Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
It's put in front of a window to fool people into thinking someone is standing there (as in "Home Alone") | 119 |
Food that "did fall on the Israelites most gently, vexing those burdened with meathead pride" (Exodus 17:17)? | 119 |
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born ...” | 119 |
Today, to Caesar—and a hint to the hidden word appearing in this puzzle 15 times (including the one in this answer) | 119 |
International standardized measurement promotion that may get more attention next year, since it's held on 10/10/10 | 119 |
Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!] | 119 |
Guitarist's cheat sheet (Abbr.) © 2010 Todd Santos Written By: Todd Santos | 119 |
French Stewart's response to the category "Write a Number" in an SNL "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skit | 119 |
What the ten movie titles in this puzzle do at their intersections -- or a 2005 movie spelled out by those intersections | 120 |
"2. I've never been more drunk than the New Years Eve night 1999 when I polished off three bottles of ___" | 120 |
Book that begins "It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay." | 120 |
"So, if she weighs the same as ___, then she's made of wood" ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail") | 120 |
Deadly; understood; take a flat; show-off; drew a blank; New York nickname; pro; director Hartley; 2000 Ethan Hawke role | 120 |
Acme product intended for recreational use (not for dropping bombs on roadrunners), from "Zipping Along," 1953 | 120 |
Comedy writer Carol (whose new book, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying," inspired this puzzle) | 120 |
Most likely to go way too far, for example to get drunk and expose one's ass and then shake it in people's faces | 120 |
16 of these are hidden in the answer grid, each reading left, right, up, down or diagonally in an unbroken straight line | 120 |
Country that recently "built 500 objects contributable to raising the level of modernization," per its website | 120 |
Embarking on something exciting, and a hint regarding what this puzzle's starred answers' endings have in common | 120 |
Don't toss out that pile of OLD MAGAZINES; recycle them into a ___, perfect for keeping your beer clean at the beach | 120 |
Place that it wouldn't kill you to go one of these Fridays, or maybe you think you're too important for G-d now? | 120 |
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin | 120 |
Novel that begins "When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and an owner of property" | 120 |
Job for which the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner said Sarah Palin was picked for "reasons of image, not substance" | 120 |
Youtube clip of a chat with the author of "Myra Breckenridge"? (party-hopping à la Charles Barkley in 2006) | 120 |
Julian Assange's controversial website, and a hint to what's missing from this puzzle's four longest answers | 120 |
Flying by the bookstore, you were caught doing "One Hundred ___" in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" zone... | 120 |
With "The," band with a remastered box set of albums released 9/9/09 (the date referring to one of their songs) | 121 |
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou ___ every act of thy life as if it were the last" (Marcus Aurelius) | 121 |
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives" speaker | 121 |
Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally | 121 |
He told the Once-ler, "Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!" | 121 |
She played Olive Madison opposite Struthers's Florence Ungar in a 1985 Broadway version of "The Odd Couple" | 121 |
Theme #2 (Bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum snap snap, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum), with "the" | 121 |
Mark that appears four times in this puzzle (hint: the baseball player who's the answer to this puzzle uses one, too) | 121 |
Character who, in an 8/15/1939 Hollywood premiere, speaks the first words of this puzzle's five other longest answers | 121 |
Q: "So, Lone Ranger (whinny, neigh), what do you call these undies of yours (neigh, snort)?" A: "___" | 121 |
Author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players" | 121 |
It's played to fool people into thinking that someone's calling them (as in "Manhattan Murder Mystery") | 121 |
"Why leave a city that has six professional sports teams, and ___?" (Manhattan Mini Storage advertising slogan) | 121 |
Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
"Drink ___ Hearties Yo Ho" (song on the soundtrack to "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End") | 121 |
A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value" | 122 |
"I loaned a friend of mine $8,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like" comic Philips | 122 |
"But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight" (penultimate line of "A Visit From St. Nicholas") | 122 |
"If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public" speaker | 122 |
"O, swear not by ... the fickle moon ... __ that thy love prove likewise variable": "Romeo and Juliet" | 122 |
Politician who had a voice that "could boil the fat off a taxicab driver's neck," according to Norman Mailer | 122 |
Winner of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" | 122 |
Answer to the question, "In your opinion, what do you suppose is the object most likely to scare away Dracula?"? | 122 |
