| Pop star who said "The cool thing about being famous is traveling.I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff." | 146 |
| Pal of "Cookie Monkey," according to my son who isn't that good at English yet but who certainly enjoys "Sesame Street" | 143 |
| Polygonal numerical array named for mathematician Blaise, in which each number is the sum of the nearest two in the row aboveit | 127 |
| Pitcher with a 168-mph fastball dreamed up by George Plimpton for the 1985 April Fools' Day issue of Sports Illustrated | 123 |
| Politician who had a voice that "could boil the fat off a taxicab driver's neck," according to Norman Mailer | 122 |
| Place that it wouldn't kill you to go one of these Fridays, or maybe you think you're too important for G-d now? | 120 |
| Player who tried to catch the ball that Cubs fan Steve Bartman reached for in the 8th inning of Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS | 119 |
| Player behind Bonds, Henderson, Ruth, Williams, Morgan, Yastrzemski, and Mantle on the all-time leader list for walks | 117 |
| Princess who says "This is some rescue! You came in here, but didn't you have a plan for getting out?" | 116 |
| Pithy sayings (four well-known ones containing the circled word are the keys to unlocking this puzzle's theme) | 114 |
| Popular version of a design principle acronym spelled out by the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 113 |
| Potent alcohol + caffeine choices recently forced by the FDA to change their formula, and this puzzle's theme | 113 |
| Portrayer of Felix in the movie "The Odd Couple," or Oscar in the TV series "The Odd Couple" | 112 |
| Playoff series finale ... or an apt title for this puzzle considering the number and length of its theme entries | 112 |
| Ptolemaic constellation that is now divided into Carina (the keel), Puppis (the poop deck) and Vela (the sails) | 111 |
| Poem featuring the line “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all” | 106 |
| Pirate Davis who is the first MLB player to hit grand slams for two different teams in the month of April | 105 |
| Painter of "Pelvis with Shadow and the Moon" and "Cow's Skull with Calico Roses" | 104 |
| Particle physicist whose findings were first accepted by Einstein, but later were shown to be fraudulent | 104 |
| Politician who said "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." | 104 |
| Poe poem with the lines "Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche / How statue-like I see thee stand" | 104 |
| Period that ends Nov. 3rd, requiring a shift, and letters that shift in this puzzle's theme entries | 103 |
| Portuguese term meaning "suspects" brought up in the 2007 Madeleine McCann disappearance case | 103 |
| Poem featuring the line “Now when the dead man come to life beheld / His wife his wife no more” | 103 |
| Poet who wrote "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you / Ef you / Don't / Watch / Out!" | 102 |
| Phenomenon observed in receding galaxies ... and in the answers to this puzzle's asterisked clues? | 102 |
| Pitcher Luis whose 1.60 ERA in 1968 is the lowest single-season mark in the American League since 1919 | 102 |
| Possessive for Pierre (or, a dictionary volume that wouldn't include "jabber", I guess) | 101 |
| Player honored with Campanella, Greenberg, and Mantle on "Baseball Sluggers" postage stamps | 101 |
| Process by which an element's atomic number may be reduced, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 101 |
| Picnic serving, and when divided properly, a hint to a hidden feature of six pairs of puzzle answers | 100 |
| Pitcher Doug with whom Tommy Lasorda had an infamous—and recorded--on-the-mound argument in 1977 | 100 |
| Possible Variety headline if an "American Beauty" actress agrees to do a D.L. Coburn play? | 100 |
| Philosopher Jeremy's "the greatest happiness comes between two slices of bread" food? | 99 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," describes names like Vivian Darkbloom and Mr. Mojo RisiN' | 97 |
| Prize for an aspiring musical artist, perhaps from the first word of the answer to a starred clue | 97 |
| Palindromic girl's name that ranked among the 10 most popular in each of the past five years | 96 |
| Poe poem that ends "From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven" | 96 |
| Performance Artist who planted her "Wish Tree" in Peggy Guggenheim's Venice museum | 96 |
| Picking the right brown pigment is like playing the lottery -- you've just got to choose ___ | 96 |
| Pentecost, e.g., and what can literally be found in this puzzle's four other longest answers | 96 |
| Physician William who wrote the classic text "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" | 96 |
| Potentially hackable polling system voted "Worst of Technology" by "Fortune" | 96 |
| Popular picture fonts that come standard on Apple computers (named after a German type designer) | 96 |
| Playwright Edward who said "Creativity is magic ... don't examine it too closely" | 95 |
