| Diamond deception found in this grid nine times: eight in square four-letter clusters, the ninth formed by the clusters' outline | 132 |
| Descriptor for some gospels that are part of the New Testament apocrypha, that comes from the Greek word for "knowledge" | 130 |
| Don't mix your GLASS BOTTLES with the garbage; recycle them into ___, ideal for brightening up the room where you experiment | 128 |
| Director of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" (who is no relation to the author of this puzzle) | 125 |
| Deadly; understood; take a flat; show-off; drew a blank; New York nickname; pro; director Hartley; 2000 Ethan Hawke role | 120 |
| Don't toss out that pile of OLD MAGAZINES; recycle them into a ___, perfect for keeping your beer clean at the beach | 120 |
| Danish cyclist Bjarne who admitted in 2007 to taking performance-enhancing drugs when winning the 1996 Tour de France | 117 |
| Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, familiarly—he holds the NCAA Division I men's basketball record for most wins | 113 |
| Don't throw away those PAPER PRODUCTS; recycle them into a ___, handy for carefully dressing french fries | 109 |
| Director who had to have "Life of Pi" explained to him over and over before he agreed to adapt it? | 108 |
| Disgraced evangelical leader Haggard, to his flock who wasn't aware of the whole gay-sex-and-meth thing | 107 |
| Duet from "Gigi" about a vivid recollection (I'm guessing here, I haven't listened to it) | 107 |
| DESIGNER: "What'd I do, officers?" LIEUT: "You ___ at a competitor's designs." | 106 |
| Dennis who said "Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money." | 105 |
| Diner owner in the comic strip "Non Sequitur" and wife in the comic strip "Andy Capp" | 105 |
| Donald Sutherland line in "The Dirty Dozen," cued by "Madison City, Missouri, sir" | 102 |
| Deg. of the professional who may instruct you to do the last words of the four longest puzzle answers | 101 |
| Dish that always gets the same reaction — "Hey, this meat is cold"? (one-letter change) | 101 |
| Directed to the video of Will Shortz's duet with Whitney Houston (http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh), say | 101 |
| Doomsday expression, or what you might start to think if you stare at the Down answers for too long | 99 |
| Device that protects kids from sex and violence, as long as they don't do anything but watch TV | 99 |
| Douglas Adams' facetious answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything | 98 |
| Director David behind the video game classics "Twisted Metal" and "God of War" | 98 |
| Dodger who threw the pitch Bobby Thomson hit for the "shot heard 'round the world" | 96 |
| Don't ditch your CLEAR PLASTICS; recycle them into a ___, a useful tool for bigoted surgeons | 96 |
| Documentary in which the director asks "So how much did you have to pay for the baby?" | 96 |
| Dad's reaction to: "Dad, I dropped out of college and joined the traveling circus" | 96 |
| Disrespectful roommate's reply to an inquiry about that last slice of pizza you were saving | 95 |
| Discussion group, and a word that can follow the ends of this puzzle's five longest answers | 95 |
| Dancer Ailey, in his upstate New York home (as screamed on "Chipmunk Day Afternoon")? | 95 |
| Defensive fencing positions in which the top of the blade is pointed at the opponent's knee | 95 |
| Different kinds of them are split (but not in an embarrassing way) in the four starred answers | 94 |
| Diamond gambit, or a hint to a different concealed word found in each answer to a starred clue | 94 |
| Dimwitted "Blazing Saddles" character who was "only pawn in game of life" | 93 |
| Disney lyric repeated before "Darling it's better / Down where it's wetter" | 93 |
| Def Leppard song that begins with the gibberish "Gunter, glieben, glauten, globen" | 92 |
| Disney et al., or, when added to the starts of the starred answers, a 1965 musical (listen!) | 92 |
| Display rate unit, in film and animation: Abbr. (hidden in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY) | 90 |
| Description of a computer algorithm which resembles (but isn't actually) formal syntax | 90 |
| Drink made with tequila, rum, vodka, gin, bourbon, triple sec, sweet-and-sour mix and Coke | 90 |
| Deer discovered that subsist solely on cacao beans; appropriately, they're called ... | 89 |
| Doctor's self-employment, and a hint to the starts of the five longest across answers | 89 |
| DESIGNER: "But I'm innocent!" LIEUT: "Maybe so, but we have ___." | 89 |
| Dominican Republic teammate of Encarnación and Guerrero in the World Baseball Classic | 88 |
