| Common soap opera plot device (as in, "When will they wake up?") | 74 |
| Awaken, and words that can precede first words of answers to asterisked clues | 77 |
| Where one might see the sounds embedded in this puzzle's theme answers | 74 |
| Briefly, one is aptly placed in the grid in the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| "The wart stops here" product, and a hint to the theme found in eight puzzle answers | 94 |
| Comedian with the 2010 Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, familiarly | 89 |
| Ray Charles's backup singers pair with "Sunshine of Your Love" band? | 82 |
| "__ High": 1975 film that inspired the sitcom "What's Happening!!" | 90 |
| British actor Robert, the original Colonel Pickering in "My Fair Lady" | 80 |
| Your role in this puzzle [the asterisked clues will help you crack the case] | 76 |
| Whom you might see in your rearview mirror if you ignore the above signs | 72 |
| Setting of a 1978 hit song that's "the hottest spot north of Havana" | 82 |
| Place where you're advised "Don't fall in love," in song | 74 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," in song | 73 |
| Club where "music and passion were always the fashion," familiarly | 76 |
| Classic cereal now sharing shelf space with Vanilla and Chocolate cousins | 73 |
| Noble headpiece that becomes a brass instrument if you remove it's middle letter | 84 |
| Name in Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" | 73 |
| ___ Booker (Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate, and New Jersey's first African-American US senator) | 102 |
| 1990's sitcom based on the British series "One Foot in the Grave" | 79 |
| Only person to win an Oscar and a Razzie for Direction (not for the same movie, however) | 88 |
| The starts of answers to asterisked clues are the most popular adult Halloween ones | 83 |
| Piece of furniture with a ton of stuffed animals (in my house, at least) | 72 |
| Cosmetics company that has released brands by Faith Hill and Halle Berry | 72 |
| "He phones the pizzeria and tells them he wants full cheese and mushroom ___" | 87 |
| Secret military mission ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle? | 76 |
| Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce | 90 |
| "The stuff that belongs to the person you just broke up with" (George Carlin) | 87 |
| What the ten movie titles in this puzzle do at their intersections -- or a 2005 movie spelled out by those intersections | 120 |
| "I can't remember if I ___" ("American Pie" lyric) | 74 |
| Target of Bill Maher's "New Rule: stop wearing plastic shoes" | 75 |
| Mate, and a hint to the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 72 |
| Word that can precede the first word of the twelve starred entries in this puzzle | 81 |
| Russell parodied on "South Park" with the show "Fightin' Around the World" | 98 |
| Fictional hero whose first words are "I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York ..." | 101 |
| Grp. with three anthems: "The Bonnie Blue Flag," "God Save the South" and "Dixie" | 111 |
| 2003 what-if mockumentary about the aftermath of the South's Civil War victory | 82 |
| TV show with episodes titled "Viva Las Vegas" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?" | 106 |
| TV procedural that's had some episodes directed by Quentin Tarantino | 72 |
| Its episode titles have included "Got Murder?" and "You Kill Me" | 84 |
| "The ___ Effect" (unreasonable expectations of real-life forensics held by juries) | 92 |
| Item for Gil Grissom's team--one begins the answer to each starred clue | 75 |
| Show whose opening theme was the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" | 81 |
| Miami Dolphins Hall of Famer who co-hosted "American Gladiators" | 74 |
| Basic cable channel ... or a phonetic explanation of this puzzle's theme | 76 |
| Mark who bought a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks from Ross Perot's son | 82 |
| Les Cowboys Fringants "La Grand-Messe" track "Ti-___" | 73 |
| Electrodynamics class: B -- “We thankfully skipped the history of the subject and jumped straight into ___” | 115 |
| Rod Stewart cover "When it comes to being lucky she's ___" | 72 |
| One "whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be": Bierce | 92 |
| "A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man" speaker | 101 |
| Language where "Jak se máš?" means "How are you?" | 75 |
| Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" | 101 |
| "Narrator" of Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" | 78 |
| Former UN leader Hammarskjöld [Note: The circled letters comprise a three-word instruction that, when applied to one square in the completed grid, reveals a group who might follow a code of silence] | 201 |
| Surrealist painter whose best-known painting shows up often in college dorm rooms | 81 |
| "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" painter | 102 |
| "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" artist | 101 |
| "Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in her Time" and other pieces | 104 |
| "L'Elephante Giraffe" and "Lobster Telephone," for two | 78 |
| "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening" and others | 107 |
| "Doolin-___" (Eagles song about an infamous Old West outlaw gang) | 75 |
| "There Is Nothin' Like a ___" ("South Pacific" song) | 76 |
| Quayle, who can be "hunted" down in four answers of this puzzle | 73 |
| Actor Fogler who won a Tony for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" | 86 |
| Kind of participle found in the sentence "While working on my computer, the dog pestered me for dinner" | 113 |
| "Young ___ Boone" (1977 TV show that lasted only four episodes) | 73 |
| TV host who told viewers "Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!" | 78 |
| Spacey's co-star in the 1999 revival of "The Iceman Cometh" | 73 |
| African city of 4+ million whose name means, literally, "haven of peace" | 82 |
| Singer Love who was one of the subjects of "20 Feet From Stardom" | 75 |
| Article in a German paper?[For the explanation to last week's puzzle, see the last clue down.] | 98 |
| ''Can't Help Lovin' ___ Man'' (Kern/Hammerstein song) | 77 |
| Kern and Hammerstein's "Can't Help Lovin' ___ Man" | 72 |
| "Can't Help Lovin' ___ Man" ("Show Boat" song) | 74 |
| 'Can't Help Lovin' -- Man' ('Porgy and Bess' tune) | 74 |
| California governor Gray whom Cybill Shepherd called "a good kisser" | 78 |
| 1996 Sylvester Stallone disaster movie set in a tunnel under the Hudson River | 77 |
| Word with "Happy" and "Death Valley" in old TV titles | 73 |
| 1983 comedy with the tagline "When these guys hit the street, guess what hits the fan" | 96 |
| 1983 action comedy with the tagline "When these guys hit the streets, guess what hits the fan" | 104 |
| Monogram of the author of "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends" | 72 |
| Deg. of the professional who may instruct you to do the last words of the four longest puzzle answers | 101 |
| They were "Grateful" for their hippie following (with "The") | 80 |
| Title place you "won't come back from," in a 1964 Jan & Dean hit | 82 |
| Its stroke is "as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired," per Cleopatra | 92 |
| Alexander who claimed he was "in charge" after Reagan was shot | 72 |
| Fish in "Finding Nemo" who thinks her reflection is her sister Flo | 76 |
| Third-place presidential candidate of 1920 who ran his campaign from jail | 73 |
| Third-place candidate in the 1920 presidential election who ran his campaign from jail | 86 |
| "This note is legal tender for all ___, public and private" (words on U.S. bills) | 91 |
| Dentist's concern, and a hint to what the longest answers have in common | 76 |
| Folk art pieces that are the subject of a museum in Havre de Grace, Maryland | 76 |
| "Nothing runs like a ___" (slogan for a farm equipment company) | 73 |
| "Russell Simmons' ___ Strawberry Jam" ("In Living Color" ad spoof) | 90 |
| "De Civitate __": "The City of God," St. Augustine work | 75 |
| "Ad majorem ___ gloriam" ("For the greater glory of God") | 77 |
| Petty: "Me and ___ were singing, 'Little Runaway' ..." | 72 |
| "Dude, you're gettin' a ___!" (old computer ad phrase) | 72 |
| Francis Coppola's first "mainstream" film, "___ 13" | 75 |