| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #1: raid the knife drawer, put a gold chain around your neck, and next thing you know you're a ___ | 142 |
| Lima alternative in the grocery aisle (sorry about this fill, I was sure I could fit [colander alternative in the kitchen] here) | 128 |
| Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle's six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid) | 119 |
| Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect" | 117 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #2: grab a broom, put a book under your arm and like magic, you're a ___ | 116 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #3: slap on a sheet, borrow some Birkenstocks and suddenly you're an ___ | 116 |
| London venue where plays based on "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and "Mr. Ice Cream Man" are performed? | 116 |
| Literary captain who says "It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one" | 111 |
| Like the answers to the 10 asterisked clues, more often than any other English words, according to a 1999 study | 111 |
| Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan | 111 |
| Laurel and Hardy film with the line "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" | 109 |
| Landmark inaugurated 3/31/1889 whose shape is suggested by nine squares in this puzzle's completed grid | 107 |
| Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" | 107 |
| Lindsay nominated for two "Worst Actress" Razzie Awards in 2007 for two roles in the same movie | 105 |
| Longtime coach of the University of Chicago who was a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame | 105 |
| Letter that, as it appears in the middle of this grid, can precede the first words of the starred entries | 105 |
| Longfellow classic containing a code that is represented within the answers to the asterisked Down clues | 104 |
| Like snide remarks from old Russian despots? (#4 in David Yale's "Pun Enchanted Evenings") | 104 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #4: tape some toothpicks to a negligee and bam, you're a ___ | 104 |
| Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes" | 103 |
| Longtime bar band that had a cameo on "The Simpsons" episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze" | 103 |
| Leader repeatedly praised in the (doctored) Mandarin edition of Bill Clinton's "My Life" | 102 |
| Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" | 101 |
| Law, before the "Mad Madam" from Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" showed up? | 101 |
| Lover's woe ... or something found, literally, in the 4th, 5th, 8th and 11th rows of this puzzle | 100 |
| Loretta who sang "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" | 99 |
| Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/Down hints) for this all to work | 99 |
| Long-extinct German dialect of which the epic poem "The Heliand" is the only known sample | 99 |
| Last name of brothers who combined for 6,916 total bases (60 more than all-time leader Hank Aaron) | 98 |
| Lennon/McCartney song whose title words follow "They'll be glad, you're not ..." | 98 |
| Low-priced American vodka known affectionately (and ironically) as "Russia's finest" | 98 |
| Lame reality TV term driven into the ground by this season's "Big Brother All-Stars" | 98 |
| Loaf reliably available at cousin Lotte's house when we used to go up to Cleveland for brunch | 97 |
| Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters | 96 |
| Like the order of the letters in the first words of the starred entries, before being shaken up | 95 |
| Lame alternative to "Couldn't be bothered with writing that five paragraph essay" | 95 |
| Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it | 94 |
| Lead singer of the band whose name is derived from a "Barbarella" villain's name | 94 |
| Lebowitz who said "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying" | 93 |
| Lord Nelson's famous Trafalgar quote, "England expects that every man will ___" | 93 |
| Literary character who's "always good-tempered" and "not very clever" | 93 |
| Little ones who, they say, are made up of the ends of this puzzle's four longest entries | 92 |
| Lawrence who co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" | 92 |
| Locale of St. Catherine's Monastery, said to be the world's oldest working monastery | 92 |
| Literary character who says "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" | 91 |
| Like people in a group hug, presumably (and a group hug involving Tributes #7, #8, and #11) | 91 |
| Last words from Hamlet (well, he goes on for a while after that, but these words sum it up) | 91 |
| Literary character who says "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" | 90 |
| Literary series with "Monster Blood" and "Night of the Living Dummies" | 90 |
| Lute player Karamazov who collaborated on Sting's "Songs From the Labyrinth" | 90 |
| Lone Star beverage intended to rival baked Alaska in popularity but which never caught on? | 90 |
| Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed | 90 |
| Leader of Husker Du whose "Dog On Fire" became the "Daily Show" theme | 89 |
| Like 49.1 pecent of the population, according to a 2000 report by the U.S. Census Bureau | 88 |
| Literary character played in film by Charles Laughton, Anthony Perkins and Geoffrey Rush | 88 |
| Like the NCAA basketball tournament's opening game between the two last-seeded teams | 88 |
| Leonard McCoy: "Why is your tennis serve so darn good?" Spock: "___" | 88 |
| Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" | 87 |
| Literary reply to "What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough" | 87 |
| Like St. Nick's "little mouth," in "The Night Before Christmas" | 87 |
| Lady who "had class with a capital 'K,'" per a 1932 Ethel Merman tune | 87 |
| Leave that asshole zookeeper behind forever, provided you can find a way into the sewer | 87 |
| Location of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | 87 |
| Lincoln's description of pre-Civil War America ... or a hint to the circled letters | 87 |
| Long rant about how the captain was mean, the shanties sucked, and everyone got scurvy? | 87 |
| LaBeouf of acting petulant and then being excused by James Franco in the New York Times | 87 |
| Legend born 4/24/1942 whose name's 9 letters are the only ones in this puzzle grid | 86 |
| Like pronouns such as "myself" which refer back to the subject of the clause | 86 |
| Los Angeles suburb whose name is thought to mean "everything in the States" | 85 |
| Likely 2008 playoff team in both the American and National leagues, on the scoreboard | 85 |
| LIEUT: "He says you're ___." DESIGNER: "That's not true!" | 85 |
| Legendary Memphis site where Jerry Lee Lewis recorded "Great Balls of Fire" | 85 |
| Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses | 84 |
| Looks proudly [get xword deals by signing up for our free news list! - avxwords.com] | 84 |
| Lifeline removed from the latest season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 84 |
| Los Angeles neighborhood that's the former site of an Edgar Rice Burroughs ranch | 84 |
| Language that gave us "slogan," originally meaning "battle cry" | 83 |
| Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" word for "scratch, dog-style" | 83 |
| Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues | 83 |
| Leader played by Rod Steiger in the 1981 Libyan film "Lion of the Desert" | 83 |
| Long-running western anthology, the only American TV series with its three initials | 83 |
| License plate (and character played by Michael Douglas) in "Falling Down" | 83 |
| Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 83 |
| Letter appearing only in down answers; its opposite appears only in across answers | 82 |
| Lennon's "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except __ My Monkey" | 82 |
| Letters after "messenger," "ribosomal" or "transfer" | 82 |
| Lyricist born 11/18/1909 who wrote the words to the 10 songs with asterisked clues | 82 |
| Lizzie Borden's blows – "Easy Pieces" ÷ proverbial crowd = | 82 |
| Last part of the country to report election returns, usually, with "the" | 82 |
| Leader who said "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind" | 81 |
| Like Michelangelo's "David" or Rodin's "The Thinker" | 80 |
| Large, wraparound sunglasses -- often worn at night to make critics less visible | 80 |
| Locale called Minnahannock by the Algonquin Indians, bought by the Dutch in 1637 | 80 |
| Longtime G.E. chief with the best seller "Jack: Straight From the Gut" | 80 |
| Like you after drinking Red Bull, according to commercials, in scientific terms | 79 |
| Lyricist for Broadway’s disastrous “Spider-Man,” with “the” | 79 |
| Legislation recently re-introduced by Edward Kennedy and Carolyn Maloney: Abbr. | 79 |
| Letters automatically displayed in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round | 79 |
| Latin term for coming back to life at the exact midpoint of a video game level? | 79 |
| Line of greeting cards billed as "a tiny little division of Hallmark" | 79 |