And you even managed to do 24 ___ in the strip mall parking lot, when the sign clearly said Five Guys Burgers and Fries... | 122 |
Acme vehicle made for those who are a bit "unbalanced" (like coyotes), from "Hot Rod & Reel," 1959 | 122 |
Where Kenny's ashes are put in a "South Park" episode, after which Cartman puts them in milk and drinks them | 122 |
Add vertical line 13 (word 3) and vertical line 3 (word 1) together and enter the answer to the resulting clue on this line | 123 |
Salinger character who says “I’d be extremely flattered if you’d write a story exclusively for me sometime” | 123 |
Celeb in "The First Wives Club" with the cameo line "Remember girls, don't get mad, get everything" | 123 |
Connecticut politician Lamont who beat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Senate primary only to lose to him in the general election | 123 |
Start of a number of ditties performed by creepy little orange dudes in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 123 |
It "sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other," according to Aristotle Onassis | 123 |
Word form made with the big letter depicted in this puzzle's diagram (this letter is entirely absent from the solution) | 123 |
What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style | 123 |
"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more ___?": "Twelfth Night" [1930 novel] | 123 |
Fashion designer Marc who bought Barry Bonds's 756th home run ball and let the public vote to brand it with an asterisk | 123 |
"South Pacific" song that asks "If you don't have a dream, / How you gonna have a dream come true?" | 123 |
Good day sir, I am Joseph Komalo, son of a ___. I wish to transfer 1,594,976 ZAR ($14.9. million USD) direct to you account | 123 |
Pitcher with a 168-mph fastball dreamed up by George Plimpton for the 1985 April Fools' Day issue of Sports Illustrated | 123 |
It's the end of The World!...actually, it's a radio station mentioned at the end of PRI's "The World" | 123 |
"The Simpsons" character who graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute of Technology | 124 |
Sci-fi character who says "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." | 124 |
"I'm ___, Indiana Jones, and Bladerunner. I'm Fuckin' Over It!": shirt Photoshopped onto Harrison Ford | 124 |
"You won't have ___ to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference" (1962 quote) | 124 |
Bush aide who claimed knowledge of "THE math" before incorrectly predicting the outcome of the 2006 U.S. elections | 124 |
Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues "But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene" | 124 |
"Under a ___" (Durante's clue to where the money is buried in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World") | 124 |
Entertainment options so named because the audience is more detached, per McLuhan (not because he thought they were awesome) | 124 |
Social reformer whose correspondence with Millard Fillmore is the subject of the book "The Lady and the President" | 124 |
"West Side Story" song, or a hoped-for response after experiencing the transition in this puzzle's word ladder | 124 |
Start of remark to me by a guy in a coffee shop in March 2011 about his observations in my traffic courtroom not long before | 124 |
"Then Larry starts begging to play Moe's role for a change, and Curly says to ___, so Moe happily obliges ..." | 124 |
History class: F -- “The professor ignored my attendance record and class participation, judging me entirely on ___” | 124 |
“The good news is, I told the professor about your lab contributions and she gave us an A for our assignment on ...” | 124 |
1981 comedy with the tagline "The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls" | 124 |
Settings where the main characters get chased by sharks, in both "Finding Nemo" and "The Little Mermaid" | 124 |
Guest speakers on the subject "Does the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' Story Perpetuate Offensive Sterotypes?"? | 124 |
Theodore Roosevelt, who was never known as the modest type, is the only U.S. president ever to give an inaugural address ... | 124 |
In response to declining sales, the photojournalism magazine launched a campaign to turn the short-term subscriber into a ___ | 125 |
Model train company that REFUSES to face accusations that their faulty tracks endanger millions of imaginary tiny conductors? | 125 |
Creatively spelled Christina Aguilera single (I know, can you believe Miley wasn't the first one desperate to look sexy?) | 125 |
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of ___, of most excellent fancy": "Hamlet" [1996 novel] | 125 |
Variant spelling for an eskimo boat recently added to the Scrabble dictionary (you'll need at least one blank to play it) | 125 |
The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ | 125 |
Director of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" (who is no relation to the author of this puzzle) | 125 |
A. "Mommie Dearest" B. "Lonesome Dove" C. "Angela's Ashes" D. "Times to Remember" | 125 |
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is ___ 15" (Ronald Reagan) | 126 |
Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
"Something a teenage boy can do for hours at a time." The survey did not say (but a contestant did): "___" | 126 |
Neologism for the superfluous diacritical marks seen in the names of many heavy bands, also called "röck döts" | 126 |
Song from "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with a title that is actually not a grammatical phrase in any Romance language | 126 |