| Random, casino-based way of deciding whether to admit a pledge? | 63 |
| Friend of Antonio in ''The Merchant of Venice'' | 63 |
| Fictional chocolate-lover Veruca married to a sergeant of song? | 63 |
| Fox with the 1988 hit "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" | 63 |
| Politician who said "Only dead fish go with the flow" | 63 |
| Michael Chiklis's role on "The Commish," Tony ___ | 63 |
| "Teach not thy lip such ___": "Richard III" | 63 |
| "Under the ___" ("The Little Mermaid" song) | 63 |
| Word with ''level'' or ''lion'' | 63 |
| "Under the ___" ("The Little Mermaid" tune) | 63 |
| ___ breeze (vodka cocktail with cranberry and grapefruit juice) | 63 |
| "I ___ You" ("Avatar" theme by Leona Lewis) | 63 |
| ''No man hath ___ God at any time'' (John 1:18) | 63 |
| Begin a game of "She loves me, she loves me not ..."? | 63 |
| Heroine of Wagner's ''The Flying Dutchman'' | 63 |
| Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle | 63 |
| Words with "bad example" or "high standard" | 63 |
| Acronym of a scientific project seeking contact with alien life | 63 |
| ___ Institute, org. that makes use of the Allen Telescope Array | 63 |
| Offensive to half of mankind...er, make that "people" | 63 |
| Its collection includes Rivera's "Flower Carrier" | 63 |
| Kimberly Munley's rank (she took down the Fort Hood gunman) | 63 |
| The cat who won't cop out when there's danger all about | 63 |
| BET Hip Hop Awards "Rookie of the Year" winner ___ Lo | 63 |
| 1935 movie starring Helen Gahagan as Queen Hash-a-Mo-Tep of Kor | 63 |
| Wooley with the 1958 #1 hit "The Purple People Eater" | 63 |
| ''Tool'' or ''wood'' attachment | 63 |
| 1962 #1 hit with the lyric "True love will never die" | 63 |
| "I Got Stoned and I Missed It" songwriter Silverstein | 63 |
| 1970 Grammy winner for writing "A Boy Named Sue" (25) | 63 |
| Make an abrupt change ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 63 |
| It lost out to "The English Patient" for Best Picture | 63 |
| Word in a song title subtitled "It's In His Kiss" | 63 |
| Observe Black Friday (and a chunk of the eight longest answers) | 63 |
| Hits the "Add to Cart" button and then continues, say | 63 |
| Demonstratin' how to shoot an apple off someone's head? | 63 |
| Tony's consigliere, familiarly, on "The Sopranos" | 63 |
| 1976 comedy film, and a description of this puzzle's center | 63 |
| Actor who played Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," 1951 | 63 |
| An elderly woman was having dinner with her husband and was ... | 63 |
| "Revenge of the ___" ("Star Wars" subtitle) | 63 |
| Route on which to "get your kicks," in a pop standard | 63 |
| In-flight catalog with an "upside-down tomato garden" | 63 |
| Playwright Bernard who created "The Partridge Family" | 63 |
| "Pasted" or "wasted," for "drunk" | 63 |
| Feeling literal, the small-time con woman tattooed the word ___ | 63 |
| 1977 Paul Newman hockey movie that featured the Hanson Brothers | 63 |
| Makes messy, on "You Can't Do That on Television" | 63 |
| Like snakes, in many people's imaginations (but not really) | 63 |
| Ref's tool when reviewing a play that's been challenged | 63 |
| School cafeteria fare ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 63 |
| 2004 chart-topper by Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx | 63 |
| Drink humorously advertised as causing "brain freeze" | 63 |
| ''Arms'' or ''world'' qualifier | 63 |
| "It's a" and "after all" link in a song | 63 |
| School that received a death penalty from the NCAA in the 1980s | 63 |
| Fictional creature that "always looks grave at a pun" | 63 |
| How Robert Palmer will get "Sally Through the Alley"? | 63 |
| Someone whose taste is obviously so much better than yours, duh | 63 |
| Like the characters in Christie's "The Mousetrap" | 63 |
| Object seen just before and after Kane says "Rosebud" | 63 |
| "... ___ fool returneth to his folly": Proverbs 26:11 | 63 |
| ''___ priest, a minister and a rabbi walk ...'' | 63 |
| Bar found at the end of this puzzle's seven longest answers | 63 |
| Noted philosopher (the basis for three anagrams in this puzzle) | 63 |
| "Bring me ___ and the Wookiee!" (Jabba the Hutt line) | 63 |
| Word with ''what'' or ''where'' | 63 |
| "Dear __ of memory, great heir of fame . . .": Milton | 63 |
| ''Chicago'' or ''Philadelphia'' | 63 |
| W.C. Fields's role in "The Bank Dick," Egbert ___ | 63 |
| Cartoon show whose theme song is done by Les Claypool of Primus | 63 |
| James who who plays Robert California on "The Office" | 63 |
| Animal that has something in common with this week's puzzle | 63 |
| Catherine de' Medici is said to have eaten it at every meal | 63 |
| Season ticket holder for baseball, basketball and football, say | 63 |
| ___ Gyra (jazz-pop band with the hit "Morning Dance") | 63 |
| Like many a crossword clue for the word OREO, or like old Oreos | 63 |
| She plays Detective Kate Beckett on TV's "Castle" | 63 |
| Sea World creature who seems to be really fixated on something? | 63 |
| "Just call me ___" said Eartha, the Indy 500 official | 63 |
| His #10 was the first number ever retired by the Montreal Expos | 63 |
| "Mean Joe" Greene, for his entire professional career | 63 |
| Word with ''forward'' or ''up'' | 63 |
| "I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries" | 63 |
| Suffix with ''old'' or ''spin'' | 63 |
| ''Gang'' or ''mob'' attachments | 63 |
| [The copy-editor doesn't know what she's talking about] | 63 |
| "Jackass" member who got a tattoo in a moving vehicle | 63 |
| Snow White portrayer in "Snow White and the Huntsman" | 63 |
| Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons" | 63 |
| "Dateline NBC" coanchor with innate speaking ability? | 63 |
| Racetrack habitué who searches for discarded winning tickets | 63 |
| What The Supremes told us to do "in the Name of Love" | 63 |
| Actress known for her ability to master a wide range of accents | 63 |
| INSP: "Don't worry. You'll look good in ___." | 63 |
| Unlikely choice for a boy's name if your last name is Potts | 63 |
| General who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern | 63 |
| Word that is both a synonym and an antonym for "blow" | 63 |
| Gift from a clueless co-worker (really, you shouldn't have) | 63 |
| It's "a mass of incandescent gas," in a TMBG song | 63 |