| Bulwer-Lytton's "It was a dark and stormy night ...," e.g. | 72 |
| Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for "From Here to Eternity" | 72 |
| Ballplayer who hit home runs in a record 45 different major league parks | 72 |
| Book about a geeky niche publication whose readership went from 10 to 0? | 72 |
| Boxing champ whose autobiography was titled "A Man Must Fight" | 72 |
| Bacterial issue potentially treatable by drinking cranberry juice: Abbr. | 72 |
| Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy winner between Fiona and Sheryl | 73 |
| Byron's words before "'Tis but the truth in masquerade" | 73 |
| Bancroft who was the first woman to explore both the Arctic and Antarctic | 73 |
| Brand with the advertising slogan "Do You Pivot Every Morning?" | 73 |
| Busy one that has made its mark in this puzzle's five longest answers | 73 |
| Besch who played the mother of Kirk's son in "Star Trek II" | 73 |
| Band with the record for most Top 40 hits without ever having a #1 single | 73 |
| Broadway show subtitled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" | 73 |
| Britney "3" lyric "Living ___ is the new thing, yeah" | 73 |
| Bill who said "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 73 |
| Beatty who voiced Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in "Toy Story 3" | 73 |
| Brand with the old slogan "It's blended, it's splendid" | 73 |
| Beatles classic with the line "We all want to change the world" | 73 |
| British rocker with the 1979 #1 hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | 73 |
| Broadway musical about three guys using the same pickup routine at a bar? | 73 |
| Brand whose logo has a man in a hard hat dangling from one of its letters | 73 |
| Bodily organ with no definite structure, function, or truth-value at all? | 73 |
| Brian whose Orchestra had the 1998 hit "Jump Jive an' Wail" | 73 |
| Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door | 73 |
| Ballplayer who's the subject of a museum at Montclair State University | 74 |
| Beekeeper Shavitz who cofounded a company whose products include lip balms | 74 |
| Band whose "Shadow Stabbing" is featured in "Wordplay" | 74 |
| Best seller that begins "Children are not rugged individualists" | 74 |
| Bill who said, "It's all been satirized for your protection" | 74 |
| Black Friday destination found in nine of this puzzle's Across answers | 74 |
| Brand once advertised with the jingle "We wear short shorts ..." | 74 |
| Baseballer Vizquel who holds the record for most games played at shortstop | 74 |
| Biblical book whence the line "The meek shall inherit the earth" | 74 |
| Band who settled on their name by flipping randomly through the dictionary | 74 |
| Brit's ending to the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | 74 |
| Bygone NYC club whose name was an acronym for the music genres it featured | 74 |
| Blue-tongued dog in the canine version of the "Twilight" series? | 74 |
| Bandleader Xavier who led the Waldorf-Astoria's orchestra for 16 years | 74 |
| Blueprint spec ... or an MGM heartthrob's cousin from the Netherlands? | 74 |
| Busker's take-home after paying for a street performance license, say? | 74 |
| Beatles: "Two ___ sending postcards, writing letters on my wall" | 74 |
| Beatified monk who shares his name with a "Robin Hood" character | 74 |
| Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle | 74 |
| British art-rock band with the 1975 #2 hit "I'm Not in Love" | 74 |
| Billing option that favors purchasing individual items rather than packages | 75 |
| Brown who got injured during the miniseries "Feasting on Asphalt" | 75 |
| Briefly, one is aptly placed in the grid in the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| Band whose "Saturday Morning" is featured in "Wordplay" | 75 |
| Biblical character who had a son at age 90 and then lived another 815 years | 75 |
| Ben Franklin's ''Little strokes fell great oaks,'' e.g. | 75 |
| Brockovich who helped build a case against Pacific Gas and Electric Company | 75 |
| Backdrop for the final scene of Antonioni's "L'Avventura" | 75 |
| Burly Burl whose first Broadway show was "The Boys from Syracuse" | 75 |
| Bush who was the first Republican to be reelected as Florida's governor | 75 |
| Beach Boys hit of the '80s that I'm going to pretend they never did | 75 |
| Boxer on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 75 |
| Bentsen who said to Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" | 75 |
| Billy Joel "Lost a ___ of fights but it taught me how to lose OK" | 75 |
| Brilliantly colored food fish that changes hues when removed from the water | 75 |
| Brand name that may be a portmanteau of "no" and "hair" | 75 |
| Baltimore specialty / Effortless task / Move on all fours with the belly up | 75 |
| Book about some dork with the uncanny ability to create computer documents? | 75 |
| Boxing champ portrayed in the biopic "Somebody Up There Likes Me" | 75 |
| Boxer Johansson who was Sports Illustrated's 1959 Sportsman of the Year | 75 |
| Best Actor of 1990 who later supplied a voice for "The Lion King" | 75 |
| Bread with swirls stolen by Jerry in a classic "Seinfeld" episode | 75 |
| Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing | 75 |
| British singer with the age-related albums "19" and "21" | 76 |
| Band that won five MTV Video Music Awards for "Take on Me" in 1986 | 76 |
| Boxer who told Will Smith "you ain't pretty enough to play me" | 76 |
| Best Picture between "The Artist" and "12 Years a Slave" | 76 |
| Basic cable channel ... or a phonetic explanation of this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Billie Holiday's "You Can't Be Mine (And Someone ___ Too)" | 76 |
| Beatles tune that starts, "When I find myself in times of trouble" | 76 |
| Boy who pulls the sword from the stone in "The Sword in the Stone" | 76 |
| Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | 76 |
| Best Original Song Oscar winner from ... Disney's "Pocahontas" | 76 |
| Beck song that starts "See me comin' to town with my soul ..." | 76 |
| Blueprint spec ... or a '60s-'70s rock group conceding a poker hand? | 76 |
| Beverage dispensed from a machine in Lyndon Johnson's Oval Office lounge | 76 |
| Ballplayer arrested for battery, abuse, and possession of drugs and firearms | 76 |
| Book about how it would be great to stop being nomadic and farm the prairie? | 76 |
| Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood | 76 |
| Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" | 76 |
| Briefly, Bay Area forcE [avxwords.com has the edgiest weekly indie puzzles!] | 76 |
| Bit of footwear that appears at both ends of this puzzle's theme answers | 76 |
| Brief version of this puzzle's title hidden in eight long puzzle answers | 76 |
| Brazilian midfielder on back-to-back World Cup winners in '58 and '62 | 77 |
| Besides Chile, the only South American country that doesn't border Brazil | 77 |
| Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located | 77 |
| But in the end, the sheep had their way, and they all watched "__" | 77 |
| Boston College quarterback with a famous game-ending Hail Mary pass, 11/23/84 | 77 |
| Bonjour cockzilla, want to ___? Woman scream at this more than luxury present | 77 |
| Bill Barber played it on Miles Davis' "Birth of the Cool" album | 77 |
| Begin tax calculation: Enter the amount you earned last year from all sources | 77 |
| Book including chapters titled "Solitude" and "The Ponds" | 77 |
| Band whose "Only You" was featured in "Napoleon Dynamite" | 77 |
| Broadway hit with the song "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" | 78 |
| Byrne's "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" collaborator | 78 |