| Academy Award-nominated lyricist of "Come Saturday Morning" | 69 |
| First battery brand to feature an indefatigable pink bunny in its ads | 69 |
| L.A. rapper whose father is South Africa's National Poet Laureate | 69 |
| José who wrote "Beyond Hair: The Ultimate Makeover Book" | 69 |
| Singer with the 1988 #1 country hit "I'm Gonna Get You" | 69 |
| NFL Network journalist Rich, once partnered on ESPN with Stuart Scott | 69 |
| The only Blues Brother to reappear in "Blues Brothers 2000" | 69 |
| Winner of the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition | 69 |
| Rolling Stones album featuring the song "Where the Boys Go" | 69 |
| Words with ''an era'' or ''the line'' | 69 |
| Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas | 69 |
| Gold medalist at the Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo, and Mexico City Olympics | 69 |
| "Getting fairgoers moving on the right track" (Paris, 1900) | 69 |
| "I'm returning this concert CD-it's profoundly bad" | 69 |
| Swedish-born actress who played Candy in "Candy," ___ Aulin | 69 |
| It's also called the "Lincoln Law" (found in GOLF CART) | 69 |
| "Highly charged" character on "The Addams Family" | 69 |
| Longest number when spelled out in words that has no repeated letters | 69 |
| "That's a joke, ah say, that's a joke, son" speaker | 69 |
| Platonic state with unrequited romantic feelings, in modern-day slang | 69 |
| With "The," 1948 Red Skelton movie about door-to-door sales | 69 |
| Best Supporting Actress winner for "The Accidental Tourist" | 69 |
| Italian philosopher ___ Bruno, whose name was given to a lunar crater | 69 |
| Musician with the first record formally certified as a million-seller | 69 |
| Number that's physically impossible to write out in standard form | 69 |
| "Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!" | 69 |
| Food product whose name is an example of "foreign branding" | 69 |
| Negotiations leading to the surrender of German troops in Italy _____ | 69 |
| ___ legomenon (word or phrase used only once in a document or corpus) | 69 |
| Show whose originial theme song was done by Bill Haley and His Comets | 69 |
| Why the blackjack player got odd looks from the rest of the foursome? | 69 |
| 1980 hit with the line "I longed to speak but did not dare" | 69 |
| Steve Martin's doctor role in "The Man With Two Brains" | 69 |
| Scientific discovery nominated for Time's 2012 person of the year | 69 |
| Wide receiver who won season 12 of "Dancing With the Stars" | 69 |
| "The majority of British ___ ___ policy coming to fruition" | 69 |
| British ship that shares its name with a New York "village" | 69 |
| A&E TV show with professional cleaners and clinical psychologists | 69 |
| "Frost/Nixon" director's copy of a Graham Greene novel? | 69 |
| "Fine by me!"--that sounds like something Mr. Ed might say! | 69 |
| Song that knocked "Cracklin' Rosie" out of the top spot | 69 |
| Egyptian architect credited with building the Step Pyramid at Saqqara | 69 |
| Grammy-winning Nelly Furtado song . . . or a hint to the puzzle theme | 69 |
| (adj.) contradictory; out of touch with reality (said of legislators) | 69 |
| Grammy-winning R&B singer who covered "Imagine" in 2011 | 69 |
| Band with the 1982 platinum album "The Number of the Beast" | 69 |
| La ___, Dominican Republic (first Spanish settlement in the Americas) | 69 |
| "Bad Moon Rising" lyrics before "bad moon rising" | 69 |
| "So you finally got the gist of that Stephen Hawking book!" | 69 |
| "This is more than just a product," in Madison Avenue-speak | 69 |
| Song from "Mame" starting "Light the candles ..." | 69 |
| "I didn't steal the giant's treasure" and the like? | 69 |
| ___ Eads, engineer who built the world's first steel-truss bridge | 69 |
| Creator of TV's island that "wasn't just an island" | 69 |
| Comedian who once said, "My audiences are my group therapy" | 69 |
| Activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines | 69 |
| 1860 presidential candidate who won Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia | 69 |
| Coauthor with Friedrich Engels of "The Communist Manifesto" | 69 |
| First Japanese infielder to sign with a major-league team, familiarly | 69 |
| Corn flakes inventor (and anti-masturbation advocate) John Harvey ___ | 69 |
| Family on which "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" is based | 69 |
| Philosopher who wrote "anxiety is the dizziness of freedom" | 69 |
| Actress Kosarin of the Nickelodeon sitcom "The Thundermans" | 69 |
| Perennial herb with florets sometimes called "ham and eggs" | 69 |
| Secure container, for storing keys next to a shared-use door, perhaps | 69 |
| Request that the bank not give out all their money before you arrive? | 69 |
| Rock band with multiple songs about "The Lord of the Rings" | 69 |
| English translation of the University of California's Latin motto | 69 |
| Whence the phrase "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" | 69 |
| Elton John "And he shall be __, and he shall be a good man" | 69 |
| Women were not allowed to wear them on the US Senate floor until 1993 | 69 |
| "Band B wins, since Band A only has a tolerance for booze." | 69 |
| Chairperson of the National Endowment of the Humanities (1986 - 1993) | 69 |
| 1978 #1 Donna Summer hit that covered a 1968 #2 hit by Richard Harris | 69 |
| Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress | 69 |
| Degree for a leprechaun who's an expert at finding imperfections? | 69 |
| Show with celebrity panelists filling in blanks on a Chicago railway? | 69 |
| Mr. ___ (delivery man on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood") | 69 |
| "... Then the ___ said she wanted to run away with me! ..." | 69 |
| Series with "Duck Amuck" and "One Froggy Evening" | 69 |
| Today, and a hint to what the longest answers (doubly) have in common | 69 |
| Punk rock band who coined the term "straight edge movement" | 69 |
| Philadelphia's "P" and Denver's "D," e.g. | 69 |
| Tirso de ___, Spanish dramatist who introduced Don Juan to literature | 69 |
| "And the ___ raths outgrabe" ("Jabberwocky" line) | 69 |
| "I'm returning this scented spray-it smells like a bog" | 69 |
| 1971 hit from the album "Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy" | 69 |
| "Song of ___" (opening poem in "Leaves of Grass") | 69 |
| Sitcom about a family of Dresden residents raised by a single parent? | 69 |
| Journalist Octavia canned by CNN for a tweet sympathetic to Hezbollah | 69 |
| Former relief pitcher Robb and his first baseman father Dick, for two | 69 |
| Words with ''see you'' or ''be here'' | 69 |
| "That's final!" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 69 |
| Lisa Kudrow, just pretending to be her "Friends" character? | 69 |
| Anika ___ Rose, 2014 Tony nominee for "A Raisin in the Sun" | 69 |
| K's Choice "I'm ___ addict, maybe that's a lie" | 69 |
| Notice "All Quiet on the Western Front" sitting on a shelf? | 69 |
| On second thought, make it a prison drama: "French Kiss..." | 69 |
| Theme of this puzzle hidden in the seven other longest across answers | 69 |
| Protective cover that's found in an "Ave Maria" phrase? | 69 |