| "The ___" (Mortal Kombat arena where the loser falls to their death) | 78 |
| "The ___ win the pennant!" (repeated shout from Russ Hodges, 10/3/51) | 79 |
| "The ___ Went Down to Georgia" (1979 Charlie Daniels Band hit) | 72 |
| "The ___ treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation": Shakespeare | 84 |
| "The ___ Shall Inherit" ("Little Shop of Horrors" song) | 75 |
| "The ___ of Sleep" (1860 Mordecai Cook historical survey on drug use, including marijuana) | 100 |
| "The ___ of forty thousand years" ("Thriller" lyric) | 72 |
| "The ___ of a New Machine" (Pulitzer-winning book by Tracy Kidder) | 76 |
| "The ___ Not for Burning" (1948 comedic play set in the Middle Ages) | 78 |
| "The ___ Not Falling!: Why It's Ok to Chill About Global Warming" (Holly Fretwell book for children) | 114 |
| "The ___ Movie" (2014 film featuring Liam Neeson as Bad Cop/Good Cop) | 79 |
| "The ___ Made Me Buy This Dress" (Grammy-winning Flip Wilson album) | 77 |
| "The ___ Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within" (Stephen Fry book) | 79 |
| "The ___ is out there" (catchphrase on "The X-Files") | 73 |
| "The ___ is here to stay" (ill-considered corporate pronouncement of 1957) | 84 |
| "The ___ is a quadruped which lives in the big rivers like the Amazon" (Monty Python) | 95 |
| "The ___ have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed." (Casey Stengel) | 93 |
| "The ___ Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families" | 80 |
| "The ___ Effect" (unreasonable expectations of real-life forensics held by juries) | 92 |
| "The ___ and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality" (1982 best seller) | 89 |
| "The ___ 'e knows above a bit, the bullock's but a fool": Kipling | 83 |
| "The wretched refuse of your ___ shore" (line from "The New Colossus") | 90 |
| "The world will little note, __ long remember, what we say here": Lincoln | 83 |
| "The Wire" character who whistles "The Farmer in the Dell" when entering a scene | 100 |
| "The Wire" character Little who is murdered in the antepenultimate episode of the series | 98 |
| "The whole of ___ is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking": Einstein | 93 |
| "The whole of ___ consists in the art of being honest": Jefferson | 75 |
| "The White Album" song with several references to other Beatles recordings | 84 |
| "The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer" speaker | 73 |
| "The wart stops here" product, and a hint to the theme found in eight puzzle answers | 94 |
| "The Village Green Preservation Society" band, with "the" | 77 |
| "The Vanishing Act of ___ Lennox" (2006 Maggie O'Farrell book) | 76 |
| "The Unparalleled Adventure of One ___ Pfaall" (Edgar Allan Poe short story) | 86 |
| "The trouble with political jokes is that ___": Henry Cate VII | 72 |
| "The Travels of ___ McPheeters" (1960s TV western with Charles Bronson and a teenage Kurt Russell) | 108 |
| "The Three Burials of Melquiades ___" (2005 Tommy Lee Jones film) | 75 |
| "The teacher found that ___ ___-a-longs helped her pupils remember their ABCs" | 88 |
| "The Tale of the Giant ___ of Sumatra" (Firesign Theatre album) | 73 |
| "The Sun ___ Got His Hat On" ("Me and My Girl" song) | 72 |
| "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" villain Shickelgrubermeiger (c'mon; I'm sick of the "Casablanca" clues) | 135 |
| "The stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think," according to Housman | 87 |
| "The stuff that belongs to the person you just broke up with" (George Carlin) | 87 |
| "The Simpsons" villain who changes during October and November? | 73 |
| "The Simpsons" character with a habit of calling things "gnarly" | 84 |
| "The Simpsons" character whose favorite baseball squadron is the "Nye Mets" | 95 |
| "The Simpsons" character who often refers to himself in the third person | 82 |
| "The Simpsons" character who graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute of Technology | 124 |
| "The Simpsons" character who debuted in "The Telltale Head" episode | 87 |
| "The sea ___ that day, my friends" (line from "Seinfeld") | 77 |
| "The road of excess leads to the palace of ___": William Blake | 72 |