| Poet whose last words were "Of course [God] will forgive me; that's his business" | 95 |
| Posthumous John Donne poem that includes "It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee" | 95 |
| Poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen'" | 94 |
| Poet who wrote, about children, "And if they are popular / The phone they monopular" | 94 |
| Position held by Dirk Kempthorne before becoming George W. Bush's final interior secretary | 94 |
| Past-tense verb that is the same as its present-tense form minus the fourth and fifth letters | 93 |
| Player who scored the tying run in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series | 93 |
| Pianist known for her transcription of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" | 93 |
| Play king whose first line is "Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester" | 93 |
| Prophetic attire worn by most doomed characters on the original "Star Trek" TV show | 93 |
| Problems that may result from screwing studs without using some kind of barrier device: Abbr. | 93 |
| Product with the old ad catchphrase "Mother, please, I'd rather do it myself!" | 92 |
| Prefix that, with "gram," refers to a crossword using every letter of the alphabeT | 92 |
| Poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" | 91 |
| Philosopher who wrote "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" | 91 |
| Politician who said "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it" | 90 |
| Pop singer who appeared in the movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 90 |
| Politician who wrote "The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath" | 90 |
| Pageant winner who also won at the "USA" and "Universe" levels in 2012 | 90 |
| Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" | 89 |
| Pink Floyd hit with the lyric "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash" | 89 |
| Part of the earth whose temperature Al Gore claims is "several million degrees" | 89 |
| Physical principle whose equation explains the changes in this puzzle's theme entries | 89 |
| Pseudonymous surname used by a director who doesn't want to be associated with a film | 89 |
| Poe poem with the lines "thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicean barks of yore" | 89 |
| Placekicker Lawrence whose 47-yard overtime field goal sent the Giants to Super Bowl XLII | 89 |
| Politician who's done cameos on "Seinfeld" and "Law & Order" | 88 |
| Pop punk band with the 2002 triple-platinum album "The Young and the Hopeless" | 88 |
| Philips who said "I've learned about women the hard way - through books." | 87 |
| Phone call telling you to pay the IRS immediately or you'll be thrown in jail, e.g. | 87 |
| Period of supervision for a porn actor who's done poorly in recent backdoor scenes? | 87 |
| Procedure improved by physician Alexander Bogdanov that left him dead of TB and malaria | 87 |
| Pitcher Johnny who completes the old rhyme, "Spahn and ___ and pray for rain" | 87 |
| Poem featuring the line “O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more” | 87 |
| Poem with the line, "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" | 87 |
| Phrase before a sportswriter's name on the cover of an athlete's autobiography | 86 |
| Prominent figure in the 1996 book "John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was" | 86 |
| Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" | 86 |
| Product whose infomercial coined the phrase "But wait ... there's more!" | 86 |
| Part of the pen name of the author who also once used the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel | 86 |
| Prince song with the line "You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on" | 86 |
| Palindromically surnamed swimmer Kristin who won six gold medals at the Seoul Olympics | 86 |
| Parlor game, and word that can follow the last word of the answers to asterisked clues | 86 |
| Presidential candidate who said "No one can earn a million dollars honestly" | 86 |
| Poem featuring the line “Sunset and evening star / And one clear call for me!” | 86 |
| Program about a crime-fighting unit from the South that stages Civil War reenactments? | 86 |
| Paul from "American Splendor," one of Salon.com's 10 Best Movies of 2003 | 86 |
| Peter who bought Manhattan in 1626 for the modern equivalent of a few thousand dollars | 86 |
| Phone company ranked first in msn.com's "Customer Service Hall of Shame" | 86 |
| Product with the old jingle line "One little can will keep you running free" | 86 |
| Pioneering black comedian (whose signature line was "Oh, yeah!"), ___ Rogers | 86 |
| Players on the game show "Bumper Stumpers" had to figure out what they meant | 86 |
| Pope called the "Lightning Pope" because he died 27 days after his election | 85 |
| Pain-reliever once trademarked by Bayer (slogan: "The sedative for coughs") | 85 |
| Periodical with the tagline "A home doesn't need to be big, just smart" | 85 |