| "It's like a full force ___, an American storm" Seger | 67 |
| Self-centered actor of ''The 'Burbs''? | 58 |
| He voiced Mayor La Trivia on "Fibber McGee and Molly" | 63 |
| New Mexico town mentioned in the hit "Route 66" | 57 |
| "X-Men" character originally from New Orleans | 55 |
| When Bill Mazeroski hit his Series-ending walk-off home run | 59 |
| "The Effect of ___ Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" | 63 |
| Lowercase Greek letter that looks like a "y" | 54 |
| Leader who said "There is no god higher than truth" | 61 |
| India's ''Father of the Nation'' | 52 |
| Word with "motorcycle" or "street" | 54 |
| Org. headed by the Comptroller General of the United States | 59 |
| Wilde's ''The Ballad of Reading ___'' | 57 |
| Word with "generation" or "gender" | 54 |
| Fish whose name comes from the Old English for "spear" | 64 |
| She played Anna Christie, Anna Karenina, and Mata Hari | 54 |
| Greta who never actually said "I vant to be alone" | 60 |
| Four-time Oscar nominee (never a winner) in the 1930s | 53 |
| Actress mentioned in Madonna's "Vogue" | 52 |
| Actress Greta who famously said "I want to be alone" | 62 |
| Texas setting for the Wedding Florists Society convention? | 58 |
| Senator Jake who flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery | 52 |
| Senator Jake who flew on a 1985 space shuttle mission | 53 |
| Only U.S. senator with a unit of measure named after him | 56 |
| Former Utah senator Jake who flew aboard Discovery in 1985 | 58 |
| Vice president during Roosevelt's first two terms | 53 |
| Fictional author of "The World According to Bensenhaver" | 66 |
| Fictional writer of "The World According to Bensenhaver" | 66 |
| John Irving's "The World According to ___" | 56 |
| Fictional writer of "The Pension Grillparzer" | 55 |
| Author of the fictional novella "The Pension Grillparzer" | 67 |
| "The World According to __": John Irving novel | 56 |
| ''The World According to ___'' (1982) | 53 |
| Teri of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | 54 |
| Actress Greer who received five consecutive Oscar nominations | 61 |
| "Adam's Rib" co-playwright _____ Kanin | 52 |
| Catching it means he's next at the altar, so they say | 57 |
| Surrounding pedestrian holding communist uprising (9) | 53 |
| Quarterback Hogeboom who was on "Survivor" | 52 |
| ''Diff'rent Strokes'' star Coleman | 54 |
| Word with ''mustard'' or ''natural'' | 68 |
| Mason Williams' ''Classical ___'' | 53 |
| Regular stuff found inside this puzzle's three longest answers | 66 |
| Natural ___ (subject of "fracking" in 2012) | 53 |
| "Laughing" or "natural" follower | 52 |
| A loose one may activate the "Check engine" light | 59 |
| February 2005 Central Park display, with "The" | 56 |
| 2005 Christo display in New York City, with "the" | 59 |
| Carraway's Long Island neighbor, in classic fiction | 55 |
| Like wiping one's dirty mouth on one's sleeve | 53 |
| "To ___, to Greece, and into Noah's ark": Cowper | 62 |
| Magnetic induction unit named after a German mathematician | 58 |
| Like the apparel donned in "Deck the Halls" | 53 |
| "Glitter and Be _____" ("Candide" song) | 59 |
| ''What's Goin' On?'' singer Marvin | 58 |
| ''I Heard It Through the Grapevine'' singer | 59 |
| "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" singer Crystal | 63 |
| ''Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue'' singer | 63 |
| "Before I ___ at You Again" ("Camelot" song) | 64 |
| "The Star-___," Harsanyi book about Galileo | 53 |
| ''Pygmalion'' playwright's monogram | 55 |
| Frankfurters used to be served by its leaders: Abbr. | 52 |
| Automotive part ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Substitute acquired by about half a million people a year: Abbr. | 64 |
| Certificate earned by both Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson | 59 |
| Last part of the last name of a ''Dallas'' actress | 66 |
| Word before "whiz" or "willikers" | 53 |
| Exclamation before "I didn't know that!" | 54 |
| "You could've knocked me over with a feather!" | 60 |
| ''I'll be a monkey's uncle!'' | 53 |
| She played Thelma in "Thelma & Louise" | 52 |
| She played Dottie in "A League of Their Own" | 54 |
| Muriel portrayer in "The Accidental Tourist" | 54 |
| Certain gifts in "The 12 Days of Christmas" | 53 |
| "Do __ See God?": Jon Agee palindrome book | 52 |
| Its slogan begins "15 minutes could save you ..." | 59 |
| Insurance company that gets you a quote in 15 minutes or less | 61 |
| Insurance company founded in 1936 for government employees | 58 |
| Company whose commercials feature lizards and cavemen | 53 |
| Gordon __: Michael Douglas's "Wall Street" role | 61 |
| Gordon ___ (Michael Douglas's "Wall Street" role) | 63 |
| Douglas's Oscar-winning "Wall Street" role | 56 |
| Collective Soul "Let's mingle. And make it well" song | 67 |
| Collective Soul "Come together now. Yeah, let's ___" | 66 |
| There's one hidden in the answer to each starred clue | 57 |
| "Columbia, the ___ of the Ocean" (old patriotic song) | 63 |
| "Web ___" (ESPN segment showing great fielding plays) | 63 |
| Word with ''pool'' or ''splicing'' | 66 |
| Wilder of "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 61 |
| "The French Connection" Oscar winner Hackman | 54 |
| It starts with "In" and ends with "Egypt" | 61 |
| Site of the World Trade Organization's headquarters | 55 |
| Shaquille O'Neal played one in "Kazaam" | 53 |
| Setting for Verdi's ''Simon Boccanegra'' | 60 |
| Setting for Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" | 52 |
| Demographic for characters in "Reality Bites" | 55 |
| Original "Schoolhouse Rock!" fans, informally | 55 |
| Its members may have spent their allowances on eight-track tapes | 64 |
| Group including flower children's children, briefly | 55 |
| Americans who reached adulthood in the '80s, briefly | 56 |