| Born May 18, 1897, he directed all the films named in this puzzle | 65 |
| Best supporting actress for ''Girl, Interrupted'' | 65 |
| Broadway show featuring the song "Stranger in Paradise" | 65 |
| Basketball phenom Bias who OD'ed two days after being drafted | 65 |
| Beck hit with the lyric "So why don't you kill me?" | 65 |
| Basketball player Kevin who won two Sixth Man Awards in the 1980s | 65 |
| Beethoven's "Choral" Symphony, with "the" | 65 |
| Beethoven's "Choral Symphony," with "The" | 65 |
| Birthplace of Trygvie Lie, the U.N.'s first Secretary-General | 65 |
| Billy Bragg's "I Dreamed I Saw Phil ___ Last Night" | 65 |
| Buck ___, first black coach in Major League Baseball (Cubs, 1962) | 65 |
| Birthstones whose name starts with the same letter as their month | 65 |
| Basil-based sauce (though you can also use peas or garlic scapes) | 65 |
| Business honcho Perelman, who was once the richest man in America | 65 |
| Broadway song that comes before "Adelaide's Lament" | 65 |
| Band whose "No Rain" video had the "Bee Girl" | 65 |
| Book subtitled "Cowgirl Evans's Favorite Desserts"? | 65 |
| Badass who is the subject of the "facts" in this puzzle | 65 |
| Bell Biv ___ (R&B group with the 1990 hit "Poison") | 65 |
| Britpop group behind the hit 1999 album "Leisure Noise" | 65 |
| British game show in which has-beens compete in a jungle, briefly | 65 |
| BORDERS/MATTEL merger headquartered on a famed San Francisco site | 65 |
| Boxer knocking Jack Dempsey out of the ring in an iconic painting | 65 |
| British heavy metal band with the album "Ace of Spades" | 65 |
| Beach Boys album with the hit "Wouldn't It Be Nice" | 65 |
| Blue ___ (kind of fish that Dory is, in "Finding Nemo") | 65 |
| Bernie Williams or Derek Jeter, colloquially, in the eyes of fans | 65 |
| Board game where you have no car, no kids, no luck, and no money? | 65 |
| Beverage brand named from the Russian word for "winter" | 65 |
| Burt and Kirk's love interest in "Seven Days in May" | 66 |
| Bronco placekicker Jason, author of "Monday Night Jihad" | 66 |
| Beverage that comes in Boppin' Strawberry and Orange Lavaburst | 66 |
| Beginning of a George Harrison song title on "Let It Be" | 66 |
| Brother of Ethan Allen who was a member of the Green Mountain Boys | 66 |
| Barker of the Cleveland Indians who pitched a perfect game in 1981 | 66 |
| Bandleader who had a hit with "Unchained Melody" in 1955 | 66 |
| Beatles title words following "Speaking words of wisdom" | 66 |
| Bird mentioned prominently in ''Bringing Up Baby'' | 66 |
| Brown who writes the "Arthur" children's book series | 66 |
| Beverage whose logo was once the bottom half of a woman's legs | 66 |
| Broadway's "The 25th Annual ___ County Spelling Bee" | 66 |
| Brand of chocolate syrup first called a "milk amplifier" | 66 |
| Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" | 66 |
| Businesswoman Green nicknamed "The Witch of Wall Street" | 66 |
| British artist William with a 1745 portrait of him and his pug dog | 66 |
| Believer in government where everyone enjoys equal political power | 66 |
| Balance sheet item that's mentioned while doing your business? | 66 |
| Bernie __, subject of the 2011 book "The Wizard of Lies" | 66 |
| Basketball's Archibald injured the Dalai Lama, palindromically | 66 |
| Breakfast serving, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | 66 |
| Bean who played Boromir in "The Lord of the Rings" films | 66 |
| Baseball commissioner under whom interleague play became a reality | 66 |
| Briefly, show whose name appears under "123" in its logo | 66 |
| Ben Folds Five "___ a brick and I'm drowning slowly" | 66 |
| Bear ___ (bank that collapsed in the 2008 global financial crisis) | 66 |
| Black mother, peppermint father, genmaicha aunt, pekoe baby, etc.? | 66 |
| Barnes & Noble that's too small for its flow of customers? | 66 |
| But when subprimes and credit default swaps come along, he ___ ... | 66 |
| Basher ___ (Don Cheadle's "Ocean's Twelve" role) | 66 |
| Bosox hero who was the last major leaguer to bat .400 for a season | 66 |
| Boxcars + blind mice2 ÷ Rome's hills × Arabian nights = | 66 |
| Briefly, a feature of each starred clue, and a chunk of its answer | 66 |
| Bloom who played Mary in "The Last Temptation of Christ" | 66 |
| Berra who said "a nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" | 66 |
| Baseball's Eddie who was nicknamed "The Walking Man" | 66 |
| Band who created the soundtrack for "The Virgin Suicides" | 67 |
| Beginning for ''carte'' or ''king'' | 67 |
| Bachelor in Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" | 67 |
| Boxer who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Games as Cassius Clay | 67 |
| Blu-ray with the featurette "The Plane Behind the Legend" | 67 |
| Bureau that added "Explosives" to its name in 2002: abbr. | 67 |
| Bill mentioned often in the course of 2008 presidential mudslinging | 67 |
| Baseball stat originally called "Heydler's statistic" | 67 |
| Behave like Cab Calloway's "red hot hoochie coocher"? | 67 |
| Basketball championship of which St. John's has won the most, 6 | 67 |
| Biblical character whose act of coitus interruptus led to his death | 67 |
| Band whose "Man on the Moon" is a tribute to Andy Kaufman | 67 |
| Brand name derived from the French for "without caffeine" | 67 |
| Billionaire Khashoggi whose luxury yacht was bought by Donald Trump | 67 |
| British philosopher who wrote "Language, Truth and Logic" | 67 |
| Bygone TV series about a pair of jet-setting, crime-solving spouses | 67 |
| Beatles flip side about Wagner's first rule of opera-composing? | 67 |
| Big band leader, born 2/29/1904, whose brother Tommy also led bands | 67 |
| Bartender's home renovation advice about the tiny kitchen sink? | 67 |
| Bit of candy that "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" | 67 |
| Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dick, who played for the 1950's Knicks | 67 |
| Beethoven work completed the same year as the "Moonlight" | 67 |
| Blow up two green balloons almost all the way...and you're done | 67 |
| Bobby Vee hit with the line "I come bouncing back to you" | 67 |
| Band with the triple-platinum album "Love at First Sting" | 67 |
| Bugs Bunny's "Bedevilled Rabbit" adversary, for short | 67 |
| Brand of veggie burgers in a bun: soulless way to solicit votes (8) | 67 |
| Bottom's other form in "A Midsummer's Night Dream" | 68 |
| Blue liqueur, or the island where the fruit it's made from grows | 68 |
| Bombeck who said, "God created man, but I could do better" | 68 |
| Ballplayer Banks with the catchphrase "Let's play two" | 68 |
| Bears owner/coach who won eight NFL titles in four different decades | 68 |
| Big hit for the club members, and what might elicit the shaded words | 68 |
| Blockbuster that takes place in the fictional vacation town of Amity | 68 |
| Betty, Bobbie and Billie followers on "Petticoat Junction" | 68 |