| Economic term named the 2011 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary...and a description of 6 squares in this puzzle | 126 |
| Title words following "don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm just not concerned," in a 1966-'67 hit | 126 |
| Sitcom star who said "Putting humans in charge of the earth is the cosmic equivalence of letting Eddie Murphy direct" | 127 |
| 2010 movie Roger Ebert called "an incomprehensible mess with the 1980s TV show embedded inside," with "The" | 127 |
| First name of a civil rights activist who would turn 85 today, and whose adopted last name is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 127 |
| "Whatever ..." (for the record, this isn't a "Simpsons" neologism, despite what the Internet tells you) | 127 |
| Only NBA player to shoot at least 50% on field goals, 40% on three-pointers and 90% on free throws for five consecutive seasons | 127 |
| Org. using the scare tactic that "Congress will rewrite No Child Left Behind next year" to get out the vote this year | 127 |
| A rewrite of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using ___: “A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece white as snow” | 127 |
| 54 51 32 4 35 18 / 14 5 52 / 59 / 28 1 22 / 44 3 6 16 20 60 61 12 (see notepad) | 127 |
| [*cross out* Member of a certain 1990s-2000s rock band] Censor unhappy with "Family Guy" and "Glee," maybe? | 127 |
| Massachusetts school ... and a description of the two-word meeting that occurs at the intersections of pairs of starred answers | 127 |
| 38 17 25 / 50 27 55 42 63 41 49 46 24 / 23 58 13 / 9 11 29 15 39 19 (see notepad) | 127 |
| What the "arrant thief" of a moon "snatches from the sun," in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" | 127 |
| Polygonal numerical array named for mathematician Blaise, in which each number is the sum of the nearest two in the row aboveit | 127 |
| 1973 film with the tagline "Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive -- an honest cop" | 127 |
| "Let's Make a Deal" non-prize that Gilbert Gottfried appeared in every instance on "Game Show Marathon" | 127 |
| "___ Baby" (song that begin "Yes I's finished on y'all farm land with yo' boll weevils and all") | 128 |
| Green spokesman for whom an effect explaining the correlation of cold weather and global warming meetings is sarcastically named | 128 |
| "That's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" speaker | 128 |
| "Let's ___ it up a notch!" (phrase spoken by Chef Elzar, a "Futurama" character based on Emeril Lagasse) | 128 |
| New age artist who has supposedly sold more records than Nirvana and the Spice Girls, although I can't name one of her songs | 128 |
| Lima alternative in the grocery aisle (sorry about this fill, I was sure I could fit [colander alternative in the kitchen] here) | 128 |
| Don't mix your GLASS BOTTLES with the garbage; recycle them into ___, ideal for brightening up the room where you experiment | 128 |
| "Then Moe says, 'Hey kid, you wanna type this up for us?' And I say, '___! I mean, just kidding!' ..." | 128 |
| Very distant or different (and a hint to what's hidden among the Across answers, in their logical order, from top to bottom) | 128 |
| Colts running back Ameche who scored the winning touchdown in overtime to end "The Greatest Game Ever Played," 12/28/58 | 129 |
| Word meaning "Indian nurse" that Jim Horne of the New York Times crossword blog says "you just have to learn" | 129 |
| In a "South Park" episode, what the entire cast of the remastered "The Empire Strikes Back" was replaced with | 129 |
| 43 57 45 7 37 / 33 / 36 30 40 47 10 / 26 53 62 21 / 31 34 56 48 2 8 (see notepad) | 129 |
| "The process by which trademark rights are diminished or lost as a result of common use in the marketplace" - Wikipedia | 129 |
| It states "as a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" | 129 |
| TV show whose working title was "Please Stand By" (and what you'll have to cross 18 times when solving this puzzle) | 129 |
| “Should that say ‘American,’ or will we really be studying the past by watching widescreen ’60s films in ___?” | 130 |
| Descriptor for some gospels that are part of the New Testament apocrypha, that comes from the Greek word for "knowledge" | 130 |
| Horror host who always seems to have a great weight on his shoulders?[The only real host on the list. He was on TV for 25+ years.] | 130 |
| "___ Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote." (Eric Massa) | 130 |
| Cubs player who prevented two protesters from igniting an American flag on the outfield grass during a 1976 game at Dodger Stadium | 130 |
| "I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place ..." | 130 |
| American lake every constructor is sick of cluing, and "American lake" was probably enough to give it to you, so screw it | 131 |
| Mathematician believed to be the first computer programmer (she had a Google doodle devoted to her 197th birthday this past Monday) | 131 |
| Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" | 131 |
| New element whose name will be ratified in January, 2010, and whose symbol appears in the middle of this puzzle's theme answers | 131 |
| Acme product that doesn't require snow (or brains), making it perfect for certain coyotes, from "Lickety Splat," 1961 | 131 |
| "It's not the ___, it's the tumidity" (William Safire maxim about sexual double standards in film nudity ratings) | 131 |
| Election Day "container" . . . and a hint to six symmetrically-placed containers hidden in this puzzle. Can you find them? | 132 |
| Diamond deception found in this grid nine times: eight in square four-letter clusters, the ninth formed by the clusters' outline | 132 |
| Word used to describe a film made by The Asylum movie studio, such as "Transmorphers" or "Sunday School Musical" | 132 |
| He said "Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes youÂ’re tired and most of your balls are missing." | 132 |
| 1969 literary heroine who says "I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand" | 133 |
| 1961 and 1986 Oscar-nominated role for Paul Newman (only five times has the same actor been nominated for the same role in two films) | 133 |
