| The act of keeping a basketball player from leaving the team? | 61 |
| Gift card phrase, a homophonic hint to the puzzle's theme | 61 |
| Unexpected wallet fattener ... and what the circled words are | 61 |
| He said "You are free and that is why you are lost" | 61 |
| J. Geils Band hit whose video used many examples of the title | 61 |
| Short-lived pests ... or an alternative title for this puzzle | 61 |
| "Killing Me Softly" pop group, with "the" | 61 |
| Back to the beginning (like how this puzzle's theme goes) | 61 |
| Teddy bear's quality or, alternately, cooks vases in oil? | 61 |
| Indonesian orchestra with a variety of percussion instruments | 61 |
| "Name That Tune," as played by the Gregorian Monks? | 61 |
| Leering comedian who moonlights on the South American pampas? | 61 |
| Pharmaceutical company that developed Metamucil and Dramamine | 61 |
| "Wow, you're a regular expert at turning left!" | 61 |
| Like the word "curiae" in "amicus curiae" | 61 |
| Rapper who came to prominence as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan | 61 |
| Fishing item banned in international waters by the UN in 1993 | 61 |
| Athlete whose motto might be "the puck stops here"? | 61 |
| 1980 Pulitzer-winning book filled with wordplay and paradoxes | 61 |
| Movie for which Ian McKellen received a Best Actor nomination | 61 |
| Jogging, he forgot about the pin cushion in his pocket and __ | 61 |
| Avoided walking or taking public transportation, in Manhattan | 61 |
| Magnificent tool for dealing with hybrid cars in a chop shop? | 61 |
| John Reed's predecessor as N.Y.S.E. chairman, Richard ___ | 61 |
| "Are your Southern breakfast vittles satisfactory?" | 61 |
| When it's appropriate to flail around like a blue Muppet? | 61 |
| Christmas decoration that automatically steers toward lovers? | 61 |
| Only South American nation whose official language is English | 61 |
| Broadway musical about a G.I. Joe collectors' convention? | 61 |
| Lead singer in No Doubt's hit "Don't Speak" | 61 |
| "Adam/ ___" (short poem entitled "Fleas") | 61 |
| Brits' search for a Revolutionary War spy in their midst? | 61 |
| Bozeman native named after a "Star Wars" character? | 61 |
| ___ legomenon (word that appears just once in a given corpus) | 61 |
| "Finding a pencil," to Broadway's Charlie Brown | 61 |
| "Yep, it doesn't take much to make us ___! ..." | 61 |
| NIKE/HARRAH'S merger leading to a saffron robe dress code | 61 |
| Don't do this, even if you're upset with Bart Simpson | 61 |
| "Bring your dogs to our booth" (Philadelphia, 1876) | 61 |
| What the black areas on horizontal rows 4, 8 and 12 represent | 61 |
| "___ stand, head in hand, turn my face to the wall" | 61 |
| Highly-touted NBC spinoff cancelled in 2008 before production | 61 |
| Nickelodeon show whose protagonist has a football-shaped head | 61 |
| Florida city that's Seminole for "high prairie" | 61 |
| Diaphragm spasm that may be cured by holding one's breath | 61 |
| Monster truck driver changes flat tire, gets charged with ... | 61 |
| 1986 Huey Lewis and the News hit about how puzzlemakers feel? | 61 |
| Registers one's answer on a computerized true-false quiz? | 61 |
| Word spelled the same as another but with a different meaning | 61 |
| "___ Satires & Epistles" (classical Roman work) | 61 |
| Original publisher of the "For Dummies" book series | 61 |
| "___ Tear Fall in the River" (Ella Fitzgerald song) | 61 |
| "___ Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington song) | 61 |
| "___ Anything" (1994 Nick Nolte/Albert Brooks film) | 61 |
| Napoleon's partner on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." | 61 |
| Occasional response to "Where's your homework?" | 61 |
| Undercover officer's shout, upon revealing him or herself | 61 |
| Paul Newman's last line in "The Color of Money" | 61 |
| Bartender's denial, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 61 |
| "Really __ ...": "Tears of a Clown" lyric | 61 |
| It usually begins with the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | 61 |
| "Capture and Share the World's Moments" company | 61 |
| "Suicide Blonde" band after adding 999,994 members? | 61 |
| Air marshal's explanation about keeping his pilots alert? | 61 |
| "It's permanent press," said the saleswoman ___ | 61 |
| Biblical patriarch whose name means "he will laugh" | 61 |
| "___ long life ahead" (palmist's pronouncement) | 61 |
| "The reporter heard the New York ___ ___ his coach" | 61 |
| " . . . call ye upon him while he ___": Isaiah 55:6 | 61 |
| "Look not thou upon the wine when it ___": Proverbs | 61 |
| '-- wait' ('The issue isn't that urgent') | 61 |
| Metallica's Diamond Head cover on "Garage Inc." | 61 |
| "For ___, two, three strikes you're out . . . " | 61 |
| "___ to be alone" (words attributed to Greta Garbo) | 61 |
| Actor who co-hosted the Oscars the same year he was nominated | 61 |
| Best Director nominee for "A Room With a View" (14) | 61 |
| Acid jazz band with the 1996 hit "Virtual Insanity" | 61 |
| Tek ___ (fictional spy supposedly created by Stephen Colbert) | 61 |
| Hip-hop artist with the 2013 #1 album "Born Sinner" | 61 |
| Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Pulp Fiction" | 61 |
| Rock and roll band whose lead singer often played flute solos | 61 |
| Celebrating the New Year in different time zones, for example | 61 |
| Double-play partner of Cal on baseball's All-Century team | 61 |
| Portrayer of Frank Sinatra on "Saturday Night Live" | 61 |
| Fictional inventor of a motor that runs on static electricity | 61 |
| He played Luke in 2005's "The Dukes of Hazzard" | 61 |
| He played the Painless Pole in "M*A*S*H," the movie | 61 |
| First major U.S. medical school to admit women as well as men | 61 |
| ``I wouldn't ___ club that would . . .'': Groucho | 61 |
| Corrupt Philippine president who left office in January, 2001 | 61 |
| Former heartthrob on "Home Improvement," familiarly | 61 |
| Mortal Kombat character who rips his opponent's heart out | 61 |
| Language spoken in parts of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan | 61 |
| Refuse to fire "Gangsta's Paradise" hip-hopper? | 61 |
| Portion of a nation that borders on Uganda and Lake Victoria? | 61 |
| Former "Tonight Show" guitarist Eubanks, familiarly | 61 |
| "___ Bop" (CD series of children covering pop hits) | 61 |
| Word repeated in "___ always begets ___": Sophocles | 61 |
| Best-selling 2003 Khaled Hosseini novel, with "The" | 61 |
| What you take up after "Undone - The Sweater Song"? | 61 |