| Dallas wide receiver Michael who won three Super Bowls with Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith | 88 |
| Distance forward in the alphabet that each changed letter in the theme entries has moved | 88 |
| Dr. Jekyll's alter ego and family, were he to settle down with an evil wife and kids | 88 |
| D.C. landmark whose interior walls contain excerpts from the Declaration of Independence | 88 |
| Debra Messing character, whose name goes "around" four answers in this puzzle | 87 |
| Depilatory brand with a controversial "Pretty" line marketed to preteen girls | 87 |
| Duane who was #2 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" | 87 |
| Disparaging name for someone who wears glasses (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 86 |
| Dubliners add liquor to the circle (or a soap ad interrupted by a furniture store ad)? | 86 |
| Drink Mencken called "The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet" | 85 |
| Danny O'___ ("Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" singer-songwriter) | 85 |
| Driveway stuff (and word that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers) | 85 |
| Day of the wk. the world ends in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 85 |
| Disease whose name is a reduplication of the Sinhalese word for "weakness" | 84 |
| Derivative '80s game in which one ghost's name was changed from Clyde to Sue | 84 |
| Disposition to credulity (and the longest common word that alternates typing hands) | 83 |
| Dessert served a la mode, while the waiter jabbers about winning a million dollars? | 83 |
| David Bowie single with the lyric "If we can sparkle he may land tonight" | 83 |
| Derisive response to "She thinks she's going to be homecoming queen" | 82 |
| Dress like Homer Simpson when he intentionally gained weight to get disability pay | 82 |
| Dancer Mazo who led Kelly Monaco to victory on "Dancing With the Stars" | 81 |
| Diamond great with the line "I really didn't say everything I said" | 81 |
| Dwelling section whose name comes from the Arabic for "forbidden place" | 81 |
| Duettist with Elton John on 1976's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" | 81 |
| Del Rey who sang "Young and Beautiful" for "The Great Gatsby" | 81 |
| Drug paraphernalia for those who aren't sure they want to go through with it? | 81 |
| Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author" | 80 |
| Daily crosswords, to puzzle pros (so-called from the number of squares per side) | 80 |
| DNA marker that indicates a tendency to be killed, as on "South Park"? | 80 |
| Dramatic device about which Hamlet says "The play's the thing ..." | 80 |
| Designer who said "The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable" | 79 |
| Diggory who (spoiler alert!) is killed at the end of "Goblet of Fire" | 79 |
| Discussion between a former Colorado senator and a '70s-'90s rock band? | 79 |
| Dictionary term for any of the "self-defining" answers in this puzzle | 79 |
| Don't make it to a retrospective of Franz's German Expressionist works? | 79 |
| Decision between buying some caviar or a Miami Heat star's basketball card? | 79 |
| Diggs of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "Brown Sugar" | 79 |
| Duo with the 1985 hit "Shout" (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) | 79 |
| Dionne Warwick song that says "Foolish pride is all that I have left" | 79 |
| Do the "I am not a crook" thing with the double V-signs, for example? | 79 |
| Designed with a projecting part for fitting into a corresponding recessed part | 78 |
| Device used in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" | 78 |
| Doomed Netflix offshoot on CNET's "20 Worst-Named Tech Products" | 78 |
| Drink garnish ... or a hint to five letters in the answer to each starred clue | 78 |
| Dr. whose final album (supposedly) will be the 2008 release "Detox" | 77 |
| Deputy played by Michael Weston in the new "Dukes of Hazzard" movie | 77 |
| Diploma that Mr. Hooper earned on a 1976 episode of "Sesame Street" | 77 |
| Digby ''Digger'' ___ of ''The Life of Riley'' | 77 |
| Dudes who promise you rides to nu metal shows but keep forgetting to show up? | 77 |
| Dinner and a movie with the lyricist for "Mama Said Knock You Out"? | 77 |
| Derided 2005 Black Eyed Peas song that mentions "lovely lady lumps" | 77 |
| Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 | 77 |
| Dentist's concern, and a hint to what the longest answers have in common | 76 |
| Director's edit of a war film with a more adorable treaty-signing scene? | 76 |
| Dr. Seuss title that completes the warning "Stop! You must not..." | 76 |
| Diana on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 75 |