| Subject of the Final Jeopardy! question that knocked out Ken Jennings after a record 74 wins ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 133 |
| Critic who wrote the shortest review ever given to a motion picture: "No" for 1948's "Isn't It Romantic?" | 133 |
| Après-___ (following a day on the slopes -- and, literally, where the first words of the four longest puzzle answers can be found) | 133 |
| "And Moe says, 'Well, you can come in, but with two conditions ¬— one, that you don't start ___' ..." | 133 |
| "Sometimes I ain't so sho who's got ___ a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain't" (William Faulkner) | 134 |
| In an arranged swap, she guest-hosted "The Tonight Show" in 2003 on the same day Jay guest-hosted "The Today Show" | 134 |
| Noted box opener (that, curiously, will tell you what to put in six of this puzzle's boxes when read with the enumeration 1 3/2 1) | 134 |
| It's calculated based on the position of the sun relative to fixed stars, and is roughly 6 hours longer than its solar counterpart | 134 |
| When asked "What is the meaning of life?" she sometimes answers "All evidence to date suggests it's chocolate" | 134 |
| Next words spoken by the same character after "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" | 134 |
| "Send these, the homeless, ___ to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (last lines of "The New Colossus") | 134 |
| The Peck and Snyder Company pioneered the use of ___ as advertising tools to sell a) candy; b) beverages; c) tobacco; d) sporting goods | 135 |
| "<-- This Way to the ___" (exit sign in P.T. Barnum's museum, which some patrons thought was for an exotic attraction) | 135 |
| "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" villain Shickelgrubermeiger (c'mon; I'm sick of the "Casablanca" clues) | 135 |
| A clip of his "Inside Edition" meltdown made Huffington Post's #1 spot on "YouTube's Best of 2008: Top Ten" | 135 |
| Schoolhouse Rock cartoon that begins "You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington" | 135 |
| A. J. ___, author of the best seller "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" | 135 |
| One of the worst big-name TV casting choices of 2008 (for "Kath & Kim"), according to the website Television Without Pity | 135 |
| The state of New York might make you get one after you were on a plane back from Hong Kong with this guy who couldn't stop coughing | 135 |
| "Good luck, ___" (last words on the "Mission: Impossible" tape that would "self-destruct in five seconds") | 136 |
| Who said "I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage" | 136 |
| What you'll see if you watch "Raging Bull" followed by "Taxi Driver" followed by "The King of Comedy"? | 136 |
| The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain | 136 |
| First NHL player to win the Art Ross Trophy, Maurice Richard Trophy, Lester B. Pearson Award, and Hart Memorial Trophy in a single season | 137 |
| Educator who once famously compared the lyrics of 2 Live Crew to Shakespeare's [sic] "O my luve's like a red, red rose" | 137 |
| First of three Mets to hit a lead-off home run in a World Series Game 3 (he did it in '69, Garrett in '73, and Dykstra in '86) | 138 |
| Amazon tablet (Yeah, I probably should have included this as part of the theme, but I couldn't come up with a suitable answer.Sue me.) | 138 |
| About whom Nabokov said "She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle - its composition and its solution at the same time" | 138 |
| "Take On Me" one-hit wonders vs. "Every Breath You Take" singer vs. "Angel of Death" metal band (10/14/1066) | 138 |
| Catalog for polygamists on "Big Love" [The AV Club xword moves to a subscription model soon! Email bentausig@gmail.com for info] | 138 |
| 2011 film in which Owen Wilson says, "Wonderful but forgettable. That sounds like a picture I've seen. I probably wrote it." | 138 |
| Gollum line from "The Two Towers" that was the only 21st-century quote on AFI's 2005 list of 100 movie quotes from 100 years | 138 |
| Rocker Bonnie [CONTEST NOTE: My online all-skill crossword contest is Sept. 30. First prize is $2,500. For details visit www.alzfdn.org.] | 138 |
| A fake "RIP" tweet about him (after the VMA broadcast) made PopEater.com's "Best Celebrity Twitter Stories of 2009" | 139 |
| It's crafted to fool guards into thinking a prisoner's in bed, when he's actually gone (as in "Escape From Alcatraz") | 139 |
| Film with the line "By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution" | 139 |
| Next to his Princeton yearbook picture it says he "intends to go to law school and eventually to warm a seat on the Supreme Court" | 140 |
| “___ Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up": Barack Obama | 140 |
| Ones whose names are spelled by this puzzle's circled letters ... with representatives of two realms "wrestling" for supremacy | 140 |
| Caveman 1: "I just thought of a new invention. I call it 'juice'. Hand me those purple things."Caveman 2: "___?" | 140 |
| What swing state viewers might experience as the presidential election draws closer, punnily, or a possible title for this week's puzzle? | 141 |
| "___ is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one": "The Picture of Dorian Gray" | 141 |
| Angle irons graphically represented by four sets of black squares in this grid, and by letter formations starting in the four longest answers | 141 |
| Wrap right over left, tuck right underneath, pull, pinch right in a loop, wrap left around, push left through hole to create loop, pull loops | 141 |
| Instruments featured in Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" and the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" | 142 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #1: raid the knife drawer, put a gold chain around your neck, and next thing you know you're a ___ | 142 |
| Today, I tried to put a self-effacing three-letter acronym inside each theme entry. Turns out it works in any order except the one I want. ___ | 142 |
| Alt.country singer Case whose "The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You" comes out tomorrow | 142 |
| Org. founded in 1913 "to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens" | 143 |