ertegun in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 57 |
| Record of the Year winner for "Just the Way You Are" | 62 |
| Record of the Year Grammy nominee for "Lose Yourself" | 63 |
| Record label whose house band was Booker T. & the M.G.'s | 64 |
| Record label of the Beatles' "Ain't She Sweet" | 64 |
| Record label for Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the MG's | 64 |
| Record holders? (and a punny hint to this puzzle's anomalies) | 65 |
| Record holder for most games played at shortstop for one team | 61 |
| Record company that released Crosby's "White Christmas" | 69 |
| Recommendation for an employee who was chronically drunk? | 57 |
| Recommendation for an employee who stole petty cash? | 52 |
| Recommendation for an employee guilty of sexual harassment? | 59 |
| Reclusive Radley of "To Kill a Mockingbird" | 53 |
| Reciting the alphabet in reverse order, and the like | 52 |
| Recipient's name and delivery details, on a business letter | 63 |
| Recipient of the first Social Security check, ___ Fuller (1940) | 63 |
| Recipient of the first gold single awarded by the R.I.A.A. | 58 |
| Recipient of many "Open a channel" requests | 53 |
| Recipient of a 45-billion-euro rescue package in 2010 | 53 |
| Recipe in the Library of Congress handwritten by Thomas Jefferson | 65 |
| Receptacle for part of a soul, in the Harry Potter books | 56 |
| Recently, as with "married" or "released" | 61 |
| Recent rightist who's not very serious about it? | 52 |
| Receiver Victor of the Giants' 2011 Super Bowl-winning season | 65 |
| Receiver of the advice "To thine own self be true" | 60 |
| Receiver of "Fighter of the Century" award | 52 |
| Rec. center that would be less appealing to the Village People | 62 |
| Rebuilding a Madrid museum so it faces the other way? | 53 |
| Rebooted political persona identified on the 2012 campaign trail | 64 |
| Reassuring response to "Are you all right?" | 53 |
| Reason why all the computers are down? [1976*, 2005] | 52 |
| Reason to be barred from a bar ... or the theme of this puzzle | 62 |
| Reason for having a preference for Italian ice cream? | 53 |
| Reason for an older male relative to use Liquid-Plumr? | 54 |
| Reason for an emptier-than-expected subway car, often | 53 |
| Reason for a strange smell coming from the trunk of the car? | 60 |
| Reason for a flood of calls to the police dept., maybe | 54 |
| Realtor's "quiet setting"? Truthfully, it's __ | 64 |
| Realtor's "lavish landscaping"? Frankly, there are __ | 67 |
| Realtor's "charming"? Actually, it's __ | 57 |
| Really impress an audience at a New York concert hall? | 54 |
| Really dull but sharp fencing museum subject in McLean, TX | 58 |