| TV theme composer Hagen (he's also the one whistling at the start of "The Andy Griffith Show") | 108 |
| "I like to play chess with old men in the park. The tough part: finding 32 of them." comic Philips | 108 |
| "___ is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it." (Robin Williams) | 108 |
| "25. I'm supposed to come up with 25 random things?Sorry, I think that's all I've ___" | 108 |
| Only song on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list that is not sung in English | 108 |
| Song that starts "What'll you do when you get lonely / And nobody's waiting by your side?" | 108 |
| What "can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," per Mark Twain | 108 |
| Newsstand buy, for short—one begins each of the four longest puzzle answers (and also ends the last one) | 108 |
| When doubled, "Guys and Dolls" guy who sings "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" | 108 |
| "Looney Tunes" character seen in "Odor of the Day" and "Two Scent's Worth" | 108 |
| Noted Seuss protagonist with an upcoming birthday, and a hint to a two-part puzzle that begins this week (1) | 108 |
| "High School Musical 2" song with the lyric "Am I the type of guy who means what I say?" | 108 |
| 1983 hit with the lines "Dreams stay with you / Like a lover's oink / Fires the mountainside"? | 108 |
| Acme product that coyotes shouldn't be seen using (so to speak), from "War & Pieces," 1964 | 108 |
| Acme product for unsuspecting rabbits to swallow (comes with magnet), from "Compressed Hare," 1961 | 108 |
| Song from "The Music Man" with the lyric "What words could be saner or truer or plainer" | 108 |
| "The Travels of ___ McPheeters" (1960s TV western with Charles Bronson and a teenage Kurt Russell) | 108 |
| "Pee-wee's Playhouse" genie who starts spells with "Mekka lekka hi, mekka hiney ho!" | 108 |
| Cartoon character who said "What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man?" | 108 |
| A. "Les Troyens" B. "Pelléas et Melisande" C. "La Mer" D. "Faust" | 108 |
| Director who had to have "Life of Pi" explained to him over and over before he agreed to adapt it? | 108 |
| Indicted musician who said: "Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through" | 108 |
| "See how they smile, like pigs in a sty, see how they ___" (line from "I Am the Walrus") | 108 |
| "Coffee, ___ Me?" (book subtitled "The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses") | 108 |
| Make of six models that are subject to recall ... and being sent back inside this puzzle's theme entries | 108 |
| '70s TV character name whose original Broadway spelling had an "a" instead of an "e" | 108 |
| First name invented by Jonathan Swift for his paramour, immortalized in his poem "Cadenus and ___" | 108 |
| Sci-fi acceleration technology (that I think I actually figured out how to make if I just had this one part) | 108 |
| "'___?' The light was ebbing, and Eddie Willers could not distinguish the bum's face." | 108 |
| "Even though we've never met, I'm sure your last name is Campbell. That's because ..." | 108 |
| Interjection that's the last entry in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (it requires both blanks) | 108 |
| Emmy nominee for 11 straight years in the 1970s and '80s for lead actor in a comedy series (he won twice) | 109 |
| 2006 movie subtitled "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" | 109 |
| Kagan who saved crossword constructors from having to reference a very old actress or a Russian tennis player | 109 |
| "A lot has been said about politicians; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate" comedian | 109 |
| "The football fan is fingering the buttons on the remote ... he pushes the ___ and the game is on!" | 109 |
| It's "more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much," according to Buddy Hackett | 109 |
| Whom Hamlet calls "A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards / Hast ta'en with equal thanks" | 109 |
| 1983 song with the lyrics: "Roll down the window, put down the top / Crank up the Beach Boys, baby" | 109 |
| Campaign about which Rumsfeld said in 2003 "it could last six days, six weeks - I doubt six months" | 109 |
| "___ and tigers and bears!" "Oh, my!" (memorable lines from "The Wizard of Oz") | 109 |
| Movie character with more than 400 siblings, all of whom are killed within the first five minutes of the film | 109 |
| Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech | 109 |
| 1987 market crash, and this puzzle's title, whose first word can precede each word in the starred answers | 109 |
| "The greatest threat to the internal security of the country," according to J. Edgar Hoover in 1969 | 109 |
| Don't throw away those PAPER PRODUCTS; recycle them into a ___, handy for carefully dressing french fries | 109 |
| Rumored reason for the stock market plunge of 5/6/10, whose effect is seen in this puzzle's theme answers | 109 |
| His "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" was on Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2007 list | 109 |
| Football coach who said, "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" | 109 |
| "La Bamba" band covering "More Than a Feeling" with "Funky Cold Medina" rapper? | 109 |
