| European acme, and word hiding in this puzzle's 5 longest answers | 69 |
| Element with a low atomic number that is not found naturally on Earth | 69 |
| Ending with ''insist'' or ''persist'' | 69 |
| European city of 500,000+ whose name translates as "to eat" | 69 |
| Eminently forgettable (though still active) rock band Better Than ___ | 69 |
| Elvin ___, 1960's-80's N.B.A. star known as "Big E" | 69 |
| English actor Abercrombie who played Mr. Pitt on "Seinfeld" | 69 |
| Essayist who wrote "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once" | 69 |
| Egyptian architect credited with building the Step Pyramid at Saqqara | 69 |
| English translation of the University of California's Latin motto | 69 |
| Elton John "And he shall be __, and he shall be a good man" | 69 |
| Event that includes Snowboarding Charades and Motocross 20 Questions? | 69 |
| Either of two characters in "The Emperor's New Clothes" | 69 |
| End of Rhett's sentence that begins "Frankly, my dear" | 68 |
| Elvis's "Hound Dog" and "Anyway You Want Me" | 68 |
| Emmy winner for playing the title role in "Temple Grandin" | 68 |
| Entrepreneur who wrote the autobiography "Grinding It Out" | 68 |
| Either Didi or Gogo's hat in "Waiting for Godot," e.g. | 68 |
| Everything's better with this on it, according to a catch phrase | 68 |
| Exceeds limits (or what each of this puzzle's theme items does?) | 68 |
| Education-policy acronym for the four fields featured in this puzzle | 68 |
| E.M. Forster book whose title came from "Leaves of Grass" | 67 |
| Egotistical Keith Urban song "Who Wouldn't Wanna ___" | 67 |
| Entree meant to be eaten with the fingers, according to its creator | 67 |
| Ending for "lion," "host" or "priest" | 67 |
| Eccentric in the soap parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" | 67 |
| Elton's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" duet partner | 67 |
| Either the top or bottom half of this puzzle, figuratively speaking | 67 |
| Either of two first names heard in "Werewolves of London" | 67 |
| Enthusiastic response to "Who's ready for ice cream?" | 67 |
| Early rules for it were developed at McGill University in the 1870s | 67 |
| Either of two of the Inspector Clouseau films, with "The" | 67 |
| Edward who was dubbed "The Dark Prophet" by Time magazine | 67 |
| Everly Brothers hit subtitled "To Watch Good Love Go Bad" | 67 |
| Exclamations of greeting, anger, attention-getting, or accentuation | 67 |
| Earhart who was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic | 66 |
| Earhart who served as aviation editor for "Cosmopolitan" | 66 |
| Ending for ''heir'' or ''steward'' | 66 |
| Easternmost town on Maui, on one end of 52 miles of twisty highway | 66 |
| Element whose symbol comes from the Latin word "plumbum" | 66 |
| Element between platino and mercurio in the Spanish periodic table | 66 |
| Exposé about the tawdry relations of a 16th-century theologian? | 66 |
| Environment-related, like the lyrics to "Mercy Mercy Me" | 66 |
| Eric who was #46 on ESPN's Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century | 66 |
| Esquire's "Sexiest Woman Alive" in 2013, in tabloids | 66 |
| Edward O. ___, card-counting author of "Beat the Dealer" | 66 |
| End of the question (Rearrange the circled letters for the answer) | 66 |
| Environmental slogan, or a hint to this puzzle's theme answers | 66 |
| Eastern creature sought in episodes of "Finding Bigfoot" | 66 |
| Emma's director for ''Sense and Sensibility'' | 65 |
| Ending with ''buck'' or ''stink'' | 65 |
| Event that could be seen as far away as Las Vegas in the '50s | 65 |
| Ewing whose ex-wife dreamt an entire season of "Dallas" | 65 |
| Engineer Brian who published "Oblique Strategies" cards | 65 |
| Ecological character voiced by Danny DeVito, with "The" | 65 |
| Evil-___ (the only female villain in The Masters of the Universe) | 65 |
| Eight-time All-Star Tony of the '60s-'70s Minnesota Twins | 65 |
| End of the riddle whose answer is "When it's ajar." | 65 |
| Enola Gay, e.g. (and a hint to this puzzle's unusual feature) | 65 |
| Extraterrestrial factor in creating much of Earth's carbon-14 | 65 |
| Eating record #5 (set at the Baltimore Waterfront Festival, 2006) | 65 |
| English martyr Sir John, the model for Shakespeare's Falstaff | 65 |
| Easy-to-follow sewing instructions already printed on the fabric? | 65 |
| Ending for ''glass'' or ''metal'' | 65 |
| Entertainer who was the first man to be married at Caesars Palace | 65 |
| Edward who wrote the play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia" | 64 |
| Emirate whose national flag has red, green, white and black bars | 64 |
| European city whose name sounds like two letters of the alphabet | 64 |
| Entertainer who was a Congressional Gold Medal recipient in 1962 | 64 |
| Ending for ''cash'' or ''front'' | 64 |
| Elton John "___ little bit funny, this feeling inside" | 64 |
| Elvis Presley song on the flip side of "Treat Me Nice" | 64 |
| Eric Clapton classic whose main riff was written by Duane Allman | 64 |
| Either sister starring in 2004's "New York Minute" | 64 |
| English artist John who's buried at St. Paul's Cathedral | 64 |
| Edwin's fiancée in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" | 64 |
| Emile Hirsch film about the best place to load and unload boats? | 64 |
| Element whose chemical symbol is used in this puzzle's theme | 64 |
| Entertainer who holds the Guinness World Record for broken bones | 64 |
| Everett ___, player of Mr. Bernstein in "Citizen Kane" | 64 |
| Eric who played the villain in 2009's "Star Trek" | 63 |
| English novelist Canetti who wrote "Crowds and Power" | 63 |
| Energy company known for, well, everything but providing energy | 63 |
| Ending for ''mock'' or ''cook'' | 63 |
| Ending for ''coal'' or ''opal'' | 63 |
| Edward's adoptive mother in the "Twilight" series | 63 |
| Eighth or ninth word in the "Star Wars" opening crawl | 63 |
| Electrical conductance unit (that's another unit backwards) | 63 |
| Emmy-winning role for Sally on “Brothers & Sisters” | 63 |
| Ending for ''ball'' or ''bass'' | 63 |
| Eight-time "Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade" cohost | 63 |
| Extinct carnivore whose name means "different lizard" | 63 |
| Emmy-winning supporting actor from "Boardwalk Empire" | 63 |
| Esmeralda's goat in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" | 63 |
| Extended Director's Cut Special Edition Gift Set purchasers | 63 |
| Evergreen shrub that's Spanish for "little apple" | 63 |
| Elizabeth's plaint after always losing to her royal sister? | 63 |
| Evergreen tree has critical condition that's contagious (7) | 63 |
| Energy source that may be 2 trillion times as bright as the sun | 63 |
| Eighth-most-common word, according to the Oxford English Corpus | 63 |