| “... and use later in brilliant research papers, giving me something to ___!” | 85 |
| Argument that doesn't exist until created for political gain, in modern-day slang | 85 |
| Animated movie with the tagline "See the world from a whole new perspective" | 86 |
| Actor Fogler who won a Tony for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" | 86 |
| Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" | 86 |
| Appropriately named monthly of the National Puzzlers' League, with "The" | 86 |
| Animated skunk Le Pew [get the 2013 rate at avxwords.com while it lasts - sign up now] | 86 |
| Answer to the folk riddle "Over the hills, over the hills / Goes a fur coat" | 86 |
| Approach to arithmetic that emphasizes underlying ideas rather than exact calculations | 86 |
| Actress Martha who played Sinatra's love interest in "Some Came Running" | 86 |
| Author of the children's book "Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born" | 86 |
| Author who used the pseudonym “Alcofribas Nasier,” an anagram of his full name | 86 |
| Antiperspirant that comes in "Fresh Blast" and "Fast Break" scents | 86 |
| Author of "Paris in the 20th Century," an 1863 novel first published in 1994 | 86 |
| Alcohol rumored to spoil after opening, in an "Arrested Development" episode | 86 |
| Atmospheric condition in which there is no visibility both horizontally and vertically | 86 |
| Actor with the memoir "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" | 87 |
| Actress Seydoux of the 2013 Palme d'Or winner "Blue Is the Warmest Color" | 87 |
| Actress in "Dracula's Daughter" and "The Invisible Man Returns" | 87 |
| Atlanta arena that hosted the 1988 Democratic National Convention, with "the" | 87 |
| Actor whose character said "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" | 87 |
| Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" | 87 |
| Antelopes discovered that graze only at twilight; appropriately, they're called ... | 87 |
| “My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons” | 87 |
| Animator who created "Beavis & Butthead" and "King of the Hill" | 87 |
| Answer to "which Rogers and Hammerstein musical do you want to see and when?" | 87 |
| An automatic one injured Vince Coleman in 1985, forcing him to sit out the World Series | 87 |
| Alternative words used as alternatives for each other in this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers | 88 |
| Award Cillian Murphy was nominated for for the 2005 movie "Breakfast on Pluto" | 88 |
| Actress Long who still isn't married, which is a situation I'm keeping an eye on | 88 |
| Adopted last name of singer Anita Colton (it's pig Latin for what she hoped to make) | 88 |
| Actor whose debut film was "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" | 88 |
| Actress Keanan of "My Two Dads" (who now spells her name with a Y, apparently) | 88 |
| Actress Polo who played a presidential candidate's wife on "The West Wing" | 88 |
| “Lord High Everything ___” (one of Pooh-Bah’s titles in “The Mikado”) | 89 |
| Artist Krasner, for whose portrayal Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar in "Pollock" | 89 |
| Ali G asked him, "Has journalists ever put out tomorrow's news by mistake?" | 89 |
| Art punk band whose members appear as tophat-wearing giant eyeballs, with "The" | 89 |
| Actor who played Hamlet in a 1964 production deliberately staged to look like a rehearsal | 89 |
| Age at which Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse died | 89 |
| Actress who said "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" | 90 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" | 90 |
| Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers | 90 |
| Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll | 90 |
| Architect whose epitaph says "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you" | 90 |
| “You can’t be a real country unless you have a ___ and an airline”: Frank Zappa | 91 |
| Advice for the brokenhearted ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle | 91 |
| Author of "Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why Nafta Must Be Stopped — Now!" | 91 |
| “Iggy, your stirring Duncan Hines batter has no relevance to our experiment on ...” | 91 |
| A scarab beetle with a heart-shaped mark on its wing covers was named after this adventurer | 91 |
| Athlete John who was the only person to play professionally with Bill Russell and Jim Brown | 91 |
| “Getting feedback from hospital occupants is a good use of funding,” Tom agreed ___ | 91 |
| Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order | 92 |
| Antepenultimate and penultimate words of the penultimate sentence of a Shakespeare character | 92 |
| According to Han, "He's a card player, gambler, scoundrel.You'd like him." | 92 |
| According to legend, he spent decades in his mother's womb and emerged with a gray beard | 92 |
| Actor who delivered the line "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" | 92 |
| “Maybe this study on sudden consciousness loss does need funding,” Tom whispered ___ | 92 |
| Actress Jessica wrongly criticized by Bill O'Reilly for saying Sweden was neutral in WWII | 93 |
| Athlete who said: "I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments" | 93 |
| Action hero's garb, and what each first word in this puzzle's four longest answers is | 93 |
| Auntie who said "Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" | 93 |
| Actor Ostrum who played Charlie Bucket in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" | 93 |
| Actress Beulah who played James Stewart's mother in "It's A Wonderful Life" | 93 |
| An orb-weaving spider with black markings resembling a mustache was named after this musician | 93 |
| Asked, burst open, extracted, or broke, as the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 93 |
| “Still, I’m imparting loads of useful information that I hope they’ll ___...” | 93 |
| About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about" | 94 |
| Ancient stone once thought to be man-made but now believed to have been produced by glaciation | 94 |
| Artwork using both paint and collage, e.g. ... and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 94 |
| Arcade game in which characters can pass through tunnels to get to the other side of the screen | 95 |
| Author who wrote "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | 95 |
| “And I could barely keep my eyes open in Economics, where the topic of the day was ___” | 95 |
| After "The," 1970 John Jay Osborn Jr. novel or the movie or TV series adapted from it | 95 |
| Accidental portmanteau from Sarah Palin that made a few "2010 Word of the Year" lists | 95 |
| Annual solving competition held in Brooklyn, briefly ... and a hint to nine squares in this grid | 96 |
| Arrest a mako in an African river? (and three words that can follow WHITE and BLUE, but not RED) | 96 |
| Award for which "The Godfather, Part III" was nominated seven times, but didn't win | 97 |
| Ancient playwright who originated the phrase "While there's life, there's hope" | 97 |
| Article in a German paper?[For the explanation to last week's puzzle, see the last clue down.] | 98 |
| Acidity or alkalinity measurement, which is literally 8 for this puzzle's four longest answers | 98 |
| Advice during a solar eclipse (and a homophonic hint to uncovering this puzzle's secret image) | 98 |
| Actual protest activity for tax-and-spend opponents that sets the tone for this puzzle's theme | 98 |
| Abbr. for windsurfer Gal Fridman, who recently became his country's first Olympic gold medalist | 99 |
| And after being convicted, he feels like Sid the Skydiver again, right down to his colorful new ___ | 99 |
| Actress Anderson who said: "Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror" | 99 |
| “Next I endured the tedium of my Home Economics class, where the lecture was all about ___” | 99 |
| A1: "... for ___ a sensitive document from the Something-or-other Embassy in Copenhagen." | 99 |
| A series of "insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster," per Tom Stoppard | 99 |
| Agcy. whose FAQ page includes "Is there an age limit on claiming my child as a dependent?" | 100 |
| According to legend, its continued presence on Gibraltar allows the British to retain control thereof | 101 |
| Assistant D.A. who joined McKenzie Brackman in season 4 after a brief stint as a judge (126 episodes) | 101 |
| Actress who played Edna Garrett on "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" | 102 |
| “Should that say ‘Art,’ or will we really be practicing psychology on rodents in ___?” | 102 |
| About whom Shakespeare wrote "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety" | 103 |
| “My dull day began in my History of Free Silver class, where we were discussing 1878’s ___” | 103 |
| Alcoholic beverage made with jalapeño? (and three words that can follow RED and WHITE, but not BLUE) | 103 |
| Acme weapon that makes you feel like a kid again (literally), from "Mad as a Mars Hare," 1963 | 103 |
| According to Kin Hubbard, it's "like life insurance: the older you get, the more it costs" | 104 |