| “Iggy, this picture you doctored to make us look like a prom couple is of no use to our study on ...” | 109 |
| Initials found inside Slytherin's locket at the end of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" | 109 |
| The Library's Periodicals Room was the source of most of the excerpted material in the first issue of ___ | 109 |
| Band that sang the "Friends" theme song "I'll Be There for You," with "the" | 109 |
| Word that could mean “sparsely filled with settlers” or “added a certain punctuation mark to” | 109 |
| Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" | 109 |
| “Should that say ‘English,’ or will we really be reading nothing but roofing manuals in ___?” | 109 |
| Laurel and Hardy film with the line "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" | 109 |
| Type of waveform that gets its name from its resemblance to the serrations on a woodworker's cutting tool | 109 |
| Answer to "Charlie Sheen, do you remember the name of your 'Bad Day on the Block' co-star?" | 109 |
| TV character who says "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows" | 110 |
| It's zero in free-fall—and, put another way, a hint to how the four longest puzzle answers were formed | 110 |
| 1980 comedy that "makes 'Meatballs' seem like 'Hamlet,'" according to Leonard Maltin | 110 |
| "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver" comic | 110 |
| There is an important one spelled out by the last characters of this puzzle's clues, starting from the top | 110 |
| Book whose last chapter of Part I is titled "Jermin Serves Us a Good Turn--Friendships in Polynesia" | 110 |
| According to Oscar Levant, it's "the lowest form of humor--when you don't think of it first" | 110 |
| "9. I wrote a paper in college on Poe's 'The ___' exclusively using just the footnotes!" | 110 |
| He wrote "Three Pear-Shaped Pieces" to answer criticism that his music lacked form [SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 110 |
| Former U.S. Representative Bella who once ran under the slogan "A Woman's Place is in the House" | 110 |
| Star of "Golden Receiver," "World Pup," and "Seventh Inning Fetch," among others | 110 |
| Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture | 110 |
| Instrument heard prominently midway through the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'" | 110 |
| "The Crossword Obsession: The History and Lore of the World's Most Popular Pastime" author Coral | 110 |
| ___ compounds are synthesized to mimic the effects of a) adrenaline; b) testosterone; c) serotonin; d) insulin | 110 |
| Quality something has if you can put your arms around it (and a group hug involving tributes #4, #10, and #12) | 110 |
| A's hurler (1989 champs) / Eurythmics musician on "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (#1 in 1983) | 110 |
| "We're on to you!" (and a hint to how this puzzle's other four longest answers were created) | 110 |
| You started out going "50 ___" in a "40-Year-Old Virgin" zone, past the old video store... | 110 |
| Copies of "Our Man in Havana," "The Quiet American" and "The End of the Affair"? | 110 |
| He was on deck when Mookie hit the ball through Bill Buckner's legs to win Game 6 of the 1986 World Series | 110 |
| 1985 Smiths single with the line "I am human and I need to be loved / Just like everybody else does" | 110 |
| Tycoon who said "A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure" | 110 |
| Classic Doors song in which Jim Morrison refers to himself anagrammatically as "Mr. Mojo Risin'" | 110 |
| Eccentric billionaire entrepreneur who holds the Guinness record for the largest single e-commerce transaction | 110 |
| "Don't get me wrong — con¬struct¬ing crosswords is fun. What takes forever is the ___" | 110 |
| Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares | 110 |
| Maintain equilibrium while pushing on a rotating peripheral attachment, alternating with the lower extremities | 110 |
| "I wanted a MISSILE TANK, but instead I'm suffering from ___! (And I never even left the lodge)" | 110 |
| Reviewer on "The French Lieutenant's Woman": "It gets bogged down in excessive detail" | 110 |
| Theme answer count, amount of letters in each, word hidden in each, and, when repeated twice, today's date | 110 |
| Show since 12/17/1989 whose five main family members are hidden in this puzzle's other long across answers | 110 |
| (((One Week Later))) LIEUT: "What happened? I thought we had him!" INSP: "He gave us ___." | 110 |
| "The buck stops here" and "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," e.g.? | 110 |
| Question asked by a customs officer or a kid on Christmas ... with a hint to this puzzle's circled squares | 110 |
| Ptolemaic constellation that is now divided into Carina (the keel), Puppis (the poop deck) and Vela (the sails) | 111 |
| "___ Iver" (2011 Record of the Year nominee whose name roughly translates to "good winter") | 111 |
| Grp. with three anthems: "The Bonnie Blue Flag," "God Save the South" and "Dixie" | 111 |
| "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps" comedian Philips | 111 |
| Sci-fi character who said "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever" | 111 |