| "___ is an issue of mind over matter.If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." (Mark Twain) | 106 |
| Word that homophonically forms a familiar word when attached to the end of the answer to each starred clue | 106 |
| Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" | 106 |
| With "The," hit song that begins "I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told" | 106 |
| TV show with episodes titled "Viva Las Vegas" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?" | 106 |
| Spy movie villain who says "East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other" | 106 |
| Insignificant guy (and #7 on the "Top Ten Words That Sound Romantic When Spoken By Barry White") | 106 |
| "But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life / Somethin' ain't right ..." singer | 106 |
| "___ Final Broadcast" (Broadway song with the lyric "Don't cry for me, Argentina") | 106 |
| "11. Every year for Halloween I go as ___ (except for the one year I went as Senator Lieberman)" | 106 |
| "I Was ___" (Alanis Morissette song on the album "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie") | 106 |
| Van Gogh painting that in 1987 set a then-record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction | 106 |
| His film debut was as a subway thief in "Heartburn" (1986), with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson | 106 |
| Queen whose name contains three apt words in a row, as does each of this puzzle's four longest answers | 106 |
| "Livin' La Vida ___" (Ricky Martin song in which he really sells his passion for the ladies) | 106 |
| Workweek start, or an apt title for this puzzle based on an abbreviation found in its five longest answers | 106 |
| Word before "happiness," "majesty" and "fame" at the start of a Shelley poem | 106 |
| "The Odious ___" (children's book written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer) | 106 |
| The artist ___ wrote a four-book treatise on a) human proportions; b) botany; c) choral music; d) theology | 106 |
| Somewhat suspect (and a hint to what can be found by connecting the circled letters in alphabetical order) | 106 |
| Start of Ambrose Bierce's definition of 'Acquaintance' in 'The Devil's Dictionary' | 106 |
| Sci-fi translation device (that my uncle actually caught one of in his pond and one time he let me use it) | 106 |
| "Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman" speaker | 106 |
| “Should that say ‘Forensic,’ or will we really be practicing criminology on trees in ___?” | 106 |
| New Hampshire home to midnight voting that traditionally gives the first results in presidential elections | 106 |
| She replied to Noël Coward's "You look almost like a man!" with "And so do you" | 106 |
| Female character who sings "Typically English" in "Stop the World - I Want To Get Off" | 106 |
| ... "Do household chores seem like a ___ to keep you home? Again, Unlimited Limo to the rescue!" | 106 |
| It uses only the 12 letters A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U and W (like eight long answers in this puzzle) | 106 |
| TV character who says "It's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids" | 106 |
| Q: "So, what do you think of words like 'peachy' and 'swell'?"A. "___" | 106 |
| Poem featuring the line “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all” | 106 |
| Hit song of 1973 and 1996 with the lyrics "I heard he sang a good song / I heard he had a style" | 106 |
| "My boy was just ___" (telling line from Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle") | 106 |
| '70s skin mag's chit to pay a reader for submitting the story "Al lets Burt rub Stella"? | 106 |
| His version of "Othello" holds the record for longest-running Shakespeare production on Broadway | 106 |
| "Now it's like 'Murder, ___ Wrote' once I get you out them clothes" (R. Kelly lyric) | 106 |
| DESIGNER: "What'd I do, officers?" LIEUT: "You ___ at a competitor's designs." | 106 |
| "The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" (supposed words from Lincoln) | 106 |
| Nearing the TV station billboard, you did "77 ___" where the sign said "60 Minutes"... | 106 |
| Rectangular array that's identical when its rows and columns are transposed, as this puzzle's grid | 106 |
| When Kathie Lee and Hoda show up to destroy what's left of the "Today" show's reputation | 106 |
| 1970 hit song with the lyric "You know you done me wrong, baby, and you'll be sorry someday" | 106 |
| "Be careful what you say," and a hint to a feature shared by this puzzle's perimeter answers | 106 |
| "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it ___": Woody Allen | 106 |
| One of Joe Theismann's bones infamously broken by Lawrence Taylor on "Monday Night Football" | 106 |
| Vacation lodging purchase ... or an arrangement between the two halves of the answer to each starred clue? | 106 |
| "I like to crack jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math" comedienne | 106 |
| Movie with the tagline "A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now." | 106 |
| "... and it comes out here" (this last instrument, by the way, is often the subject of the song) | 106 |
