| "I threw away my golf shoes when I got a hole in one," e.g. | 69 |
| Holiday changed to Thanksgiving in "For Your Consideration" | 69 |
| Leader who babbled incoherently to the U.N. for 96 minutes on 9/23/09 | 69 |
| Seminal punk band who took their name from a Paul McCartney pseudonym | 69 |
| "Amazing" magician famous for debunking unreasonable claims | 69 |
| "Suddenly, as ___ things will, it vanished": E. B. Browning | 69 |
| Poe called it "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous" | 69 |
| Lou who sang "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" | 69 |
| Result of a fruitful plate appearance in the Grapefruit League: Abbr. | 69 |
| It once billed itself "The most trusted name in television" | 69 |
| Company in the Aaron Sorkin play "The Farnsworth Invention" | 69 |
| Chris with the 1978 hit "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" | 69 |
| He played Davidson's love interest in "The Crying Game" | 69 |
| Film that lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Chariots of Fire" | 69 |
| Smell like Pig-Pen [***avxwords.com has good, weekly indie xwords***] | 69 |
| Sporting goods chain with the slogan "Get outside yourself" | 69 |
| Verdon who was the first professional chef to work in the White House | 69 |
| Young Hollywood actor who died of a drug overdose on January 15, 2008 | 69 |
| The "you" in "you caught my eye" in a 1965 #1 hit | 69 |
| Santana "Even gave you my ___, for better or for worse ..." | 69 |
| Beatles girl "filling in a ticket in her little white book" | 69 |
| 1950s movie monster whose wing-flapping could blow buses into the air | 69 |
| Flower with such varieties as Tipsy Imperial Concubine and Happy Butt | 69 |
| New Jersey town where Edison built the first electric lighting system | 69 |
| Word with "slide," "ground" or "golden" | 69 |
| River rising in the Vosges Mountains on the border of Alsace-Lorraine | 69 |
| "That's What Friends Are For" co-writer Carol Bayer-___ | 69 |
| ___ Paradise (narrator of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road") | 69 |
| '50s portrayer of Brynner's son in "The King and I" | 69 |
| "Oh won't you smile awhile for me ___" Hall & Oates | 69 |
| "A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost" speaker | 69 |
| Much of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" | 69 |
| The starts of this puzzle's six longest answers are types of them | 69 |
| Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper left | 69 |
| Chocolate lover, for relaxation, chewing candy apple's core (7,4) | 69 |
| One-named singer with the 2003 hit "Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)" | 69 |
| Film about the woman most likely to catch men's attention? (2001) | 69 |
| Pixar movie between "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" | 69 |
| 'There is Nothin' Like --' ('South Pacific' song) | 69 |
| "Operators are standing by" and "Call now!," e.g. | 69 |
| In modern-day slang, guilt and lack of motivation after becoming rich | 69 |
| " . . . as ___ gathereth her chickens . . . " : Matt. 23:37 | 69 |
| The person who stole that parking spot you were waiting to take, e.g. | 69 |
| Like rescues depicted in Kevin Costner's "The Guardian" | 69 |
| 1902 Kentucky Derby winner that was named after a fictional character | 69 |
| Senate race loser to Barack Obama in 2004 with innate seeing ability? | 69 |
| "Hit" musician who sang "Let's Stay Together" | 69 |
| Autobiography by jewel thief Walter T. Shaw (with Mary Jane Robinson) | 69 |
| Chemical group that includes sodium and lithium (with a hidden fruit) | 69 |
| No. 6 on the ABA Journal's list of the 25 greatest legal TV shows | 69 |
| Aviator who said "the lure of flying is the lure of beauty" | 69 |
| James Ellroy novel that Time magazine named best fiction book of 1995 | 69 |
| ''Don't make ___!'' (''Freeze!'') | 69 |
| ___ Downing, landscape architect who designed the White House grounds | 69 |
| "To a newspaperman a human being is ___ . . . ": Fred Allen | 69 |
| "O say can you see" or "Thru the perilous fight"? | 69 |
| Like a lot of politicians until they actually start voting on budgets | 69 |
| "I don't want to go off on ___ here..." (Dennis Miller) | 69 |
| "We ___ on a great battle-field . . ." (Gettysburg Address) | 69 |
| ''___ of Endless Light'' (Madeleine L'Engle work) | 69 |
| Pitcher Galarraga who lost a perfect game on an umpire's bad call | 69 |
| Location of the first state-chartered university in the United States | 69 |
| Viral video series that manipulates broadcast journalists' voices | 69 |
| Frontman on the 1987 debut album "Appetite for Destruction" | 69 |
| He was named Public Enemy No. 1 following the death of John Dillinger | 69 |
| Performer featured on Peter Gabriel's "Come Talk to Me" | 69 |
| Winner of three consecutive Emmys for "Mission: Impossible" | 69 |
| Measures of the time it takes to slip on a peel and hit the pavement? | 69 |
| He played the least nutzoid Bluth on "Arrested Development" | 69 |
| Grilling cookbook authors Karen Adler and Judith Fertig, collectively | 69 |
| Where "Battlefield Earth" ranks among John Travolta movies? | 69 |
| German astronomer who was the first to measure the distance to a star | 69 |
| "A whole new world of baking ... in a box!" sloganeer, once | 69 |
| Half of a sports rivalry detailed in the book "High Strung" | 69 |
| Ralph who co-wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | 69 |
| "Rolling Stone" called it "a doleful prom anthem" | 69 |
| "Make It With You" band touring with the Ringling Brothers? | 69 |
| "American Ska-Thic Vol. 2: More Ska From America's ___" | 69 |
| 1996 Helen Fielding book made into a film starring Renée Zellweger | 69 |
| To Shakespeare he was "high in all the people's hearts" | 69 |
| Oscar nominee for best actress in "Anne of a Thousand Days" | 69 |
| Come-ons used prior to making a secret "flight connection"? | 69 |
| "Excuse me, I seem to have lost my phone number — ...?" | 69 |
| Singer Blu with the 2001 hit "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" | 69 |
| "And the ___ and the silver spoon" (Harry Chapin) (4,2,3,6) | 69 |
| School report on the singer of "If I Could Turn Back Time"? | 69 |
| Rhode Island senator who created Basic Educational Opportunity Grants | 69 |
| Board game whose ads featured the line "Pretty sneaky, sis" | 69 |
| Devout acts in "Lord Jim" and "Heart of Darkness" | 69 |
| "___ it!" ("Dammit!," to an old-timey prospector) | 69 |
| Losing World Series manager of the 1933 Senators and the 1946 Red Sox | 69 |
| "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" philosophy | 69 |
| Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, with "The" | 69 |
| Drink cooler ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle's answer | 69 |
| When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first appear, in "Hamlet" | 69 |
| Co-creator of the Reitwagen, the first internal-combustion motorcycle | 69 |
| 'Spring forward' occasion hidden in 10 answers in this puzzle | 69 |
| Band with the 2009 album "Bitte Orca," with "The" | 69 |
| Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista ___, after whom a comet is named | 69 |
| Bit of nonsense famously replacing "strangers in the night" | 69 |