| "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" theorist | 83 |
| "The Remorse of ___ After the Murder of His Mother" (John William Waterhouse painting) | 96 |
| "The refuge of people who have nothing better to do," according to Oscar Wilde | 88 |
| "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver" quipper | 112 |
| "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver" comic | 110 |
| "The Puzzling World of Winston ___" (kids puzzle book by Eric Berlin) | 79 |
| "The Producers" character who sings "When You Got It, Flaunt It" | 84 |
| "The process by which trademark rights are diminished or lost as a result of common use in the marketplace" - Wikipedia | 129 |
| "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and ___" (1939 Bette Davis film) | 74 |
| "The primary factor in a successful attack," per Lord Mountbatten | 75 |
| "The Powerfully Effective, Take It Only When You Need It, Sinus and Allergy Medicine" | 95 |
| "The Plastic ___ Band — Live Peace in Toronto 1969" (1970 album) | 78 |
| "The pizzeria's out of mushrooms, though, so he'll need to make a ___" | 88 |
| "The pizza is $9.75 ... he hands the $10 off to the boy and waits for the ___" | 88 |
| "The path of the righteous man is ___ on all sides ..." ("Pulp Fiction" line) | 97 |
| "The pat with a hat that sits flat ___" (old slogan on individual butter portions) | 92 |
| "The Pajama Game" show tune that introduced choreographer Bob Fosse's signature style | 99 |
| "The other day my nephew's computer beat me at chess. But it was no match for me at kickboxing" comedian | 118 |
| "The ostrich roams the great ___. / Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra": Ogden Nash | 95 |
| "The only way to run away without leaving home," per Twyla Tharp | 74 |
| "The only time I'm nervous or scared is when I'm NOT talking" speaker | 87 |
| "The only sure bait when you angle for praise": Lord Chesterfield | 75 |
| "The only reason for time is __ everything doesn't happen at once": Einstein | 90 |
| "The only poor fellows in the world whom anyone will flatter": Pope | 77 |
| "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet," per H. L. Mencken | 83 |
| "The one beer to have when you're having more than one" sloganeer | 79 |
| "The one beer to have when you're having more than one" brewer | 76 |
| "The one and only true love ___ least it seems" (CeCe Peniston, "Finally") | 94 |
| "The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby", he said | 87 |
| "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind," per H. P. Lovecraft | 76 |
| "The Odious ___" (children's book written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer) | 106 |
| "The occupation of the idle man, the distraction of the warrior, the peril of the sovereign," per Napoleon | 116 |
| "The note accompanying the ___ ___ that all money should go to charity" | 81 |
| "The Night of the Hunter" star--his middle names are Charles Durman! | 78 |
| "The narrator of the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy's a stealth assassin"? | 88 |
| "The Music and the Mirror" singer in "A Chorus Line" | 72 |
| "The most perfect expression of scorn," according to George Bernard Shaw | 82 |
| "The moon is ___; I have not heard the clock": "Macbeth" | 76 |
| "The mind is not ___ to be filled, but a fire to be kindled" (Plutarch) | 81 |
| "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" author's initials | 74 |
| "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights" speaker | 80 |
| "The Mayor of Simpleton" band whose name sounds like a state of bliss | 79 |
| "The Marriage of ___" (opera by today's birthday composer) | 72 |
| "The Man Without ___" (2002 nominee for Best Foreign Language Film) | 77 |
| "The man who can dominate a London ___ can dominate the world" (Oscar Wilde) | 86 |
| "The Man in the ___" (passage in a 1910 Teddy Roosevelt speech) | 73 |
| "The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the ___" (Thomas Gray line) | 75 |
| "The long-awaited sequel to 'Cry, the Beloved Country'!" | 74 |
| "The Lone Ranger and ___ Fistfight in Heaven" (1993 Sherman Alexie collection) | 88 |
| "The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" (supposed words from Lincoln) | 106 |