| 'lympic competittitors who just wanna see what th'judges react if they do a cannball ri' here? | 106 |
| Scott of "Parks and Recreation" [The AV Club goes subscription only soon! Sign up at avxword.com] | 107 |
| "___-peanut-butter-sandwiches!" (magic words of the Amazing Mumford on "Sesame Street") | 107 |
| "___ peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!" (The Amazing Mumford line on "Sesame Street") | 107 |
| Brief comment written by a teacher perhaps when grading an essay because they read a sentence like this one | 107 |
| Flagmaker Ross (and, starting on the T, an 11-word quote that "runs" diagonally through the grid) | 107 |
| Writer of "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another" | 107 |
| "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening" and others | 107 |
| "All for the glorification of your massive ___!" (George to Steinbrenner in "Seinfeld") | 107 |
| Landmark inaugurated 3/31/1889 whose shape is suggested by nine squares in this puzzle's completed grid | 107 |
| Bert and __ ("Sesame Street" regulars or two characters in "It's a Wonderful Life") | 107 |
| Guess about an Airbus: Abbr. [thanks for solving Ink Well! Goodbye! Solve my puzzles hence at avxwords.com] | 107 |
| "Arrested Development" brother [enjoy funny, edgy xwords? Sign up for them weekly @ avxwords.com] | 107 |
| Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" | 107 |
| "8. When I was in the Campaign for Real-Time, I went by All-World ___ 'Big Game' Bronson" | 107 |
| "Smokey, this is not ___. This is bowling. There are rules." ("The Big Lebowski" quote) | 107 |
| "tops pinwheels / to run in the wind with / ___ toy in 3 tiers to spin" (William Carlos Williams) | 107 |
| Racer Protasiewicz or ex-prime minister Jaroszewicz (or a variant spelling of Tchaikovsky's first name) | 107 |
| His mystery admirer didn't appear graveside to toast his birthday in 2010 for the first time since 1949 | 107 |
| "Big ___" (1995 single dedicated "to all the ladies in the place with style and grace") | 107 |
| Author who famously ended a short story with the line "Romance at short notice was her specialty" | 107 |
| "I Got ___" (silly children's song with the line "Why is everyone laughing at me?") | 107 |
| Name for a catastrophic (but fairly slow-moving and oh-so-sweet) 1919 flood in the capital of Massachusetts | 107 |
| "If my paper doesn't get published, I'll be ___," said the agriculture sciences professor | 107 |
| "Graffiti?" I asked. "No, just letters." "Ah," I said, "a ___" ... | 107 |
| "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" speaker | 107 |
| "Axel F" ringtone character on About.com's "Top 10 Most Annoying Pop Songs of 2005" | 107 |
| Simple, humorous drawing (invented in the 1950s by Roger Price) that invites the viewer to guess what it is | 107 |
| "When the stars make you drool just like pasta ___ ..." (lyric from "That's Amore") | 107 |
| It's the end of The World!...or at least it's seen in the bottom corner of the tarot card The World | 107 |
| Host: "Now Alton's on the ropes! Bobby's ___ out of him! (Or should I say, hash browns?)" | 107 |
| "This inflammatory joint disease I'm suffering from couldn't be more perfect, Mr. Mineo"? | 107 |
| The only "Celebrity Apprentice" participant to appear on a previous "Apprentice" season | 107 |
| Disgraced evangelical leader Haggard, to his flock who wasn't aware of the whole gay-sex-and-meth thing | 107 |
| Word that could mean “before Samuel Johnson’s 1755 book” or “related to fortunetelling” | 107 |
| Feather duster's gay best friend in "Beauty and the Beast," as portrayed by Harvey Fierstein? | 107 |
| Office building problem that's a hint to this puzzle's theme entries (see their last three letters) | 107 |
| Duet from "Gigi" about a vivid recollection (I'm guessing here, I haven't listened to it) | 107 |
| Timepiece that's bound to last forever (and it might as well be free with the deal you're getting!) | 107 |
| Actress Wright of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" and Coppola's "The Rainmaker" | 107 |
| "T-ball is just like baseball, except there's no pitching -- just like ___" (David Letterman) | 107 |
| Acquisition of "substantially identical" stocks or securities within 30 days of trading at a loss | 107 |
| Tools for ESP researchers (whose symbols are found at the ends of the answers to the five asterisked clues) | 107 |
| "Dog the Bounty Hunter" network, and a hint to the theme in this puzzle's four longest answers | 108 |
| "It's not ___ truck. It's a series of tubes" (Senator Ted Stevens describing the internet) | 108 |
| "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do" quipster | 108 |
| TV show that gave us the classic line "I love it when a plan comes together," with "The" | 108 |
| ___ fish (creatures that can translate any language in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy") | 108 |
| Michael who is one of two actors who has been nominated for an Academy Award every decade since the '60s | 108 |
| New Jersey area code, in ancient Rome (oh, did you want to do Roman numeral math? That's what I thought) | 108 |