| "I say, old chap, I've sold my last copy of that newsweekly"? | 75 |
| Singer with the so-called "hardest-working legs in show business" | 75 |
| Film score composer Dimitri with twenty-six Oscar nominations and four wins | 75 |
| "X-Men" villain with great leaping ability and a very long tongue | 75 |
| Outfits for dancing to a frat house performance by Otis Day and the Knights | 75 |
| "You've got ___ your way into tomorrow" (Glen Campbell lyric) | 75 |
| "I'm returning this laundry product-it only works on blouses" | 75 |
| Where you might see a "Don't even think of parking here" sign | 75 |
| Featured artist on the #1 singles "Low" and "Kiss Kiss" | 75 |
| Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" | 75 |
| QB's pace just before a series that will start after a commercial break | 75 |
| ''___ Remember'' (from ''The Fantasticks'') | 75 |
| Who said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" | 75 |
| "Livin' on ___ time" (lyric in a #1 Don Williams country hit) | 75 |
| Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing | 75 |
| "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" quipper | 75 |
| "___ brillig, and the slithy toves ..." ("Jabberwocky") | 75 |
| Instrument on which Jake Shimabukuro can play "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 75 |
| Title name written "on the door of this legended tomb," in poetry | 75 |
| "Sonata Quasi __ Fantasia": Beethoven's "Moonlight" | 75 |
| It's pictured in Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhone" | 75 |
| The Tragically Hip "___ all up, don't save a thing for later" | 75 |
| Part of the face whose name is derived from the Latin for "grape" | 75 |
| Carpet cleaning device with the slogan "Nothing sucks like a ..." | 75 |
| Member of the 2007 Women's N.C.A.A. champion basketball team, for short | 75 |
| Playground equipment that'll move if you're really, really patient? | 75 |
| Whence the line "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" | 75 |
| Robert Frost poem that includes "Good fences make good neighbors" | 75 |
| Animator who dropped out of high school to join the army (but was rejected) | 75 |
| "Much too serious a thing to be left to the military": Clemenceau | 75 |
| Team Wilt Chamberlain played for when he scored 100 points in a single game | 75 |
| "Dial ___ Watkins" (2004 album by Welsh bluesman Geraint Watkins) | 75 |
| ... Massachusetts birthplace of the 19th-century feminist Elizabeth Packard | 75 |
| Song that includes the line, "How can I live through another day" | 75 |
| Holiday song that begins "The sun is shining, the grass is green" | 75 |
| "My ___" (song on The Who's "Who's Next" album) | 75 |
| Award honoring literature that features women's stories set in the West | 75 |
| He wrote, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform" | 75 |
| Former "On Language" New York Times columnist who died on 9/27/09 | 75 |
| Floors [an avxwords.com subscription makes a great holiday crossword gift!] | 75 |
| Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
| "High Qua1ityMeds - 50% off ___ straight from our 0nline parma3y" | 75 |
| Advice like "Don't fly so low you crash into the Death Star"? | 75 |
| Doors song off "Backstage and Dangerous" (with "Hyper") | 75 |
| Five-time teammate of Bryant, Duncan, and Nowitzki at the NBA All-Star Game | 75 |
| "___ Favourites" (2005 compilation album from the Tragically Hip) | 75 |
| "___ Am" (Melissa Etheridge album released the year she came out) | 75 |
| Nerdy band with "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" | 75 |
| "Chimp and ___" (kid-lit series by Catherine and Laurence Anholt) | 75 |
| "Avenue Q" song, "What Do You Do with ___ in English?" | 74 |
| Pop group whose first Top 40 album was, appropriately, "Arrival" | 74 |
| "___ Gold," 1992 album that has sold 28 million copies worldwide | 74 |
| Simpson who said: "Grass today is sharper than when I was a boy" | 74 |
| Mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation | 74 |
| Word that keeps the same meaning if "cap-" is added at the front | 74 |
| Firefighter Red, inspiration for John Wayne's "Hellfighters" | 74 |
| He called the U.S. vice presidency a "most insignificant office" | 74 |
| Prefix with ''ballistics'' or ''magnetic'' | 74 |
| Rebelliously, perhaps (and a hint to this puzzle's four theme answers) | 74 |
| Writer whose Pulitzer for "A Death in the Family" was posthumous | 74 |
| For whom Safire wrote the words "nattering nabobs of negativism" | 74 |
| Fourth word in the opening sequence to all six "Star Wars" films | 74 |
| Literary character who says "I'll chase him round Good Hope" | 74 |
| Q: "When is a door not a door?" A: "When it's ___" | 74 |
| "Iliad" character with a shield made from seven bulls' hides | 74 |
| ___ Bowl (annual college football game between the Big Ten and the Big 12) | 74 |
| Senator portrayer in "The West Wing" and "The Aviator" | 74 |
| ''Break ___!'' (''Good luck'' on Broadway) | 74 |
| "I cannot tell ___" (admission attributed to a young Washington) | 74 |
| 1979 film with the tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" | 74 |
| "Us" or "them" in "It's us against them" | 74 |
| 1987 #1 Heart song that starts "I hear the ticking of the clock" | 74 |
| Either of the first two runners-up to Rose for the 1968 N.L. batting title | 74 |
| Site with a "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section | 74 |
| Joni Mitchell song with the lyric "She was swallowed by the sky" | 74 |
| Response to "Are not!" that's unlikely to resolve the matter | 74 |
| "___ Ng" (They Might Be Giants' first song on the US charts) | 74 |
| ''Feliz ___ Nuevo!'' (''Happy New Year!'') | 74 |
| TV father of Anoop, Uma, Nabendu, Poonam, Priya, Sandeep, Sashi, and Gheet | 74 |
| "__ of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world": Emerson | 74 |
| Movie with the tagline "The movie was fake.The mission was real" | 74 |
| Rebel ape in "Planet of the Apes" played by Helena Bonham Carter | 74 |
| Alan of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Sunshine Cleaning" | 74 |
| "The only way to run away without leaving home," per Twyla Tharp | 74 |
| Musketeer Salim imagined himself to be, in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 74 |
| Words before "to be born" and "to die" in Ecclesiastes | 74 |
| "Bonne fete ___..." ("Happy Birthday" line, in Quebec) | 74 |
| Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" | 74 |
| Directing nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu for "___" | 74 |
| "New York Mining Disaster 1941" was their first U.S. hit in 1967 | 74 |
| Plain whose novel "Heartwood" was published posthumously in 2011 | 74 |
| Ballplayer who's the subject of a museum at Montclair State University | 74 |
| "And they give you cash, which is just as good as money" speaker | 74 |
| Kind of production that "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" parodies | 74 |
| State capital whose name comes from the French for "wooded area" | 74 |
| Critter that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers | 74 |
| Beekeeper Shavitz who cofounded a company whose products include lip balms | 74 |
| Republican candidate whose campaign manager is the "smoking man" | 74 |
| Band whose "Shadow Stabbing" is featured in "Wordplay" | 74 |
| On second thought, make it a romantic comedy: "Soylent Green..." | 74 |