| Q: "So, Spider-Man, is it safe to say that the Mrs. is expecting?" A: "___!" | 96 |
| Confronting unpleasant consequences of one's actions (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 96 |
| Group whose album "St. Elsewhere" was #2 on Spin Magazine's 40 Best Albums of 2006 | 96 |
| Celebrity couple nickname #5: Kate Hudson's mother and a "Meet the Fockers" father | 96 |
| "They was watchin 'Yo! MTV Raps' / What's the ___ on the craps?": Ice Cube | 96 |
| "What's that D.C. university, hon?" response (from a director and former pitcher)? | 96 |
| Start of the caption to a Jim Johnson cartoon showing a woman holding a 32-oz. piece of stemware | 96 |
| Source for finding out if that was actually Courteney Cox in "Masters of the Universe" | 96 |
| Observation as to why a Kansas-based company has to relocate to San Francisco instead of Boston? | 96 |
| Familiar name of a Virginia sculpture based on a Pulitzer-winning picture taken by Joe Rosenthal | 96 |
| Skin-tight jeans hybrid on thefrisky.com's "The Worst Fashion Trends of 2010" list | 96 |
| "That's exactly how I feel" ... or what each starred clue's first word can do? | 96 |
| Middle infielder who homered for the Mets in his first plate appearances of 2004, 2005, and 2006 | 96 |
| Radiohead album that was #428 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" | 96 |
| Iggy reported on the delayed start at the billiards tournament so he could yell "___!" | 96 |
| Ones in charge of a case ... or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle | 96 |
| V-shaped crotch-to-shoulders bathing suits popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen in "Borat" | 96 |
| "I suppose it might seem odd that a reverend like myself would suddenly begin ___ ..." | 96 |
| In Search Of: Ladyfriend for a foreign exchange student in Yorkshire - where can I find my ___ ? | 96 |
| Hungarian playwright whose "Liliom" was the basis for the musical "Carousel" | 96 |
| Pentecost, e.g., and what can literally be found in this puzzle's four other longest answers | 96 |
| "Hmmm...I'm stumped as to how you landed a role on 'The Addams Family'..." | 96 |
| "Sorry, Buckeye State, but the whole General Assembly's coming over for my party!" | 96 |
| "That thing I told you about isn't getting done today, possibly not even tomorrow" | 96 |
| Physician William who wrote the classic text "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" | 96 |
| Potentially hackable polling system voted "Worst of Technology" by "Fortune" | 96 |
| The world's largest ..., in Coleman, Alberta, is used to raise money by the Lions of Coleman | 96 |
| Inviting danger ... the end of which can precede each half of the answer to each asterisked clue | 96 |
| "Robin Williams's best work was playing a comics character in the early '80s"? | 96 |
| Don't ditch your CLEAR PLASTICS; recycle them into a ___, a useful tool for bigoted surgeons | 96 |
| "It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can ___ our perfection": Oscar Wilde | 96 |
| Documentary in which the director asks "So how much did you have to pay for the baby?" | 96 |
| Oscar-nominated movie where the main characters are chased down the street by an angry naked guy | 96 |
| Very happy "place" [read the Notepad for info about the hidden answers in this puzzle] | 96 |
| Number of Belgian beers you plan on drinking (as screamed in "A Futbol Named Desire")? | 96 |
| Command to the promiscuous widow in "The Night of the Iguana" to take her clothes off? | 96 |
| "Sanctimonious ___" (Joseph McCarthy's nickname for Senator Symington of Missouri) | 96 |
| Or maybe the subjects have ___, a condition in which letters and numbers are perceived as colors | 96 |
| The handle of Charles Dickens's ivory letter opener, in the Library's collection, is ___ | 96 |
| Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters | 96 |
| Familiarly, nutritious trio found twice in this puzzle—one trio is hidden in certain corners | 96 |
| Morgan who is "too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person," per Tina Fey | 96 |
| Fish dish served with lemon and pepper, simmered in pretty hate and dissonant synthesizer lines? | 96 |
| General who countered the Taiping Rebellion, which was waged over access to sugary fried chicken | 96 |
| "Has the ___ effective at keeping peace?" (question for Sec'y-General Ban Ki-moon) | 96 |
| "Come ___ these yellow sands, / And then take hands": Ariel in "The Tempest" | 96 |
| The practice of trying to stop something that persistently occurs in an apparently random manner | 96 |
| In a Weird Al Yankovic song, he "looks like a Muppet, but he's wrinkled and green" | 96 |
| "... the morn ... Walks o'er the dew of __ high eastward hill": "Hamlet" | 96 |
