| West with the autobiography "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It" | 74 |
| Bill who said, "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 74 |
| Black Friday destination found in nine of this puzzle's Across answers | 74 |
| Children's book author Brown who created the "Arthur" series | 74 |
| "Who Needs the Kwik-E-___?" (song from "The Simpsons") | 74 |
| Richard Hooker book subtitled "A Novel About Three Army Doctors" | 74 |
| Pulitzer-winning graphic novel subtitled "A Survivor's Tale" | 74 |
| Team that finished last out of ten teams in each of its first four seasons | 74 |
| Like the upcoming elections, and a hint to the four longest Across answers | 74 |
| “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for ___”: Samuel Johnson | 74 |
| North Africans disputed in a "Seinfeld" Trivial Pursuit question | 74 |
| Production co. responsible for "Lou Grant" and "Rhoda" | 74 |
| Its second-ever video was for Pat Benatar's "You Better Run" | 74 |
| Chuck Berry title girl who's repeatedly asked "Is that you?" | 74 |
| Brand once advertised with the jingle "We wear short shorts ..." | 74 |
| "___, brutish, and short" (how Hobbes described the life of man) | 74 |
| Eight of the world's 10 highest mountains are entirely or partly in it | 74 |
| His dying words were "What an artist the world is losing in me!" | 74 |
| The "She" in Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It" | 74 |
| Symbol on the film poster for Eastwood's "Hang 'Em High" | 74 |
| Without any chance at all (and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme) | 74 |
| Month that "Peanuts" and the Model T debuted (not the same year) | 74 |
| Atmosphere lyric "___ enough, I'm happy I ain't famous." | 74 |
| When repeated, one of Piers Anthony's "Xanth" fantasy novels | 74 |
| ABUNDANT RUSSIAN RESOURCE THAT ONLY NICE, NON-SANCTIONING NATIONS CAN HAVE | 74 |
| 1970s R&B trio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "the" | 74 |
| Nickname of the university that was the site of a 1962 desegregation drama | 74 |
| "___ the other reindeer" (common mishearing of a Yuletide lyric) | 74 |
| Baseballer Vizquel who holds the record for most games played at shortstop | 74 |
| She allowed "Across the Universe" to be performed at the Grammys | 74 |
| Author of the surreal Zen-like book of instructions "Grapefruit" | 74 |
| Start of many songs in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 74 |
| Name on "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Andy Griffith Show" | 74 |
| She produced a musical version of "The Color Purple" on Broadway | 74 |
| Second-greatest player of all time, in a 1997 "Hockey News" vote | 74 |
| Milo who played a Supreme Court Chief Justice on "The West Wing" | 74 |
| Cheri who portrayed a "Morning Latte" co-host on "SNL" | 74 |
| "__ American Cousin," play Lincoln was viewing when assassinated | 74 |
| Words that can precede both parts of this puzzle's six longest answers | 74 |
| “I ___ my soul to the company store” (“Sixteen Tons” line) | 74 |
| Space between Jail and Electric Company in the British version of Monopoly | 74 |
| Todd who wrote the children's bestseller "The Thankful Book" | 74 |
| Repeated by rote ... or a word that's mixed up in three themed answers | 74 |
| Word with ''retirement'' or ''graduation'' | 74 |
| What "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" has a lot of | 74 |
| "Lethal Weapon 2," "... 3" and "... 4" actor | 74 |
| Org. that issued a statement on Michael Vick's signing with the Eagles | 74 |
| ...while actor Bill Nighy costarred with many ___ in a 2000s movie trilogy | 74 |
| "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" writer | 74 |
| What "Saturday Night Live" players are not ready for, supposedly | 74 |
| Biblical book whence the line "The meek shall inherit the earth" | 74 |
| Name of Michael's penis in the Judy Blume book "Forever ..." | 74 |
| It's easy to do if you've got a book, hard if kids are bugging you | 74 |
| "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also ___": Galatians | 74 |
| "Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store" Phish song | 74 |
| "They tried to make me go to ___, I said, 'No, no, no.'" | 74 |
| Band who settled on their name by flipping randomly through the dictionary | 74 |
| 1953's "The Jazz Singer" or 1976's "King Kong" | 74 |
| Tony-winning playwright for "Art" and "God of Carnage" | 74 |
| Country singer with the 1997 triple platinum hit "How Do I Live" | 74 |
| The second blank in the seafood restaurant sign "___ ___ season" | 74 |
| What Soul Asylum's phone won't do in "Somebody to Shove" | 74 |
| Response to the debut of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," e.g. | 74 |
| "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" author's initials | 74 |
| Letters with ''messenger'' or ''transfer'' | 74 |
| His "Crouching Woman" is in the Hirshhorn's sculpture garden | 74 |
| O'Donnell who hosted a widely panned 2008 Thanksgiving variety special | 74 |
| "House in the __ Plumet" (book of "Les Misérables") | 74 |
| 1961 #1 hit for Dion, and a literal hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 74 |
| 1998 movie with the quote "I saved Latin. What did you ever do?" | 74 |
| Wit who recorded the classic 1960 comedy album "At the Hungry I" | 74 |
| Teammate of Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Vida on the 1970s Oakland A's | 74 |
| California's ___ Valley, known as "America's salad bowl" | 74 |
| Literary character who asks "Would you, could you, in the dark?" | 74 |
| Political leader who patented a system to alter the buoyancy of steamboats | 74 |
| "It's only ___!" ("Winning isn't everything!") | 74 |
| "It's just ___!" ("Winning isn't everything!") | 74 |
| "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" author Sherman | 74 |
| Varnish component that gets its name from the Latin for "garlic" | 74 |
| Like a "Better active today than radioactive tomorrow" sentiment | 74 |
| Richard D. James covering "Seventeen" with Pat Smear's band? | 74 |
| Attempts to get a higher court to overturn one's espionage conviction? | 74 |
| First and only fictional group to have a #1 hit song, with "The" | 74 |
| Scholars believe that "A Musical Joke" by Mystery Person was ... | 74 |
| Where a dog-walker might go (and where a message is hidden in this puzzle) | 74 |
| Brit's ending to the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | 74 |
| Do a quick Erev Yom Kippur, show your face for Kol Nidre, no muss no fuss? | 74 |
| "___ Technology" (2007 #5 hit for 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake) | 74 |
| Animal taking a walk in Henry Mancini's jazzy "Hatari!" tune | 74 |
| Poor crossword construction technique that requires too much of the solver | 74 |
| ..."I Just Can't Help Believing She Blinded Me With Science" | 74 |
| Democratic territory / Cardinal, e.g. / "Over the Rainbow" flier | 74 |
| VH1 show on the New York Daily News's "Top 10 Worst of 2005" | 74 |
| Spiky device thrown in the road to puncture a speeding suspect's tires | 74 |
| Number five on askmen.com's "Top 10 Models of All Time" poll | 74 |
| Bygone NYC club whose name was an acronym for the music genres it featured | 74 |
| Ingredient served with fries and brown gravy in the Canadian dish poutine | 74 |
| Piano pieces nicknamed 'Winter Wind' and 'Butterfly,' e.g. | 74 |
| Blue-tongued dog in the canine version of the "Twilight" series? | 74 |
| Mystery author whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages | 74 |