| Nightly battle between a spouse who wants to read and one who doesn't? | 74 |
| "The black," in Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" | 74 |
| Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) | 74 |
| The "Her" of "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low" | 74 |
| Gold digger seduces a different kind of gold digger, gets charged with ... | 74 |
| Program about a sarcastic naval officer who offers sound financial advice? | 74 |
| Critic's complaint about the new restaurant "Charley Horse"? | 74 |
| Hyphenated New York City suburb that's the site of Van Cortlandt Manor | 74 |
| "It's against my programming to impersonate a deity" speaker | 74 |
| Bandleader Xavier who led the Waldorf-Astoria's orchestra for 16 years | 74 |
| Song that was bumped from the #1 spot by "Looks Like We Made It" | 74 |
| Dan ___, 1948 Best Actor nominee for "When My Baby Smiles at Me" | 74 |
| Satirical program originally hosted by Craig Kilborn, with "The" | 74 |
| Actor who presented at the 1973 Oscars while a streaker ran past on camera | 74 |
| Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 74 |
| If one were to ___, one would get articles about crazy online personal ads | 74 |
| __ Schayes, who held the NBA career scoring record when he retired in 1964 | 74 |
| "Blueberry Hill" singer is the only portly person in the family? | 74 |
| Speaker of the line "Listen to them - the children of the night" | 74 |
| Khal ___ (Dothraki chief who wed Daenerys, on "Game of Thrones") | 74 |
| Answer to the riddle, "What's brown and sounds like a bell?" | 74 |
| Blueprint spec ... or an MGM heartthrob's cousin from the Netherlands? | 74 |
| What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller | 74 |
| ___ & Ern (Kellogg's program where kids redeem coupons for prizes) | 74 |
| "Variety" headline about actress Rossum's hit Broadway role? | 74 |
| "___ petit placidam sub libertate quietem" (Massachusetts motto) | 74 |
| Who wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" | 74 |
| "___ Greatest Athlete of the Century" (honor for Michael Jordan) | 74 |
| What "you always pass ... on your way to success": Mickey Rooney | 74 |
| Fallacy that offers only two choices, when in fact many more are available | 74 |
| Good time of the week to solicit support from a rich campaign contributor? | 74 |
| Michael C. ___ (flatware company that provides prizes for many game shows) | 74 |
| "Don't I look fetching in this dress from Warsaw? Huh, huh?" | 74 |
| They included Chopin's "Prelude in E Minor," in a film title | 74 |
| Manson follower and would-be Ford assassin Lynette "Squeaky" ___ | 74 |
| Hoe or rake (like one might use to tend plants after losing one's job) | 74 |
| Writer who Ali G. mistook for Clinton's vice president in an interview | 74 |
| "Or that the Everlasting ___ fix'd/His canon . . . ": Hamlet | 74 |
| John Travolta will play Edna Turnblad in the movie version of this musical | 74 |
| Whiplash protection on the back of a toilet for '80s TV character Max? | 74 |
| School whose motto is Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" | 74 |
| “The research study on fevers needs lots of funding,” Tom said ___ | 74 |
| "___ could get her to sleep with me" (boast before striking out) | 74 |
| "No nation is permitted to live in ___ with impunity": Jefferson | 74 |
| What a two-letter Romance-language translation of "the" might be | 74 |
| "When ___, you're a clown" (from "I Got You Babe") | 74 |
| Acme product that simplifies dating, from "Boston Quackie," 1957 | 74 |
| "Wordplay" director Patrick Creadon's documentary about debt | 74 |
| "While there ___" (words from General William Booth's creed) | 74 |
| "___ little silhouetto..." ("Bohemian Rhapsody" lyric) | 74 |
| TV star who directed the 1999 documentary "Barenaked in America" | 74 |
| Presidential also-ran who last logged in to his MySpace on January 4, 2008 | 74 |
| Answer to "Which of the Justices started eating this sandwich?"? | 74 |
| Parsons who played Hilary Banks on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" | 74 |
| Director and star of the first unabridged film version of “Hamlet” | 74 |
| The "only g-g-g-girl that I adore," according to a WWI-era song | 74 |
| ___ Commission (corruption investigation at which Frank Serpico testified) | 74 |
| "My gold dress isn't back from the cleaners yet" and others? | 74 |
| 1965 Godard film, "Pierrot ___" (meaning "the madman") | 74 |
| 1962 hit with the lyrics "the truth could mean I'd lose you" | 74 |
| Rapper who dropped part of his name after 2001's "Doggy Bag" | 74 |
| Cry in Metropolis while pointing ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 74 |
| California-based semiconductor company founded in 1981 (hidden in FALSIFY) | 74 |
| He played opposite Jones in "Carousel" and "Oklahoma!" | 74 |
| Fictional character who says "I wear the chain I forged in life" | 74 |
| ___ Line (informal baseball term for the threshold of incompetent hitting) | 74 |
| Soccer star Lionel who won the Ballon d'Or each of the last four years | 74 |
| 1965 song with the lyric "These are words that go together well" | 74 |
| Crime novelist Walters who won a 1994 Edgar for "The Sculptress" | 74 |
| Farrah Fawcett played her in "The Great American Beauty Contest" | 74 |
| Playwright whose "Liliom" was the basis for "Carousel" | 74 |
| Group that starred in the 1968 film "Head," with "the" | 74 |
| "You Are ___," tune from "The Broadway Melody of 1936" | 74 |
| Statistician who on Election Day 2012 gave Obama a 91.6% chance of victory | 74 |
| Who said "I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth" | 74 |
| Busker's take-home after paying for a street performance license, say? | 74 |
| Critically acclaimed Scottish actor Williamson who died in the Netherlands | 74 |
| "I'm returning these toy fighters-they're really lousy!" | 74 |
| "Mr. Webster isn't home, he's compiling his dictionary"? | 74 |
| Familiar five-word phrase that means "Excuses are unacceptable!" | 74 |
| Beatles: "Two ___ sending postcards, writing letters on my wall" | 74 |
| Cheers bartender Woody's slimy menu addition, in his new Brooklyn bar? | 74 |
| Word appearing twice after "Boogie" in a 1978 #1 hit's title | 74 |
| Product formerly with the "fabulous" spokesperson Vanessa Branch | 74 |
| " . . . if I should sleep ___/'Twere deadly sickness": Shak. | 74 |
| Actor in both "Shane," 1953, and "City Slickers," 1991 | 74 |
| Star of the Oscar-winning short film "For Scent-imental Reasons" | 74 |
| Supporter of class struggle who also happens to run a Fortune 500 company? | 74 |
| Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Katy Perry's "Roar" | 74 |
| Description of Molly Ringwald's character at the prom, in a 1986 movie | 74 |
| 1969 hit with the repeated lyric "Big wheel keep on turnin'" | 74 |
| Male protagonist in William Inge's "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" | 74 |
| Facial gesture used to show affection (and sometimes creepy condescension) | 74 |
| "Finally, we won! But we left behind some gold and had to go..." | 74 |
| London-based dubstep artist whose name is pronounced like a math operation | 74 |
| 1983 film with the classic line "Say hello to my little friend!" | 74 |
| "Teach not thy lip such ___, for it was made for kissing": Shak. | 74 |
| Skating legend who cameoed as a commentator in "Blades of Glory" | 74 |
| "From ___ shining ..." ("America the Beautiful" lyric) | 74 |
| Rock-album cover on which this puzzle's celebrities appear, familiarly | 74 |