| Dad's reaction to: "Dad, I dropped out of college and joined the traveling circus" | 96 |
| Beer Obama sent to the Canadian P.M. to settle their bet over the Olympic hockey gold medal game | 96 |
| ___ and Jayna (TV's Wonder Twins, whose names were inspired by an Edgar Rice Burroughs pair) | 96 |
| Popular picture fonts that come standard on Apple computers (named after a German type designer) | 96 |
| Either of a pair of stubborn Dr. Seuss characters in "The Sneetches and Other Stories" | 96 |
| In "Macbeth," it starts with the line "Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd" | 97 |
| It blows; I just got scolded for using portable electronic devices and they're out of peanuts | 97 |
| "At the gym I usually toss up ___ ball -- it's my specialty -- just before I leave" | 97 |
| "___ volat propriis" (motto of Oregon meaning "She flies with her own wings") | 97 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," describes names like Vivian Darkbloom and Mr. Mojo RisiN' | 97 |
| Scoreboard abbr. for the football team that plays its home games at University of Phoenix Stadium | 97 |
| Main thoroughfare in Manhattan (one can be found in each of the four long answers in this puzzle) | 97 |
| "The path of the righteous man is ___ on all sides ..." ("Pulp Fiction" line) | 97 |
| 2006 title film character who says "Pamela! I no find you attractive anymore! ... Not!" | 97 |
| <u>President</u> <u>of</u> <u>1</u> <u>Across</u> | 97 |
| Someone who's "in the kitchen" in "I've Been Working on the Railroad" | 97 |
| Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) | 97 |
| Film that lost out to "Places in the Heart" for the 1984 Best Original Screenplay Oscar | 97 |
| Number of times the letter 'U' appears in each of this puzzle's eight longest answers | 97 |
| Award for which "The Godfather, Part III" was nominated seven times, but didn't win | 97 |
| "Sometimes, when I sleep at night, I think of '___ Pop'" (Dubya, April 2, 2002) | 97 |
| "Winnie ___ Pu" (Latin version of Milne's classic that became a bestseller in 1960) | 97 |
| "That's my cue!" (fun fact: I inadvertently stole this clue from my own NYT puzzle) | 97 |
| Female lab assistant who went for a "roll in the hay" in "Young Frankenstein" | 97 |
| TV neighbor who said "I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm loving every minute of it!" | 97 |
| "Compromise is the best and cheapest ___" (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson) | 97 |
| Comic who occasionally contributes to the "Motormouth" column ofThe London Sunday Times | 97 |
| It was 2nd (behind New York City) on Travel and Leisure's list of America's Rudest Cities | 97 |
| The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 97 |
| "Captain! The engines canna take ___ more!" (line from Scotty on "Star Trek") | 97 |
| Org. with a flag of five alternating green and white stripes and a blue union with 24 white stars | 97 |
| O. Henry Award winner for "In the Region of Ice" (1967) and "The Dead" (1973) | 97 |
| Turow memoir subtitled "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" | 97 |
| "And Morning ___ with haste her lids" (line from Emerson's "The Problem") | 97 |
| Revolutionary James ___, famous for saying "Taxation without representation is tyranny" | 97 |
| "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I say, why take the chance?" speaker | 97 |
| Loaf reliably available at cousin Lotte's house when we used to go up to Cleveland for brunch | 97 |
| She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” | 97 |
| 1995 platinum rap hit that starts "To all the ladies in the place with style and grace" | 97 |
| Sci-fi stealth shields (that these two scientists at Harvard actually did figure out how to make) | 97 |
| Home of Canada's largest mall, named "Eighth Wonder of the World" by travel writers | 97 |
| "Please" and "thank you" are "bonvolu" and "dankon" in it | 97 |
| One set of gifts in "The 12 Days of Christmas" ... as suggested by the circled squares? | 97 |
| Non-fiction bestseller that was fact-checked by Associated Press five days before it was released | 97 |
| 1959 novella that begins "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses" | 97 |
| Eugenia Washington (co-founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution), to George Washington | 97 |
| Go to this Vermont area to hike the Long Trail that was the inspiration for the Appalachian Trail | 97 |
| NBA strategy that involves deliberately fouling the opponent with the worst free throw percentage | 97 |
| 1995 film with the line "Alan, please, last time I played this game, it ruined my life" | 97 |
| Shortstop nicknamed "Slats" and "The Octopus" who won the 1944 N.L. MVP award | 97 |
| "... Love at first sight? No, she just didn't want to ___ any more! Then I woke up" | 97 |